In India there was TV company called Niki/Tasha. In the late 80's they made and marketted a "3D" tv. I believe this should have been based on this technology. It did not take off and that company is no where to be found on the Net. If some one knows more about this I would be happy to hear.
The name might sound strange for an Indian company, but I believe this was headed by a woman who named it after her two daughters.
Thanks

Ash

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Ash

Ash,

Finally someone knows about this tv. Most (I can say ALL) of my present friends never hear this name.  We were one of the first buyers of Niki-Tasha 3D in Hyderabad and our first color tv. I was in 1^st or 2^nd standard at that time.

About Niki-Tasha 3D:

It looks like regular projection color tv of 80’s with a 3D button on the right bottom. When the 3D mode is turned ON entire picture colors changes to light red & blue (mostly red)  and with bit overlapping images (overlapping  is sth ||er to removing glass in 3D movie hall). Niki-Tasha provides 4 free glass per TV. We bought 2 more glass each for Rs 100 J. Glass use to look weird, one glass is red and other one is blue.

 

Its says 3D, but we never used its 3D mode, as we did not had any tv programs transmitted. We kids used to change it to 3D mode while watching spideman cartoon and it never worked.

We used the tv for quite some time before upgrading it. It was a great feeling to have an new technology in living room.

 

KCR

Hi KcReddy,

 I'd love to have my hands on one of these sets just as a collectors item.

What you describe is obviously anaglyph 3d, and im sure nikitasha was just doing a field delay to simulates a 3d image via pulfrich phenomenon.

Still it may have worked as a gimmick on indian movies with large camera panning in the song and dance routines :-) and even on sports programmes (lots of lateral motion)

Will try and do an ebay search for one of these ,.

Cheers!

 

As far as I can tell, the patent referenced above does not describe "a process that used "flicker" information to encode 3D information onto an ordinary TV image" that does not "require any special glasses nor adapters" and that "anyone with an old TV can see." Anyone know what Stephen is talking about? If it doesn't need glasses then it isn't the pulfrich effect.

I don't see how they can cause a flicker to make something look 3D.  Especially since older TV's fickered at 60hz.

Now I'd like to see how they worked around that refresh rate.