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WilliamWatts on 13 July 2010
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joeorc said:
WilliamWatts said:

Plasma screens cost over $100,000 at one point. The price will of course come down and the quality of the screens will of course improve over time. The point people are making is that by the time enough 3D content becomes available there will be better screen technologies to take advantage of the content. At the very least passive glass 3DTVs using polarised displays will probably become relatively mainstream far sooner. Its better to wait and get the right technology with content to play than buy an early 3DTV which will become obsolete very quickly with little content to watch in the mean-time.

an this is exactly the same reason that has been running through this thread:

the 3DS show's consumer's no need for Glasses when the 3DS does not need it and consumer's will just wait for it...

the problem is their going to be waiting a hell of a long time!

the effect's of passive also have problem's, too dark, and resolution once again suffer's.

just think as an example to get 1080p resolution out of the same type of Technology that the 3DS uses, the screen in Question would need a 4k resolution!

the entire screen has to be modified you just cannot up the refresh rate..that is one of the advantages of Active shutter. those glasses will be far cheaper in the next couple of year's before even the glimmer of glassless 3D in Home theatre even become's a viable solution to even start to get to that level of price.

it's not that the companies cannot do it. it's the fact that they cannot offer it at a price the main consumer would need it to be in order the be a solution to glassless.Not Now other than small screen's and not for quite a while..this is the very same thing with new Holographic disc format's the disc's are very expensive, but the drive cost's are way up there and have been for quite some time.

example:

This is all very early-stage stuff, and in an area littered with previous attempts to bring multi-hundred gigabyte holographic disks and drives to market. It hasn't happened yet but there are people, like the InPhase rescuers, and Pavel himself, who sincerely hold the holographic faith. Good luck to them. ®

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/04/storex_1pb/

passive has it's own problem's to contend with more so than even the parallax barrier that is in the 3DS


The consumer has two options.

1. Get a 3DTV now, and not watch any content in 3D because theres hardly any made for 3D.

2. Wait.

I think waiting is of course the better bet. It'll take a hell of a long time for good content to come out on 3D anyway.Its like all those people who skipped buying a PS3 until 2008 or later, they didn't miss much.

In any case the pixel density on the large format autostereoscopic screens isn't too bad. Its still not higher than a PC monitor.