Dealing a blow to the active-shutter 3D TV camp,...
Dealing a blow to the active-shutter 3D TV camp, Consumer Reports reported Monday that preliminary tests of a Vizio 65-inch passive 3D TV show that its advantages “allow it to deliver the best overall 3D performance available of any LCD…
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3D TV we've tested.” Overall resolution of passive technology, however, was a significant drawback, it said in a blog post. Pluses included lightweight polarized glasses that the reviewers said felt “very similar to wearing sunglasses,” the report said. It praised Vizio for bundling four pairs of glasses with the TV and for the price of add-on glasses, $10-$30, compared with $130-$150 for active-shutter glasses. On the technical side, Consumer Reports said the passive glasses dimmed the image less than any of the active-shutter glasses it has tried, producing “the most satisfyingly bright picture we've experienced when viewing 3D.” The VT3D650SV also was largely free of ghosting, “a significant distraction on almost all the 3D LCD TVs we've reviewed,” putting the set on a par with a Panasonic plasma TV, it said. The Vizio didn’t present flicker related to glasses syncing to the TV, Consumer Reports said. In panning the resolution, reviewers noted that the best resolution a passive TV can achieve with a Blu-ray disc is 1920 x 540, and with a cable or satellite signal even less, 960 x 540. The resolution loss resulted in “interlaced-like image effects,” it said, including jaggies and moiré reminiscent of earlier generation 480i- and 1080i TVs. In addition, reviewers said, fine details that fall within a row of pixels tend to “shimmer,” since each eye “only gets half the image.”