Design Your Own 3D Home Theater

By AVATAR on Dec 13, 2010 8:42 AM 0 Comments
Ready to watchAVATARat home in 3D? For now, the only way to watch is by buying a copy from Panasonic bundled with other 3D equipment such as shutter glasses or a Blu-ray DVD player or to get the full Panasonic bundle. Or if you want to start building a 3D home theater now against the day when AVATAR 3D is released on its own, here are some tips.
Ventures into the world of a 3D home theater can be intimidating, but luckily online guides help break the mystery down to just four components: a 3D-capable HDTV; a Blu-Ray disc player, HD cable or HD satellite box; content (such as AVATAR); and glasses. That's it. Four components. Everything else is just details about extra features and how much you want to spend.
For those who just want to buy some consumer electronics off the shelf and combine them for the best experience, IGN Gear does a nice job of summarizing the details and suggested prices of 3D TVs and Blu-ray players that are out there without you having to visit a dozen different manufacturers' sites. The site also helpfully points out that if you want a 3D signal to play nicely with your surround-sound system, you need a 3D-capable receiver.
Creating a 3D home theater means you may be looking at $2,000–$5,000 if you don't already own any 3D components, although Display Daily points out that 3D TVs are first and foremost really good HDTVs, and for now you'll use a 3D set for 2D viewing about 99 percent of the time. And if you own a Sony PlayStation 3, you already own a 3D Blu-ray player.
Finally, if you have time and some PC savvy, Maximum PC blogs that you can build an all-PC system that has all the bleeding-edge bells and whistles to handle the above tasks as fast as possible.
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Is a 3D home theater on your holiday wish list?