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zekeisaszekedoes · 15-12-2011, 23:45

Me personally, I can tell the difference between a 720p LCD TV and a 1080p LCD TV with sizes as low as 26" with naked eye, it's big in terms of sharpness and pixel count. It's less obvious when HDMI sources are used, but it's there.

The thing is, adoption of 3DTV has been low because of the expense, slowness to standardise between manufacturers, the clunky glasses and the amount of shovelware 3D movies that have soured public interest in the format.

My perspective is it's nice to have as a bonus feature but 1080p is more important overall as there's lots of content available. Anything recorded on 35m film has a high resolution and can be scanned down to 1080p easily using digital mastering/compression techniques. Therefore, it's possible for even old movies from the 40s and 50s to be shown in HD. Whereas with modern polarized 3D films they either have to be filmed with a special (and VERY expensive) 3D motion picture camera, or an existing 2D film painstakingly converted which involves hundreds of man hours digitally manipulating the footage. The latter has been critically panned.

Long story short, diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks, I guess. Best bet for polarized 3D content is a 3D Blu-ray player and an extensive 3D Blu-ray collection. On TV networks there's just not much interest or (more crucially) profit in it right now, so even paid-for On Demand content is scarce.

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zekeisaszekedoes Permanently Banned Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Hampshire, UK Age: 41 Services: 30Mb Broadband (XL), 2TB TiVo (M+), Samsung Galaxy Ace (M), POTS Landline (M). Posts: 823	Re: 3D using TiVo Me personally, I can tell the difference between a 720p LCD TV and a 1080p LCD TV with sizes as low as 26" with naked eye, it's big in terms of sharpness and pixel count. It's less obvious when HDMI sources are used, but it's there. The thing is, adoption of 3DTV has been low because of the expense, slowness to standardise between manufacturers, the clunky glasses and the amount of shovelware 3D movies that have soured public interest in the format. My perspective is it's nice to have as a bonus feature but 1080p is more important overall as there's lots of content available. Anything recorded on 35m film has a high resolution and can be scanned down to 1080p easily using digital mastering/compression techniques. Therefore, it's possible for even old movies from the 40s and 50s to be shown in HD. Whereas with modern polarized 3D films they either have to be filmed with a special (and VERY expensive) 3D motion picture camera, or an existing 2D film painstakingly converted which involves hundreds of man hours digitally manipulating the footage. The latter has been critically panned. Long story short, diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks, I guess. Best bet for polarized 3D content is a 3D Blu-ray player and an extensive 3D Blu-ray collection. On TV networks there's just not much interest or (more crucially) profit in it right now, so even paid-for On Demand content is scarce.