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Out of curiosity, did anyone here regularly use the 3D features of a television? I've seen them used to good effect for various demonstrations and interactive d

by smeyer 10y ago

Out of curiosity, did anyone here regularly use the 3D features of a television? I've seen them used to good effect for various demonstrations and interactive displays and such, but don't know any regular end-consumers who used the features regularly (despite knowing people who owned the televisions).

radley 10y ago
3D Blu-ray on a decent TV (i.e. Samsung plasma) is far and above better than any theater. It got me buying 3D blu-ray discs (instead of doing streaming). I've done 3D movie nights at my house with friends. Of course there's that one friend who comes (knowing it's a 3D movie night) and then says they can't watch 3D and insist we not do 3D...
petepete 10y ago
I actually quite enjoyed Sky Sports 3D but they had different commentators than on the main channels (due to fewer cameras and different angles, presumably), which soured it slightly.
simooooo 10y ago
Not once.
mbarrett 10y ago
my glasses were never removed from the packaging.
detaro 10y ago
Was there enough content available to do so? Some movies on Blue-Ray I guess, but in my experience the kind of person doing that has a projector (and shutter-glasses for that). I guess PC gaming would be an option?
lloeki 10y ago
No, but somehow I hoped the following would happen that could have made the tech useful: instead of having a pair of glasses each one with left+right filters, have two pair of glasses, one with "left" filters on both eyes and one with "right" filters on both eyes, with "left" frames coming from one input and "right" frames from another one, so that the TV can be used by two persons simultaneously (obviously without 3D). Basically that's interleaving two input sources and demuxing each one to each corresponding viewer with the glasses. For audio headsets would be fine. Of course watching a romantic movie next to someone frantically playing a BF1 match probably wouldn't fly.
- BoorishBears 10y ago
  It did (kind of) happen with LG's Dual Play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbRG-KfWyVc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbRG-KfWyVc And other 3D TVs could replicate the idea: https://www.tweaking4all.com/video/gaming/split-screen-game-full-screen/ https://www.tweaking4all.com/video/gaming/split-screen-game-... Both took advantage of the fact most 3D formats were just two images side by side, so if you took something that could put two separate streams side by side like this: http://www.kvm-switches-online.com/splitmux-hd-2lc.html http://www.kvm-switches-online.com/splitmux-hd-2lc.html You could do exactly what you described. One problem I could see would be any cross-talk. Normally cross-talk makes things look blurry, any cross-talk would result in seeing fringes of something completely unrelated to what you're viewing. But with active glasses (or high quality passive displays) I don't think it'd be much of an issue.
  - lloeki 10y ago
    > LG's Dual Play That's exactly it! The "no more split screen" use case is also something I thought of but forgot about :-)
    - Keyframe 10y ago
      The Playstation TV from Sony had that feature as well: http://kotaku.com/5809230/the-playstation-tv-a-cheap-3dtv-for-everybody http://kotaku.com/5809230/the-playstation-tv-a-cheap-3dtv-fo...
    - kuschku 10y ago
      SONY also has it: SimulView™ it’s called there (we just bought a TV that happens to have it)
- leadingthenet 10y ago
  That actully sounds like a great idea. Wonder why it was never considered?
bhaak 10y ago
I've tested it with some games, especially Assassin's Creed: Revelations and Uncharted 3. Whereas for most games, it didn't add anything and sometimes it was even annoying (for example in AC, the placement of the HUD was way too close), for Uncharted 3 it really added some depths (pun intended).
astannard 10y ago
I bought a Toshiba passive 3D TV. Never really used it much in 3D mode. I played a few PS3 games in 3D which was fun but ultimatley I preferred watching in 2D once I got bored of the 3D gimmick. I had a few 3D blue-ray disks but just did not impress me that much
Agentlien 10y ago
I have watched a number of movies in 3D on our Philips TV and it's a very good experience, much better than in the movie theater. I tend to buy the 3D Bluray version of movies when available. I also tried to take the 2D version of some movies originally made in 3D and use the TVs own 2D to 3D conversion feature. While it obviously causes some artifacts and sometimes adds depth where it doesn't make sense (mainly TV screens inside the movie) I found that it worked surprisingly well. Primarily, though, my wife and I use the 3D for the two player fulllscreen feature when playing games in split screen (Mario Kart 8). This is actually really cool, since it allows both players to only see their own part of the screen and also see their part in fullscreen.
heywire 10y ago
We did, up until my son accidentally chucked the Wii remote into it :(. Ours was an LG set with passive 3D. It was great for the kids' animated movies. I didn't really find any non-animated movies for it. By the time we had to replace the set (last year), the number of movies being released without a 3D version was increasing, so I saw the writing on the wall and opted for a cheaper set without 3D.
lowbloodsugar 10y ago
I only buy 3D blu-rays. If its not 3D, I don't buy it. No point: I just rent it on Amazon Instant Video or iTunes. I have a Sony 4K/3D(passive) and its amazing, and a Visio 3D TV which is still good. We have maybe 15 (free) glasses so any number can watch. I will miss 3D, and 3D will be the #1 deciding factor when I buy my next TV.

