Samsung and RealD to co-develop new active-shutter 3D technology

Samsung and RealD announced that they will jointly develop a new active-shutter 3D display technology called RDZ. This new technology, based on LCD panels will offer full resolution 3D using the same RealD passive 3D glasses used in cinemas.

It appears that the idea is that the active-shutter part will go into the TV itself - it will be an "Active-switching LCD". This will enable it to use cheap RealD glasses (like the ones used in the cinema) and also offer no resolution reduction.

Samsung is already developing LCD displays based on the RDZ technology, and will demonstrate them during CES.

Jan 04, 2011

Don't you mean passive

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 17:49.

Don't you mean *passive* glasses, as used in cinemas?

Guy,

http://www.3dtvreviewer.co.uk/

No, these new LCDs will use

Submitted by 3ddisplay on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 18:00.

No, these new LCDs will use active-shutter - at least according to RealD's press release ;-)

The press release states that

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 22:33.

The press release states that the technology will use the same 'passive' glasses as in cinemas and that the RealD active shutter technology will be adopted on the display itself.

Yes, you appear to be right,

Submitted by 3ddisplay on Wed, 01/05/2011 - 09:31.

Yes, you appear to be right, I didn't read that correctly! Sorry for the mixup.

It's passive technology

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 23:36.

I read the announcement, it's a passive polarized eyewear TV that uses active shutter technology in the display.

"Unlike patterned retarder based 3D display technologies that cut resolution in half or diminish brightness, RDZ 3D technology delivers full resolution high definition 3D images by adopting active shutter technology on the display".

So it's compared to patterned retarder and does this technique instead - passive polarized glasses use patterned retarder TV's.

Yep - you're right. Again -

Submitted by 3ddisplay on Wed, 01/05/2011 - 09:31.

Yep - you're right. Again - sorry for the confusion, I fixed the story.