Toshiba Glasses-free 3DTVs to Hit UK in Next Year
Hurray, no more silly glasses!
If the 3DS has given you glasses-free 3D fever you’ll be pleased to know Toshiba’s line of glasses-free 3D televisions is set for UK availability in the next 12 months.
Nintendo’s Reggie Fils Amie recently said in an interview that any kind of 3D requiring glasses isn’t going to work and it would seem Toshiba feels the same way. At CES the company demoed some pretty sexy glasses-free 3DTVs and CNet reports that the company is bringing that technology to the UK in the next year. The TVs will use the same parallax-barrier method of displaying 3D that is present in the 3DS. It's a dual-layer display that contains a 'switching LCD' allowing for both 2D and 3D imaging. When this switching LCD is switched off, the LCD displays 2D imaging as normal, but when the parallax barrier is switched on, light leaves the display in a different way, meaning different patterns of light reach the left and right eye.
Of course, these TVs will be expensive (the fact that the 3DS cost up to £200 in some shops should be an indication of just how expensive), and we won’t know an exact release date for a while. Still, with the likes of Sky 3D airing more and more 3D content (the station this month aired coverage of the 3DS launch) and events like Wimbledon being broadcasted in 3D, more people will be heading to the shops to check out their 3D entertainment options and it's nice to know glasses-free will be among them.
Will you buy a 3DTV in the next year? Will it be glasses-free? Let us know in the comments below!
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I will be waiting a while yet before jumping on this bandwagon. Feel the technology is still in its infancy and there appear to be no universal standards.
So will I be able to watch this sort of TV while lying down? Doesn't the 'technology' require my head to be upright? Still feels so clunky. This isn't 3D. It's a gimmick. I'm waiting for R2D2...
They do not have to be expensive,the cost of 3DS parts is estimated at under £62. They will be expensive because 3D is accepted to be costly when it fact it is quite cheap to do.
They do not have to be expensive,the cost of 3DS parts is estimated at under £62. They will be expensive because 3D is accepted to be costly when it fact it is quite cheap to do.
Source? NO way the 3ds is under 62GBP(even considering the fact the 3DS are producd in Japan)
I'd say 3d mass acceptance (and availability) is at least 5-8 years out.
Hopefully, by then a lot of quirks will get ironed out.
Then again, early adopters have played a great role in the advancement of technology. That is unless you had previously invested in Betamax or HD-DVD or shutter glasses 3D and the likes