3DTV users are lucky: they don’t wear those ugly 3D glasses in public, but 3D glasses for your super cool smartphone? Well, Sharp saves you from super embarrassment with their glass-free 3D (autostereoscopic) smartphones planned for Japan just next month, and for US, China and India in 2011.
It uses Sharp’s own Parallax Barrier Display, which is also used on the upcoming Nintendo 3DS’s glass-free 3D screen. The 3.8-inch, 800×480 screen allows you to view images/videos in 3D without wearing any glasses. You can easily switch between 2D and 3D by a single touch on the screen.
Plain video chat is so 2003, now you can start chatting in 3D with your friends and families in your favorite IM program like Windows Live Messenger, Skype, AOL instant messenger, OoVoo and many others. You can also take 3D photos or even shoot 3D videos and upload them to YouTube.
A month after the release of L75-A91, Mitsubishi added another large-scale 3DTV to its LaserVue family, 75-LT1, to the Japanese market on Aug 21 for 50,000 Yens (~$8,700).
It comes with a 75″ screen, 1080P FullHD, 2 10W speakers, 2 pairs active shutter 3D glasses, a color range at twice that of regular HDTV for less energy consumption, making it one of the top-of-the-line product in the 3DTV market.
If you haven’t bought 3DTVs or ordered 3D programming for the World Cup 2010, you can still watch the 2 semi finals, third-place match, and the final at 3D theaters in 15 US cities, brought by FIFA and NCM Fathom.
With an 8″ 800×600 Parallax LCD screen, Apitek portable 3D Display frame allows you to show off your pictures and video in 3D without ugly 3d-glasses.
It supports 2D and 3D pictures in Side by Side Format (.JPEG) up to 16 mega pixels, and 2D and 3D 720P@30fps videos in H.264-encoded MP4 format (However, the screen is only 800×600). MP3 audio is also supported.
It has 512M internal storage and supports external SD / SDHC up to 16GB, or USB 2.0 flash drive.
Announcing it in April 3rd, 2010, Blu-ray Disc Association now has finalized the BDXL Blu-Ray disc specification. With more layers added to the disk, it now supports 100GB and 128GB write-once discs and 100GB rewritable discs for commercial applications.
With the finalization, manufacturers now will be able to obtain license and start producing actual products. BDXL-compatible players/recorders will support all existing Blu-Ray disks; however, existing Blu-Ray players, including your PS3, will not be able to play back BDXL disks, since it requires a stronger laser head that can dig up to 3 or 4 layers. So hold your horses for now if you need that spacious storage room or have a taste for proper 3D Blu-Ray experience (see below).
