James Cameron’s a mad man which is something we’ve established post Avatar. When everyone was screaming themselves hoarse about how the movie delivered an unreal cinematic experience, little did they know that this was now possible inside their homes. Yes, 3D was the buzzword at the Consumer Electronics Show at Las Vegas, which incidentally happens to be the biggest, baddest place wherein geeks drool enough to make bull dogs look more civilized.
Now 3D tech isn’t particularly new or something, but the whole industry was waiting for Avatar to release so that they could finally have some 3D content to play on their darn 3D TV’s. Of course, that involves a certain you wearing stupid, ill fitting 3D glasses. But I’m assuming Armani, Bvlgari, Chanel and their ilk will be out with fashionable looking glasses for the ‘ooh ladi da’ yumpies pretty soon.
Alright, enough whining and making apparent that I can’t really afford any of those brands listed above. Lets move on to see what raised eyebrows, dropped jaws, and sent sanity flying out of the window in general at CES 2010.
3D Panels
Everybody, who’s anybody in the TV business was out in full force strutting their biggest, baddest and brightest displays at CES10. Panasonic launched their Full HD 3D display panels and some ridiculously thin LCD TV’s. Special mention to Panasonic for crafting at 152 inch 3D display. That’s like 13 freaking feet!
However, Toshiba got in one such thing which promises to convert 2D content to 3D with the help of a cell processor (similar to the one that powers your PS3). Which will mean prime time news and hot news reader chicks in all their three dimensional glory. *drools*
Sony added 38 of those including a OLED 3D display (supposed to save power and display brighter colours). LG and Samsung too weren’t far behind when it came to display madness.
3D Cameras
But wait! What are you going to display on the erm… display panels if you don’t have 3D content? I mean you can’t keep running Avatar on loop all day long now, can you? The Na’vi dimwits would bore you to death with all their chanting and high-pitch funda-mental bickering.
So in comes Panasonic again with their 3D cameras which have 2 lenses upfront (one for each eye) and look a lot like Wall E’s head. Yours for $22000 wonly. Go ahead, bug your rich dad, get one, make college projects in 3D and get brownie points.
3D Playback
Sony also paraded a 3D Blu-ray player which is sort of an uber cool disc player with heck loads of goodies. Its got Wi-fi, ability to pull movies from Netflix and the best of all, an app to control the player from your iPhone/iPod touch (free from the AppStore).
3D Transmission
There’s also a tech called 3D DirecTV which beams 3D content to your home, akin to DTH. Those who have witnessed it say its as good as any disc player. Good riddance.
Coming Up Next: Friends for Your Cellphone from CES 10.
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