An Israeli fabless semiconductor company is demonstrating high-definition, 3D video transmission over a wireless home digital interface, or WHDI. Amimon Inc. is reported to be demonstrating a prototype wireless system for transmitting 24 fps, HD, 3D, 1080p video over WHDI in the 5 GHz band. Tech-On says the Amimon intends to develop the system into [...]
Approval for DVB 3DTV commercial requirements The DVB has given its approval to the commercial requirements for a 3DTV Frame Compatible Plano-Stereoscopic system, typically deployed as a side-by-side format. The 12-page document available from the DVB website has been directed towards the provision of 3DTV services using the same infrastructure that has already been deployed [...]
Video games will drive the 3D TV market The most significant 3D development occurring just now is the conversion from 2D to 3D in the gaming market. Ubisoft estimates that around 50% of all games will be in the new format by 2012. Murray Pannell, Ubisoft Head of Marketing commented: “The adoption of 3DTV will [...]
Become An ‘Insider’, Win A Panasonic 3DTV! I recently went along to one of these special ‘insider’ events where members of the Soup community (Soup is the team who runs the Panasonic Insider Crew) were invited to experience Panasonic’s top of range 3DTV before it hit the market. Experts from Panasonic as well as industry [...]
Ubisoft predicts general adoption of 3D TV within three years Publisher Ubisoft has predicted that 3D TVs could have a presence in the majority of homes within three years. The Assassin’s Creed gamemaker told Eurogamer the support the technology has garnered from major firms such as Sony and Sky is likely to ensure that 3D [...]
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 [...]
