3D TV - Prices and Reviews

Bargain.hunter_4

Anyone have any idea about the prices for the new range of 3d TVs being launched.

I know the Sony L series is due to launch in March, but there seems to be very little in the way of reviews or prices for any 3d TVs.

Appreciate any feedback from anyone on the know :-)

jaydeeuk1

Expensive, pointless and won't catch on. Although I'm sure someone once said that about Radio, cars, computers etc...

Dave101t

i dont understand why 3d cant be projected through a standard HDTV, afterall they all do 60fps interlaced or progressive, simple interlace the coloured images and wear the specs!
price: probs 1000 pounds for the 1st adopters, like hdtv was

lfc321

Tons of early reviews of the Sony 3D TVs if you google 'Sony 3D TV'. Good piece on this on Guardian technology site today. It quotes prices of £2500 for the TVs that Sky are backing and £5000+ for the Phillips version. Not sure where those figures are from though. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jan/22/3d-television

I won't be bothering for a long time. For one there's bound to be a format war. And I'm not in a rush to sit in my living room wearing stupid glasses.

Bargain.hunter_4

Dave101t wrote: »

i dont understand why 3d cant be projected through a standard HDTV, afterall they all do 60fps interlaced or progressive, simple interlace the coloured images and wear the specs!
price: probs 1000 pounds for the 1st adopters, like hdtv was

To be honest I am a little confused with that aswell. Why can televisin channels broadcast 3d TV to our normal sets, but we need special 3d tvs moving forward.

Also Something which threw me today was that I read the 3d specs, are not like the ones you get at the cinema. The Sony ones have batteries in them and apparently actively change.... does anyone have any idea about that... is this a model that all will adopt, or is it sony trying to sell you 3d specs at an inflated price?

ali137

just wait for this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBv_RPit_xI

No 3D Glasses Needed

The tv which you have to wear glasses, will be old technology like hd will be. I bloody spent £2000:mad: on a sony TV 2 years ago.

edgex

Bargain.hunter wrote: »

Anyone have any idea about the prices for the new range of 3d TVs being launched.

I know the Sony L series is due to launch in March, but there seems to be very little in the way of reviews or prices for any 3d TVs.

Appreciate any feedback from anyone on the know :-)

theres also extremely little in the way of tv's, transmission facilities or content
:rotfl:

donnajunkie

jaydeeuk1 wrote: »

Expensive, pointless and won't catch on. Although I'm sure someone once said that about Radio, cars, computers etc...

it may well be right that it wont catch on simply because of how slow they have been to push high definition. the majority of tv channels are still in sd and most of what we see on hd channels is just sd upscaled isnt it?...rather than actually having been filmed in hd. of course that point is directed at stuff made recently because it would be unfair to direct it at stuff made before hd even existed.
my underlying point is if tv and film makers are still seeing hd as too expensive then i cant see them embrassing 3d.

donnajunkie

ali137 wrote: »

will be old technology like hd will be.

i saw a ultra hd tv in a programme from the ces show recently. the tv was 4000 by 2000 i think as opposed to the current 1900 by 1080 that hd is now.

roddydogs

Most programmes are not yet in HD, so how many are going to be in 3D?

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roddydogs wrote: »

Most programmes are not yet in HD, so how many are going to be in 3D?

All of them? I'm no good at tests :rotfl: