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Why is my 3D TV splitscreen without glasses?

I have a Samsung DLP 3D TV. I haven't gotten my glasses yet but when I look at the picture of the World Cup in 3D its just a split screen with the same picture on both sides. Is this right?

Public Comments

1. Never heard of a 3D DLP. Usually the 3D TVs don't have the image split-screen, they have the image slightly split.
2. more or less, depends on the settings, you will only be able to judge that if you got tha glasses
3. There are a few different ways of doing 3D. Side by side, top and bottom and one other which escapes me! If you have a 3D Blu-ray player, most tell your TV what format it needs to be. However, other sources - Sky HD 3D for example, doesn't send the necessary signal to your TV to tell it which format it should be in. So in this case, there will be an option in your TV menu to manually tell it that you are watching Side By Side 3D. When you change it, it will merge the pictures and with the glasses, give the 3D effect.
4. Something isn't set up right in your TV if you're seeing a split-screen display. The TV is supposed to sequentially display the two views, which are packaged for transmission in a split frame. It has to be done that way to be compatible with TV video standards. I don't know this for sure, but it seems like a DLP 3D system should be able use a split polarizer on the filter wheel, so that all you'd need would be simple polarized glasses, not the expensive active-shutter type. So a DLP 3D TV should actually work pretty similarly to the Real 3D system that is used in many theaters, including those that showed Avatar.
5. What's the model number? Are you sure it's not a Mitsubishi? It's probably displaying the seperate views needed for each eye side by side. You need the Mitsubishi adapter kit to make the 3D picture display correctly.
6. It is right! It is called "side by side" 3D, and I bet if you did have the glasses and they were active, the screen would look more like the blur you would expect. It seems your cable source is outputting correct 3D, but your TV must also output correct. Your TV would probably allow a manual side by side if you had the 3d equipment hooked up. This is the way Avatar the game works on PS3. I put the game into side by side, it's two identical pictures, side by side. But when the TV is also on side by side, it has that blurred look, until you put on your shutter glasses and it's 3D baby..
7. Just to help you understand what it going on here youtube has a tab on some 3d videos so you can switch between 3d formats. You have a right eye 2d movie and a left eye 2d movie but they are not exactly the same, and they can only go to one eye. All the images don't match up exactly together. If you have an image like a person that is to look close like he is in front of the screen, that person will be slightly off set over to the left for the right eye movie and slightly off set to the right for the left eye movie. Here are the youtube 3d formats and how they work. The 3d tab is below the video. 1. Red cyan(green-blue), amber blue, green magenta. -- Left eye movie is tinted one color and right eye movie tinted the other color. Then your glasses must be the same two colors so the movie for the other eye can be blocked. 2. Parallel -- This one the movie for the right eye is on the right side. So you must space your eyes apart like you are looking at something far away and you see 4 vidoes. Then you have to line up the 2 middle images to where you see 3 videos and when the middle video comes into focus you see 3d. Here you just want to look at the middle video of the 3. Here your left eye is looking at the video on the left side and your right eye is looking at the video on the right side but your brain merges them as one video. Also at 46 seconds into the video you will notice that the man's left shoulder and head are not in the same place compared to the red wall far behind him in both videos. Both videos are slightly different. 3. Crossed eyed -- The right eye video is on the left side, the opposite of parallel. Here you have to cross your eyes to where you see 4 videos and must line up the middle 2 so you end up with only seeing 3d videos. Then when the middle video comes into focus you see 3d. Your right eye is looking at the video on the left side and the left eye at the right side video, then you merge them into one image. 3. Mirror split. Below is a video on how to do this. You must use a mirror to do it. 4. Row interleave -- This one is to use with polarized glasses like the acer laptop. Right eye movie only goes to the even numbered horizontal lines, and left eye movie only to the odd numbered horizontal lines. Then all even numbered lines have one polarized light wave and all odd numbered lines a 2nd polarized light wave. Then each lens blocks the light wave meant for the other eye. There are 2 options here so the right eye image is sent to the odd or even numbered horizontal lines depending on how your glasses are set up. Shutter glasses just have the one lens open while the other lens closes and they do this back and forth very fast, then the image for an eye flashes on screen when that lens is open. Your tv must be set for side by side 3d which would be numbers 2 and 3 above. Most likely because it did not detect any 3d shutter glasses being used.