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World's First 46-inch Stereoscopic 3-D TV

by Thomas Ricker on April 10, 2008 at 11:53 AM


3-D baby, that's what we've wanted from home television for 50 years. Now it's yours... if you live in Japan anyway. Introducing the world's first 46-inch 3-D stereoscopic television (which is essentially a fancy name for a 3-D television that requires glasses to view properly). Many companies are working on TVs capable of displaying 3-D -- ideal for video games for example -- but it looks like this one is the first one that's actually for sale.

Built by Hyundai, the 1,920 x 1,080 set is capable of grabbing BS11 3-D broadcasts pumped by Nippon BS in Japan for the last few months. The ¥498,000 (about $4,857) LCD brings 2x HDMI and 3x composite inputs (to name a few) and apparently works fine for traditional 2-D broadcasts.

Unfortunately, you'll have to wear what appear to be 3-foot wide, 3-D glasses judging by the image provided above. Perhaps they're meant as a radiation shield since the set is also the world's first TV with built-in "nuclear reactor" according to the machine translated text. Be careful out there kids, it's just television.

From Impress (via Engadget)

Tags: 3d, hyundai, television, tv

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