1 00:00:00,299 --> 00:00:07,620 settle for Just Two Dimensions 2 00:00:03,500 --> 00:00:10,860 when you can have free a decade ago the 3 00:00:07,620 --> 00:00:12,900 marketing machine behind 3D TV was so 4 00:00:10,860 --> 00:00:17,279 strong that even we got caught up in the hype but after all those years not to 5 00:00:14,940 --> 00:00:22,320 mention the millions and millions of dollars spent promoting 3D as the next 6 00:00:20,039 --> 00:00:28,080 big thing seems like no one cares anymore 7 00:00:25,019 --> 00:00:30,240 to the point where if you blinked and 8 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:36,899 missed the craze entirely you might have never seen a 3D TV in person are you 9 00:00:33,540 --> 00:00:39,840 missing out did 3D TVs really deserve to 10 00:00:36,899 --> 00:00:44,760 die or were they simply left to slowly bleed out by an uncaring industry that's 11 00:00:41,879 --> 00:00:49,320 always chasing the next shiny box badge to imagine what could have been we 12 00:00:46,980 --> 00:00:54,780 tracked down two of the most notable 3D TVs to trial on our staff of highly 13 00:00:51,539 --> 00:00:57,420 trained guinea pigs was it cool or does 14 00:00:54,780 --> 00:01:03,420 the third d stand for disappointment what's never disappointing is our 15 00:01:00,059 --> 00:01:05,280 sponsor AMD are you overdue for a GPU 16 00:01:03,420 --> 00:01:10,260 upgrade well it's a great time to purchase an AMD Radeon RX 6000 series 17 00:01:07,500 --> 00:01:16,280 GPU and you can get the inside scoop on some great options from AMD and their 18 00:01:12,299 --> 00:01:16,280 Partners at the link down below 19 00:01:16,799 --> 00:01:23,820 foreign 20 00:01:23,820 --> 00:01:32,580 in the late 2000s 3D was picking up steam again as a cool new innovation but 21 00:01:29,340 --> 00:01:34,939 it's actually really really old Tech Way 22 00:01:32,580 --> 00:01:40,500 Back In 1832 yes 190 years ago Sir Charles wheatstone 23 00:01:37,799 --> 00:01:44,579 invented the stereoscope which used a pair of mirrors angled towards images 24 00:01:42,479 --> 00:01:49,380 taken from two slightly different perspectives to create the illusion of 25 00:01:46,740 --> 00:01:53,520 depth you might remember these and you've almost certainly seen one of 26 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:58,200 these well both of them used the exact same principle but it's a bit of a 27 00:01:55,979 --> 00:02:02,040 lonely experience and here isn't it when the motion picture was created people 28 00:02:00,060 --> 00:02:08,239 were eager to try and blend the popular novelty of stereoscopes and view masters 29 00:02:04,619 --> 00:02:11,400 with movies resulting in anaglyphic 3D 30 00:02:08,239 --> 00:02:14,099 these iconic red and cyan glasses have 31 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:19,200 become the de facto symbol of 3D but while they were super wowzers for black 32 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:24,360 and white movies they significantly degraded the experience of your 33 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:26,580 newfangled Technicolor movies of course 34 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:30,900 we've come a long way since then and thanks to light polarizing glass 35 00:02:28,319 --> 00:02:37,500 developed by Polaroid that allowed both convincing depth and full color 3D films 36 00:02:34,920 --> 00:02:43,860 would surge back at least three more times first in the 1950s Golden Age 37 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:48,420 Again in the 80s 38 00:02:43,860 --> 00:02:51,300 3D the third Dimensions Terror and 39 00:02:48,420 --> 00:02:57,000 finally in the 2010s spurred on by your favorite big blue aliens no not those 40 00:02:54,660 --> 00:03:03,120 ones these ones the difference they said was that this 41 00:02:59,819 --> 00:03:08,160 time you could bring the immersion home 42 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:09,900 with you Jake get over here oh yeah 43 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:16,800 I expected an action tumble over the couch but that's pretty good no oh god 44 00:03:12,540 --> 00:03:19,800 with no obvious downsides then 45 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:21,720 3D was suddenly thrust back into nearly 46 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:26,400 every form of entertainment that could fit a third D but how did they bring it 47 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:31,379 