3D TV dominates IFA electronics show

Panasonic 3D televisions on show at IFA. Photograph: Rainer Jensen/EPA 3D television has dominated the early agenda at IFA, Europe’s largest consumer electronics show, with Panasonic and Sony both announcing flurries of new products and initiatives. Panasonic showed off what it claimed was the first genuine 3D consumer video camera, the HDC-SDT750. This will allow [...]

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Philips Dimenco glasses-less 3D TV of the future, hopefully our future

The problem with the future is that it’s always 3 to 5 years away. Nevertheless, what you’re looking at is what Philips and Dimenco, a small company of ex-Philips engineers, say will be coming to the consumer television market as early as 2013 — earlier if you’re in the professional advertising business or just want [...]

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Sony Introduces Exciting New 3D Laptop!!

Sony Introduces Exciting New 3D Laptop!! BERLIN–In 2011, Sony plans to join the small set of companies that offers laptops that can display 3D video and games at 1080p resolution. The company showed off prototypes of a forthcoming Vaio laptop at the IFA electronics show here Wednesday, models that come with a “3D” button and [...]

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LG to show 31in OLED 3D TV at IFA

LG will be showing off a 31in ultra-slim OLED TV at the IFA show in Berlin later this week. The 2.9mm-thick set is capable of displaying 3D content, though LG hasn’t said whether the screen requires activer-shutter or passive 3D specs – the former, we suspect. The set’s resolution has not been made public, which [...]

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Samsung: Glasses-free 3D TV Not Ready Yet

Televisions that allow users to view 3D TV without glasses are not yet ready for prime time, a Samsung executive said on Tuesday. Samsung earlier this year said that the company is looking into the development of glasses-free 3D TVs. Its rivals, such as Toshiba, are doing the same, expecting to release the TVs in [...]

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3D TV system lets user touch the images

A team at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) says its i3Space system uses cameras and haptic technologies to give the users the illusion of being able to stretch, squash and move the 3D images. In one example, a user grasps an image of the Earth and stretches it out into [...]

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Samsung Claims 3D Victory—Has 88% of US 3D TV Sales

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No-Glasses 3D TVs Coming This Year?

If you were saving the several million dollars needed to purchase a 3D television, and you finally picked one up, boy do I have bad news for you: According to a Japanese publication, Toshiba is set to release three different 3D TVs that don’t require glasses. The sets will be available by the end of [...]

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3D TV system lets user touch the images

A team at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) says itsi3Space system uses cameras and haptic technologies to give the users the illusion of being able to stretch, squash and move the 3D images. In one example, a user grasps an image of the Earth and stretches it out into an oval [...]

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he BBC Is Going To Wait This 3D TV Thing Out For Just A Little Bit Longer

The Beeb: not a fan of 3D TV. Well, not a fan of the confusion surrounding its deployment. The BBC, in a recent interview, said that it’s not sure which direction 3D TV is heading, so it cannot commit to anything, much less a full deployment, any time soon.

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