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Mitsubishi, which has been manufacturing 3D-capable TVs well before the current craze, found itself in a complicated situation with the new 3D Blu-ray spec.
Mitsubishi’s method of interpreting a 3D signal is not compatible with the 3D Blu-ray spec. To address this problem, Mitsubishi showed at CES 2010 a 3D Blu-ray adapter (3DC-1000) that takes the HDMI output of a 3D Blu-ray player and converts it to a signal the Mitsubishi TV understands.
Mitsubishi 3D TVs create 3D images by generating two separate checkerboard pattern fields that, when viewed though active shutter LCD glasses, deliver the 3D experience.
Mitsubishi says the adapter only will work with 3D Blu-ray players, but it’s only a small leap to imagine the adapter may also work with cable and satellite settop boxes once those start transmitting 3D signals on networks such as ESPN and Discovery.
The Mitsubishi 3DC-1000 3D adapter will be available in late spring of 2010. No pricing was announced.
I agree with all of you. I bought a 67” SAMSUNG DLP that was 3-d ready, but the set as well as the glasses were discontinued the month I bought it. The little “3-D” output won me over.All that said, I’ll take it. I cannot just go out and buy another 3-D TV, so I’m stuck getting whatever might work.
Samsung never did anything to help, so I’m not complaining too loudly.
Mitsubishi should sell the adaptor for s very cheap price since one of their selling points was “3D’ ready. Well, it’s only ready if I can plug a device in and view 3D.
Ok… so your telling me that one of the LONGEST selling 3d tv manufacturers can not play 3d blu rays?
Does this not sound like someone paid off BDA to take their “3d” ideas? Seriously, you have a 3d tv that has been selling for YEARS, already has a base for 3d blu ray to grow from and also allows for full 1080p 60fps per eye. and BDA say “Nah, lets make people buy brand new TV’s (which we already did for the HDTV upgrade) so they can use a technology that can work off of older TV’s”. This is BS! I just bought a 65” Mitsubishi and now I am probably going to need to get another TV, or and adapter that cost God knows how much. Thanks for F’n over the consumers!!!
That’s right. What promise!!!! It was a sales pitch thats all they said the tv would not become obsolete because they would have adapters or devices to be up to date with the technology. Well then comes HDMI and did Mitsubishi come up with a devide to support HDMI ...NO!!!! My set was a 2001 model. WS55809.
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Have the same issue, samsung dlp 61 inch “3D READY” what a bunch of crap, at least Mits is MAKING an adapte!r And its suposed to only cost 100$, hopefully it will work on the samsung who dont think this will #### alot of people off as they want to upgrade to 3d with all the content comming out. They stopped making the glasses and emmiters because hooking up to a PC is probally so tough its flooding there tech support and they want it to go away..