Sony To Launch 3D TVs By Late 2010

eldavojohn writes "The Financial Times is reporting that Sony is announcing 3D TVs for late 2010 at the IFA technology trade show in Berlin. It's another glasses-based technology with "active shutter" being employed (the same stuff teased at CES as well as employed on NVIDIA's glasses). Expect to see 3D Bravia television sets, Vaio laptops, PS3s and Blu-ray disc players compatible with this technology."

It's not 3D

[Omnifarious]

Unless I can move my head to look around something, it's not 3D. If they want to call it 'stereo' TV, that's fine, but it's not 3D.

Re:porn

[westlake]

This is drearily likely to be the driving force behind the growth of the technology. Look at history. Video cassettes, the Internet, silicone rubber formulae...

It would be closer to the truth to say that Disney's support of VHS put a VCR in every home.

Re:Hrmm

[jeffb (2.718)]

Probably there are enough people for whom this is true that "3D" display technology based on 2D devices will fail in the marketplace.

Just as red/green status and traffic lights have failed because of the wide prevalence of red/green colorblindness?

It's a binocular world out there, and I don't think the rate of anomalous depth perception is high enough to change that.

Re:Have they wondered...

[geekoid]

Of course they do, but 3d movies [pack people in, so people like you are a tiny demographic.
If this is l;ike the demo I say, it will be an option built into the screen and firmware, not the only way to look at the screens.

Re:Hrmm

[clang_jangle]

Bad example -- the colors of traffic lights are not the only cue, the position also informs. There will be no widespread adoption of 3D displays until they get holovision working right. Stereo vision != 3D, it's just a simulation (tied to silly looking glasses) and thus it will remain a novelty.

Re:Yay!

[clone53421]

holographic 3D that you can move around and choose your own perspective.

Producers would probably hate that. They're trying to perfect the angle of the shot, but only one person can actually see it from that angle because you have to be in the exact middle of the viewing area in order to see it. Plus, any sort of distance shot would be un-viewable from anywhere significantly off-center because the target of the scene would be out of the picture at that angle. They'd have to move it into the foreground, spoiling the distance effect.

Like trying to

[Anonymous Coward]

describe color to a blind person, or sound to someone born deaf. How can you describe depth to someone who can't see it ?