Texas Instruments Brings 3-D Up to Date in DLP HDTVs
Did you ever watch 3-D movies with those weird blue and red glasses? Did the glasses give you a headache, or distort the colors so much that it wasn’t really fun to watch the movie?
Texas Instruments has solved some of the problems of 3-D viewing through the magic of 120Hz frame rates and DLP technology, which they invented in 1987.
Basically, a 3-D DLP set displays 120 frames per second, like many of the new HDTVs, but it sends 60 of those to one eye and 60 to the other eye. You still have to wear special glasses, but they are more stylish and do not affect the color fidelity. The picture depth is enhanced, too, as you would expect from technology introduced in the 21st century rather than the 1950s.
The 3-D sets also function just like normal HDTVs. It’s just a matter of switching to a different picture mode in the menu.
Texas Instruments does not make HDTV sets, but their technology can be found in Samsung and Mitsubishi DLP sets in the near future.
More information: DLP 3D HDTV Technology
