3D?

[NorthStar]

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KingRT, for Blu-rays try eight feet distance from your 80" screen (2D & 3D). ...Ten feet is ok for DVDs and regular TV.__________

I was quoting on memory, but I am between 8 and 9.5 feet, and the picture is amazing!
I pulled the close distance suggestions off a couple different sites, including THX recomendations.

It's not like the old days where you need to be 20ft back.

That's right, because tubes were bad for your eyes and heartbeat from up close.
No more applying today with better technologies of light dispersion.

* I would love to have an 80" flat panel right now! ...I would be sitting 8 feet from it and I would be in movie Blu-ray 2D watching heaven.
{For 3D, perhaps 9 feet, because of passive 3D. But with active 3D, back to 8 feet.}

** They don't make mass market large size plasmas (bigger than 65") because it's too expensive and they consume too much electricity and they are much harder to manufacture and to illuminate.

OLED should be better, hopefully. ...And LCD LEDS right now they look gorgeous in the 80" and 84" sizes. ...Sony, LG, Sharp, ...

 

[KingRT10]

The problem with the current 80 or 90 inch Led is that only some material looks good. If you watch older tv shows,Movies etc the colors are way off.

I would much rather purchase an 80 inch or 90 inch Plasma instead, as they do make them, but they are priced way too high, for the reasons North stated above.

 

[NorthStar]

They make 90" class (size) flat panel LCD LEDs King? ...That's front projection theaters territory.

You are right again regarding the material you watch in such a large screen.
- Simply watch Blu-rays (1080p) on it.
- And for DVDs (480p - 480i) and regular TV (standard HD - 720p), just get a smaller TV (50 to 60") in another room,
or even in the same room than you can easily/quickly roll (casters) into position.
- Or go for the front projector (3D, & with automatic motorized screen) - And a 60-65" flat panel plasma (Panny).
...BD movies/music concerts - DVD and Netflix movies and TV sports, news, documentaries, ... respectively.

 

[-E-]

All HDTVs today (above roughly $1,000) are both 3D and 2D anyway. ...And all Blu-ray players (above roughly $50) are all 3D Blu-ray players.

One hundred-foot screen (IMAX 3D), and 2K will reveal all the grain contained in films.
At home you'll have a much smoother picture (sharper), and perfect 3D for your own eyes (well calibrated).
That's my real life experience. And I'm a sucker for cinema and all that jazz.

Impact? ...Just sit down eight feet from your 100" screen display at home! ...Or five feet from your 65" one.

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* Emile (-E-), what's your opinion on 3D?

Some Japanese media outlet tried to get an interview out of me at CES a few years ago touting 3D (when it was first getting unveiled)... I'll give the same answer now as I did then: it's a fad, and it is NOT NEW TECHNOLOGY. It came on because of Avatar, and otherwise has not seen any practical application since (except for movies that use it as a ploy to get viewers instead of focusing on, say, storyline, CGI, sound mixing/editing, or even really good video editing). It also hasn't been enhanced or evolved since decades ago (and I do mean DECADES ago) when it was first developed. 3D should stay in the movie theaters where you don't need active shutter glasses, and evolve to the home once there is far better (i.e. holographic - no glasses!) technology. The first non-glasses "3DTV" I viewed awhile ago were in beta stages then (and sucked), and haven't moved a lot further ahead...

Now, 4K... that is an entirely different can of worms - but I think that will be embraced in the same fashion as HDTV - i.e. the content providers will likely commoditize it (make it a standard and cheap, like 1080p is today), instead of trying to nail each consumer for getting near zero content (3D).

I also saw some mentions of OLED... and that has been years and years in the making and still hasn't taken ground because OEMs are embatted with LCD/LED/Plasma - all to the detriment of us (the consumer). /sniff sniff: I really see potential with OLED. That's the first step toward the cool sci-fi stuff like the bendable/wrappable tablets, eyewear, etc.

 

[NorthStar]

Some Japanese media outlet tried to get an interview out of me at CES a few years ago touting 3D (when it was first getting unveiled)... I'll give the same answer now as I did then: it's a fad, and it is NOT NEW TECHNOLOGY. It came on because of Avatar, and otherwise has not seen any practical application since (except for movies that use it as a ploy to get viewers instead of focusing on, say, storyline, CGI, sound mixing/editing, or even really good video editing). It also hasn't been enhanced or evolved since decades ago (and I do mean DECADES ago) when it was first developed.
3D should stay in the movie theaters where you don't need active shutter glasses, and evolve to the home once there is far better (i.e. holographic - no glasses!) technology. The first non-glasses "3DTV" I viewed awhile ago were in beta stages then (and sucked), and haven't moved a lot further ahead...

Now, 4K... that is an entirely different can of worms - but I think that will be embraced in the same fashion as HDTV - i.e. the content providers will likely commoditize it (make it a standard and cheap, like 1080p is today), instead of trying to nail each consumer for getting near zero content (3D).

I also saw some mentions of OLED... and that has been years and years in the making and still hasn't taken ground because OEMs are embatted with LCD/LED/Plasma - all to the detriment of us (the consumer). /sniff sniff: I really see potential with OLED. That's the first step toward the cool sci-fi stuff like the bendable/wrappable tablets, eyewear, etc.

Thank you very much Emile for an (yours) honest '3D' vision.

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