"Toshiba to Offer 3-D TV That Does Not Require Special Glasses"

Toshiba announced that they would be the first to offer a 3-D television that doesn't require the viewer to wear special glasses.  The advancement in technology to transform a 2-D picture into a 3-D liquid-crystal display uses a high-definition screen backlighted with LEDs.  This is a special sheet that is placed on top of the screen and the cell-chip technology displays information from nine images that create a real time from one frame.
These televisions are to go on sale in December in either 20 in screens, for $2,880 or a 12 inch for $1440.  


“A dream TV is now a reality,” Mr. Oosumi said. “It’s obviously more natural to watch TV without glasses. That is the natural technological progression.”
Up close the TV's show crisp images, but if the viewer turns more to the side of the screen the image becomes blurry. The difficulty of creating a television that can show these 3-D images from all side angles is still an issue.  Toshiba says that to maintain a good image one must be in a 40 degree view of the screen.
Toshiba has created a prototype 36" 3-D TV which they know would be a bigger market for America and European countries.  Until then they have just come out with their first TVs with 3-D classes this past August.




The market with TV's is huge in the US anyways, and I know some people who go nuts for bluerays, I am curious though if a pure 3-D television would be big here in the states.  The cost seems extreme, but people do tend to enjoy spending that much for entertainment.  Technology advances are never ending, and it really does blow my mind with what people come up with.  It's impressive and I think they should be acknowledged for what they can accomplish with it.  Although I do think that because we live in such a fast paced world of technology now, new achievements and huge findings seem to be set aside so quickly, and more is expected from companies at a faster rate. It seems like as soon as they come out with something big people get bored with it so fast and are already complaining about wanting something more fancy and advanced.  I think this can sometimes be damaging to the company.  Windows Vista for example, they were trying to do something new so quickly, but so many people had issues with Vista and ended up hating it, sending a huge market for Macintosh and Windows scrambling to come up with a better idea, leading to Windows 7.  


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/05/technology/05toshiba.html?_r=1&ref=technology