TV's goggle gaggle: EVERYBODY'S first with something at consumer tech feast If you’re in Berlin and have a tech habit, then IFA, Europe’s biggest consumer electronics show, rages on for another couple of days. On display you'll find all manner of things upon which the consumer tech giants want us to focus our spending – even those that may well soon be redundant. As mobile content viewing explodes, it …
I can see his'n'hers viewing working - we sometimes fight over what to watch and when watching TV we don't chat - I just can't see it taking off. Wouldn't you need the devices to support it - where are you getting two 3D video outputs from?
As for gaming, do any consoles support this?
Sony has a demo setup for a car racing game at their Tokyo flagship showroom/store in Ginza. Each player could only see their car on the course, and got a full screen view as well. It is like the one screen is serving up two games at the same time. Polarized glasses are used to make it work.
It was much more impressive than the half-screen or split screens that one usually gets in head-to-head games. There was no leak-through from the other person's screen either. Although since each person gets their own view from the one screen you don't get the same feeling of playing alongside someone.
The curve was the wrong way though. They were convex, this is concave.
A slight curve brings the whole screen equidistant from your eyes and every pixel points at you instead of pointing over your shoulder.
But then, for the full effect you have to sit in the focal point, which won't be adjustable for your size of living room. And you can only get one person in the sweet spot, a bit like 'surround sound' perfectionists.
It does lower your viewing angle too.
"They were convex, this is concave."
Wonder where the focal point is? I'm awaiting the first reported case where sunlight reflected from the screen sets fire to the sofa...
(Why yes, my work bench *does* have a series of short scorched arcs in its surface, from when I forget to cover the magnifying glass!)
As the proud possessor of a non-rectangular living room, with one corner angle at about 115 degrees, I can see that these curvy tvs would be brilliant for getting a wide screen that intruded less into the room space, assuming I wanted to locate it in a corner (which would actually be fairly handy). But that doesn't mean I'm going to buy one at those prices.
At last! REAL LED TVs. It irks me something rotten whenever I see an ad for Fry's (other electrical retailers are available) advertising 'LED TVs', meaning LED backlit TVs. How many gullible punters have been sucked into this scam? I'll wait for my positively ancient 4-year old plasma TV to conk out before I pick up an OLED - hopefully the prices will have dropped even more by then.
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