3D flicker

Yesterday I went to see one of the first 3D TVs from Sony. It isn’t buyable yet, but soon.

First: It was impressive!

Second: This type of 3D isn’t like earlier experiments, with things flying out of the screen.
It is like the new world of 3D cinema (Avatar and Alice in Wonderland), where the image starts at the film screen and creates an artificial depth on the other side. And like 3D in cinemas, you need special glasses to get the 3D effect; otherwise you just see a blurry picture.
People who can only see with one eye, still needs the glasses to remove the blurriness, but they will not be able to get the depth effect.

As I said before: It was really impressive! The 3D effect was more noticeable than I had expected, and it was possible to watch the TV even from a great angle. But the glasses weren’t comfortable, and what was worse: I experienced an annoying flicker! While I was there, I thought that it was the TV that couldn’t send the images fast enough, but now I have started thinking about whether it could be the lighting in the room that gave this flicker? So if you buy a 3D TV and a 3D Blu-ray player, you may also have to purchase some special 3D enabled light?

I can’t help wondering, that if you need special glasses to watch 3D, then why not build the TV into the glasses? I would prefer a solution where glasses were not necessary. I find them very uncomfortable.

For the time being, I continue watching movies in 2D. 🙂

Size of Problems

We – and the problems we are grappling with – fills a lot in our own worldview.
But if we see the Earth from outside, we are really quite small in comparison.

Earth is one of the smaller planets around the Sun.
The sun is just one out of approx. 100 billion (!) Stars in the Milky Way.

The Milky Way is just one of perhaps billions of galaxies in the universe.

Suddenly everyday problems seems rather small. 😉

License plate trouble

Yesterday I had parked my car at a train station. When I came back to fetch it, I discovered that both license plates were stolen!

Today I had to spend time getting new license plates, change the registration certificate of the car, contact the insurance company and find the places where the old number was registered.

What is all this white stuff?

You could be tired of reading yet another post about snow.
I am definitely tired of having to write about the same topic in yet another post. But snow is everywhere these months: The snow that fell weeks ago are still lying there, and ever so often, we see more snow from above.