{"id":553,"date":"2009-10-07T21:36:44","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T21:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/?p=553"},"modified":"2009-10-07T21:40:26","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T21:40:26","slug":"3d-television-its-actually-quite-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/10\/07\/3d-television-its-actually-quite-good\/","title":{"rendered":"3D Television&#8230; it&#8217;s actually quite good."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/3D2_TV_300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px\" title=\"3D2_TV_300\" src=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/3D2_TV_300_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"3D2_TV_300\" width=\"240\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I spent the day at <a href=\"http:\/\/bt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BT\u2019s<\/a> <a title=\"Adastral\" href=\"http:\/\/atadastral.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adastral<\/a> research centre talking about new and upcoming technology.\u00a0 BT do a lot beyond selling phones and broadband, and the day was focused on highlighting areas of technology that we could use in come form or another.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve got a huge range of stuff there, we covered everything from their <a title=\"BT 21st Century Network\" href=\"http:\/\/www.btplc.com\/21CN\/Whatis21CN\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">21st Century Network project<\/a> though to a fascinating bit of kit that can pick up sound from fibre optic cameras.\u00a0 One of the less business focus demos though was a couple of 3D televisions.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve seen a couple of 3D movies recently and have been pretty impressed with the effect.\u00a0 Even so, I wasn\u2019t so sure about the idea of 3D TV.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s because most of the movies are animated, I wasn\u2019t sure what live action would be like.\u00a0 Having seen it in the flesh though I\u2019m really quite looking forward to the prospect.\u00a0 The 3D effect is just as real as at the cinema, but what surprised me was how well it seemed to work with normal real life scenes.<\/p>\n<p>Te demo had a couple of different scenes, from the predictable action movie type stuff through to rugby games and and an F1 car driving round <a title=\"Mugello Circuit\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mugello_Circuit\" target=\"_blank\">Mugello<\/a>.\u00a0 It works very <em>very<\/em> well for the sports sections, it\u2019s no wonder <a title=\"Sky television\" href=\"http:\/\/corporate.sky.com\/media\/press_releases\/2009\/3d_tv.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Sky<\/a> are so keen on launching a <a title=\"Sky television 3D television\" href=\"http:\/\/corporate.sky.com\/media\/press_releases\/2009\/3d_tv.htm\" target=\"_blank\">3D channel<\/a> next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ok, so you have to wear glasses, but they\u2019re nowhere near as bad as the only red\/green ones you used to get as a kid.\u00a0 You\u2019d rather watch without I\u2019m sure, but even though I only had a quick demo I reckon the glasses are worth the sacrifice.\u00a0 Oh, and for normal 2D programmes the TV works just like a normal HDTV.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How does it work\u2026 well from what I can gather, glasses are circularly polarised, clockwise for the right eye and anti- clockwise for the left.\u00a0 The screen then alternately projects the frames for the right and left eyes, switching a filter for each.<\/p>\n<p>However it works I\u2019m looking forward to seeing what the 3D Star Wars movies will be like, and what games developers do once they get their hands on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3D Television, BT, Adastral, Sky, Star Wars, 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