Recently we attended a conference on 3D that included reps from Amazon, Best Buy, Ultimate and all the box houses. They all complained that it was too hard to put the right parts together and create an effective demo – that their people were out of their league. All of us independents just looked at em' dumbfounded – they can market, but they have no idea what they are doing. There are no electronics experts in the box house electronics world.

After reviewing the Panasonic, Samsung, Sony and Mitsubishi 3D sets, I can tell you that the DLP technology is the winner hands down, with the LASER television being the best by far. Then the Panasonic for color depth, and the Sony and Samsung for brightness. The Panasonic looks a bit low on Gamma but very realistic compared to the LED sets.

If you are going for the big WOW 3D factor, find a local dealer for the Mits cinema DLP televisions that can service the TV and you will be pleased. Or spend more for flat – but buy it from someone that can fix it and actually know how use it.

I guess I'll have to hop back on here when I have gotten more play time in….

I have ordered the stereoscopic 3D set with the 22″ samsung and hope to get it soon. In the meantime I can tell you what got me to go from my normal 25.5″ to a 22″ for this effect.

I run a rig with 2xnVidia GTX280 and have the opportunity to test the “normal” 3D effect with the use of some ordinary red/cyan 3D glasses(Called the nVidia 3D Discover). The glasses for this are only sold in packages with a 3D ready GPU from nVidia, so it's an expensive experiment if you already have a card with support. However, you just need some glasses… I bought a Blueray 3D movie just to get some glasses to test with and have 1 simple thing to say; “It was totally mindblowing! I have become an easy target in PvP plainly because I'm walking around watching the scenery…. I agree with the author that the “world” suddenly becomes quite static, but there's no winds in the 2D version either. Apart from the occasional /fart of course. It's rather that it's easier to notice that the trees don't move. It takes some getting used to and tampering with the settings to get it right, but when you do… You'll never go back to 2D. I got a new challenge, a new world and even a new character.

The details aren't Crysis, but they never have been. It's Wow. It's cartoony, but it's good cartoony. It feels kind of having the biggest papermodel world with alot of papermodel characters running around in front of you. The details are more than satisfying and I think that with trees moving etc. it would be harder to see enemy movements. I tried Far Cry 2 too. Moving leaves is not always a good thing… I still haven't got the full hang of it myself after only 3 days and I feel the strain on my eyes after 1hour or so because of the immense depth and crossing of eyes (the latest nVidia drivers messed up the UI a bit it seems). An older driver (191.07 works for me) is the clue to get an ok UI, but I hope nVidia will correct the issue in a later version.

The fps drop wasn't too noticable, but I run 2x10k rpm drives in striping, i7 920cpu, 6GB ram and 2xGTX280. I had between 100-120 fps in IF and down to 40 in Dalaran. Much the same as without 3D actually. I don't know if the new glasses will affect this though, but I'll try to remember posting here about it if I can. I have only tested the nVidia 3D Discover with colored glasses made of cardboard(Not even the nVidia ones). These makes you loose some color and are causing a strain on, eyes in the long run on the biggest depths. But they made me order the “real thing” because it was a new way to see Azeroth. I even notice that it's easier to remember different locations because of the details in the environment. If you have an nVidia GPU with support for stereoscopic 3D, go get some cheap glasses and test it first. Then decide if you go for the expensive solution. Just remember; Wow must run at Full screen to get the 3D working. Good luck and see you in 3D!

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Have you ever seen honey I shrunk the audience 3-D at Disneyland? Can you compare it to that at all? How about in PvP? Will a shadowbolt pop off the screen at me?

More and more of these review sites are failing their readers because they hand a story to someone that has no idea what they are doing. Did they ever give a Superman story to anyone other than Lois Lane? NO she is sleeping with the dude so of course she gets the story!!!

It is crazy that you are the only review of the tech on the internet so far and there is NO information in this story at all. No one is going to buy a $600 addition to their PC when all you say about it is that leaves are flat.