3D TV-Irritating stuff.

[sandeep saxena]

A recent visit to my friends house left me a dreadful impression of 3D TV and now I sincerely wish not to purchase one. It is irritating when you have to view the images on the TV wearing bulky glasses that makes your viewing experience a burdensome task. Viewing the television for a long time indeed becomes painful and so I decided not to purchase a 3D TV my whole life. Anyone disagree?

 

[jenson]

the expreince is fabulous, but it does strain your eyes a "lot" cant view it for more than 10 minutes at a time. i also suspect it'll affect our vision due to the stress involved.

 

[shaiju_o_thomas]

If you decided not to purchase 3D TV your whole life then why would anyone else disagree? It's your decision.

Passive 3D is much more suitable for home environment but again that's not full HD.

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[anujmishra]

Passive 3D is much more suitable for home environment but again that's not full HD.

Is all LG TVs are passive 3D? Their glasses are much lighter and not required to charge.

However, one part I agree that it is nuisance to watch in 3D TV when there are more members in home and ask everyone to wear glasses. hyeah:

 

[Jeetu Singh]

The newer models from LG(LM & LW series) are the passive ones while the older ones were active glasses. The light weight and flicker free glasses are the one which make LG stand ahead of other 3D TV manufacturing brands.

 

[shaiju_o_thomas]

Their LED LCD models are all passive.

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[just4kix]

Latest 3D tv's, I mean the ones using active 3D, have much lighter glasses. But on the whole, the artificial 3D is very tiring to the eyes. But technics will improve over time. So as the saying goes, "never say never again".

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[mk15]

Even the passive ones give. Headache And where is the content made specially to make use of 3d


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[miniwarmth]

Just got my Pana ST50 and don't seem to be too affected by the weight of the glasses; actually seem quite light. I have watched (sampled some recently downloaded movies) :30 of 3D content and haven't experienced any adverse affects.
How would this be different than at a movie theatre? I recently saw Madagascar 3 in 3D with my kids and absolutely loved it.

 

[viper08]

Well I think you will need to re-think your decision not very late.

This season's Olympic games started 3D coverage without glasses in seleted place at London
Source:
Glasses free 3D Olympics comes to London | 3D News from 3D Focus

Toshiba India has already launched large-screen glasses-free 3D TV - the RZ1@12lakhs
source:
Toshiba launches glasses-free 3D TV at Rs 12 lakh - Tech News - IBNLive

Soon, 3D displays to be viewed without glasses
source:
Soon, 3D displays to be viewed without glasses : North, News - India Today

 

[madhavk8]

Maybe you saw a first generation 3dtv. 2nd and 3rd generation 3dtv's have are remarkably better (especially panasonic and samsung plasmas). The glasses have become so light to the point of becoming as light as passive glasses( i personally own 2012 samsung ssg-4100 glasses and they are remarkably light).

I have been using samsung 51d550 plasma from past 10 months and 3d experience has been very very good most of the times and has almost never had too much eye strain even after watching avatar which was like 2-45 min long.

 

[srinisundar]

I have been using samsung 51d550 plasma from past 10 months and 3d experience has been very very good most of the times and has almost never had too much eye strain even after watching avatar which was like 2-45 min long.

Yes this" almost never had too much eye strain" is the concern and if there is no strain then it is fine. As long as we struggled a little bit in watching still it is considered as an backlog.

However anybody who has 3D capable Projectors( Full HD) kindly put their views, how it is performing in big screen.

 

[just4kix]

This is a very personal thing. Some people are not affected, some are. I have the latest Panasonic St50 but feel the strain after 30 minutes or so; definitely after an hour. But then I wear glasses.

 

[echo77]

It's a personal thingy. I am also waiting for a glass-free experience.

From the survey poll that I put up, we saw that about 75% of 3D TV owners (small sample size) watch it once a month or less, but 3D models of mid-to-upper end and have better 2D features which 2D-only models do not have, which may be a reason to go for a 3D model even if you don't want to watch 3D.

 

[god2007]

So long as 3D is an artificially created illusion, some kind of vision irritations will be there. The active 3D vision is more problematic is because, the glass we were is closing and opening nearly 100 times per second( depending on the frequency specification). A 120 Hz display, allowing 60 images per second per eye, is considered as flicker-free. Although 30 images per second is used for movies, we are not experiencing any problem because nothing is closing and opening in front of our eyes.

On the other hand in the passive 3D also there are no shutters. By using polarised filters, two different images are delivered to each of our eyes. Hence it is more smooth to watch.

So the problems in watching 3D largely varies from person to person.

 

[madhavk8]

Yes this" almost never had too much eye strain" is the concern and if there is no strain then it is fine. As long as we struggled a little bit in watching still it is considered as an backlog.

However anybody who has 3D capable Projectors( Full HD) kindly put their views, how it is performing in big screen.

3D in itself has the property to give some eye strain NOT because of the equipment but the way film-makers use 3D with unnatural use of parallax to create overwhelming effects. This happens in almost all 3d movies, even the ones without any pop-out effect.

Watching 3d movies in itself is never natural for our eyes as it always tries to focus on the objects in foreground but it is never possible as our eyes need to be focussed on the plane where the video is being displayed.

Hence all 3d movies even with million dollar equipment (active/passive or whatever) will have some amount of strain !!

 

[vasanthk]

Whether we like it or not, The future is 3D TV , maybe w/o glasses.

However my experience with my 3D TV has been phenomenal so far, If the content is from original 3D bluray then no reason to worry about. They are just fantastic.

Medically, few people are having issues with 3D content which depends on the sensitivity of eyes, be it on theater 3D or on 3D tv. They just cant hold it more than 10-15 mins. In these cases , its better to avoid 3D content.

If we are able to watch 3D on theaters , then with passive technology 3D(not active 3D) at home you will get the same experience.

 

[just4kix]

Whether we like it or not, The future is 3D TV , maybe w/o glasses.

However my experience with my 3D TV has been phenomenal so far, If the content is from original 3D bluray then no reason to worry about. They are just fantastic.

Medically, few people are having issues with 3D content which depends on the sensitivity of eyes, be it on theater 3D or on 3D tv. They just cant hold it more than 10-15 mins. In these cases , its better to avoid 3D content.

If we are able to watch 3D on theaters , then with passive technology 3D(not active 3D) at home you will get the same experience.

Correct. The higher end TVs are all 3D enabled already. So like it or not, you will end up with a 3D model if not buying the most basic flat panel TV.

One can always choose not to watch 3D if you don't like it.

 

[nindo]

frankly its no point buying 3d tv now as the technology has a long way to go and the content available is too less. lot of manufacturers are already out with glass free 3D TV (as already mentioned in this thread) but as of now its too expensive for most of us to buy.

wait for a couple of years to invest in 3d technology, by then there will be quite a good amount of 3d content available across all genres and technology will be much more convenient and user friendly.

my two bits

 

[just4kix]

plz tell me some models to take demo

The LG LM6200 models and above, LW5700, LW6700. Panasonic ET5 series.