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Someone over on r/hometheater picked up a TK710 as a straight 4K upgrade, noticed the menu mentioning 3D, and went down the rabbit hole with the Shrek 3D set and a pair of DLP glasses. Their reference point was an old Sony 3D TV from the PS3 era, which they rated as okay. The projector apparently wasn't in the same conversation - clear, sharp, no ghosting, and the glasses needed no calibration and worked from anywhere in the room.
That gap is not a fluke, and it's the reason 3D died on TVs and quietly survived on projectors. Most 3D TVs used active shutter glasses synced over infrared or RF, which meant a pairing step, a viewing sweet spot, and crosstalk that showed up on any high-contrast edge. DLP-Link works differently: the projector hides a sync flash inside the image itself, so the glasses lock on from wherever you're sitting and there's nothing to pair. Add a properly dark room and a big image and the effect stops feeling like a gimmick bolted onto a living room set.
The practical upside is that nobody wants 3D Blu-rays any more. Discs are cheap secondhand, the animated catalogue in particular is deep, and DLP glasses cost very little. That's about as low a cost of entry as any format revival gets.
What the post doesn't give is the brightness penalty in 3D on that projector, and that's the number which decides whether this is fun or murky. Anyone running 3D regularly on a laser DLP: how much light do you actually lose, and does it hold together on live action or only on animation?
That gap is not a fluke, and it's the reason 3D died on TVs and quietly survived on projectors. Most 3D TVs used active shutter glasses synced over infrared or RF, which meant a pairing step, a viewing sweet spot, and crosstalk that showed up on any high-contrast edge. DLP-Link works differently: the projector hides a sync flash inside the image itself, so the glasses lock on from wherever you're sitting and there's nothing to pair. Add a properly dark room and a big image and the effect stops feeling like a gimmick bolted onto a living room set.
The practical upside is that nobody wants 3D Blu-rays any more. Discs are cheap secondhand, the animated catalogue in particular is deep, and DLP glasses cost very little. That's about as low a cost of entry as any format revival gets.
What the post doesn't give is the brightness penalty in 3D on that projector, and that's the number which decides whether this is fun or murky. Anyone running 3D regularly on a laser DLP: how much light do you actually lose, and does it hold together on live action or only on animation?
