LONDON: Hundreds of thousands of soccer fans are likely to get their first taste of live 3D viewing during this year s World Cup, the vast majority of them in cinemas rather than at home, according to football body FIFA. Together with partner Sony, FIFA plans to supply 25 World Cup matches in the immersive [...]
Emerging with sensory overload from James Cameron’s epic Avatar, the penny finally dropped. 3D entertainment is here to stay. Having been treated to a series of blurry-edged animations over the years as the studios periodically toyed with cinema format, I’d always doubted whether the technology would actually make it into the mainstream. But Cameron’s slick, [...]
No sooner had we convinced ourselves that we could justify the expense of a new 3D enabled TV than LG comes along and announces the introduction of a 15in OLED TV. Not so long ago we all thought that OLED technology was destined to replace LCD and Plasma and in quite a short space of [...]
Verizon will be one of the last major satellite/cable providers to offer a dedicated TV channel for 3D content, with its offering slated for launch sometime during the upcoming holiday season. Cablevision, Cox, Time Warner, and Comcast all have infrastructure in place to have a dedicated 3D channel in place for this week’s Masters golf [...]
Aside from Apple’s new iPad, 3D TV could be the next big thing in consumer electronics. But it’s still early days, and that means consumers might want to wait for the technology to mature before jumping on the bandwagon. There’s no question that 3D TV was the biggest thing going at the Consumer Electronics Show [...]
