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Live From CES: 3D HD TVs Powered by "They Live" Technology

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By Amos Zeeberg (Discover Web Editor)
Jan 9, 2009 11:05 PMNov 5, 2019 8:47 AM

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As Stephen mentioned yesterday, 3D HD TV is a big theme here at CES this year: Multiple manufacturers, including Sony, LG, Samsung, and Panasonic are all showing products. Panasonic is using LCD shutter glasses to make it happen--the glasses receive IR signals from the TV and alternately blacken each of the lenses to give each eye a slightly different perspective, and that binocular difference creates the 3D effect. But perhaps most importantly, the glasses remind me of the classic 80s sci-fi B movie They Live, with super awesome wrestler-turned-actor Rowdy Roddy Piper (and one notoriously, ridiculously long fight scene) . Before The Rock, there was Roddy, God love 'im.

By the way, there are apparently plans to remake They Live

. This could end in disaster.

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