Toshiba 3D TV CES 2011

Phil Conner, senior editor

Surprisingly, one manufacturer that took the most chances was Toshiba. While not showing any of its current active or passive 3D TVs (nor upcoming 2011 offerings) it did show its Glasses Free 3D TVs in a variety of sizes, 24", 32", 55", 65". The display was spotty, and performance a bit irregular. The glasses free 3D TVs were set up in booths to try to eliminate side angle views (but did not quite succeed at this.) The Glasses free technologies obvious benefit is the absence of the passive or active glasses which the public clearly wants. The actual display quality I would put at a 5 out of 10 in quality. But give some major credit to the company for trying. It was a bit discouraging to not be able to evaluate the upcoming passive and active 3D Models SL515 series and SL610 series 3D TVs.

The 2D to 3D conversion demo showed a very small split from the 2D version content to the 3D version content, so there was little depth and not much 3 dimensional effect to the image. No doubt, this content was set up this way to keep flaws from showing.