Sony HMZ-T1 Personal 3-D Viewer

Sony HMZ-T1 Jeff Harris

3-D in theaters looks more realistic than 3-D at home for two reasons: The screen is huge, and the projector’s resolution surpasses that of any HDTV. Sony’s personal viewer is the first to bring theater-quality 3-D to your living room. Inside the HDMI-connected visor, twin 0.7-inch OLEDs sit about one inch from a user’s eyes, taking up the entire field of view; the sensation is equivalent to sitting 65 feet from a 62.5-foot movie screen. The OLEDs can turn on and off every few millionths of a second (about 1,000 times as fast as an LCD), a rate that all but eliminates the “ghosting” during fast-moving action, live sports and SOCOM 4 shootouts. And because every one of the screen’s 921,600 pixels is its own light source, no light can bleed between dots and spoil the crispness of a color, a common problem on many displays. Lest viewers not feel immersed enough, onboard earphones use time-shifting effects to produce virtual five-channel surround sound. $800