Saturday, November 7, 2015

3D Viewing on a Samsung Smart TV

In order to view 3D movies/video you need to buy a TV that supports 3D Viewing. The Samsung Smart TV (also Sony's Smart TV) support 3D viewing if content is available. Samsung TV has an app called 3d Explore which has some 3D content. The Tv comes boxed with the active glasses for 3D Viewing.

The TV I have is Samsung UN55F7100 which is a 55" TV of 7100 Series. You can buy more recent models.

It is good TV and comes with 4, 3D active glasses with the CR2050 batteries. The glasses are quite light and comfortable to weer. If you loose them or need extra pairs order the Samsung Model: SSG-5100GB active viewer. The active glass viewer comes with some red/blue plastic stickers, remove these stickers from both sides of the active glasses before use. In the body of the active viewer (looks like a spectacle) in the bridge region is the housing for the battery. You will have to pull the battery cover down, pull out the battery to replace with a new one. At the top of the spectacle/goggle there is a little switch which you can use to switch on or off. The manual says a couple of things about pairing and how the indicator light helps you to pair the glasses with the TV. However, I did not find these to work well

Viewing 3D video
Turn on the TV and switch to smart hub. Move from 'On TV' to 'apps'. Click on Explore 3D app and choose the one you want to see (the Jurassic one is good). On the remote there is a switch that switches the monitor between 2D and 3D. It may take a finite time for this switching to be effective as far as viewing 3D is considered. Change to 3D. Now put on your 3D Active glass and switch on the active glass and you may observe that the background light that you see with the glasses on changes from bright to dark. This is the indication of the switching in the glass and that the pairing is successful. You will not miss the 3D effect.

There is a 3D video called "Extreme 3D" that are very cool, one with a buy brandishing a sword. He really gets the sword inches from your nose and you will see his super long hand reaching out.

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