With a big push from Hollywood and TV manufacturers, consumers are warming up to 3D more and more. But you know what they're not warming up to? 3D glasses. Those things suck. Not only are they uncomfortable and impractical, but they have an unfortunate dimming effect on the image on screen. The future of 3D home entertainment is glasses-free, and with the announcement of a new state-of-the-art flatscreen from Toshiba, that future starts now.
The ZL2 TV, announced today at the IFA conference, is a 55-incher with super high def 4k2k resolution. For those of you haven't been following the latest res wars, that's 4096 x 2160, or four times the resolution of the current standard, 1080p. But the super HD is really just a bonus-- most impressive is that the ZL2 can produce glasses-free 3D images at that resolution, and for multiple viewers at once. The television has an advanced facial tracking feature that can optimize the 3D angles for up to 9 viewers.
All that glorious tech, as you might imagine, comes with a hefty price tag. Toshiba says the ZL2 starts at 7,999 pounds, or about $13,000.
Maybe wait for the Vizio version?
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Felipe Gallego September 1st, 2011 at 08:24 PM
oooo, can i have one? what???.... its only 13,000 dollars !
Joe M September 2nd, 2011 at 12:18 PM
"The ZL2 TV, announced today at the IFA conference, is a 55-incher with super high def 4k2k resolution. For those of you haven't been following the latest res wars, that's 4096 x 2160, or four times the resolution of the current standard, 1080p." This 4K2K term is marketing disinformation. For years in the consumer markets we used the vertical pixel count(480,720,1080i/p) to compare screens. When people use the term 4k, on screens with a vertical res of 2160, they mislead the average consumer
Ole Oleson September 2nd, 2011 at 01:06 PM
Joe M, 4k in film has always referred to horizontal resolution so Toshiba is using it correctly and is not using marketing disinformation. Consumer markets do use the vertical 480/720/1080 nomenclatures but none of those are ever referenced as 1k or 2k resolution. For instance 2k is 2,048 pixels of horizontal resolution.