Don't think Sharp's going to sit by and let Panasonic, Samsung, and Sony have all the 3D TV fun. The Japanese company, and fourth-largest LCD TV maker, plans to begin selling its own 3D TVs in Japan this summer before launching in the US, Chinese, and European markets sometime later in the year. To prove it, Sharp ponied up some sample
RGBY ("Y" for yellow) 3D LCD panels it claims to be the "industries brightest" in sizes up to 60-inches. While these biggie panels all require active 3D shutter glasses for the extra-dimensional effect, Sharp was also showing off a 10.1-inch 3D display prototype for netbooks or tablets that -- like its
3.4-inch parallax barrier display announced last week and suspected to be headed to
Ninty town -- doesn't require glasses at all and can be produced with or without a touchscreen. No word on when that pup might begin mass production, however. 60-inch panel pictured after the break with a real live woman doing the pointing -- amazing.
posted April 12th 2010 4:29AM
I want such a panel
@yuriythebest I'm sure we all do now that we can see just how stylish some of these 3d glasses are.
@yuriythebest
What panel?
yellow ftw?
@Locke74 Yeah, couldn't they skip the green now, since you get green by combining blue and yellow.. I mean it could be just RBY ^^
@mikachu
wrong
http://www.wendler-im-netz.de/informatik/studies/_img/RGB_Modell.gif
@mikachu yeah because lcd screens contain little pixie kids with paint brushes and they paint on a white canvas. oh wait an lcd is black when it's switched off.
How much
OK so I took my 3D glasses off, but I don't see the image on that screen in 3D. Is anyone else having this problem? Sharp really need to work on this (i.e. making sure it works) before releasing the product.
@The Joker
Yes, but your monitor is not 3D . . .
@The Joker
Im hoping the joker is joking..
@The Joker Maybe you're not at the right angle. My windows 7 skin/theme is the frame of that TV so all my applications are launched within that TV in a straight-on angle, so consequently I'm able to see 3D content with my glasses.
Sucha a sharp tablet. Now would like to see Android in it!
@hero785
or get nintendo 3DS
@num0
But I want something that can play more than just games. I want to browse, watch videos, movies on the go and possibly do editing for my work. So sorry 3D DS won't cut it!
"suspected to be headed to Ninty town"
No one intelligent suspects that.
3DS would need 2, 512*384 LCDs. That's not likely. It'd be more than three times that of PSP.
I knew it. 10 years ago I got a 32" Sony Trinitron. I just got a 50" plasma last christmas, sooo...
I'll be waiting for 10 years from now when they have are/have:
- 100" in diagonal length
- 2560x1440 (or whatever looks best at 100" at 10-20 feet away)
- Some form of OLED
- 3D that doesn't require glasses and is sharp and clear
- Built in wifi and bluetooth
- Good web browser (probably Android or Google OS or something)
- Maybe some kind of Natal related technology
- Ability to do all the streaming goodies that we're coming to expect (netflix, weather, media extender, etc.)
@C433Z 10 YEARS?? More like 3 to 4 years, my friend. have hope. Some of the features e.g. Netflix (which is already prevalent on some TV sets that are to be released), autostereoscopic, Android, 2K, 4K could be here as soon as next year methinks
@C433Z i see... so do you plan on winning the lottery in 10 years?
@flett
Why is it that any time I post something listing what I'd like to see in the future, some cynic has to say something along the lines of "It'll cost a fortune" or "It will have next to no battery life (for portable devices)"
Obviously I'm assuming that technology will become more efficient and cheaper with time, doesn't everybody?
I'm not going to buy a 3D TV until we don't need those glasses anymore. The girls in the picture were much better looking without the glasses.
The innoation of Samsung in display technology will boost Japanese manufacturers which their country is still recovering from global financial crisis. Panels that don't require glasses are one big step for those which is struggling against Korean brands.
@samialtas But Samsung is not Japanese now, is it?
@iamtew I wanted to say the competitiveness of the KOREAN brand SAMSUNG will help the Japanese manufacturers to come up with new products...
Industry's brightest, really? Do we really need LCD's that are BRIGHTER?
@grumbles Yes we do. 3D with Active Shutter needs more brightness than 2D.
@grumbles The best shutter displays end up with ~40% of the emitted light reaching the eye thru the glasses.
So now RGBY is making it's way in, I also want cyan magenta, then we'd be sorted. Can you imagine an RGBYCM OLED....oooft.