Samsung 3D Starter Kit, Model SSGP2100T

Samsung’s new 3D Active Glasses are the gateway to Samsung 3D entertainment. Impressive both in how they function and in what they allow you to experience, the technology works as follows: When you put them on and look at the screen, the technology first blocks the left and then the right lens. It happens faster than the blink of an eye – so your eye won’t notice it. But when images are shown to each eye separately this “staggered” effect achieves far more lifelike 3D images.

2 Pairs of Samsung 3D Active Shutter Glasses - SSG2100AB

Communicating wirelessly with your 3D-capable Samsung HDTV, SSG-2100AB Active Shutter glasses lighten and darken their liquid-crystal lenses hundreds of times per second in perfect coordination with the 3D content showing on the HDTV screen, allowing you to experience an incredibly vivid, lifelike, and of course, three-dimensional movie night at home. Compatible with all 3D-capable Samsung HDTVs, Blu-ray players, and HTIBs, the battery-powered SSG-2100AB glasses are sized to fit most adults.

Let 3D Go To Your Head

Okay, so you've got the new 3D HDTV, and the 3D Blu-ray Disc player, and a new 3D Blu-ray movie. So, you're ready to plop down on the couch and enjoy some three-dimensional viewing right in the comfort of your own living room, right? Well, almost. While 3D-capable HDTVs, Blu-ray players, and Blu-ray movies are all necessary for bringing the 3D experience home, there's still one more piece to the puzzle — 3D glasses. You see, in order to create a three-dimensional visual effect, 3D HDTVs must work in concert with a pair of active shutter glasses (details on how all this works below). Because the SSG-2200AR 3D Active Shutter glasses communicate wirelessly with the 3D emitter built into all 3D-capable Samsung HDTVs, all you have to do is don a pair of these groovy shades, nestle into a comfy spot, press PLAY, and brace yourself for a truly immersive home theater experience.

Three Cheers For 3D

Samsung's 3D technology uses the same principles upon which human sight is based to achieve a 3D effect in the home theater. By themselves, each human eye sees only two dimensions. However, because our eyes are set slightly apart, each sees an object or scene from a slightly different angle. And when the brain processes the images seen by each eye into a single image, we are able to perceive depth in what we are seeing. Add depth to the height and width (2D) seen by each single eye, and ta-da: 3D! For its part, a Samsung 3D HDTV actually shows two different versions of a movie on the screen at the same time (alternating frames from each at extremely high speeds). What makes the two versions different is that they were filmed from slightly different angles. Now, 3D Active Glasses communicate wirelessly with the 3D HDTV. Using special liquid-crystal lenses, the 3D glasses alternately block out the left or right lens in coordination with the frames flashing on-screen. Accordingly, the right eye sees only the "version" of the movie intended for the right eye, and the left eye only sees its version. Just as with normal human sight, the brain combines the two versions into one, and voilà, you see 3D. Three cheers!

• Power: Requires common CR2025 button battery (included with purchase)
• Signal Transmission: 3D emitter built into compatible Samsung 3D HDTVs
• Color: Black
• Quantity: 1 pair
• Size: One size fits all (adults)

Currently Compatible with (as of 06/12/10)

• Samsung LCD HDTV series: C750
• Samsung LED HDTV series: C7000 / C8000 / C9000
• Samsung plasma HDTV series: C7000 / C8000
• Samsung Blu-ray Disc players/HDTBs: BD-C6900 / HT-C6930W
• May support additional future models

Samsung 3D Glasses only work with Samsung 3D TVs.

• 3D Shutter glasses enable viewer's 3D experience
• TV must have a built in 3D Emitter
• Works with New Samsung LED, LCD and Plasma 3D HDTV models.
• DOES NOT WORK WITH SAMSUNG 3D DLP HDTV models.

• 2 pairs of adult-sized battery-type 3D Active Glasses (batteries included)
• The Monsters vs. Aliens 3D Blu-Ray movie