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disolitude on 27 April 2010
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kitler53 said:
disolitude said:
stiak said:
I didn't realise tv makers had gone the active glasses route. As if there weren't enough expensive peripherals on games consoles, now TV's need some too?

Polarized displays would be great to keep the cost of glasses down...but a lot of people are saying that 3D quality isn't as crisp as with active shutter glasses.

To be honest, with these consoles doing 720p @ 30 hz...polarized 3D option and displays would probably be just as good.  They should include support for everything. Avatar included the RealD 3D format...on top of all active glasses formats 

Amazon released a thing called 3D 101 that i found pretty interesting.

http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=amb_link_352961342_3?ie=UTF8&node=2248313011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=top-1&pf_rd_r=1YF4YBQ2WG5CSAXK5N19&pf_rd_t=301&pf_rd_p=1261356542&pf_rd_i=3D

according the these videos, the polarized displays have trouble switching the polarization fast enough.  for anyone interested but feeling very noobish about 3D it was a pretty good series of videos imo and only took about 10 min to watch all of them.


Heh. Nice find. However the guide seems very general, and is not correct a lot of the time. "PS3 upgrade converts all existing games to 3D..." lol. Not quite... The upgrade just will tell your 3D TV which 3D the developer is using if they want to go back and make the game work in 3D.

But yeah, with displays...all of them have issues. Even active displays...

Plasma has a burning phosphorus resedue which shows a green-ish tint.

LCD has ghosting due to pixel refresh rate which is still a problem

DLP TVs and projectors are perfect when it comes to picture, but they don't do 1080p 3D (only support checkerboard which is almost 1080p quality with 720pX2 res)

Its not perfect technology yet.