Kevo
Distinguished Member
Not sure if this is teh right forum but I saw a Panasonic 3D demo at the Trafford Centre, Manchester yesterday (It's doing the rounds over europe).
It consisted of a 103" 3D Plasma TV, 3D blyu Ray player and the dread 1950s throwback '3D glasses'. All in a room the size of an average living room.
teh dmeo reel was various clips of sporting events, 2008 Olympics and a trailer to the new James Cameron film Avatar.
To me, it didn't look much different than the 'pseudo 3D' that you get with normal HD (I have aPan 46G15). There was no 'in your face moments' like you get with Imax 3D films or eeven those from the cinema in the 80s.
The ticker tape at the Olympics was the stand out moment and the most disappointing was the juddery Avatar clip.
Maybe it's me eyes as I have don't perfect vsion in both eyes (yet that didn't affect the Imax 3D experience)
My brother was impressed but then he is used watching SD on a an old WS CRT.
I told one of the reps (who agreed) that it probably won't take off with the masses (much like HD, 5.1 etc) as you need to buy yet more gear...new TV, 50" minimum one at that, new blu ray player and the dreaded glasses that people just don't like wearing. Plus the fact that there will be competing and probably incompatible systems
It consisted of a 103" 3D Plasma TV, 3D blyu Ray player and the dread 1950s throwback '3D glasses'. All in a room the size of an average living room.
teh dmeo reel was various clips of sporting events, 2008 Olympics and a trailer to the new James Cameron film Avatar.
To me, it didn't look much different than the 'pseudo 3D' that you get with normal HD (I have aPan 46G15). There was no 'in your face moments' like you get with Imax 3D films or eeven those from the cinema in the 80s.
The ticker tape at the Olympics was the stand out moment and the most disappointing was the juddery Avatar clip.
Maybe it's me eyes as I have don't perfect vsion in both eyes (yet that didn't affect the Imax 3D experience)
My brother was impressed but then he is used watching SD on a an old WS CRT.
I told one of the reps (who agreed) that it probably won't take off with the masses (much like HD, 5.1 etc) as you need to buy yet more gear...new TV, 50" minimum one at that, new blu ray player and the dreaded glasses that people just don't like wearing. Plus the fact that there will be competing and probably incompatible systems