3D DLP rear-projection TVs, how good are they?

Samsung and Mitsubishi are launching rear-projection TVs capable of stereo. These TVs can present images at 120hz and with shutter glasses separate the images in to one 60hz video stream per eye. A quote from the TI whitepaper on the new DLP chip hints that it can maintain full vertical and horizontal resolution in stereoscopic 3D HDTV (1920x1080).

"For a 1080p television set,
this means that two 1080p input streams
are required. Current solutions to this
hurdle are to either cut the horizontal
resolution by half or cut the vertical
resolution by half. Using these solutions
allows for the transmission of two
images using the currently available
bandwidth but sacrifices either the
horizontal or vertical resolution of the
image. The solution created by Texas
Instruments maintains both the vertical
and the horizontal resolution."

From 3-D DLP® HDTV Whitepaper

This is of course not true. Resolution is maintained only by interleaving the video streams, which actually means that half the pixels are removed from each eyes view. Thus the actual resolution per eye is 960*540.

Image from the 3-D DLP® HDTV Whitepaper

This is still pretty impressive technology and it will probably look great in stereo TV. The drawbacks are for gamers. Gamers that play to win will probably not like to play in 960*540 resolution and in only 60hz. It would be a beautiful experience but probably annoying to be killed all the time from the lack of responsiveness in the visualization. Nvidia stereo drivers have to be rewritten to support the technology (not very hard though - but it has to be done).

Lets hope we TI get their act together and produces a chipset that can take input from two HDMI sources such that full HDTV (and not interleaved) can be rendered in 60Hz per eye.

More about the technology at http://www.dlp.com/hdtv/3-d_dlp_hdtv.aspx