Introduction to 3D Imaging

3D Television

We start with the introduction of 3D TV because it is the motivation for most of the other 3D consumer technologies. The first version of the TV was black-and-white TV. Although, there were multiple gray levels associated with it but the name associated with it was black-and-white TV. The first major transition was from black-and-white TV to color TV. It was a big revolution when that transition occurred. The earlier color TVs were analog. Then, digital color TVs were introduced followed by transition from standard resolution to high definition (HD) resolution of the images.

However, the era of 2D HDTV appears to be short because we are now witnessing the advent of 3D HDTV (Wikipedia HDTV). These, 3D HDTV are based on the stereoscopic technology and hence are known as stereoscopic 3D TV or S3D TV. Since, they also support high definition resolution; hence, they can be called S3D HDTV. All the major TV manufacturers have introduced S3D HDTV in the consumer market. They include various models from leading manufacturers like Sony, Panasonic, Mitsubishi, Samsung, LG, Philips, Sharp, Hitachi, Toshiba and JVC.