What is 3DTV?

For those who’ve been living under a fax machine in recent years, 3DTV is an immersive viewing experience which allows for more depth and visual involvement for the audience.  This can be for anyone from the diehard Harry Potter fan who would like to stroll down Diagon Alley, to the music fanatic who wants to get up close and personal with Bono and the boys.

But watching Buzz Lightyear falling with style over your shoulder must come with a price, right?  Well, not anymore.  There are many cheap LED televisions for sale that make this not only possible, but affordable, and can help bring the cinema-experience to your living room (popcorn not included).  For under £300 you could be learning How To Train Your Dragon in your own front room, safe in the knowledge that the only people getting burned are animated bad guys and not you or your bank account.

3DTV has seen a meteoric rise in sales since 2010, where it rocketed from a mere 2 million to 41 million just two years later, and with the continued release of 3D movies, such as the highly anticipated Jurassic World and the upcoming Ant-Man films, you can expect the technology to continue.

There is often an understandable fear when purchasing such technologies that it may be somewhat of a fad and become quickly overlooked, or even simply run its course as the technology becomes obsolete, but with the continued improvements in the 3D viewing field, there is an encouraging future for 3DTV.

Many contemporary 3DTV sets may come 3D-ready, but they invariably require the user to don spectacles like a hipster Brains from Thunderbirds.  However, with the dawn of autostereoscopic systems, this could be all set to change.  What is austostereothingymajigger, I hear you say; well autostereoscopy is the method of displaying images in 3D without the need for Robocop style headgear or glasses.  These aptly dubbed, ‘glasses-free 3DTVs’, are becoming ever more available, and seem to be the logical next step in consumer-available 3D technologies.

So in answer to the question, “What is 3DTV?”  We would say it’s an exciting means of enhancing your home-viewing experience without breaking the bank.

So, to 3DTV, or not to 3DTV…  Not even a question.

So if you’re in agreement, or have any further questions with regards to 3DTVing, give us a call on 0121 327 3273, or visit our Contact Page.  Happy viewing!