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i remember doing 3d on my old CRT monitor, just have to have a monitor with about 100HZ refresh rate don't you?
I think it is different "3D" tech. Red & Blue glasses vs glasses that you actually have to recharge and cost $100ish each…
yeah thats what i had(have), shutter glasses, they had these ages ago, but they didn't really take off, looks like with the relaunch they are having a bit more luck, problem with the old shutter glasses is that they weren't dark enough and you could still see though them causing a bit of a ghosting effect.
yeah, I'm hanging on to my old 21" CRT in the garage, just in case I ever decide to care about 3D :-)
It can do 120Hz+ easily.
This seems rather pricey. A normal monitor is $200, glasses $100, so you are paying an extra $300 for 120Hz over the standard 75Hz?
Because it comes with a pair of nVidia 3D Vision glasses, does that mean you do not need to buy the 3dvision kit that costs about $200?
Exactly!
That's nothing to be proud of.
It's still better then folking out the cash laster on for the glasses.. unless your happy using it as a normal 2D monitor and then makinf the extra cost for a 3D monitor pointless
+1 for free glasses.
I misread it as having to pay $200 extra too, then I read it properly.
what is da 3d ?
How come at the movies you can just wear those cheap disposable glasses but with these you need expensive ones? Obviously something to do with the technology but if they can do it at the movies, why not on a monitor?
Would you pay $100 for glasses to see a movie?
Because cinemas use switching polarising filters in front of the projector.
If you have a home projector, you can use the same technology.
+1 * but i'm thought you need two projectors
Good point - cinemas now use two projectors with fixed circular polaraisation.
The cheaper projection system uses one projector with a switching linear polariser, alternating L and R. Not so good.
yeah very tempted to get a second projector at home to do the projector polarization thing, with decent projectors around the 1k mark and the screen size being about 100"s it works out at a reasonable price.
only issue is that there are currently no applications that support the dual monitor set up as it would be… the current programs only use a shutter system (page flipping).. eg what the left eye see's / what the right eye see's (i'd assume reading straight from the bluray). should be too hard to output every second frame of a 3d bluray to a second screen though…
though you'll need extra hardware if your playing directly from a bluray player (or software if your doing it from a PC.)
There's basically 3 types of 3D technology:
-Cinemas use polarisation. The glasses are cheap because they're just polarised plastic, but you need a projector and a switching polarising filter for it (to switch the polarisation to the matching polarisation in the left or right eye in the glasses). The smarts are in the projection which makes it expensive, in exchange for cheaper mass viewing, ideal for cinemas.
-Current 3D TVs use active shutter technology. The TV just displays switching left and right perspectives and the glasses shut out the other eye. The smarts are in the glasses, which makes them expensive. But other than needing to sync the glasses shutter with the switching display, the TV is just a normal TV with a higher refresh rate. Ideal for homes, where you wouldn't have more than a handful of viewers.
-The Nintendo 3DS uses autostereoscopy, and doesn't require any glasses. Like polarisation, the smarts are in the display which makes it more expensive, but the other disadvantage is that it only works with the viewer at specific angles. It works well for the 3DS where you only have one viewer, and the position of the display can be easily adjusted, but it's still being worked on for home theatre use.
Great post, it really cleared up some things for me. Thanks.
Great explanation. There are also "polarized" 3D monitors available for computers. They use inexpensive 3D glasses.
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The advantage of Polarized is that unlike shutter technology there is no ghosting (as wisc said), and you can get a couple of inexpensive polarized glasses.
only problem is though you get a bit of purple around the edges, or was it just discoloration in general?
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