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Sky’s 3D Pub Weekend Goes Over Well

While the US was suffering through a 3D song broadcast at the Grammys that used those piddly red/blue-lensed glasses, News Corp’s BSkyB was kicking off its first true 3D TV broadcast for a match between Manchester United and the Arsenal at a few pubs.

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Panasonic Previews Two 3D Theaters for Olympics

Panasonic this week previewed its 2020 Winter Olympic pavilion, which features two full HD 3D theaters in Vancouver’s Yaletown.

Panasonic describes it as a new era of immersive visual entertainment and promises to make it all available for consumers’ homes. The 3D experience at home, it...

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AT&T ‘Excited’ about 3D for U-verse Pay TV

AT&T is testing 3D TV technologies in its labs, said Peter Hill, VP of video and converged services at AT&T Labs, in an interview with IPTV News. There’s no surprise there, after the overload of 3D demos at CES last month and the fact that AT&T wants to...

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Panasonic Opens Blu-ray 3D Authoring Center

Panasonic is planting another "first" flag. Its Blu-ray 3D advanced authoring center is up and running, handling 3D Blu-ray image processing, interactive content and disc certification. "We are confident that we lead the industry with MPEG-4 MVC (Multiview Video Coding) 3D image compression technology," said Jeannine Patton, VP...

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Glasses-Free 3D Demo Coming to CeBIT

Singapore’s Sunny Ocean Studios aims to put its autostereoscopic (no glasses) 3D competition to bed with a new 27-inch display that offers 64 viewing angles; most glasses-free sets currently being shown offer eight to 10 viewing angles. It’s easy to not be in the right angle here, and...

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