Toshiba working on no-glasses 3DTV sets
All those idiots who have shelled out thousands of dollars for a 3D television set really should have waited. You must know by now never to plump for first-generation technology.
3DTV is amazing, isn’t it? Except for the stupidly high prices being charged for the hardware, the fact there’s very little 3D content to watch at the moment, and that even if you do find something to watch (Avatar for 200th time) you have to sit there wearing a pair of glasses in order for the picture to stop being blurry and start looking mildly 3-dimensional. Oh, and the glasses will also cost you a small fortune. Where do I sign?
I’ve been warning people off purchasing a 3DTV set for months now, and a fair portion of the population has been listening. Not to me, necessarily, but to their common sense-speaking guardian angel, or their bank manager. Both of which have told them they’d be better off burning a pile of money in the fire.
Buying a 3DTV set at this point in time is ill-advised for many different reasons. And apart from those outlined above, a new reason to steer clear has emerged.
We’ve known for a while that the technology to display 3D without the need for glasses exists and is being further developed for commercial release. Nintendo is using it for its 3DS, and several manufacturers are working on embedding the technology in larger screens.
But 2015 was being bandied about as the time these sets would start to appear. Which makes the news that Toshiba is planning on releasing a no-glasses 3DTV set by the end of the year somewhat surprising.
This comes via Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun, and Toshiba hasn’t yet officially announced anything and isn’t commenting on the report. So it could be complete bunkum. However, it suggests that the technology is close at hand, and that 3D glasses will be completely surplus to requirement in a few years time.
So once again I urge all right-thinking people to keep their hands on their wallets and not be enticed into buying a 3DTV set just yet.
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