Sony and Fifa recently announced plans to record 25 matches of the upcoming World Cup 2010 in 3D. This is yet more fuel for the fire in a sector just waiting to explode onto the consumer-electronics scene – according to a Sony Europe press release last week, market-research company Screen Digest is now forecasting that 13.6 million 3D TV sets will be installed across Europe by 2013.
We’ve been watching developments in the 3D TV sector with bated breath, and now is an exciting time indeed – various manufacturers plan, for example, to release “3D-Ready” TVs in 2010. We’ll bring you more on that when the companies announce further details.
Channel 4's recent 3D broadcasts used the ColorCode system seen here.
Sky will also begin broadcasting a 3D channel at some point in the coming year, which will be available through standard Sky+HD set-top boxes – but will need one of the new 3D-Ready TVs. Channel 4 gave viewers a sneak peek of TV’s next big development by broadcasting a few programmes in 3D this autumn, although these only required 3D glasses, not the 3D-Ready TVs you’ll need for ‘proper’ 3D TV.
What do we mean by proper? It’s way too complicated to explain in a blog, but if you’d like to learn more, we’ve already put together an extensive background article on 3D technology.
3D TV is also generating a lot of interest at consumer-electronics trade fairs, such as the Home Theater Cruise 2009, where Televisions.com’s Editor in Chief, Florian Friedrich, attended a talk by video expert Joe Kane about 3D projection. You can watch Joe Kane’s talk here, as well as reading our supporting article, which fills in some background knowledge.
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