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At this year's Consumer Electronics Show, we expected to see second-generation 3D TVs along with new models from companies that hadn't yet entered the 3D arena. What was surprising, according to Consumer Reports' senior electronics editor and TV expert James K. Willcox, was the debut of a new type of 3D TV, using passive technology—this means the TVS don't need the heavy, expensive active-shutter glasses that last year's models required. Passive 3D TVs use lighter and cheaper polarized glasses, like those you get in movie theaters.
In our video, Jim takes us on a tour of what he saw in 3D TV at this year's CES.
Along with impressive passive TV debuts from the likes of Toshiba and LG, he also was impressed by a few companies' prototype displays of 3D TVs requiring no glasses at all, called autostereoscopic TVs. These won't be ready for our living rooms for another few years, but they are undoubtedly the Holy Grail for 3D TV and may pave the way for the mainstreaming of this technology.
—Carol Mangis
—Carol Mangis
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