Toshiba’s glasses-free 3D TV does on sale (description)
Masaaki Osumi, Toshiba's head of TV operations, unveils the world's first glasses-free 3-D television at a trade show in Tokyo in October. Twelve-inch versions of the TV will go on sale this week, to be followed later by 20-inch models.
As Toshiba Corp. prepares to start selling the world's first glasses-free 3-D televisions in Japan this week, the Japanese electronics and industrial conglomerate says it plans to go global with a larger model of over 40 inches in the coming fiscal year.
"The glasses-free 3-D TVs Toshiba showed reminded us why we need the special glasses," said Ichiro Michikoshi, an analyst at Tokyo-based market research firm BCN. "Those TVs certainly set the direction for 3-D's future, but it will take a while."
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