Cost of Samsung 3D Glasses Falls Already

After launching at over £100 a pair, the price of Samsung's 3D glasses has already fallen by nearly half.

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They're not our favourites, as we find that those arms grip a little too tightly on the side of our delicate heads, but at least they're not the most expensive!

These glasses come with batteries, but other models, that you can recharge using the USB port on the computer or the TV itself will soon be available.

Cynics might well attribute the falling prices to an attempt to get rid of these early models before the new ones arrive, and that was our first reaction too.  However, that's not the case: Samsung has reported sales figures for its 3D TVs, which it only launched very recently, that are already way ahead of its own predictions.  Customers have so far snapped up an average of three pairs of glasses per TV, so it's clear that they're becoming much more widely available, which is definitely something we welcome.

What about the TVs?

3D glasses are one thing, of course, but they're nothing without a 3D TV to watch things on.  We tested the 46C7700, but the first range to actually go on sale seems to be the C750, which is identical down to the backlighting.  The C750 TVs use CCFL neon tubes, rather than white LEDs around the outside like on the C7700.  That has an impact on the thickness of the two displays, with the C750 measuring 8 cm front to back compared to the C7700's 2.6 cm.

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