JVC's 3D offerings at CES 2010 came in different flavors, including one with a 3D LCD monitor, the currently-shipping 46-inch GD-463D10, which features "Xpol" technology for flicker-free stereoscopic images with less expensive, passive polarized glasses. At the top end of the spectrum however is a novel use for their high-end DLA-RS4000 4K Projector, introduced at CEDIA. What do you get when you combine two of these $175,000 beauties, each delivering full "4K2K" (4096 x 2400 pixels) resolution? You get a level of 3D performance that you'd be hard pressed to match in any home cinema anywhere in the world, as each eye is being given a full 4K signal to enjoy.
Behind the closed doors of the JVC D-ILA Theater on the show floor, we were given a series of demos culminating in the double-DLA-RS4000 experience, which benefited tremendously from the superior image quality, at four times the resolution of Full HD, with no visible pixel structure.
While the 2D demo of the projector was simply stunning, the 3D effect, as seen on a clip from the upcoming 65mm IMAX nature documentary The Last Reef, was not quite as breathtaking as other 3D demos I've seen, most notably Panasonic's HD3D demo on their 152-inch plasma. Maybe those active (shutter-type) glasses aren't so bad after all.
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