by smeyer 10y ago

radley 10y ago

3D Blu-ray on a decent TV (i.e. Samsung plasma) is far and above better than any theater. It got me buying 3D blu-ray discs (instead of doing streaming). I've done 3D movie nights at my house with friends. Of course there's that one friend who comes (knowing it's a 3D movie night) and then says they can't watch 3D and insist we not do 3D...

petepete 10y ago

I actually quite enjoyed Sky Sports 3D but they had different commentators than on the main channels (due to fewer cameras and different angles, presumably), which soured it slightly.

simooooo 10y ago

Not once.

mbarrett 10y ago

my glasses were never removed from the packaging.

detaro 10y ago

Was there enough content available to do so? Some movies on Blue-Ray I guess, but in my experience the kind of person doing that has a projector (and shutter-glasses for that). I guess PC gaming would be an option?

lloeki 10y ago

No, but somehow I hoped the following would happen that could have made the tech useful: instead of having a pair of glasses each one with left+right filters, have two pair of glasses, one with "left" filters on both eyes and one with "right" filters on both eyes, with "left" frames coming from one input and "right" frames from another one, so that the TV can be used by two persons simultaneously (obviously without 3D). Basically that's interleaving two input sources and demuxing each one to each corresponding viewer with the glasses. For audio headsets would be fine. Of course watching a romantic movie next to someone frantically playing a BF1 match probably wouldn't fly.

BoorishBears 10y ago
It did (kind of) happen with LG's Dual Play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbRG-KfWyVc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbRG-KfWyVc And other 3D TVs could replicate the idea: https://www.tweaking4all.com/video/gaming/split-screen-game-full-screen/ https://www.tweaking4all.com/video/gaming/split-screen-game-... Both took advantage of the fact most 3D formats were just two images side by side, so if you took something that could put two separate streams side by side like this: http://www.kvm-switches-online.com/splitmux-hd-2lc.html http://www.kvm-switches-online.com/splitmux-hd-2lc.html You could do exactly what you described. One problem I could see would be any cross-talk. Normally cross-talk makes things look blurry, any cross-talk would result in seeing fringes of something completely unrelated to what you're viewing. But with active glasses (or high quality passive displays) I don't think it'd be much of an issue.
- lloeki 10y ago
  > LG's Dual Play That's exactly it! The "no more split screen" use case is also something I thought of but forgot about :-)
  - Keyframe 10y ago
    The Playstation TV from Sony had that feature as well: http://kotaku.com/5809230/the-playstation-tv-a-cheap-3dtv-for-everybody http://kotaku.com/5809230/the-playstation-tv-a-cheap-3dtv-fo...
  - kuschku 10y ago
    SONY also has it: SimulView™ it’s called there (we just bought a TV that happens to have it)
leadingthenet 10y ago
That actully sounds like a great idea. Wonder why it was never considered?

bhaak 10y ago

I've tested it with some games, especially Assassin's Creed: Revelations and Uncharted 3. Whereas for most games, it didn't add anything and sometimes it was even annoying (for example in AC, the placement of the HUD was way too close), for Uncharted 3 it really added some depths (pun intended).

astannard 10y ago

I bought a Toshiba passive 3D TV. Never really used it much in 3D mode. I played a few PS3 games in 3D which was fun but ultimatley I preferred watching in 2D once I got bored of the 3D gimmick. I had a few 3D blue-ray disks but just did not impress me that much

Agentlien 10y ago

I have watched a number of movies in 3D on our Philips TV and it's a very good experience, much better than in the movie theater. I tend to buy the 3D Bluray version of movies when available. I also tried to take the 2D version of some movies originally made in 3D and use the TVs own 2D to 3D conversion feature. While it obviously causes some artifacts and sometimes adds depth where it doesn't make sense (mainly TV screens inside the movie) I found that it worked surprisingly well. Primarily, though, my wife and I use the 3D for the two player fulllscreen feature when playing games in split screen (Mario Kart 8). This is actually really cool, since it allows both players to only see their own part of the screen and also see their part in fullscreen.

heywire 10y ago

We did, up until my son accidentally chucked the Wii remote into it :(. Ours was an LG set with passive 3D. It was great for the kids' animated movies. I didn't really find any non-animated movies for it. By the time we had to replace the set (last year), the number of movies being released without a 3D version was increasing, so I saw the writing on the wall and opted for a cheaper set without 3D.

lowbloodsugar 10y ago

I only buy 3D blu-rays. If its not 3D, I don't buy it. No point: I just rent it on Amazon Instant Video or iTunes. I have a Sony 4K/3D(passive) and its amazing, and a Visio 3D TV which is still good. We have maybe 15 (free) glasses so any number can watch. I will miss 3D, and 3D will be the #1 deciding factor when I buy my next TV.