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So this 3D TV thing is not new. IBM was working with DLP technology back in 2005.  At the time, the IBM DLP 3D TV was the first of its kind.

Check it out – they had it then…it’s 2008, “I want my 3DTV”!!!!!

http://www.physorg.com/news8113.html

I can’t wait for the day when someone says to me “I got one of those new 3D TVs”. What’s crazy is that they “supposedly already exist”. In fact, I’ve seen about 10 different companies claiming that they’ve already manufactured a 3D TV. I’ve talked with a few businesses that also have full 3D holographic displays like you’d see in Star Wars. However, it seems perfectly possible that you’d see one of these TVs at a trade show, but until they have at least one 3D TV Channel, you won’t be seeing these TVs at Best Buy.

Check out this quote from the Texas Instruments DLP 3D TV site:

Turn on your new 3-D DLP® HDTV, slide on your active 3-D glasses, and watch the images jump off the high definition screen and into your home theatre. The extreme speed of the DLP® chip, combined with 3-D technology, makes it all possible.

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Again, I can’t stress enough how the glasses are going to HAVE TO GO AWAY for these TVs to proliferate into the home. However, those who have a home theatre setup with the full surround sound may dig into the early “3D glasses” model.

Anyways, DLP is a fantastic technology and will probably be at the forefront of this consumer 3D technology. We’ll keep an eye on it. At least their website is dope and gives us hope it will arrive sooner than later – check it out:

http://www.dlp.com/hdtv/3-d_dlp_hdtv.aspx

This is definitely the future of 3D. Remember when the first big screen TVs came out? You had to sit directly in front of them to get a good picture. Well, we’re getting back to that again with the new 3D TVs. Since they project two sets of images, the angle is important — however it won’t be long before they fix that. This article is awesome and talks about the capabilities that already exist. Samsung and others are going down the 3D glasses path and I just don’t see how 3D will move into homes if you need glasses. Wired magazine reports:

I entered a conference room in Manhattan and a woman on the TV tossed a handful of rose petals out of the screen, where they floated in the air before my eyes.

At least, that’s what I saw. In truth, the image resided on a perfectly flat, 42-inch LCD screen. But the 3-D illusion was fully believable, and I didn’t have to wear a dorky set of polarizing glasses.

A new line of 3-D televisions by Philips uses the familiar trick of sending slightly different images to the left and right eyes — mimicking our stereoscopic view of the real world. But where old-fashioned 3-D movies rely on the special glasses to block images meant for the other eye, Philips’ WOWvx technology places tiny lenses over each of the millions of red, green and blue sub pixels that make up an LCD or plasma screen. The lenses cause each sub pixel to project light at one of nine angles fanning out in front of the display.

A processor in the TV generates nine slightly different views corresponding to the different angles. From almost any location, a viewer catches a different image in each eye.

Read more here:

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/08/71627

The SpectronIQ sets are going to retail for $5,999, and are also going to be bundled with a concert DVD as well as the CG-heavy movie “Beowulf.” It’s a bundling strategy that aims to provide as much content out of the box.

“We’ve been talking with movie companies, and they are all talking about producing more movies in 3D,” Bennett said. “When VCRs and DVD players came out, the question was always about content. The same thing is happening here.”

There you have it folks, 3D Television is turning into the next gold rush. BUT — without content it really is meaningless. I truly believe you’ll see more 3D content coming through the web as soon as a technology is available to produce 3D movies on your computer. Of course, the 3D production isn’t that difficult, but the 3D transmission is. Are there any standards/codecs for sending 3D video through the internet?

Read more about the Spectron IQ 3D TV and 3D movies here:

http://www.sbsun.com/living/ci_8708881