to the home where previous attempts failed to understand home 3D we need to 48 00:03:28,920 --> 00:03:37,260 First understand commercial 3D the most common of which is the real D 3D found 49 00:03:34,140 --> 00:03:39,480 in theaters it works by projecting the 50 00:03:37,260 --> 00:03:47,040 image through a polarizing lens that actually Alters its polarization 51 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:50,060 144 times per second in step with 144 52 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:52,680 frames per second of film wait a second 53 00:03:50,060 --> 00:03:57,599 144 frames per second I thought movies are at 24 FPS 54 00:03:54,659 --> 00:04:02,159 well they are but for starters each of your eyes is going to need its own 24 55 00:03:59,580 --> 00:04:07,440 frames per second so there's 48 frames right there and at that frame rate 56 00:04:04,340 --> 00:04:10,560 flicker from the polarization lens is 57 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:13,080 very noticeable so to create a smoother 58 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:17,880 experience each frame actually gets shown three times for a shorter period 59 00:04:15,540 --> 00:04:22,380 each of your eyes gets covered by its own polarized lens which filters out 60 00:04:19,859 --> 00:04:27,540 every other frame giving you that 3D experience in the home by contrast 61 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:33,180 though the two steps of polarizing the light and filtering it out were split 62 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:38,820 resulting in two main categories of 3D technology active and passive 63 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:41,940 representing these two we've got two displays that we're going to look at 64 00:04:39,900 --> 00:04:48,300 today first of which is a Sony PlayStation 3D display this is not to be 65 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:52,440 confused with the PlayStation TV this is 66 00:04:48,300 --> 00:04:56,520 our active 3D TV it's 24 inches 1080P 67 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:58,880 and sports a 240Hz fresh rate but that 68 00:04:56,520 --> 00:05:04,979 does not mean that it actually supports 240 FPS content it was a whole 69 00:05:01,940 --> 00:05:08,100 advertising holdover from the plasma TV 70 00:05:04,979 --> 00:05:10,320 days it should be noted that in 3D it 71 00:05:08,100 --> 00:05:17,699 was only able to do 120 frames per second at 720p our second representing 72 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:20,580 passive 3D is the LG signature G6 OLED 73 00:05:17,699 --> 00:05:27,539 from 2016. this is one of the last and arguably the best 3D TVs made before all 74 00:05:25,139 --> 00:05:35,940 manufacturing of 3D TVs stopped later that year it's 65 inches 4K it cost a 75 00:05:31,740 --> 00:05:38,580 whopping 8 000 and it's HDR Peak 76 00:05:35,940 --> 00:05:43,440 brightness is only 500 nits so it only kind of supports HDR kind of like 77 00:05:40,979 --> 00:05:47,280 YouTube only kind of supports HDR get subscribed by the way so you don't miss 78 00:05:44,820 --> 00:05:51,780 our upcoming video on that because it uses passive 3D it comes with some huge 79 00:05:49,979 --> 00:05:57,600 advantages before we take a look at the king though let's talk about the peasant I'm just 80 00:05:55,139 --> 00:06:02,220 going to get all I'm going to get all oh my god oh move your hand does that not 81 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:05,880 immediate oh don't look at the lights uh use your other stick I don't even know 82 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:10,800 how to fire use your other stick oh god oh the stick fires this doesn't seem 83 00:06:09,180 --> 00:06:15,600 like a game where the 3D really does a whole lot I mean it's cool what's better 84 00:06:13,020 --> 00:06:19,380 about passive versus active oh we're gonna talk about that boys actually I 85 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:26,280 guess now's as good a time as any to say that early on pretty much all 3D TVs 86 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:28,800 used a mostly normal LCD display which 87 00:06:26,280 --> 00:06:34,020 helped reduce cost and complexity but unfortunately relied on Active 3D 88 00:06:31,199 --> 00:06:38,460 shutter glasses which brought both cost and complexity back into the picture 89 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:43,440 