Will 3D rollout reduce the price of regular screens?
As above really. I've being putting off buying a new set for a while but now I'm getting the upgrade bug again. I currently use a 40 inch Samsung LCD but I intend of putting that in my bedroom and buying a 50 inch screen for downstairs. When the 3D enabled screens hit the stores will regular screens become reduced in price? If so I will wait. Any ideas anyone?
Personally I think prices have already hit rock bottom and that, if anything, they will stabilise over the coming months.
Damn I was hoping one of you would talk me out of it. I'll restrain myself until the january sales at least though
3D is only going to look convincing if it takes up the majority of your field of view - in 99% of most people's situations, this isn't the case with their LCD/plasma TV in their living room. Could you become immersed in a regular sized 3D photo while holding it at arm's length?
As I've probably said before, the shutter-LCD glasses based 3D system I used on my old CRT looked amazing at times, even on a 28" widescreen, and this did produce out-of-the-screen effects too, so I'm not sure screen size is really the issue (although obviously the bigger the better).
Personally, I think the cost of having to upgrade your TV yet again, and having to wear glasses to view 3D, is likely to make 3D a very slow burn - although I could be wrong!
Although there are no immediate plans for 3D projectors, IF the 3D technology takes off in a big way, 3D projectors will be inevitable. I see no point in buying a 3D TV atleast for the next 5-7 years (my Kuro is exactly 6 months old today).........a 3D projector will be a sensible option for me in the meantime.
I still don't understand what 3D is and how it will look different?
Say for example I have my philiip lcd and a philips lcd 3D tv, what is it that I am going to notice is different?
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One will look like a flat picture, the other will appear to have objects in front of, and behind, the plane of the screen.
Andrew Everard:One will look like a flat picture, the other will appear to have objects in front of, and behind, the plane of the screen.
Thanks, do you think it will be a major difference in tv watching like dvd to blu ray was? Have you seen one and was it impressive?
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Yes, I have seen several, and the effect was very impressive. For about five seconds.
Andrew Everard:Yes, I have seen several, and the effect was very impressive. For about five seconds.
5 seconds?
Andrew Everard:Yes.
Do you mean when the affects happening they last around 5 seconds?
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No, I mean I found the effect to be impressive for just the first five seconds.
Has anyone seen Avatar in 3D yet? According to reviews, the effect impresses for the whole (almost three hour-long) running-time of the film. Surely the big (cinema) screen is the place to enjoy the so-called 'immersive' experience that new 3D technology offers? I plan to watch Cameron's mega-budget film sometime in the next couple of days. Hopefully I'll be impressed for more than five seconds. Whether I'll enjoy the condescensingly oversimplified 'green/anti-imperialist' narrative, however, is another matter...
I doubt it, as TVs are currently almost as low as they can go, given the ex-factory price of the display panels they use.
It's more likely that 3D TVs will be pitched as premium products, priced higher than current TVs - that's part of 3D's appeal to TV manufacturers, currently suffering as a result of the cut-throat telly market.
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