Only one pair of specs?  For a Nuclear family, you'd have to buy 3 more at $150 a pop.

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Only one pair of specs?  For a Nuclear family, you'd have to buy 3 more at $150 a pop.

LOL, Doc. Well, I remember way back when when we used to tal about the "sweet spot" in audio, it was usually big enough for one. So, you get one pair of specs.

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We sometimes have 25 people over to watch a movie.  Hmm... $150 times 25 = yikes.

Simple - Charge entry fee of $5 then sell them popcorn and cola at 4000% markup (Make it a "true" movie going experience)

Or make it "bring your own glasses"

Now for the big question. Are theatre glasses the same technology as the TV glasses.

The buzzword for the glasses is "active shutter"...don't ask me what that means yet. And i know the Samsung 3DTV claims to have a processor that will actively convert all 2D images into 3D. So......lol, who wants to be the guinea pig.

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I must admit, I am in the market for a new TV

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Now for the big question. Are theatre glasses the same technology as the TV glasses.

The buzzword for the glasses is "active shutter"...don't ask me what that means yet. And i know the Samsung 3DTV claims to have a processor that will actively convert all 2D images into 3D. So......lol, who wants to be the guinea pig.

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Active shutter: image on screen is for one eye only, that eye can see the screen, the other eye is effectively blindfolded by a closed shutter... then the image switches to the other, previously blind eye, and the glasses open on the previously closed side and close on the formerly open side. Film glasses were of one of two types, both requiring an image on the screen containing both the left eye and the right eye information at the same time... either the red for one eye and green or blue for the other eye, or polarized (at 90 degrees) which required two projectors, each with polarized filters to match the glasses, allowing 3D color films.

There is, many years out, a 3D TV system which would not need glasses, but many layers of otherwise transparent images, but... a long time away.

I don't think they can properly convert 2D images to 3D.  The way the 3D vision works is to present slightly different but almost identical images to each eye. The information for true 3D photography isn't preserved in a 2D photo. The shuttered glasses work by darkening one lens and then the other, timed by a signal broadcasted by the 3D TV to stay in sync, so it can control what each eye sees.  Using this technique, it can present a slightly different picture for each eye and your brain's ability to decern distance based on differences given in the different pictures.

Since the perceived frame rate is reduced (two frames = one 3d frame), a good 3D set would need to have a high refresh rate to prevent you from noticing the flickering.  This also has the side effect of darkening the picture.

More information on the glasses: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCD_shutter_glasses

Here's an example of how your brain discerns the 3D image from two images: http://www.ledametrix.com/gallery08/15c.htm  There's two photos side-by-side that appear to be identical.  If you look closely, for example at the ring in the bench back, you can see that there's slight differences.  If you sit back in your chair and cross your eyes slowly until the two photos line up as one (you'll see 3 copies, the middle one is what you focus on), then your brain parses out the slight differences and you see a 3D image.

Actually, Samsung and Mitshubishi did release some "3D-ready" TV's 2 years ago. But the technology is different, so I'm not sure if it will work with Blu-ray. Most likely it will work, but because of the lack of HDMI 1.4, the resolution may be downsized, since it can't show two 1920x1080 images simultaneously.