It's definitely worth checking out. In pubs they are using screens which rely on the passive 'RealD' glasses you get at the cinema, whereas most home screens will be using active glasses to achieve the same effect. Those glasses are £100 a pair at the moment, compared to the 80p a pair for the passive ones.
For whatever reason, no-one was going to make a consumer available screen that used the passive glasses until LG (who are supplying the TVs to pubs for Sky 3D) announced they would make them available to the general public. I think that the passive glasses solution is by far the better one and it's going to be worth waiting for more of those screens to become available.
The problem with passive tech on home screens is it halves the resolution. Already you've chopped the picture in half as the 3d is delivered in 1080i side-by-side so you're seeing 540i, and then the passive filter chops it in half again. Its a perfect solution for cinema projection because they use a spinning wheel polarizer, not a line by line.
Active shutter is the best solution at home, its the only way to get FullHD 3D from a LCD/Plasma panel.
http://www.jvc.eu/3d_monitor/technology/xpol.html Explains it nicely.
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