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BEST 3D GLASSES FOR SAMSUNG 2015 TV
It's almost painfully ironic that the TV industry now seems interested in pushing flawed glassesless technology just at the point where it's finally achieved a with-glasses version of 3D that's genuinely worth promoting! And I say this as someone who actually loves 3D when it’s done right - as it's actually starting to be by some of the new breed of 3D-capable 4K UHD TVs we're starting to see. In other words, far from being some sort of saviour of 3D, Samsung’s epically-proportioned upcoming glassesless 3D TV continues to raise questions over whether glasses-free 3D can ever work, and as such just hammers another nail into the format’s coffin. Even if it does, though, I am entirely confident that the 3D will still look so much worse than 2D 8K playback that hardly anyone will choose to watch it. To be fair to Samsung, its new flagship TV is not likely to launch until the latter stages of 2015, potentially as a replacement for the brand’s current’s S9 series, so the brand has some time to improve the glassesless 3D performance. On top of all this, the sense of depth and space in the 3D frame seems much reduced versus what you’d usually get during a ‘with glasses’ 3D experience. But even so, during my one to one time with Samsung’s set I still routinely spotted tell-tale ‘seams’ down the image and distracting distortions in the image geometry caused by the set’s attempt to deliver a glassesless 3D experience to multiple viewing angles.Įven after muscling aside enough onlookers to secure what appeared to be a spot perfectly aligned with one of the Samsung TV’s designated 3D viewing angles, I still found that if I moved my head by just a few inches I started to see lines, localised softness and other distortions in parts of the picture. This is a strikingly high number versus the 2-16 positions we’ve generally come across with previous (usually 4K resolution) glassesless 3D TVs.
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Samsung claims its new flagship TV has been designed to cater for 40 different viewing positions. My camera doesn't do its awfulness justice. Samsung's new flagship TV running in 3D mode. Hardly the look you expect to see on a cutting edge 2015 TV. This issue is especially common over moving objects, making such objects look like they’ve been superimposed over the rest of the image using 1970s special effects technology. For yes, when it comes to glassesless 3D finding the right place to watch it from is almost as important as sitting stock still while you’re watch - more on this later.Īlso making you wince is the way parts of the glassesless (even the word looks horrible!) 3D images look out of focus, forcing your eyes to start straining - in vain - to try and pull things back into clarity. Instantly, for instance, the relative lack of detail in the glasses-free 3D image slaps you in the face like a low-resolution fish as the screen goes about the disagreeable business of using reams of its 33 million (and then some) pixels to deliver both the glassesless 3D effect and support for multiple viewing angles. Stunning.īut then glasses-free 3D kicks in, and all that excitement about the future of television built up by the native 8K feeds dissipates in a nanosecond. Or to sum it up, the glorious if predictable shots of old cities and the interiors of beautiful buildings enjoy a realism and sense of ‘being there’ that I haven’t seen before in the TV world.īasically, 8K removes the tech wall between you and what you’re watching on a huge screen every bit as effectively as 4K does on smaller screens. There was no trace of visible line or pixel structure even if you stuck your face up to the vast screen, there was no jaggedness even around angled or curved lines in the picture, there was no sign of compression noise, detail levels are just incredible, and colours are rendered with such infinite blend and tone precision that you just can’t see the ‘join’ at all. The native 8K 2D stuff looked mouthwateringly good on the new ‘SUHD’ screen (see also CES 2015: Hands On With Samsung’s New ‘Super UHD’ Tizen TVs). This demo basically had the same effect as an art gallery alternating paintings by Van Gogh with artwork by Suda The Painting Elephant (google it). This is because Samsung - in one of the greatest errors of judgment I’ve seen in 15 years of attending the CES - had decided to show a demo loop on its hero TV that kept cutting between native 8K 2D and glassesless 3D content.