If the expense associated with 3D TVs is what has been putting you off getting involved with the technology then here is some good news for you, there are now budget 3D TVs available. Not only are the televisions from Cello reasonably priced at under £500 but it also uses the technology for passive 3d glasses, which are the cheaper variety.

Cello have announced a budget 3D TV, which also uses cheap 3d glasses.

3D Content

The other major reason that people put off using the technology is because there is a limited amount of content that actually makes use of it. However there are also advances going on in that area. There are 3D films coming out every week for which you need your 3d glasses. There is also a dedicated Sky 3D channel, and also special events which are shown in 3D.

For example, in our previous post we mentioned that the men’s and women’s finals at Wimbledon will be broadcast on the BBC HD channel in 3D for the first time. Indeed, the technology is specifically useful for sports because to be able to tell precisely what action is occurring you have to be able tell exactly where the ball is. That’s not always possible on normal televisions, but it is on 3D TVs.

Which 3D Glasses?

As mentioned, the new budget 3D TVs which are being made will require the polarising 3d glasses. If you’ve ever seen a 3D film at the cinema, or watched a sporting even in 3D at a pub, then these are the sort which you will have used. They all work in the same way so they are interchangeable between all the different media which use this sort of technology.

Before these new 3D TVs were made there was actually only one other sort of television which used that technology. Those are the ones that are used in pubs. All of the other 3D televisions use active shutter technology. That’s because they give a slightly better picture, and when the screen is the size of a television you need all the resolution that you can get.

That is not to say that the polarising 3d glasses give a bad picture though, and if you want to see how good a picture they can give then you can try them out during a sporting event at a pub which broadcasts in 3D.

Future of 3D

What does the introduction of budget televisions for 3D technology say about its future? Well, it can only mean good things. It means that more people will be able to afford them, and the more people that have them there more demand there will be for content. That is all there has to be for more content to be made in that format of course, so you can expect to see more programmes broadcast in 3D. And of course the more programmes there are that make use of the technology, the more people will want to be able to use it and at some point a critical mass will be reached whereby the growth of the technology is unstoppable.

In this way, 3D will become as cheap and prevalent as widescreen televisions are at the moment, which also had to go through a similar process towards the almost universal appeal they have today.