3D Vision Blog

It seems that Acer won’t be the only company offering an affordable 720p projector with 3D support, as Optoma has just announced their own 720p 3D Ready home theater projector. Optoma HD66 offers a wide aspect 16:9 ratio and native resolution of 1280×720 pixels, the maximum brightness is 2500 ANSI lumens and the maximum contrast ratio is 4000:1. The new projector weights just about 2,3 kilograms (5 pounds). The projector can be used for either front or rear projection, it can be ceiling or tabletop mounted and will project images from 23″ to 300″ diagonal. There is a built-in two-watt speaker for audio playback, but you’d probably prefer to use something with better sound quality and power when playing games or watching movies.

The HD66 is using Texas Instruments’ 0.65 DMD DLP chipset and has HDMI, DSUB15 (Analogue VGA), S-Video and Composite Video inputs, but as with the Acer there is no clarification what input you can use with 120Hz for Stereoscopic 3D mode. Optoma HD66 can project in stereoscopic 3D in 720p HD (1280×720), XGA (1024×768) and SVGA (800×600) resolution according to the manufacturer and of course requires you to use active shutter glasses, but is not yet officially supported by 3D Vision! Optoma HD66 has an a recommended end user price of $699. Now lets see who will be the first one with a Full HD 1080p 3D-capable projector… ;)

- More about the Optoma HD66 720P 3D-Ready 120Hz DLP Home Theater Projector

A lot of people were eagerly expecting the new 3D Vision-ready projectors from Viewsonic to become available on the market and to buy them to get really big Stereo 3D displays to play with, including myself. And now that the ViewSonic PJD6211, PJD6221 and PJD6381 3D-ready DLP projectors are already available on the market it seems that you better wait a bit more, before going for them especially if you wish to use them with your 3D Vision glasses. It seems that these projectors do have some problems working with 3D Vision and some people are having problems making them to work, although some suggest that setting the projector as a CRT display helps. It seems ViewSonic needs to release a new firmware update (according to Nvidia, but Viewsonic claims they need new drivers from Nvidia) to make the things work as they should and avoid any problems and this should probably happen by the end of September. And in those few weeks we might also see an new version of the 3D Vision drivers with even more improvements, one of which will probably be the addition of support for the new MPO image format for Stereo 3D pictures and of course more gaming profiles. So I’m just going to wait a bit more to see how things develop, instead of getting one of these new “3D Vision-ready” (or not yet ready) projectors now and I suggest you do the same if you are interested in them… ;)

- For more information about the 3D-ready 120Hz projectors from Viewsonic…