http://www.techradar.com/news/television/dixons-wishes-for-a-3d-christmas-910968

I'm predicting FAIL

FAIL with knobs on.

FAIL with 6 ensuite bedrooms, a Neo-Georgian frontage, ample parking, easy access to the M4 and excellent views of the Wye Valley.

The image still looked flat but stacked on planes behind each other if that makes sense.

Hardly surprising - Alice was a 3D conversion from 2D which was rushed through. It was heavily criticised for its poor 3D, just like Clash of the TItans was. Stereoscopic images (this is what this current wave of 3D is) can make things look like stacked flat planes - it’s the nature of the beast. If done well, things can look good, but you have to be planning to make a 3D film from the start, and be using decent 3D cameras.

I wondered if that was the case. From what I've seen at the cinema Avatar and Toy Story (to a lesser extend but added a nice depth to the picture) have had the best 3D effects. I'd like to see those on a home setup to compare.

Actually, it wouldn't surprise me if they went and did a few older films (Toy Story 1 and 2, Monsters Inc, Shrek, The Incredibles, etc...) as 3DD versions and released them again.

They will still have the raw data archived somewhere so it shouldn't be too much effort to do (relatively).

People just don't have that kind of money spare at the moment. I was in a shop yesterday looking for a 37" (ish) LED back lit TV with HD Freeview. I took one look at the prices and decided it could wait a few more years. I wasn't even looking at 3D ones. (Not that I'm even interested in 3D ones.)

LED backlighting techniques

RGB dynamic LEDs
This method of backlighting allows dimming to occur in locally specific areas of darkness on the screen. This can show truer blacks, whites and PRs at much higher dynamic contrast ratios, at the cost of less detail in small bright objects on a dark background, such as star fields.

Edge-LEDs
This method of backlighting allows for LED-backlit TVs to become extremely thin. The light is diffused across the screen by a special panel which produces a uniform color range across the screen.

Full Array LEDs
Sharp, and now other brands, also have LED backlighting technology that aligns the LEDs on back of the TV like the RGB Dynamic LED backlight, but it lacks the local dimming of other sets. The main benefit of its LED backlight is simply reduced energy consumption and may not improve quality over non-LED LCD TVs.