like the polarizing lenses built into the movie theater projector these 90 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:47,280 glasses are powered and their lenses contain a layer of crystals that can 91 00:06:45,479 --> 00:06:52,139 rotate when an electrical charge is sent through them when those crystals rotate 92 00:06:49,259 --> 00:06:56,940 they block the TV's image from one of your eyes so if you sync this up with a 93 00:06:55,500 --> 00:07:00,620 high refresh rate display that alternates between the views that you're 94 00:06:58,919 --> 00:07:06,780 supposed to see the left and right image voila the brain does its magic producing 95 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:08,400 a 3D image hell the script says before I 96 00:07:06,780 --> 00:07:13,440 try it I got a gamer up with my Wan hoodie but um I guess we've already started trying 97 00:07:10,919 --> 00:07:17,400 it so how did you store.com yeah exactly right when the game starts it 98 00:07:15,060 --> 00:07:21,000 immediately makes me want to barf okay oh man so you keep saying stuff that's 99 00:07:19,259 --> 00:07:24,900 like wow this is a perfect time to transition into the next scripted bit 100 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:28,979 fine let's just do it the issues with these passive displays 101 00:07:27,060 --> 00:07:33,419 and active shutter glasses are many first up the powered glasses need 102 00:07:31,020 --> 00:07:37,259 batteries thus needing to be recharged they can also suffer from Wireless 103 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:41,639 interference if you block the sync transmitter that's either on the display 104 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:46,560 or as a separate piece of hardware and many users complained about comfort and 105 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:50,639 flicker especially if there's any other light in the room oh don't look at the 106 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:54,660 lights finally of course they're expensive displays that relied on these 107 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:59,099 kinds of glasses for their 3d effect would sometimes come with a pair or 108 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:02,819 maybe two included in the box but if you wanted any more than that they would run 109 00:08:00,660 --> 00:08:06,960 you anywhere from fifty dollars to over a hundred and fifty dollars each not 110 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:13,500 that you were likely to need more glasses the impressive library of about 111 00:08:10,020 --> 00:08:15,599 60 3D games for the PlayStation 3 pales 112 00:08:13,500 --> 00:08:22,139 in comparison to its overall library and notably includes very few multiplayer 113 00:08:18,780 --> 00:08:23,699 titles in a nutshell PlayStation 3D had 114 00:08:22,139 --> 00:08:28,919 many of the same pros and cons as NVIDIA's 3D Vision for PC gaming high 115 00:08:26,460 --> 00:08:33,659 cost limited game support reduced image brightness and LCD technology that 116 00:08:31,620 --> 00:08:38,880 simply wasn't fast enough to fully separate the stereo images which led to 117 00:08:36,300 --> 00:08:44,039 a lot of brightness loss as well as frequent user headaches options oh this 118 00:08:41,700 --> 00:08:48,480 is so cool yeah should I try it now similar view here we go and you lose so 119 00:08:47,100 --> 00:08:52,680 much brightness with these they literally block half the light half the 120 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:56,880 light yeah and then lift the glasses up oh one other issue is that devs weren't 121 00:08:55,080 --> 00:09:01,140 used to working in 3D meaning that important information like the subtitles 122 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:04,500 in Killzone for example would appear at a different depth than where you 123 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:08,580 normally had to look so you had to refocus your eyes to read them and then 124 00:09:06,779 --> 00:09:13,140 look back so if you blinked you could miss important information of course the 125 00:09:11,399 --> 00:09:18,120 killer feature in my mind when I heard about the PlayStation 3D display wasn't 126 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:24,779 necessarily stereoscopic gaming but simulvue simulvue promised to allow 127 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:27,839 