You won’t have to envy Europe and Japan much longer, if you had your heart set on a pricy 55-inch autostereoscopic 3DTV with nearly four times the resolution of existing sets: Toshiba confirmed to Engadget and CNET that just such a television will hit the United States in the first quarter of next year. Details were scarce and Toshiba hasn’t provided a price yet, but if you’re curious what other specifications might be on tap, look no further than Toshiba’s existing Regza 55X3 and 55ZL2, which cost upwards of $10,000 in the aforementioned countries. You can also read our impressions of the Toshiba 55ZL2 when we saw it at IFA in September.
Toshiba confirms 55-inch QFHD glasses-free 3DTV for the US, shipping Q1 2012 for oodles of cash
Toshiba confirmed to Engadget and CNET that a 55-inch glasses-free QFHD 3DTV will go on sale in the United States in the first quarter of next year.
Toshiba confirmed to Engadget and CNET that a 55-inch glasses-free QFHD 3DTV will go on sale in the United States in the first quarter of next year.
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