3D Televisions, what do I need to know?
 

Looking at turning downstairs room into theater/game room. Going to put in a new TV and GT5 and other games as well as more and more movies support.

What do I need to know? Are there multiple formats (vha/beta and HD DVD vs. Blu-Ray)?

Doing the same thing right now.

I am passing on the 3D stuff because I am not a huge fan of 3D and there is no way I am sitting around with glasses on watching a movie.

All the glasses would be lost or broken within a few weeks around my house.

Refresh rate.

I believe that most shutter glasses are still running at only 30fps per eye. (They'll call it 60fps, but it's the same - slow, and annoying)

Good info. I'm not totally convinced and haven't even'd demo'd one yet so this could all be an exercise. Just want to go check them out fully armed.

That you don't need one.

M This from a guy on a German sportsman forum. Lol

If I were seriously considering spending bucks on a home theater, I'd attend CES in a few weeks in Vegas.....

2011 International CES, January 6-9

You can evaluate every piece of equipment available, and lots of stuff not available yet.

I'd wait on 3D, unless you are early adopter and have to have the latest and newest thing. You will have a larger variety of gear in the next 2 to 3 years. Personally 3D is neato for about 10 minutes, then I just feel sick.

Best buy has a deal for $1300 for a 46" sony and playstation 3 GT5 pack. $1500 for the upgraded TV with 3d.

I'd check these websites to see what they say:

HDTV Magazine - Your Guide to High Definition Television

MPEG . ORG - MPEG Home

HDTV Reviews And Comparisons of 1080p HDTVs, Plasma and LCD TVs - PCWorld

I'd wait unless the price gets insanely low right before Christmas and don't go with anything less that 60 inch and better a 72 inch. If you are going to play computer games then you want a PC with a 4 CPU motherboard that takes 4 total of the new AMD 3-D core processors, 64GB of RAM and a dual video system that each can display dual monitors. As far as I know there are but 1 or 2 monitors in the 48 inch and up range that can be put together to display one large or multiple images. A projector unit is also good but they usually like darkness........

3D TV --- Why not spend a bunch of money on a fad that will be gone it 3 years?

I like the way you think. "Honey, I'm going to do some research on a new TV. Be back in 4 days. :)"

John,

This is strictly for DVD movies and the PS3. I gave up on trying to build gaming PC's a long time ago. Too much money when the game consoles are such a great deal.

I would wait too. What I am looking at right now are blu-ray players with wifi internet connection. Or, even cheaper, usb media palyers. I'd like to download stuff and be able to watch it on the 42" LCD screen.

I'd wait if only because on the 3D tvs I've seen if you don't have a pair of glasses (as in, you have 5 friends and 4 pairs of glasses) the image looks like crap while running in 3D.

3DTV is the new BetaMax.

Or LaserDisk.

Or MiniDisk.

Fad.

I'm glad someone started this thread cuz I was about to. Was at Costco yesterday where they had three different brands of 3D TV set up in demo mode. The Panasonic was awesome on it's demo disc anyway but I'm also thinking this will take time to come into it's own and likely won't. Fun to watch the demo but I'm keeping my $$

If you have the room and some extra bucks you should also look into a projector. My company does home cinema installations (wall mounting TV's etc) from your average lounge room to full blown 20-30 seat home set-ups. The current crop of 1080P projectors are awesome.
I have a nice Mitsubishi projector with 110" screen and playing games like Call of Duty etc is amazing.

Thanks for all the great feedback. dewolf - Gee thanks.. Just what I need, more $$$ on an upgrade. :D :D

I do not even own a television or have cable/dish in my house so I am speaking from purely a technological standpoint-

Why would you buy something that has just been released when everyone knows it will be considerably cheaper and better quality in essentially a years time or possibly less? Let the Suckas pay for initial development costs and buy the first gen units.

Just my 2cents

[QUOTE=rsNINESOOPER;5713177]I do not even own a television or have cable/dish in my house QUOTE]

Well if watched a TV 20+ years ago, you ain't missing anything. Same sh$t, different decade.

While I do agree with not being an early adopter... The statement of "...technology will ALWAYS be cheaper next year." is not really entirely appropriate.

If you are waiting for "the bottom" you will either a) wait forever or b) wait untill the product is obsolete.

I don't believe I will end up buying a 3D TV, but want to understand it.

I tend to agree that products don't necessarily become cheaper but with electronics such as televisions but the picture quality and technology seem to make a leap after the first gen offerings of the next new thing. So one tends to get more for less so to speak. Think digital cameras for a minute, compare what's available now to products out even two years ago. Digital media in general and the electronics supporting it has been in overdrive the last few years with some amazing leaps forward.

+1.

It's too early. We are still in the HD-DVD or BluRay, VHS or Beta, etc... phase of 3D TV. A buddy of mine recently bought a 3D TV. He's normally very smart. The "glasses" are powered and expensive, and only some movies are supporting the Brand of TV that he has, for instance, Avatar supports a different standard than his TV.

I think it's probably better to wait until the "standard" floats to the top.