http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/headplays-personal-cinema-system-finally-available/ Engadget Comments for Headplay's Personal Cinema System finally available http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/headplays-personal-cinema-system-finally-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/headplays-personal-cinema-system-finally-available/Sep 20th 2007 4:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/headplays-personal-cinema-system-finally-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/headplays-personal-cinema-system-finally-available/
Are there any "goggles" with better resolution (and wide screen) out there?]]>Sep 20th 2007 7:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/headplays-personal-cinema-system-finally-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/headplays-personal-cinema-system-finally-available/
Any body tried a pair?]]>Sep 20th 2007 8:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/headplays-personal-cinema-system-finally-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/headplays-personal-cinema-system-finally-available/Sep 20th 2007 9:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/headplays-personal-cinema-system-finally-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/headplays-personal-cinema-system-finally-available/VGA
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it's probably not readily apparent which is better, or for what reason. I think we should just adopt the vertical resolution with some character to signify that we're talking about a name -- "I have an x1200 monitor" sounds clearer than "I have a 1200 monitor" -- and would mean 1600x1200 or 1900x1200 depending on aspect ratio, which is probably either obvious (if you're looking at it) or described elsewhere (if you're reading e.g. a spec sheet or ad). It would be much better for me if they said my Nokia 770 had a "wide x480 screen" than "WVGA" or whatever variant they actually use in the literature.



Anyway, the HMD looks pretty cool, but they use the old line about "support" for up to 1024x768 -- they "support" it by crunching it down to 800x600, the actual native resolution. It's worse than the hard drive size lie ^H^H^H marketing you always see. Also, they don't give much info on the "3D" support -- I get the impression each eye is driven separately, but there's only one input of each type (also, I don't see any mention of component, contrary to the original post) so both parts of the stereo signal must come in over one VGA cable. I have the sinking feeling this would mean it works best with only specific video cards, and/or that individual 3D games would need tweaking to work right. I hope I'm wrong -- when these come down in price as the next generation of HMDs becomes available, I might try to ebay one ;-)]]>Sep 21st 2007 2:37PM