[mythtv-users] OT: 3D TV

[Jim Morton]

Justin Johnson wrote:
> With all the 3D tv's announced at CES last week, and broadcasters 
> beginning to experiment with it I wanted to see what people thought 
> about it. From what I've read the synchronization signal for the 
> glasses is carried over HDMI and then the TV has some device that 
> communicates with the glasses to allow different frames to be shown to 
> different eyes. Would this mean the end of the HD-PVR? Or would we 
> just be stuck with a single set of the frames, essentially making the 
> content 2D? I would assume that OTA data would be fine so long as the 
> 3D data was still decoded from the MPEG2 stream and sent to the TV set.
> I'm also interested in what people think about 3D TV from a general 
> viewing standpoint. Is it going to be as groundbreaking as HD? My 
> thinking is that it could be, for some content, just as HD doesn't 
> make a huge difference for many shows. Sports is where I see the 
> largest benefit, same as HD. What do others think?
> --Justin Johnson
>
I don't know much at all about current 3D technology but IMHO it will 
not ever be accepted by the mainstream until they figure out how to do 
it without having to wear special glasses.

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 Jim Morton