How Do 3D TVs Work

To understand how 3D and 3D TVs works we need to first review how humans perceive the world in 3 dimensions. We have 2 eyes a left and a right eye. If you were to take a finger and put it near to your nose and you look through your left eye and through your right eye. You can see a vastly different object. If you move the object further away and repeat the exercise. You can still see the difference between the two, but not as much as it was. So what this means is you perceive 3 dimensions when you see objects that are near to us and the 3D effect drops off as objects are further away.

When it comes the the movie-theater you have 2 different light sources, 2 different projectors that put a polarizer on the front of each projector. 1 will be polarize for the left eye and one will be polarized for the right eye. So as long as you have a pair of eye-wear which have the same polarity as the left and the right, then were ensured that the left image goes to the left eye and the right image goes to the right eye.

So when it comes to television you only have a single light source. So we have to produce a left image and a right image in a different way. We do this in a frame sequence matter. The TV produces a left image and a right image really fast. What we have to do though for it to synchronize with our eyes is we have to wear a pair of glasses that is synchronize to the television. So the television will tell the eye-wear... I am now showing the left image. So therefore the lens of the left side of the eye-wear will become transparent, the right lens will be going black. So therefore the left image is being seen by the left eye. This is all done really fast and is all blended together which is why you don't notice any quick flashing.

There is nothing wrong with plasma television or LCD HDTV in respects to 3D TVS. When it comes to 3D TVs there is a difference between plasma and LCD and that difference is fundamentally how they produce light.

LCD HDTV has to update its image very quickly. The problem with a LCD is because LCD HDTV uses technology that works as little gates that open and close to allow the back-light through. It takes sometime for those tiny LCD molecules to change their state, now this can cause a problem where the left eye sees part of the right image and the right eye sees part of the left image.

When it comes to plasma television. Your producing frame sequential images. A left then a right. A plasma television starts with a black produces its image, then erases it and then produces the next one. So when your produce a left, right, left, right, There’s little chance of getting distortion between the left and right image.