3-DTV - Seen One Yet?

[David87]

Just been for a look around Best Buy and was excited to see that they had a room with four 3-DTVs to view. I've been interested to see what they were like since I first heard of them and I was absolutely blown away - it really was amazing. Obviously the lack of much content to display through them at the moment is an issue, but that'll obviously improve with a little time. They had both the active shutter and polarized types, and the former was far superior, for me at least.

Just wondering what others thought of it when you saw it for the first time? To my eyes it was awesome and really moves the home cinema experience on, but my girlfriend didn't really see the point and wasn't all that impressed. Saying that, she claims to not even be able to see the difference of HD and said if it were up to her she'd just have a 15" portable! Oh dear. Anyway, I think she was expecting it to provide novelty 3-D like in Disney World, where something comes right at your face out of the screen. Yes, it can do this when required, but the beauty of it for me was the sheer depth it provided to the picture. There were some simple shots of walking through a house, for instance, and the way things seemed to appear 'inside' the screen was just incredible. Well impressed!