3D TV debuts in Japan

Chuck out your HD TV because 3D TV is fast becoming a reality - provided you live in Japan that is. 3DTV Still requires special specs A Japanese retailer has unveiled a 46in 3D LCD TV, though it's actually manufactured by Hyundai. The set has a 1920 x 1080 resolution and generates a 3D image using stereoscopics. It creates …

[Nick]

This worked on PC years ago...

e-Dimensional 3D glasses

http://www.techspot.com/reviews/hardware/ed_3dglasses/

Worked in the same way, and when correctly configured to your eyes, gave an astonishing result.

[Alex]

Only if you sit bolt-upright in front of the telly

Tilt your head away from vertical and your eyes will not be aligned with the plane of the TV: your brain will start to perceive two images like in the picture of the article than be fooled into the 3D effect.

Probably OK for sports events where you are engrossed in the action; but no good for lounging in front of your favourite soap, film, tawdry celebrity/pikey embarrass-o-thon.

[Tony Paulazzo]

Screw Bluray...

These are the pr0n you've been looking for. Yay for the future! 2D is dead, long live 3D.

The government may be watching everything we do, genetically modified food, ice sheets melting, waste mountains and if it isn't mandatory it'll be illegal, but we won't care because we'll be able to see Mrs Dingles breasts heaving over the edge of our sets on Emmerdale.

Smiley, but I'm really crying inside.

[Anonymous Coward]

Can you still watch 2D telly on it without specs?

Or do you need two TV's?

Could this be the next big format war,

2D vs 3D

Which one is Toshiba backing?

[David Paul Morgan]

Old hat and out of date...

Philips have already done it - but WITHOUT the glasses!

http://www.research.philips.com/technologies/display/ov_3ddisp.html

and

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

I can't wait to se this in the flesh :-)

[nutellajunkie]

ough!

Its exactly the same way as its been done at I-Max. So its hardly new technology.