Shanghai citizens are lucky to be the first Chinese people to watch 3D TV programs. The 1st of May is the day, when Shanghai TV company “Wenguan” is opening the first digital channel, which will open to the spectators the higher reality of sensation.

As the company workers said the new channel’s principal topics are documentary films about nature and animal world, entertaining news, like celebrity life, and sport events.

All these programs are developed using special technique, and for obtaining stereo effect the subscribers will need to use special glasses.

Editor’s Note:
Glasses needed…but let’s face it.  We won’t have 3D televisions in houses until we have quality 3D TV programming.  Let’s see how quick it develops in China now that they have their own 3D TV channel.

The perfect presence effect

During the translation one can see small defects like translucency of hands, image bouncing and defocusing. The holographic television is coming from fantastic into real life.  The future will hold the answer of “how long will it take?”

FogScreens technology allows creating an image in air with the help of liquid drops. It was developed by scientists from Santa-Barbara University. They invented the new variant of 3D image creating with no use of stereoscopic glasses. 3D images, created by special devices, will just hang in air and one can easily walk it around and take a look from different sides even walk through it. The scientists used already known FogScreens technology, by means of which 2D images are created in the air on the thin layer of liquid drops.

Applying 2 devices – FogScreens and projector, which run the motion of 2D images, 2 flat pictures, transforming into 3D, can be obtained.

3D Cartoon

So far the size of displayed object is just 1 sm due to small angle of 3D view – 2 degrees. During the further 3 years the scientists are about to enlarge the size of 3D image up to 4 sm.

Check it out – they had it then…it’s 2008, “I want my 3DTV”!!!!!

http://www.physorg.com/news8113.html

Check out this quote from the Texas Instruments DLP 3D TV site:

Turn on your new 3-D DLP® HDTV, slide on your active 3-D glasses, and watch the images jump off the high definition screen and into your home theatre. The extreme speed of the DLP® chip, combined with 3-D technology, makes it all possible.

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Again, I can’t stress enough how the glasses are going to HAVE TO GO AWAY for these TVs to proliferate into the home. However, those who have a home theatre setup with the full surround sound may dig into the early “3D glasses” model.

Anyways, DLP is a fantastic technology and will probably be at the forefront of this consumer 3D technology. We’ll keep an eye on it. At least their website is dope and gives us hope it will arrive sooner than later – check it out:

http://www.dlp.com/hdtv/3-d_dlp_hdtv.aspx

I entered a conference room in Manhattan and a woman on the TV tossed a handful of rose petals out of the screen, where they floated in the air before my eyes.

At least, that’s what I saw. In truth, the image resided on a perfectly flat, 42-inch LCD screen. But the 3-D illusion was fully believable, and I didn’t have to wear a dorky set of polarizing glasses.

A new line of 3-D televisions by Philips uses the familiar trick of sending slightly different images to the left and right eyes — mimicking our stereoscopic view of the real world. But where old-fashioned 3-D movies rely on the special glasses to block images meant for the other eye, Philips’ WOWvx technology places tiny lenses over each of the millions of red, green and blue sub pixels that make up an LCD or plasma screen. The lenses cause each sub pixel to project light at one of nine angles fanning out in front of the display.

A processor in the TV generates nine slightly different views corresponding to the different angles. From almost any location, a viewer catches a different image in each eye.

Read more here:

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/08/71627

“We’ve been talking with movie companies, and they are all talking about producing more movies in 3D,” Bennett said. “When VCRs and DVD players came out, the question was always about content. The same thing is happening here.”

There you have it folks, 3D Television is turning into the next gold rush. BUT — without content it really is meaningless. I truly believe you’ll see more 3D content coming through the web as soon as a technology is available to produce 3D movies on your computer. Of course, the 3D production isn’t that difficult, but the 3D transmission is. Are there any standards/codecs for sending 3D video through the internet?

Read more about the Spectron IQ 3D TV and 3D movies here:

http://www.sbsun.com/living/ci_8708881

Samsung Unveils World’s 1st 3D Plasma TV
Samsung Electronics has commercialized 3D PDP TVs, a world first, in partnership with Electronic Arts (EA), the world’s largest game contents provider.

Samsung said the move reflects its ambitious strategy to take the lead in the 3D contents market as more and more consumers seek easy-to-use 3D home entertainment.

The 50-inch “PAVV Cannes 450’’ model is featured with the industry’s highest 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio and can easily revive a deep black color thanks to the cutting-edge cell light control technology, according to the company.

“Users could see the latest generation of Hollywood 3D movies by wearing a designated eyewear and play 3D games by just connecting 3D-only software to PCs,’’ a Samsung spokesperson said on Thursday.

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2008/02/123_19800.html