Over the last few months we’ve being running a survey to find out what you prefer in the battle between Active 3D and Passive 3D. The votes have all been counted (more than 300 of them!) and the results are here, who won in our battle between active and passive 3D?
To be honest it had been extremely close all the way along until the last month but I would say that for certainly the first 6 weeks Active 3D had the edge. However this hasn’t lasted and the final result shows passive 3D with 49% of the votes (149), active 3D with 35% (106) and people who couldn’t see any difference accounting for the other 16% (48).
Why Do People Prefer Passive 3D?
I’m going to offer up a guess here and say that I think LG’s latest range of passive Cinema 3D TVs may have something to do with it. In terms of family friendly easy of use, not to mention coming with so many glasses these sets have been a god send to the family wanting 3D TV for their home. Obviously you can’t sniff at their 3D performance either, they are my current favourite 3D TV in terms of the 3D delivered to the viewer.
I also believe that lately people have started to turn away from Active 3D and not just because of the quality of passive. Samsung and LG have been hit hard this year with complaints about active 3D glasses. The most common complaints have been about syncing issues (where the glasses dip out of 3D for a moment) and jumping brightness levels. I still own an LG PX990 and of the 4 sets of 3D glasses I have 1 is prone to the syncing problem if not 100% fully charged. These glasses are still massively expensive (even at under £60) so it’s no wonder people are unhappy, especially if they are buying muliple pairs.
So there you have it, Passive 3D wins the day in our survey. What do you think though, do you agree that passive 3D is better? Do you have an opinion on why I think passive came out on top?
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