3-D TV

[Frank S]

I was at a mates house during the week,and he was eager to show off his new 3-D TV.
This thing is about umptytwo inch plasma and takes up most of the wall. He showed a demo disc of the great barrier reef(something that I love), and to be honest ,I was not impressed. So I think I shall wait a few years yet before buying one. Anybody with similar experiences ??
F.

 

[devonwoody]

I have seen a couple of demos at currys and they were ok but my daughter tells me they are very stressful after watching for more than a couple of hours.





typo

 

[vally bar]

We bought one had it about 6 weeks and it broke (luckily)
had it replaced with the same tv but with normal picture format, enough said.
And the stress thing is bang on after about an hour you feel like your eyes are being sucked out of your head

 

[cambournepete]

My wife and I can't see the 3d on them most of the time anyway...

 

[Lons]

We've had a 52" Panasonic plasma 3D smart tv for 12 months and TBH never use the 3D. We bought it because it was a good deal and would have been happy without the 3D.

There are things worth watching and the effects on films like Avatar especially are incredible but the glasses are uncomfortable and take some getting used to. We have sky tv now but don't subscribe to 3D so the amount available is limited.

Not worth paying extra for imo, but if the tv you want has it (and they give you the expensive "active" glasses free) then at least it's there if you want to watch something.

The "smart" facility of the tv is pretty good though!

Bob

 

[JakeS]

We've had a 52" Panasonic plasma 3D smart tv for 12 months and TBH never use the 3D. We bought it because it was a good deal and would have been happy without the 3D.

We've had pretty much exactly the same experience, albeit with a notably smaller TV! ;-)

I don't find the glasses particularly uncomfortable, and I don't get any kind of aches or dizzy feelings when watching 3D stuff for prolonged periods of time*, but... it just doesn't add enough to the experience to make it worth going out and buying 3D stuff in particular.

(We ended up with a 3D TV as part of a warranty replacement - four and a half years after I bought my last TV it developed a fault, and John Lewis were still happy to exchange it for credit towards a new TV at the current price of a brand-new equivalent model. So if and when the OP does buy a new TV, I'd thoroughly recommend John Lewis for it; a five-year guarantee by default is already pretty good, and they really do follow through on it with no fuss.)

The only consumer 3D technology that I've personally found really does add something to the experience so far is Nintendo's 3DS handheld game console, where being able to see a notionally-3D world in actual 3D is sometimes quite useful. But that's about it! I guess I'd probably enjoy the 3D features on my TV more if I played more console games.



* It's worth pointing out that there are two different types of 3D effect; the active-shutter kind where the TV shows left-eye and right-eye on alternating frames and the glasses blank out at the same rate to show the left eye only the left frames and vice versa, and the polarised-light kind where the TV shows both left and right frames simultaneously and the glasses passively filter the light so only the left frame gets through to the left eye. I believe active-shutter glasses are more likely to give more people headaches for the same reason that fluorescent lights, flickering CRT monitors and other strobing light sources can. That said, that's what we have and I've never had a problem, while I've been given headaches by dodgy fluoro tubes before.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Do 3D TVs have better programmes on them? no? I'll give them a miss, then.

 

[Racers]

Hi,

I would wait a few years untill they aren't avalable any more :wink:

I go to see 2D films at the cinema not much point in 3D IMHO.

Pete

 

[Gerard Scanlan]

It is claimed that you accept everything that existed before you were born as fact and everything that comes along afterwards you question.
Having said that with the right system it can be fun for a special effect in some feature films but it does require you to sit up and watch the whole time, so it does not make watching TV very relaxing. My wife's gran thought that colour TV was bad for your eyes, wouldn't have one in the house .

 

[mailee]

Never been 'into' 3D TV myself, can't see the sense in having to wear a pair of glasses to watch TV? besides I do wear glasses anyway (Hows that work then?) :? Pointless exercise IMHO as repeats in 2D would be just the same in 3D and still all rubbish. :roll:

 

[Phil Pascoe]

It is claimed that you accept everything that existed before you were born as fact and everything that comes along afterwards you question.
Having said that with the right system it can be fun for a special effect in some feature films but it does require you to sit up and watch the whole time, so it does not make watching TV very relaxing. My wife's gran thought that colour TV was bad for your eyes, wouldn't have one in the house .

My mother bought my grandmother her first colour tv in the 70s, and my gran said there was no point whatsoever in watching colour as b&w was perfectly ok. She used to keep her front door locked, and if we visited we could see her go to the tv to turn the colour off before answering the door. However, once in a while I went in through the back door, which she rarely locked, and the colour and brightness would be up so high you were lucky to get away without arc eye.

 

[riclepp]

I have a normal smart tv. No wish to watch or even buy 3d tv. I and the family go the the pictures to watch 3d films. To be honest the only ones that seem ok are the cartoon or animated type. Normal action films in 3d are next to rubbish in my opionon, I won't be buying 3 d tv any time soon or even later