Projectors Reviews, price and comparision

3D glasses come in two flavors. If you have an active 3D HDTV, use expensive and bulky active shutter glasses, wirelessly synchronized to work with the TV must be. If you see a 3D movie in a theater or on a passive 3D HDTV as the Vizio XVT3D650SV ($3,699.99, 4-star), you use passive 3D glasses. This type uses filtered lenses instead of LCD shutters to help display the 3D image. Here, the Panel has most of the work and the passive glasses are easy, cheap and often disposable. Gunnar Optiks offers a third type of 3D glasses: passive specs durable. At $99 (list), that they are priced more like Active shutter glasses or sunglasses brands, but solid quality and good looks make a nice alternative to 3D Theater glasses. Unfortunately, because they not dark enough to sunglasses, is their only real purpose of 3D movies, it is hard to justify it, drop $100 on a few, probably not very often that you use.

For 3D glasses, this pair Gunnar Phenom is very well done, it looks and feels as well as Oakley or Ray-Ban shades. The rugged, all-metal frames have hidden spring hinge that allow conveniently distributed your Temple. The nose pads are screwed on thick wire arms, mounted right on the bridge of the nose. In tests with my oversized skull, the Phenom was remarkably comfortable.

The glasses are working with all passive 3D display, select Vizio and LG HDTVs and a theater showing RealD 3D movies. Whether a 3D movie at home or in the theater view, the Phenom is a much more comfortable option than the cheap glasses get you contain plastic with passive 3D HDTVs or which in the movie theater. Because the glasses of the exactly the same filter as use other passive 3D glasses, they do not improve or change the 3D experience in any way (except for the benefits of the lens geometry, as explained below). The 3D see the same 3D you see through the convenient Pack glasses is going through the Gunnars.

Gunnar do not recommend the Phenom 3D glasses for use as sunglasses, they are still good for cloudy days. According to Gunnar you are tinted, 3D lenses to around 50 per cent, while typical sunglasses are typically tinted to around 80 percent. This means that the lenses for bright days are not quite dark enough. The 3D lenses are coated, UVA and UVB protection with 100%, so that they can still protect your eyes.

I tested the glasses with the LG 47LW6500, a passive 47-inch 3D HDTV. The TV comes lenses with plastic glasses with flimsy cellophane-like. The flat lenses make the glasses particularly vulnerable to reflections. Felt than the Phenom in the highest degree, and the curved lenses with low-reflection coating prevented me from catching stray reflections. Although the Phenom frames are made of metal and the lenses solid, are only 0.6 ounces weight similar to the bundled 0.4-ounce LG glasses.

You have the inclination (and spend the money), Gunnar's Phenom 3D glasses are a fine technological fashion statement. You look and feel great, and let you to watch 3D movies in theaters or anywhere there is a passive 3D TV. Unfortunately, with lenses, which are not quite dark enough as sunglasses their real value depending on the 3D,. Unless you regularly Watch 3D movies, this $100 shades don is probably often not you.