3D What a mess

[chudleighpaul]

I see the first 3D TV has been launched in the UK by Samsung. The required glasses are £100 per pair. Panasonic is launching a system with switching glasses which are incompatible with the Samsung and vice versa. Sony is to launch a system using polarized glasses.

If this is not a huge dis-incentive for buying into 3D, I don't know what is!!!

 

[Deleted member 2457]

Is it just me or does anyone else worry about the possible affects on your eyes? Because i am sure we have all read about the warnings and 3D will probaly not affect you in any way shape or form and given the opportunity i will probaly try it out myself, but can't help thinking I am glad i will not go anywhere near it in the near future.

Just me?

Thanks

 

[Andrew Everard]

chudleighpaul:Sony is to launch a system using polarized
glasses.

No, Sony's TVs use active glasses. It's LG launching a passive, polarised-glasses 3D TV...

 

[chudleighpaul]

Thanks Andrew, are Sony's glasses compatible with Samsung and Panasonic?

 

[Andrew Everard]

Until we get a chance to test them, there's no way of telling. But since each uses its own transmitter/glasses combination, I see no reason why they would be.

However at least one company is planning to launch 'universal' glasses for active shutter systems...

 

[chudleighpaul]

I wouldn't touch 3D with a bargepole.

 

[Andrew Everard]

I think the idea is that you don't need a bargepole - the picture reaches out and touches you.

But anyway, in that case the interoperability of TV and glasses need presumably trouble you no further...

 

[chudleighpaul]

Nice one Andrew, but it doesn't alter the basic premise that 3D is a mess.

 

[Andrew Everard]

You won't get any argument from me on that point...

 

[Anonymous]

chudleighpaul:I wouldn't touch 3D with a bargepole.

@chudleighpaul: I'm with you.

 

[chudleighpaul]

Samsung have now issued a health warning. Pregnant women. the elderly and those suffering from serious medical conditions are amongst those at risk. People who have been sleep deprived or have been drinking could have effects such as convulsions, nausea, altered vision and dizziness. Samsung also warns those with epilepsy could be at risk of fits.

What a mess. 4 incompatible systems and one of the manufacturers issuing health warnings.

 

[The_Lhc]

Most manufacturers will issue warnings about their products if there's a chance that one person in the world might suffer ill effects.

It's called covering yourself...

 

[Clare Newsome]

chudleighpaul:
Samsung have now issued a health warning. Pregnant women. the elderly and those suffering from serious medical conditions are amongst those at risk. People who have been sleep deprived or have been drinking could have effects such as convulsions, nausea, altered vision and dizziness. Samsung also warns those with epilepsy could be at risk of fits.

What a mess. 4 incompatible systems and one of the manufacturers issuing health warnings.

They haven't 'issued' a warning - it's the standard disclaimer text in the 3D TV manual, designed to make sure they're covered from a legal perspective. We covered this off weeks ago, when we reviewed the set - it's just the Daily Mail (shocker) has finally picked up on it and plastered it all over today's paper, in typical scaremongering style.

 

[Anonymous]

I think the real point is, whats the long term effects?, i like 3D but im going to hold off until the technologys been given atleast 2 years on the market.

 

[Anonymous]

neepz:

I think the real point is, whats the long term effects?

 

[Anonymous]

lol ...for all the 3d ceptics - i warn you dont got to the 3d cinema cause it can harm your eyes ...leave does things for those who want to live on the edge

like myself

 

[FunkyMonkey]

This is so funny. In 2010 there are scare stories about a new technology. Anyone would think the Daily Mail are stuck in 1930's (oh!) when the goggle box first came out and the dangers of radiation from the CRT's was gonna give you 2 heads!!!

 

[JoelSim]

I won't be going near 3D either. A recipe for headaches and eyesight problems if ever there was one in my view. Messing with Mother Nature is never a good idea.

There's a perfectly decent TV in my house already, so I'll buy a new one when it breaks, and I'll be very surprised if it's a 3D TV. In my opinion it won't catch on. There will be many many scare stories over the next few months and it will die a death. And rightly so.

 

[chudleighpaul]

3D in the cinema is OK. It is a spectacle which people will pay to see for the moment, but soon the novelty will wear off and we will be back to normal 2D

Can anyone really see a family sitting round the TV in their front room, all wearing special glasses? If they have the switching variety, imagine the frustration if the battery runs out half way through a Premier league game.

Stick to 2D High definition and save your money. Glasses at £100 per pair. Ridiculous!

 

[JoelSim]

chudleighpaul:

3D in the cinema is OK. It is a spectacle which people will pay to see for the moment, but soon the novelty will wear off and we will be back to normal 2D

Can anyone really see a family sitting round the TV in their front room, all wearing special glasses? If they have the switching variety, imagine the frustration if the battery runs out half way through a Premier league game.

Stick to 2D High definition and save your money. Glasses at £100 per pair. Ridiculous!

Not talking to each other.

Not seeing each other.

Whilst having their eyesight and associated brain tissue mashed by a 'foreign' device.

Watching Simon Cowell popping out of the screen into your living room.

Er, no thanks.

How very sad.

 

[Anonymous]

how about beyonce in 3d ?

 

[Anonymous]

X-Rated movies in 3D? .... may get myself a pair of those glasses

 

[Anonymous]

surely you mean 36DD?

 

[JoelSim]

maxflinn:how about beyonce in 3d ?

OK you got me there

 

[Ravey Gravey Davy]

JoelSim:

maxflinn:how about beyonce in 3d ?

OK you got me there

The end of imagination as we know it.- don't give in JS- it might be 3D,but it's still intangible,and that's one less dimension to create in your own mind.