local multiplayer without splitting the 128 00:09:24,779 --> 00:09:30,540 screen so each Jake and I could use half 129 00:09:27,839 --> 00:09:34,920 of the frames being output to see our own version of the game really cool 130 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:37,800 right yeah I can see that being cool if you could like watch different content 131 00:09:36,660 --> 00:09:43,920 from your spouse when you're sitting okay that's exactly the next talking point one of the most things I was most 132 00:09:41,820 --> 00:09:47,100 excited for was like the kids are watching their kids movie with their 133 00:09:45,300 --> 00:09:51,240 headphones in the wife and I are watching some serious movie right on the 134 00:09:49,980 --> 00:09:56,220 same TV yeah that'd be pretty cool family family time right instead you got 135 00:09:53,940 --> 00:10:00,200 to buy multiple TVs yeah it's stupid are we are we playing at the same time 136 00:09:58,019 --> 00:10:06,300 right now I think so oh my God whoa this is so cool though I never got 137 00:10:03,779 --> 00:10:11,399 to try it I never had a PlayStation 3D display back in the day and only a 138 00:10:09,060 --> 00:10:15,240 handful of games ever supported this but I heard about this and I was like wow 139 00:10:13,260 --> 00:10:19,320 how amazing would that be right like for like something like Mario Kart yeah if 140 00:10:17,279 --> 00:10:24,959 you could just both have a full screen freaking display that'd be amazing it is 141 00:10:21,660 --> 00:10:27,000 pounding now it's very obvious right 142 00:10:24,959 --> 00:10:31,860 that the polarization filter isn't perfect and the pixels don't switch fast 143 00:10:29,580 --> 00:10:34,640 enough with LCD to completely get rid of the ghost of the other image so it can 144 00:10:33,839 --> 00:10:40,380 be very unpleasant in the real world 145 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:46,620 because of the hard to ignore downsides of active 3D glasses this Tech ended up 146 00:10:43,680 --> 00:10:51,300 pretty much completely abandoned so then how does the passive alternative fare to 147 00:10:50,220 --> 00:10:56,540 find out we're going to have to jump ahead a few years and a few price 148 00:10:53,700 --> 00:11:01,800 brackets to the LG signature OLED G6 holy if I just close my right eye 149 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:08,040 and Jake closes his left here we go boys it still works the first advantage of 150 00:11:05,100 --> 00:11:12,899 passive 3D TVs is that they can be more easily enjoyed with the whole family 151 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:15,240 thanks to much cheaper glasses how cheap 152 00:11:12,899 --> 00:11:19,440 you might ask well free if you're willing to be creative this is a pair 153 00:11:17,100 --> 00:11:23,339 that Taryn actually liberated from the movie theater and they work just fine 154 00:11:21,899 --> 00:11:26,820 we're supposed to try it with a Blu-ray first but Jake already got ahead of 155 00:11:25,140 --> 00:11:32,100 ourselves a little bit and tried just Closing one eye to see half of our Kill 156 00:11:29,100 --> 00:11:34,019 Zone game and it's like how how well 157 00:11:32,100 --> 00:11:38,040 does this compare to shutters yeah way better the brightness isn't crazy but I 158 00:11:36,180 --> 00:11:43,320 can screen Peak so easy well it's cool we can show the camera this though oh 159 00:11:40,560 --> 00:11:49,260 Linus this looks so cool I know it does here's the thing Jake I was a 3D nerd 160 00:11:46,260 --> 00:11:51,300 but really yeah the problem is that the 161 00:11:49,260 --> 00:11:56,100 active shutter glasses gave me just a splitting headache like I wanted to love 162 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:59,579 it and the passive stuff well it never 163 00:11:56,100 --> 00:12:02,880 really got good until the moment 3D died 164 00:11:59,579 --> 00:12:06,360 yeah this came out like in the the the 165 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:09,240 body of 3D was twitching and this TV was 166 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:14,640 its last spasm and it finally got not good but great okay here we go you ready 167 00:12:12,540 --> 00:12:18,899 this doesn't look that 3D to me um I can't tell 168 00:12:16,079 --> 00:12:23,820 I mean it does kind of look 3D there's definitely stuff popping out but I don't 169 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:27,600 think that I would call