63% of Consolers Think Firmware Makes TVs 3D

[JMcEntegart]

According to a recent survey, 63 percent of console owners believe the only thing stopping them from viewing 3D content is a firmware update.

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[winner4455]

... Fail.

 

[Albyint]

Can I firmware update all my USB ports to 3.0? Man...... technology these days

/sarcasm

 

[Guest]

I can't even think of a witty comment to make, it's that sad.

 

[Niktavalos]

console owners, generally a pretty technically-inclined group

Haha, good one.

 

[super_tycoon]

that's nothing special, nintendo's releasing a new firmware for the wii next year that enables 1080p output and blu-ray playback. that, and the 63% are mostly right, any 120hz tv is capable of outputting smooth 3D without glasses

 

[luke904]

above comments make my own pointless

 

[kewlx]

oh and dont forget the ipod shuffle will firm update to a 3.3 in touch/voice activated screen

 

[jazn1337]

They do play console games for a reason you know...

 

[Gin Fushicho]

I've never considered console owners technically inclined. I didn't start getting smart about computers until the PS3 came out. I had allllllll the consoles before that. All of them. I had no idea how anything worked. I put the game in, picked up the controller, and played.

 

[peanutsrevenge]

Console owners, tech savvy?

The same people who actually believe that the GT series is the best 'simulation' driving series ever!

 

[wribbs]

Maybe if Intel made TVs.
/me runs off to download 65" Plasma firmware for 22" LCD

 

[opmopadop]

I just went to the computer store and the guy infront of me wanted a pair of headphones (3.5mm plug). When he asked "Can these headphones make phone calls?" the store went extremely quiet... I think I just witnessed a console player.

 

[crazybaldhead]

"console owners, generally a pretty technically-inclined group"

Rrrrrright.

 

[techguy378]

It's true, a firmware upgrade CAN make any TV display 3D stereoscopic images. Those 63% are right. On TV's that don't have support for those types of images you will just see a blurry mess and end up with a migraine.

 

[RogueKitsune]

This is just my experience but console users fall into two groups: Group 1: Morons that cant tell you anything about a computer
Group 2: Relatively knowledge people that cannot afford a high performance desktop

Unfortunately most console users fall under group 1. And yes there is an extremely small percentage of people that fall into neither

 

[alidan]

here is a question that i have. and no im not the most knowledgeable guy when it comes to tv tech

a crt monitor is capable of 3d if it is 100hz or more.
a lcd is capable at 120hz or more.

now, a 3d ready lcd has a thing for the active shutter glasses built in, can any lcd tv or monitor display 3d with an active shutter dongle thing? like what nvidia vision thing does?

also why are we forced to have 120hz? cant 60 hz to it too? sure it would be eye killers, but still it would give 60hz people a reason to go for the 120hz if they find out they enjoy 3d (before the pain sets in)

now if im right, movies display film at 24 frames a second, that would
60hz is 60fps, so devideing that up its 30fps per eye, which is higher than movie theater 3d.

this all hinges on if im correct.

 

[JOSHSKORN]

I wonder if they also think a firmware update can make their computers shoot rockets and fly banshees.

 

[FloKid]

Yeah and the other 37% think nothing at all

 

[agnickolov]

[citation][nom]super_tycoon[/nom]that's nothing special, nintendo's releasing a new firmware for the wii next year that enables 1080p output and blu-ray playback. that, and the 63% are mostly right, any 120hz tv is capable of outputting smooth 3D without glasses[/citation]
Not sure where you get that idea. A console gamer yourself perhaps?
There are 4 3D technologies today that can be used to display 3D video: active sync (requires hardware for the sync signal to the glasses); polarizing - requires additional screen layers as well as passive polarized glasses; the classic anaglyph trick - requires cheap red and blue glasses; and finally the parallax glassless technology that also requires special layer in the screen itself. All of them require either hardware modification (except for anaglyph) or glasses (except for parallax). Note the anaglyph method requires modifying the original video as well - applying red and blue filters to the two streams. Now, quite apart from all the display considerations, pre-3D displays utilizing HDMI 1.3 and earlier cannot accept 120Hz input signal (at 1080p) - the spec is limited to 60Hz.