The key word here should be experience. Now that I’ve had my own 3d tv for a few weeks, I can honestly say I have a pretty good idea of what the 3d tv experience is like. What I’ve suspected for a while, I now know is true. Watching 3d at home is an experience. It’s not meant for casual viewing, unless you’re watching 2d content.
3d requires an investment of your time and attention. It’s active viewing instead of casual viewing. I’m a very hyperactive person, especially at home. I’m always multi-tasking and usually whatever’s on TV is in the background. Almost like white noise and ocassionally something gets my attention or there’s a particular show I want to watch and then I focus a little more. When I go to the theater, all my attention is focused on the movie. 3d TV requires that sort of attention.
Once you put on the glasses, you need to sit down and enjoy the movie. That’s a good thing. If you’re going to shell out big bucks for a TV, you might as well enjoy it to its fullest. The TV I bought is a 50″ Panasonic Viera 3d Plasma TV. I chose plasma over LCD because I feel it has less ghosting issues (double image created by the 3d effect). Let me first say the picture is amazing, the colors are bright and the definition is amazing. So just watching HD content is great on this TV, but the 3d is beautiful.
So far I’ve seen Ice Age 3d, Coraline and Resident Evil 3d. Resident Evil was particularly fun. I brought a couple of friends over and they had a great time. Glasses are expensive, but I found some great deals on Ebay. I managed to buy 4 pairs for around $60 each. I don’t have any 3d channels yet, maybe I’ll sign up for that soon, for now I’ll download content from the internet, watch my own 3d stuff and buy 3d bluray movies.
So far the 3d TV experience has been well worth it and I hope more people get to try out these TVs. By the way, I’m still surprised how many people think that 3d TVs are only meant for watching 3d. Manufacturers need to do a better job of educating the public. These are 3d capable TVs or 3d enabled TVs. They are high end HD TVs with great features including the capability of watching 3d content.