this a very satisfying experience well we have 170 00:12:25,980 --> 00:12:30,839 Blu-rays um yeah but I really wanted to see 171 00:12:29,339 --> 00:12:35,360 something that I think is actually going to look good and Titanic definitely 172 00:12:33,959 --> 00:12:41,120 won't Independence Day Resurgence I mean I 173 00:12:37,620 --> 00:12:41,120 don't think that even looks good in 2D 174 00:12:44,339 --> 00:12:49,920 TV oh my God maybe that's a thing that 175 00:12:47,519 --> 00:12:55,260 might be a thing Jake we gave up on trying to play 3D files we are on our 176 00:12:52,019 --> 00:12:57,720 Titanic Blu-ray with our Panasonic fancy 177 00:12:55,260 --> 00:13:04,560 Blu-ray player and we're ready now right yeah well hit it well wait is it is it 178 00:13:00,180 --> 00:13:06,060 my controller yeah press 3D act oh wow I 179 00:13:04,560 --> 00:13:10,079 don't know if this is the movie I would go watch in 3D like oh wow the people 180 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:14,459 are coming they pop out of the corner oh that's pen 181 00:13:12,300 --> 00:13:22,279 is coming right out wow this guy is really in front very 3D like obnoxiously 182 00:13:18,540 --> 00:13:24,839 through the brightness difference is 183 00:13:22,279 --> 00:13:30,180 marginal we've got some better stuff coming in terms of the actual 184 00:13:26,959 --> 00:13:32,700 3dness of the content but in terms of 185 00:13:30,180 --> 00:13:39,060 how the TV performs like good gravy isn't that amazing passive TVs are able 186 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:43,680 to achieve this level of brightness and I mean it doesn't give you a headache no 187 00:13:41,700 --> 00:13:47,339 I don't have a headache I mean I do have a headache still from yesterday but 188 00:13:45,420 --> 00:13:52,980 that's the same headache the way that they do this is that each alternate line 189 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:54,660 vertically is actually polarized the 190 00:13:52,980 --> 00:13:59,459 opposite way coming right out of the TV and you can actually see it if you take 191 00:13:57,120 --> 00:14:04,560 a pair of glasses and you hold it right up to your content now on a regular 192 00:14:01,980 --> 00:14:09,240 1080p display that would be a bit of a problem because you'd be giving up half 193 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:14,820 of your vertical resolution for a 1080p 3D movie but because this one is 4K 194 00:14:12,420 --> 00:14:21,360 there's actually some trickery in the TV itself so we are getting the full 1080p 195 00:14:18,180 --> 00:14:23,820 images interlaced because we have double 196 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:27,720 the resolution that's part of what it makes this like frame smashing or 197 00:14:25,500 --> 00:14:32,100 something like that uh what interlacing no no it works kind of like an 198 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:37,980 interlaced video frame except that instead of having just one in frame with 199 00:14:35,399 --> 00:14:42,540 half of it being shown alternately we've actually got two full frames one for 200 00:14:40,260 --> 00:14:45,839 each eye utilizing that full vertical resolution 201 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:52,320 come try it David this is an absolutely incredible 3D 202 00:14:49,980 --> 00:14:56,940 experience though well why don't we try a movie that might actually use 3D 203 00:14:54,959 --> 00:15:02,339 better yeah ocean predators oh there we go oh whoa that looks awful 204 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:06,360 wow if you move around it looks so weird I'm actually kind of surprised at how 205 00:15:04,740 --> 00:15:10,260 well it works from different viewing angles I wanna Let's do an animated one 206 00:15:08,940 --> 00:15:15,120 you figured out a way to play one of the animated ones oh uh I figured out how to 207 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:18,600 play Doom I don't want to watch Avatar I want to watch something that's not going 208 00:15:16,260 --> 00:15:23,279 to be boss baby hi there this is a bit of a long shot do you guys have any 209 00:15:20,699 --> 00:15:29,040 3D Blu-rays in stock you have a huge selection of course you do 210 00:15:25,380 --> 00:15:31,199 found it in the clearance section 211 00:15:29,040 --> 00:15:34,860 very popular 3D Blu-ray they definitely got some animated stuff in here uh yeah 212 00:15:32,699 --> 00:15:38,820 whoa Toy