http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/ Engadget Comments for Samsung 3D Starter Kit gets 3DTV and Blu-ray buyers started 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/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/Mar 9th 2010 12:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/Mar 9th 2010 12:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/
PS3 slim you say.... hmm... is this "promised update" supposed to be a 3d blu ray?]]>Mar 9th 2010 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/
You won't be considering Panasonic's 3D plasma or Sony's HX local-dimming LED LCD?

I can't imagine and LED edge-lit LCD having a better picture than either.

]]>Mar 10th 2010 9:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/Mar 9th 2010 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/They're really not expensive though! It's just another feature that justfies the price. The price has not increased any more, it may seem like it, but only because 2009 models have been pushed down to clear room for 2010 stock.

This happens every year, difference is, now it's a feature which actually makes more of a difference, stop complaining.]]>Mar 9th 2010 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/Mar 9th 2010 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/Mar 9th 2010 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/Mar 9th 2010 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/Mar 9th 2010 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/Mar 9th 2010 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/
Most Cable Providers in the US will be several hours to download 16GB.

And BTW, you're short on that number by half. The only way to get to 16GB from a Blu-ray even now is a re-encode. It's not at all clear if any re-encoders can handle the 3D Blu-ray format yet.

-Pie]]>Mar 9th 2010 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/Mar 9th 2010 12:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/Mar 9th 2010 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/Mar 9th 2010 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/Mar 9th 2010 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/
I'm a little confused at this statement "It's not really faux 3D if it is really 3D". Its not real 3D that's being sold to us. It's just offset 2D images giving the impression of depth. You cannot walk around it and look at it from multiple angles, its not real 3D. The glasses also still bug me. It just feels like the TV and movie industry has given up looking for the next new thing and settled with this tech. If it worked without glasses i'd be a lot more swayed. If it was genuinely 3D i'd be all over it.

But its not so it is just Faux 3D

Just imo though, I know plenty of people seem to like it.]]>Mar 9th 2010 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/Where are you getting these cheap $75 glasses? They are $150 each.]]>Mar 9th 2010 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/Mar 9th 2010 7:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/
I agree. I've tested several solutions using active shutter glasses, and they all more or less sucked. Sure there is some kind of 3D effect there, but mostly it just looks like layers of flat objects on top of each other. Granted I've only tested 3D glasses on PC and with computer games, but still. Another thing is that a lot of people, including myself, will feel discomfort using active glasses. The refresh rate is simply too low. I doubt that the TV's and glasses will be any better.

I remember seeing 3D without glasses at E3 back in 2003 or 2004. Albeit simple, if refined I reckon it would have been a much better solution. Then again, the TV manufacturers need to sell us this rather crappy technology before they can launch something better, sending the consumers out to buy their 4th or 5th flat screen TV (plasma, then LCD, then 720P HD, then 1080P FullHD, then LED LCD, now 3D)... ]]>Mar 10th 2010 4:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/
I actually sat through the latter half of Avatar 3D with one eye closed :P

I'm very confused at why people think its 'genuinely 3D' does it have a measurable depth? Didn't think so, not 3D! Just the faux perception of it. Like BoardkilL mentioned to me it also just feels like layers of flat objects.

Something I have noticed as well is the 'closer' an object is meant to feel the lower the frame rate is of the more out of sync it becomes (I've seen this on various implementations).

All in all, for me it just doesn't enhance the movie or game experience.]]>Mar 10th 2010 5:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/Mar 9th 2010 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/Mar 9th 2010 12:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/Mar 9th 2010 12:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/
Captures of the new OS version show 3D Blu-ray settings. ]]>Mar 9th 2010 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/
Seriously, people are finally starting to buy HDTVs, they are already telling us they are obsolete.]]>Mar 9th 2010 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/Mar 14th 2010 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/Mar 9th 2010 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/Mar 9th 2010 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/You are kidding, right?
http://www.3dmovielist.com/list.html ]]>Mar 10th 2010 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/
What could we call it? side-view, since it seems we can see the sides of things. Oh, maybe outlandish.. no... out-of-this-screen. That's stupid. Oh, wait, I'll put the two together

Outside!

A world Outside where everything is in 3D. *sigh*. Well, I got to run and hang out with my friends. We are going to take down a boss in WoW then have some virtual beers in Second Life, post our status updates on facebook. Although Frank doesn't like this new 3D stuff, so at the end of the day we might have to settle our differences in Bad Company 2. Outside. That'll be the day.]]>Mar 9th 2010 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/
I'll just wait for smell-o-vison w/ 3D and upgrade then.]]>Mar 9th 2010 12:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/Mar 9th 2010 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/
This will die twitching in a ditch. I bought a blu-ray player having waited to see who won the format war and the blu-ray stock in the UK shops is still a tiny fraction of the DVDs. Some large chains carry no blu-rays at all. I bought an HD ready TV and there is a miniscule number of HD broadcasts available for me to watch. I'd sooner they directed their R&D at getting the best picture for the lowest power consumption.]]>Mar 9th 2010 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/Mar 9th 2010 7:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/
Yeah really. You are already a nerd, at least now you'll be disguised as just another 3D movie viewer. :D

No really, I wear contacts and have a 3D set up at home. However, occasionally I wear glasses and the 3D glasses fit over perfectly fine. ]]>Mar 14th 2010 4:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/
eBay negates any exclusivity.]]>Mar 9th 2010 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/I just got a Sony player that will get updated later for 3D.
So now the consumer confusion begins.

What if you buy a Sony player and have a Samsung TV? Can you use Sony glasses or does it have to be Samsung? Or does it even matter?

There will probably be other similar questions like if you can even mix brands of player and TV and receivers passing the 3D HDMI signal.

And then there's those that purchased the older 3D-ready (Samsung and Mitsu) rear projection HDTVs that will be thinking that they are already all set with the TV and they just need the player and glasses. They'll need a 'kit' too. Better make sure you get the right one!

]]>Mar 9th 2010 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/Mar 9th 2010 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started//looks into emtpy wallet.
/cry

Story of my life...*sigh*]]>Mar 9th 2010 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/Mar 9th 2010 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/
May be the price will drop suddenly in the next months.

]]>Mar 9th 2010 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/Mar 9th 2010 7:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/Mar 9th 2010 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/Mar 9th 2010 7:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/Mar 10th 2010 9:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/samsung-3d-starter-kit-gets-3dtv-and-blu-ray-buyers-started/3D is not the future; it's old tech from the '50's, dusted off, spit shined and presented as something 'new'. Fake shutter-3D on LCDs is not some glorious future-tech. It's a gimmick designed to keep a high margin on products that are commodities that drop in prices every few months.

Also, the movie industry loves 3D because it's nearly impossible to pirate.

You want the future? Give us holograms.]]>Mar 10th 2010 12:47PM