Today’s Show We often talk about professional calibration on our show and when Ray reached out to both of us to offer his assistance in calibrating our newly purchased projectors we thought it would be good to have Ray on our show. Ray is THX certified for both video and audio and has 10 years [...]
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HDTV and Home Theater Podcast - Podcast #455 Interview with Ray Coronado THX Certified Calibrator
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2D-to-3D Real time conversion by the 3DTV
On this episode a person (John) asked you to confirm a statement made by a sales person from Best Buy’s Magnolia about two 3D TVs on the showroom.
He said that the Samsung 3D TV was capable to “play everything in 3D” while a Panasonic 3D required a 3D source. Your response was that the sales person, who also said he had that TV and used such feature, was rather misinformed because the Samsung 3D TV does not convert 2D to 3D.
Actually, I saw Samsung demo that capability on their 3DTVs almost 1 year ago at CES 2010, and I reported the quality after CES on a forum post.
Additionally their 3DTVs are shown with labels at Best Buy indicating that clearly.
Because of the price mentioned by your reader it seems that the TV was the following:
http://www.samsung.com/us/video/tvs/PN6 ... A-features
The other 63” model has the same 2D-to-3D “real time transformation” (as Samsung calls it):
http://www.samsung.com/us/video/tvs/PN63C7000YFXZA
One may not want to do real time conversions with all 2D content because some programs may not be particularly suitable for that automatic conversion and the 3D image would not be the same quality as playing content that was actually made as 3D, but the effect may be of interest to a market that is waiting for more 3D content to be available, and such capability may be an important differentiator to those.
Samsung, Sony, LG, and Toshiba, introduced 3DTVs with the 2D-to-3D conversion feature, however, Panasonic indicated that their 3DTV plasmas would not have it.
The Best Buy sales person was not misinformed about this subject. He advised correctly because a consumer could have more interest on a 3DTV with that feature than one without.
Best Regards,
Rodolfo La Maestra
He said that the Samsung 3D TV was capable to “play everything in 3D” while a Panasonic 3D required a 3D source. Your response was that the sales person, who also said he had that TV and used such feature, was rather misinformed because the Samsung 3D TV does not convert 2D to 3D.
Actually, I saw Samsung demo that capability on their 3DTVs almost 1 year ago at CES 2010, and I reported the quality after CES on a forum post.
Additionally their 3DTVs are shown with labels at Best Buy indicating that clearly.
Because of the price mentioned by your reader it seems that the TV was the following:
http://www.samsung.com/us/video/tvs/PN6 ... A-features
The other 63” model has the same 2D-to-3D “real time transformation” (as Samsung calls it):
http://www.samsung.com/us/video/tvs/PN63C7000YFXZA
One may not want to do real time conversions with all 2D content because some programs may not be particularly suitable for that automatic conversion and the 3D image would not be the same quality as playing content that was actually made as 3D, but the effect may be of interest to a market that is waiting for more 3D content to be available, and such capability may be an important differentiator to those.
Samsung, Sony, LG, and Toshiba, introduced 3DTVs with the 2D-to-3D conversion feature, however, Panasonic indicated that their 3DTV plasmas would not have it.
The Best Buy sales person was not misinformed about this subject. He advised correctly because a consumer could have more interest on a 3DTV with that feature than one without.
Best Regards,
Rodolfo La Maestra