Story yeah that'd be cool oh this is not three oh 3D version included 213 00:15:37,260 --> 00:15:46,380 okay well let's pick up some good stuff then okay Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs we got 214 00:15:42,300 --> 00:15:49,019 some finding oh yeah 14 okay 215 00:15:46,380 --> 00:15:53,160 I'm actually excited about this Shrek that's what it takes we all saw that I'm 216 00:15:51,420 --> 00:15:56,699 buying these for work purposes so I'm using the work card and they're staying 217 00:15:54,600 --> 00:16:02,279 at work are you ready I'm I'm ready 218 00:15:58,860 --> 00:16:05,519 you ready to get shreked okay wow this 219 00:16:02,279 --> 00:16:08,519 is actually this is awesome wow though 220 00:16:05,519 --> 00:16:09,899 the 3D is done like pretty well this is 221 00:16:08,519 --> 00:16:14,579 the first one so far that I've been like this actually like kind of adds something the thing is when you've got a 222 00:16:12,899 --> 00:16:19,980 two camera rig and you're trying to shoot live action in 3D focus is a 223 00:16:18,300 --> 00:16:25,380 nightmare right because you can only have one part of the scene in focus and 224 00:16:22,860 --> 00:16:31,320 when you're watching it back then if you look and focus your eyes at a closer or 225 00:16:28,139 --> 00:16:33,959 a farther away object it's out of focus 226 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:37,199 so you're focused on a blurry object it just doesn't work there's still some 227 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:41,639 weirdness like when somebody runs into the frame it's kind of like jittery yes 228 00:16:39,300 --> 00:16:44,820 man now I want a 3D projector for the theater room God damn it man this is 229 00:16:43,860 --> 00:16:49,560 like a video game there's like propaganda before oh here we go 230 00:16:47,399 --> 00:16:54,120 interesting they didn't try to overdo the 3D in this movie yeah like in that 231 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:57,660 scene it was just the fireworks really yeah I feel like because everything is 232 00:16:55,920 --> 00:17:02,459 so dark though you don't really it kind of masks the 3dness like in other 233 00:17:00,540 --> 00:17:05,339 content you notice it a lot more when there's big color changes between what's 234 00:17:04,199 --> 00:17:10,439 in the foreground and what's in the background this is just that where buddy 235 00:17:07,980 --> 00:17:15,299 was like below the playing field was pretty cool 236 00:17:12,439 --> 00:17:17,939 okay this is pretty cool switch it to 2D for a second I want to see what the 237 00:17:16,199 --> 00:17:23,760 difference is like sure oh yeah that's immediately way more lame 238 00:17:21,500 --> 00:17:28,860 at some point it should be noted that even with a 4K display depending on the 239 00:17:26,699 --> 00:17:33,120 3D content you could still be limited to a vertical resolution of 540 lines 240 00:17:31,860 --> 00:17:37,559 why it often came down to bandwidth 241 00:17:34,860 --> 00:17:42,720 limitations at the time while Blu-rays could simply double the frame rate and 242 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:47,460 or resolution that would have added enough cost for broadcasters that any 243 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:53,580 push for home 3D would have been Dead on Arrival so most 3D is actually handled 244 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:59,400 by sending two images at half resolution and then broadcasting them together in a 245 00:17:56,220 --> 00:18:02,460 single 1920x1080 frame the two main ways 246 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:04,559 they do this are side by side or top 247 00:18:02,460 --> 00:18:08,880 bottom where you either lose half of the horizontal resolution or half of the 248 00:18:06,660 --> 00:18:13,320 vertical resolution respectively the image gets sent to the TV where they are 249 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:19,140 then merged and displayed as a single 1080p frame 1080p ish it's kind of like 250 00:18:16,799 --> 00:18:22,919 when you're interlacing a 2D image but instead of interlacing data from a 251 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:27,720 single frame it's actually from two separate frames that are destined to go 252 00:18:24,780 --> 00:18:33,960 to each of your eye holes truthfully on a quality display like this one it still 253 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:36,900 looks