Toshiba prices up glasses-free 3D TV for Blighty Got £7000 to spare? From Monday, 12 March you'll be able to order Toshiba's Regza ZL2 glasses-free 3D TV. The LED array-backlit, 9,000,000:1 contrast ratio 55in set has a native resolution of 4K x 2K, relying on onboard upscaling bring 1080p and lesser content up to scratch. Toshiba Regza 55ZL2 The extra pixels allow the …
does the fifth person in the room end up having an epileptic fit on the floor with their brain leaking through their eyeballs as they try to focus on multiple sweet spots?
how does it work out who are the viewers? my girlfriend watches tv while simultaneously reading from her kindle. how it only active for her when she looks up at the screen?
does the family dog get targetted by a 3D sweet spot when it walks past the telly in the middle of a film, stealing one from one of us?
If there are more than 4 of you - turn the 3D off. Same in the other scenarios you raise - 3D TV is for immersive TV-watching more than casual viewing, so you'd use this mode (presumably) when you all sit down to watch a film together?
Look forward to a Reg review though, to properly answer those questions for real.
I tried an early version of this tech with up to 5 fixed viewer sweet spots. Outside of that it usually just looked blurry or 2D, not far off when you take your 3D specs off in a 3D movie as you can see both images at once or just one of them as opposed to 2 images discreately.
So I guess on this TV the 5th person just sees that. TBH this is the way the tech has to go to get around glasses in the home (It will never work in 300 people cinemas) but one issue is going to be how close people can get before it stops working.
maybe they assume if you can blow 7k on a TV that you wont be skimping on freeview? i.e. you will pay for sky/virgin. it does seem odd though. toshiba seem to be rocking again after a few years being quiet. i still use my Toshiba Regza 42" 42z3030d on a regular basis and its 4 years old. their new cell based 3d glasses TVs are supposed to be excellent reading reviews.
I've seen some though searching for 3D porn gets you rendered 3D as well as movies shot in 3D !
The clip I saw was the standard red/blue filtered and was more amusing to watch than anything else. Looked like a box in my flat monitor with naked people in ! Not sure I could take it seriously either if they go for the "in your eye/face" shots the movie makers do lol
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