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I'm betting you've never seen any 3D content on a TV, and have simply decided based on ... nothing! That's too bad. The new 3D stuff can look great, even on the Sony TVs (I've seen it). And I've heard the Panasonic's Plasma 3D look even better!

Try not to be close minded and see it before you judge!

-Pie]]>Feb 23rd 2010 8:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sony-style-stores-proclaimed-3d-ready-are-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sony-style-stores-proclaimed-3d-ready-are-you/]]>Feb 23rd 2010 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sony-style-stores-proclaimed-3d-ready-are-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sony-style-stores-proclaimed-3d-ready-are-you/
I'm pretty sure only the S770 is 3D. The S570 has all the other features, but is 2D.]]>Feb 23rd 2010 7:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sony-style-stores-proclaimed-3d-ready-are-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sony-style-stores-proclaimed-3d-ready-are-you/
Gotta get a bigger panel Sony !]]>Feb 23rd 2010 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sony-style-stores-proclaimed-3d-ready-are-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sony-style-stores-proclaimed-3d-ready-are-you/
I've been saying this for some time. While Sony did have a semi-affordable 65" last year (well, $5,000), it did not look that great and it probably did not sell well. I won't even mention the 70" models, as those are too expensive to be spoken about in the same context as mass market products. This year, we are back at a 60" max for Sony. At least Panasonic has 65" as a standard size (and the 65S1 is not much more than $2k), and maybe with Vizio coming out with a cheap 72" model, there will be more pressure from other companies. I have to commend Sharp for pushing 65" models consistently, which the prices going down and the quality going up.]]>Feb 23rd 2010 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sony-style-stores-proclaimed-3d-ready-are-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sony-style-stores-proclaimed-3d-ready-are-you/Feb 23rd 2010 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sony-style-stores-proclaimed-3d-ready-are-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sony-style-stores-proclaimed-3d-ready-are-you/
Also, 3D works best with CGI. Avatar worked well because it was almost 100% CGI. Monsters vs. Aliens before it was even better.

I saw a 3D demo in the San Diego Sony Style about a month ago, fed from the PS3 HDD. Motorstorm (non-playable) was hotness! Live action stuff worked fine -- good enough to be past "gimmic" but as engrossing as the CGI demos.

Sony needs to just deploy a bunch of these PS3s to their stores because it's the only way (currently) to see a variety of 3D demoed on their TVs.

I appreciate that Iamperfect2 actually saw a 3D demo and decided on that basis. A lot of naysayers, however, have never seen 3D and don't understand how well the new crop of movies are done, and that the TVs -- much to my surprise -- actually work!

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Manufacturers have to do something new, as HDTV has been largely commoditized in that past year or two, and they need a new cutting edge technology.

The right way to go would be 4K (i.e. a 4000x2000p picture, or 4x the resolution of HD). The problem with that is bandwidth. Because we have 300+ crap channels out there, and there are only so many DSS/FSS slots for satellites, Dish and DirecTV just couldn't handle more than a couple of channels in 4K, as they would likely eat up 10x the bandwidth of current HDTV channels (4x for the resulolution, a little more to ease up on compression, and another 2x for a full progressive picture), which are already 3-6x SD channels. Cable providers, who are locked in MPEG-2, are already hurting on HD, so they probably wouldn't be able to deliver 4K at all, although at least for the early adopters, this isn't an issue, since the early adopter types are on DBS anyways, since it is so far ahead of cable.

3D is the only thing that they can do without using more bandwidth, even though the experience is horrible, it has been tried before, with various technologies from full-on setups in theaters to red/blue glasses on DVDs, and none of it works, because people don't want to wear clunky glasses and ]]>Feb 24th 2010 9:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sony-style-stores-proclaimed-3d-ready-are-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sony-style-stores-proclaimed-3d-ready-are-you/
I'd like to Buy a TV with 3D capabilities but I don't think it fits into the category of premium feature sets. It's something that my kids might enjoy more and therefor it should be a feature on all TV's kind of like how an HDMI input is on all TV's now.]]>Feb 25th 2010 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sony-style-stores-proclaimed-3d-ready-are-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sony-style-stores-proclaimed-3d-ready-are-you/Feb 27th 2010 10:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sony-style-stores-proclaimed-3d-ready-are-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sony-style-stores-proclaimed-3d-ready-are-you/Mar 15th 2010 10:14AM