pretty good so why I didn't 3D 254 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:42,419 stick around this time 3D was and continues to be more difficult to 255 00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:44,820 produce and really easy to mess up so 256 00:18:42,419 --> 00:18:49,380 even with that additional cost it would often end up looking cheap adding insult 257 00:18:47,039 --> 00:18:52,460 to injury the content was expensive to distribute less comfortable for 258 00:18:51,059 --> 00:18:58,260 audiences you can say that again and all of this 259 00:18:55,320 --> 00:19:03,179 at a higher price glasses list 3D displays like on the Nintendo 3DS 260 00:19:00,120 --> 00:19:05,700 addressed some of these problems games 261 00:19:03,179 --> 00:19:10,980 and animated films use Virtual rather than physical cameras and are therefore 262 00:19:07,500 --> 00:19:13,260 much easier to convert to 3D but as 3DS 263 00:19:10,980 --> 00:19:17,820 users can attest they have their own drawbacks including crummy resolution 264 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:22,620 and even crummier viewing angles with all these problems in mind it's no 265 00:19:19,620 --> 00:19:24,660 surprise that by 2016 just six years 266 00:19:22,620 --> 00:19:31,559 after being thrust into the mainstream production of 3D TVs by all major brands 267 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:34,500 ceased 4K Blu-ray doesn't support 3D at 268 00:19:31,559 --> 00:19:38,820 all nor do any modern consoles and as far as we know there are no 3D TV 269 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:42,720 channels still available making it effectively dead 270 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:47,039 there are still Niche pockets of 3D enthusiasts though to my knowledge 271 00:19:44,700 --> 00:19:52,860 NVIDIA's final 3D Vision capable driver can still play Old stereo 3D games and 272 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:58,919 the latest is from I think 2020. Voodoo apparently still supports 3D and these 273 00:19:55,919 --> 00:20:01,559 current model projectors from JVC still 274 00:19:58,919 --> 00:20:05,580 include robust 3D support for the handful of 3D Blu-rays that are still 275 00:20:03,360 --> 00:20:09,600 being produced but due to the complexity of shooting live action films in 3D many 276 00:20:07,980 --> 00:20:15,539 of them have 3D implemented in a way that's just kind of cheap and gimmicky 277 00:20:12,419 --> 00:20:17,640 looking because it's added in post so I 278 00:20:15,539 --> 00:20:22,200 it's in the script I doubt they sell very well but we know that for a fact 279 00:20:19,799 --> 00:20:26,280 based on having actually gone to the store I don't know maybe the new Avatar 280 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:30,660 is going to kick start another 3D Renaissance I don't know they have a kid 281 00:20:28,559 --> 00:20:33,780 now and there's water um seems compelling enough to spend 13 282 00:20:32,220 --> 00:20:37,799 years of your life working on right well maybe we can buy another 8 000 TV right 283 00:20:35,700 --> 00:20:42,600 or maybe you could be compelled to spend some money on our sponsor jackery 284 00:20:40,500 --> 00:20:46,200 jackery makes solar ready portable power stations designed to improve life on the 285 00:20:44,340 --> 00:20:50,760 go by providing that sweet sweet power Outdoors whenever and wherever you need 286 00:20:48,660 --> 00:20:54,600 it they're Explorer 1500 portable power station has enough juice to keep all 287 00:20:52,620 --> 00:20:59,280 your devices moving like jackrabbits its huge 1500 watt hour capacity and 1800 288 00:20:57,120 --> 00:21:02,760 watt output rate allows up to seven devices to be plugged in simultaneously 289 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:06,720 and it only takes four hours to charge from zero to eighty percent so you can 290 00:21:04,799 --> 00:21:10,740 keep living large Off the Grid so check out the Explorer 1500 at the link below 291 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:14,880 and get 10 off with code Linus Tech tips if you like this video check out our 292 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:19,380 video on the Looking Glass holographic monitor another attempt at making 293 00:21:16,620 --> 00:21:22,880 game-changing 3D display Tech but one that actually could have a ton of 294 00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:22,880 potential