I was at Sears today and they had a Panasonic Plasmsa with 3D playing through a Samsung Home Theater system. So I through the glasses on my face over my regular glasses turned them in and watched the demo DVD play. Yeah ok it was 3D. Big deal. I had to hold the glasses on my face as they kept falling off ( a real ergonomic feature
) and the display itself looked fuzzy when watching 2-D. I think the fuzziness was either a calibration problem or just a poor set-up to begin with. The greatest annoyance were the glasses. I watched the demo DVD which lasted 15 minutes and I thought alot of the scenes looked gimmicky and artificial. I felt dizzy afterwards and kind of nauseous. Will I recoomend 3D to any of my friends or colleagues? Definately not. This demo just reaffirmed by long held believes that the current technology is hoaky at best. Not until holographic displays are perfect will it ever be 3D.
I felt dizzy and nauseous after watching Avitar in 3d at the movie theater. I also felt eye fatigue.
I don't know if this is because of the particular technology used for the movie and glasses. I don't think they were active shutter glasses because I did not see the battery location.
Any way, I just got a HP pc with a 1080p 17" screen and it came with 3d and 3d shutter glasses. The demo looks good but I don't know if I will be able to watch this technology for two hours without side effects.
The problem is I haven't found a 3d move (in active shutter glass format) that I wanted to watch. A lot of movies are in different 3d formats (i.e. Caroline with red and blue lenses, etc.). You have to research reviews or go look at the package in the stores to be sure it is the right format, before you buy something on the internet for example.
Also the 1080 screen and this HP pc is excellet quality for watching blu ray movies and is very clear in focus.
I believe Disney 3d movies are in the new active shutter glasses format. My kids are grown up so we don't buy many Disney movies anymore. I am thinking of getting "Despeciable Me" just to test out the 3d effect for a couple of hours and see if active shutter technology works for me.
I bought the PC because of its high end components,specifications and speed, so I won't feel buyer's remorse if the active shutter glasses 3d doesn't work for me. In fact buying a high end pc is a cheaper way to check out the 3d shutter technoloy than buying a high end TV, blu ray player, mutiple sets of shutter glasses (and I saw somewhere that you also may need a "3d" receiver-I don't know about that). Also the HP pc comes with a very good audio system that sounds great with my headphones.
If I just starting out and I was thinking of buying a system for 3d, I would research the movies available first, because spending the money to upgrade to 3d could be disappointing if there are not enought movies available that you want to watch.
