Sony 3D TV – My New Favorite Toy

I was just married recently, and it was the most hectic few months of my life (I’ll skip thru this part, it isn’t tech related lol). Anyways, I was really blessed to have received a Sony 3d TV as a present and it has been one of my shiny new toy at home (I’ll tell the rest later). I always thought that 3d on tv sucked badly and some electronic shop owners also agreed with me, but once you have one sitting in front of you, your views will start to change.

It was very difficult transitioning from a Samsung series 5 TV to a Sony 3d TV, the whole interface was completely different and all the buttons (especially the names) were not that straight forward. I missed my Samsung TV’s capability to play movies directly from my external hard drive and how easy it was to use. But as I start to explore the world of Sony, here’s what I found so far:

Sony 3d TV came with a Home theater sound system (5.1), Playstation 3, 2 x 3d glasses, 1 PS3 game (Granturismo 5) and 1 Blueray 3d film (Green Hornet). The Playstation 3 part kind of got me more into it, I was thinking NBA 2k12!

3d glasses were really cool, it’s just like watching 3d in the cinema but at the comfort of your own place. The effects were more appreciated and HD felt like a thing of the past (LOL). However, 3d movies are pretty expensive to buy and the worse part is that it’s not easy to download one either (the titles that I like are 10GB above).

Media player sucks though, it only reads Fat32 format which only allows files at 4.5GB largest. So watching downloaded 3d movies have to be cut into several videos of 4.5GB each to watch on your ps3. Or just buy yourself a new Popcorn media player that has 3d capabilities (that’s what I’m about to buy later on…).

The “Home” button. Samsung never had one (with the series 5 I had), but the Home button is pretty cool. It’s somehow like a browser of whatever can be done to your tv in your screen, from the skype to browsing thru Youtube or changing channels or sources.

I’m still exploring Sony 3d TV right now, it’s not the easiest to navigate into but I’m certainly learning more each day about it. I’ve also just bought a few new games for ps3, so I’ll update again later soon.