A Full 3D HDTV without glasses redefines 3D

Forget everything you knew about 3D TV. Philips aims to change the standard with a new TV announced yesterday.

Philips demonstrated a Quad Full Autosteroscopic 3D HD TV at an event in Hollywood related to 3D, after at least 7 years of ongoing development. Quad Full TV’s stream data at such a extraordinary rate that they increase a display’s screen resolution to a truly eye-popping 3840×2160 (or 8.29 million pixels), which is about four times the number of pixels of the highest current HDTV standard. Awesome doesn’t begin to describe it.

The 3D part of it can be watched without glasses or eye strain, which is amazing in and of itself, and is part of the engineering of the device. Both high resolution and fast data rates are essential for a 3D pic to be believable.

The vast array of pixels produce images use the same left/right eye trick as traditional 3D, and its speed slaps the images together almost instantly. This creates a large viewing angle (160 degrees) and Philips promises up to 46 simultaneous views at once, which means the resolution is a full 23X better than standard 3D with the glasses you’ve seen before.

Rumor has it that it can even “rewrite” traditional movies to be more 3D with its 3D Wow Technology.

And no, it isn’t cheap. They’ll run you about $25,000 or so, which more than likely will limit it to commercial application for now.