Sony has unveiled a new 3D visor aimed at video gamers and film fans. The Sony HMZ Viewer is a personal 3D viewer that is worn on the users head, delivering the ‘immersive experience of a home cinema’. The visor comes complete with all-in-one goggles and earphones and Sony believes it provides the same experience […]
The BBC is considering plans to broadcast the 100 metres final of the London Olympics in 3D, as well as trying out a new technology that delivers picture quality said to be 16 times better than HDTV. Roger Mosey, the BBC executive in charge of the corporation’s London 2012 coverage, told reporters at the Edinburgh […]
Satellite broadcaster SES Astra is to demo iPONT’s glasses-free 3DTV system at IBC in Amsterdam. The object is to show delegates how close the industry is to ‘glasses free’ autostereoscopic 3D for broadcasting. The demonstration aims to prove that without-glasses 3DTV technologies have reached a level of maturity and quality acceptable to the consumer market. […]
Shipments of 3D-capable large-area TFT LCD panels increased to 5.2 million units in Q2, growing by 124 per cent Quarter v Quarter. Shipments of 3D panels were primarily for LCD TVs, reaching 4.9 million units in Q2 2-11, 118 per cent Q/Q growth, and pushing the 3D penetration in LCD TV panels from 4.5 per […]
KIT Digital, Celvision Technologies, a Chinese leader in 2D to 3D conversion services, and imcube labs, a global leader in 2D to 3D conversion software technology, have announced the three companies are teaming up to co-develop an end-to-end solution that joins content services and platform technology to enable any media company, device manufacturer, network operator […]
Sky Italia is launching an ad-hoc 3D channel on September 6, with movies, entertainment and sports featuring heavily. The hope is that the channel will become a driving force for sales of 3D TV devices, which are still rare in Italy. Subscribers equipped with an HD set-top box and special glasses, will be able to […]
3DTVs account for one in every five TVs sold, says Currys and PC World. According to the largest UK consumer electronics retailer, sales of 3DTVs have risen significantly over the past quarter and are 500 per cent up on three months ago. “Interest around 3D TV technology has massively increased over the last quarter and […]
US consumers who expect to buy a 3DTV during the next year plan to spend 56 per cent more than those buying a regular HDTV, according to the latest research from the Strategy Analytics Connected Home Devices service. The report – 3DTVs: Buying Intentions and Early Adopter Feedback – finds that the average expected price […]
The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) has launched development of a 3D broadcast TV standard that will provide methods for transmission of 3DTV content to both fixed and mobile devices, the standards development organisation has confirmed. “The addition of 3DTV over-the-air TV broadcast transmission is part of our ongoing effort to expand the capabilities of […]
Turner Broadcasting will launch a high definition simulcast of Cartoon Network on Sky. Cartoon Network HD is set to go live on 14th September and is the first HD channel in the UK from the broadcaster behind leading commercial kids’ brands Cartoon Network, Boomerang, Cartoonito and CN Too. Cartoon Network HD launches in the run […]