Toshiba to launch first glasses-free 3D TV
08-24-10, 03:06 PM
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Toshiba to launch first glasses-free 3D TV
Toshiba to launch first glasses-free 3D TV
From Breitbart - Japanese electronics giant Toshiba plans to market the world's first 3D television that does not need special glasses later this year, a report said on Tuesday. Toshiba will unveil three models of the television, which will cost several thousand dollars, before Christmas, the Yomiuri Shimbun said. The company has developed a new system that emits a number of rays of light with various angles from the screen so that viewers can see stereoscopic images without glasses, the daily said. "People can enjoy images in three dimensions from various positions and suffer less stress," it said. Japan's major electronics makers launched 3D television this year, but sales have not been as strong as expected while many customers have complained of being irritated by the glasses. However, a Toshiba spokeswoman said: "We are not in a position to make any announcement."
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Now I wonder if this might help customers adopt 3-D since it might provide less strain on the eyes? Guess time will tell.
From Breitbart - Japanese electronics giant Toshiba plans to market the world's first 3D television that does not need special glasses later this year, a report said on Tuesday. Toshiba will unveil three models of the television, which will cost several thousand dollars, before Christmas, the Yomiuri Shimbun said. The company has developed a new system that emits a number of rays of light with various angles from the screen so that viewers can see stereoscopic images without glasses, the daily said. "People can enjoy images in three dimensions from various positions and suffer less stress," it said. Japan's major electronics makers launched 3D television this year, but sales have not been as strong as expected while many customers have complained of being irritated by the glasses. However, a Toshiba spokeswoman said: "We are not in a position to make any announcement."
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Now I wonder if this might help customers adopt 3-D since it might provide less strain on the eyes? Guess time will tell.
08-25-10, 01:28 PM
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Re: Toshiba to launch first glasses-free 3D TV
Spiky, you owe me a 
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From this thread:
http://forum.dvdtalk.com/dvd-home-th...-tv-worth.html
!From this thread:
http://forum.dvdtalk.com/dvd-home-th...-tv-worth.html
You figure that if Nintendo can do 3-D on its upcoming DS game machines without the need of special glasses, then the technology can be incorporated into larger screens. If Nintendo sells its machine for about $200, then a larger screen TV would be very expensive, not unlike large screen plasmas when they first appeared. Given time, just like plasma TVs, the price of large screen 3-D sets (not needing special glasses) would drop. That's my thinking.
Why would you think that? The DS has a very focused viewer, and only one of them. The 3D response can therefore be tuned to a certain angle and distance from the screen. A TV, esp large TVs, could have a dozen viewers, all with a different view angle. This makes the tech very difficult.
08-25-10, 05:25 PM
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08-26-10, 03:23 AM
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08-26-10, 09:17 AM
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Toshiba Unveils First Consumer 3D Flatpanel-TV Without Glasses
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Toshiba today announced at CEATEC 2010, Japan's biggest consumer electronics show, its first commercially available 3D TVs that can be used without glasses. With the two TVs, one with a screen size of 12'' (30.5 cm) and another with 20'' (50.8 cm), viewers get a three dimensional viewing experience comfortably, without the need to wear 3D glasses. The products will be available by the end of December 2010 in Japan. The newly developed technological innovation for 3D-TVs without glasses uses an integral imaging system. It provides nine different perspectives (parallaxes) of each single 2D frame which the viewer's brain superimposes to create a 3-dimensional impression of the image. Toshiba achieved this thanks to its engineers' huge knowledge of display technology and of semiconductor and software design. They developed a powerful engine and an algorithm to extrapolate these perspectives out of the 2D frame and used a perpendicular lenticular sheet, an array of lenses, that enable the viewer's brain to superimpose the perspectives. It also offers a wide viewing area in front of the display and allows movement of the eyes and head without disrupting the 3D image and without the discomfort sometimes associated with other 'glasses-less' 3D technologies.
10-05-10, 07:28 AM
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The first feedback I had read on these a week or two ago was that they weren't even on par with the glasses models.
10-05-10, 10:30 PM
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I would say they are small because making a large 3D screen needing no glasses isn't yet possible. May never be, not building on current TV tech.
10-07-10, 05:44 PM
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Why? It may not have home-consumer applications at that size, but I bet it will do well in certain commercial applications, like kiosk displays and such. And like all tech, it will get bigger, better, and cheaper as it goes.
10-08-10, 01:42 AM
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