Bad In-store experiences are hurting 3D TV sales
It was an otherwise innocuous press release: Display Search noted “3D TV Not Growing as Fast as TV Makers Expected in 2010,” the company slightly cutting shipments projections from 3.4 million units in the U.S. this year to 3.2 million units. Not a shock; initial forecasts of a new technology often are overly optimistic, backers hoping to project an image of success to spur consumer interest and demand. Once the realities of the marketplace and the current recessed economy took their toll, a quiet (shhhh!) adjustment of said numbers out of the public eye shouldn’t appear too damning.
Except, as is often the case, there’s more to these lower-than-expected uptake numbers than meets the eye. If 3D HDTV fails to catch on, the manufacturers - specifically the retail merchandising managers and trainers, along with the retailers themselves - will have a lot to answer for, at least if my recent 3D mystery shopper trip last week is typical.
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University of Digital Technology to Spread its 3D Wings
Blu-ray, 3D and international Internet publishing are all in the curriculum at a new school, the University of Digital Technology.
With classes available online or at the school’s state-of-the-art facilities in Spokane, students seeking a real-life, working environment in the changing digital world where Blu-ray discs, 3D for games and films as well as related news publishing and marketing.
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Broadcasting virtual reality surgical operations via internet to 3DTV
So you thought 3D TV was only for watching football? New research from the University of Melbourne has used 3D technology to broadcast virtual reality surgical operations via 3DTV.
The technology will enable future surgeons to experience their teachers’ surgical expertise first-hand from the classroom or their own homes through 3D televisions.
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Disney 3D, IMAX schedule for 2011
Disney announced seven upcoming 3D and/or IMAX releases for 2011 today from Walt Disney Studios, Pixar Animation, Touchstone, and DreamWorks Pictures today.
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Monkey King: Classic Chinese tale to get 3-D film treatment
Production has kicked off on a stereoscopic 3-D version of one of the biggest-ever Chinese language adventure tales as local filmmakers hope to match the gigantic success of "Avatar."
The film, "Monkey King," is based on the classic Chinese novel "The Journey to the West," which tells the story of a Buddhist monk's pilgrimage to India to collect religious texts.
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Vince Pace: Serious concerns about 3D
The industry’s leading 3D stereographer and camera designer/builder, Vince Pace, says he has “serious concerns” about how quickly 3D is being applied to movies and TV shows without the proper amount of research and understanding.
“We’re selling that to the public and it won’t work,” the CEO of Pace HD told hundreds of industry filmmakers in attendance at the latest day-long 3D University program of the International 3D Society, this one in partnership with the Producer’s Guild of America held at the Zanuck Theater on the lot of 20th Century Fox Studios on Saturday, Dec. 4.
Read the full story, with video excerpts of the conference, here: http://hollywoodinhidef.com/2010/12/pace-serious-concerns-about-3d/
ESPN 3D NBA Schedule
| Date | Time (ET) | Teams |
| Fri, Dec 17 | 7 p.m. | Miami at New York |
| Sat, Dec 25 | 12 p.m. | Chicago at New York |
| Wed, Jan 5 | 10:30 p.m. | L.A. Lakers at Phoenix |
| Fri, Jan 7 | 10:30 p.m. | New York at Phoenix |
| Fri, Jan 14 | 10:30 p.m. | Portland at Phoenix |
| Fri, Jan 21 | 10:30 p.m. | L.A. Lakers at Denver |
| Fri, Feb 11 | 8 p.m. | L.A. Lakers at New York |
| Fri, Feb 25 | 8 p.m. | Oklahoma City at Orlando |
| Fri, March 4 | 7 p.m. | Chicago at Orlando |
| Wed, March 16 | 8 p.m. | Oklahoma City at Miami |
| Fri, April 1 | 8 p.m. | Boston at Atlanta |
| TBD | TBD | NBA Playoffs (First Round) |
| TBD | TBD | NBA Playoffs (First Round) |
| TBD | TBD | NBA Playoffs (Conference Semifinals) |
| TBD | TBD | Western Conference Finals |
| TBD | TBD | Western Conference Finals |
| TBD | TBD | Western Conference Finals |
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Toshiba mobile autostereo 3D display gives side views when tilted
At the 3D Expo 2010, Toshiba Mobile Display exhibited the prototype Hands On 3D Display System.This system, which is currently being developed, expands the 3D viewing range of naked-eye 3D displays, by using visual field tracking technology. The prototype enables users to experience the extent of the 3D viewing range, by tilting a handheld 3D display. It also enables all-round 3D images to be displayed, depending ...
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A review of the 3D in Narnia
This website is dedicated to reviewing the 3D aspects of 3D content. You decide if both the criteria and their ratings for Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader are reasonable and sound.
Uncharted 3 (3D Game) to be previewed on Late Night
Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, due in 2011, takes Drake and wry partner Sully into the middle of the Arabian Peninsula searching for a lost city somewhere within the Rub' al Khali Desert.
The first live gameplay demo is going to be in the hands of Late Night host Jimmy Fallon. According to Fallon's Twitter, the developers will be on the show December 13th and show off what they have been working on (only in 2D however).
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