{"id":690079,"date":"2010-03-12T11:00:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003177"},"modified":"2010-03-12T01:46:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T06:46:21","slug":"consumer-reports-tests-3d-televisions-goofy-glasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/690079","title":{"rendered":"Consumer Reports Tests 3D Televisions, Goofy Glasses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/Screenshot-2-thumb-156x89-38057.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>We might have all of the cat pictures here at Consumerist, but our sibling publication, Consumer Reports, gets to play with very cool toys. Right now, the folks in the TV-testing lab have some of the exciting new 3D televisions from Panasonic and Samsung, and they made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerreports.org\/cro\/video-hub\/electronics\/televisions\/first-tests-of-3d-tvs\/16935238001\/71473730001\/?EXTKEY=I91CONL&#038;CMP=OTC-Consumeristlinks\">a preliminary video<\/a> to show them off and weigh the pros and cons of being an early 3D TV adopter. Sorry, the video is only in 2D.<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"flashObj\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9\/21495733001?isVid=1&#038;publisherID=1078702682\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=71473730001&#038;playerID=21495733001&#038;domain=embed&#038;\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object>The 3D television models that Consumer Reports is currently testing run around $2500, but are pretty useless if you don&#8217;t also invest in a 3D Blu-Ray player (around $400) and some spare pairs of glasses (about $100 each) for your family members and friends who will inevitably invite themselves over. <\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerreports.org\/cro\/video-hub\/electronics\/televisions\/first-tests-of-3d-tvs\/16935238001\/71473730001\/?EXTKEY=I91CONL&#038;CMP=OTC-Consumeristlinks\">First Tests of 3D TVs<\/a> [Consumer Reports]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We might have all of the cat pictures here at Consumerist, but our sibling publication, Consumer Reports, gets to play with very cool toys. Right now, the folks in the TV-testing lab have some of the exciting new 3D televisions from Panasonic and Samsung, and they made a preliminary video to show them off and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2758,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Twj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}