Ultra-D Article

[mike123abc]

This was over at AVSForum: http://www.avsforum.com/t/1486062/seeing-ultra-d-for-myself and http://www.avsforum.com/t/1484469/ultra-d-is-glasses-free-3d-for-uhdtv-coming-this-year

Really interesting review of glasses free 3D technology. The Ultra-D web site http://www.ultra-d.com/ is not very informative.

They are working with LCD and OLED TV manufacturers now, and perhaps launching by the end of the year. I would love to see this being a successful product. I do like 3D, but I do not like active 3D glasses, and passive glasses systems are not very common. Maybe this is an even better solution!

Interesting quote, Ultra-D can produce more detail than 1080p:

With letterbox bars on the screen, the panel maintained its deep blacks and screen uniformity. As the scene began, with the first couple of fish appearing, I began to appreciate something Riley had described to me. The Ultra-D processor is capable of combining the information in the full-HD left and right views on a 3D Blu-ray. Since these two images contain different visual information—2 million pixels each—the Ultra-D process is able to interpolate the textures to achieve a higher visual resolution. The two images become one scene, and on a UHDTV, the viewer actually sees more detail watching an Ultra-D presentation of a 3D BD, than is contained in the equivalent 1080p 2D presentation.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

We got to see a demo last year of a glasses free tv which was REALLY good, and I think it was by the same company. And that was using 1080p, I can only imagine how good it will look with an Ultra HD picture.

I hope they are showing it off this year at CES.

 

[TheForce]

Ultra D booth did have UHD Tv's with their technology on display, Scott, but IMO, it did not have that impact and detail that regular passive 3D systems have. The TV systems are very complex and I don't see the technology being very affordable for awhile.