A first hand look at NVIDIA 3DTV Play

edplayer

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I'm starting to think that everyone and everything is moving towards 3D. Games, TV, Movies, etc.

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well I'm not part of that everyone. I would consider it but it would have to be a tech without glasses. I'm sure there are many others who feel the same. You probably get that feeling because its many CE companies who want to push it. New features should help sales and that is what they care about.
 

ViRGE

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I guess I'm a bit lost here. What is 3DTV Play? Is it just NVIDIA's branding for hooking up a GeForce to a 120Hz 3D capable TV via HDMI?
 
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ShadowOfMyself

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Of course the whole world is moving towards 3D, because Nvidia happens to be supporting it now... We all know if it were AMD supporting 3D it would be an irrelevant feature

The truth is most people dont care as it is right now
 

videopho

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Of course the whole world is moving towards 3D, because Nvidia happens to be supporting it now... We all know if it were AMD supporting 3D it would be an irrelevant feature

The truth is most people dont care as it is right now

Most is a wrong word.
Many, yes, may be.
This reminds me of the 4:3 vs w/s display back in the early 2000's.
I am one of those who's switched to 3d and I'm not looking back.
Actually, gaming is going to save the 3d industry as whole.
 

Lifted

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Most is a wrong word.
Many, yes, may be.

Most means > 50 percent. If you think more than 50 percent of people around the world care about 3d for their TV's, you really need to get out more. LCD's don't even have a 50 percent adoption across the world yet... very far from it I'd say. To think people who are satisfied with their old tube sets (or simply can't afford the latest and greatest every few years) could give a toss about 3d is a bit much.
 
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Wreckage

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Most means > 50 percent. If you think more than 50 percent of people around the world care about 3d for their TV's, you really need to get out more. LCD's don't even have a 50 percent adoption across the world yet... very far from it I'd say. To think people who are satisfied with their old tube sets (or simply can't afford the latest and greatest every few years) could give a toss about 3d is a bit much.

How many people watched Avatar in 3D? or Toy Story 3? Millions....10s of millions.

I guess people were against color movies and TV back in the day as well. :rolleyes:
 

Chiropteran

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How many people watched Avatar in 3D? or Toy Story 3? Millions....10s of millions.

I guess people were against color movies and TV back in the day as well. :rolleyes:

That is like saying because some % of people enjoy going to monster truck shows, that % of people prefers to drive trucks. A $15 movie tick, as overpriced as it is, is a tiny required investment to "try" 3d. Just because a certain % of the population is willing to spend a few dollars extra on a movie ticket to see it in 3D doesn't mean that same percentage is going to pump out $1500 to buy a 3D capable TV.

Also, the success of a single movie is hardly proof of anything. Wizard of Oz was incredibly successful too, did that "prove" that people want more movies that are black and white for the first 20 minutes and color for the rest of the movie? Avatar was successful for a variety of reasons, 3D done well for a change probably helped the movie but it's certainly not the only reason it did well.
 

rolodomo

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Most is a wrong word.
Many, yes, may be.
This reminds me of the 4:3 vs w/s display back in the early 2000's.
I am one of those who's switched to 3d and I'm not looking back.
Actually, gaming is going to save the 3d industry as whole.

Based on my own personal experience, I agree. The 3D gaming is what I'm enjoying most.

You won't read about it in too many 3D TV reviews, which are sort of stuck on stupid, but you don't even need ATI or NVIDIA to provide a 3D hdmi input for many of these 3D TV(s). They have their own 2D-3D conversion capability. The TV converts 2D games (any standard "2D" hdmi signal) into 3D. This is similar to what NVIDIA's 3D Vision and ATI's IZ3D bring to the table, the ablity to convert old 2D games to 3D. The difference being you offload the computational overhead to the TV and conserve GPU framerate. Works great on my 3D setup, was just running race driver grid on my HTPC today in 3D and it looked awesome, with no impact whatsoever on frames.

I'm really thinking about taking this 3D TV out of my family room and using it for my main computer (evil grin), but its too just a bit too big.

Good though to see NVIDIA and ATI moving toward providing an hdmi 1.4/1.4a (3D) signal themselves because it gives us much more flexibility.

I've read however that hdmi 1.4/1.4a limits the maximum refresh rate to an amount much less than NVIDIA's 3DVision can provide over DVI.
 

lavaheadache

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why are you still rocking a gtx 260, and a pos monitor? You would think with all these features you can't stop bragging and running your mouth about that you would be atleast using the features.

For someone who says they weren't trying to be a turd, you managed. Don't.

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Grooveriding

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3D was a fad in the late 70s/early 80s and it's a fad now.

The problem facing HDTV manufacturers is that everyone who wants a big screen has a big screen. Barring failure out of warranty, or someone who did not buy a big enough size and feels the need to get another one, once you have your quota of HDTVs, you don't need to buy another until it fails on you.

The 1080p standard looks to be around for a while, and it will be sometime before we see ultra high resolution displays at a price that is not insane.

So, push 3D. Try to goad folks to 'upgrade' to a set capable. Sales tactic.

Same deal with nvidia, there are no games that need more performance than what we have on the market and none on the horizon. So, push 3d, it can justify video card upgrades because of the increased performance demands, same deal with Crapx(physx).

I tried 3dvision with a few games, it's alright, but not something I'd want to use consistently all the time. So, because of small monitors only being available and colours not being so great, was not for me.
 

happy medium

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I'm starting to think that everyone and everything is moving towards 3D. Games, TV, Movies, etc.

The truth is that it is or will be.
The Ps3,xbox 360, new nintendo ds, all will be or are 3d capable, pc gaming, 3d monitors, 3d lcd Tv's, 3d movies, 3d bluerays disks, 3d blueray players.

Just waiting on ATI, then it will be everywhere. :)

It's not a fad, it will be everywhere.
 

3DVagabond

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Yes, they are absolutely ramming 3D down everyone's throat, from every angle. They've tried before, promoting 3D, but it's never caught on. The goofy glasses and disorientation have always been the killer of it. Plus, it's more expensive to produce. So, you didn't get enough programming. Now, nothing has dramatically changed, so we'll have to wait and see if they are successful at it this time. Actually, I don't see it as such a slam dunk that it's going to happen. The effort is definitely much greater, though.