
This year, several HDTV manufacturers scrapped clunky, expensive active-shutter 3-D glasses for lighter, more affordable passive ones. Vizio pioneered the switch. The company was the first to adopt the polarizing standard used by RealD, the largest maker of big-screen 3-D. Left and right images sit on alternating lines on the screen, and those lines are each polarized to match up with either the left or right lens in pairs of polarized glasses. The glasses have another advantage: Viewers can wear them at the movies instead of wasting yet another pair of throwaway theater shades. Sets from $550