[opendtv] 3-D TV Is Closer Than You Think

  • From: Monty Solomon <monty@xxxxxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 01:07:29 -0400

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3-D TV Is Closer Than You Think
Penelope Patsuris, 05.05.04, 8:00 AM ET

NEW YORK - While we're busy comparison shopping for flat-screen TVs 
and upgrading to high definition broadcasts, the consumer electronics 
industry is readying a whole new television proposition to sell us.

The new "new thing" is three-dimensional television viewing, sans 
glasses. And although it sounds more sci-fi than Circuit City (nyse: 
CC - news - people ), engineers who are working on bringing this 
technology to the masses say it should arrive within the next ten 
years. For the most part, the technology already exists, but with the 
exception of some videogames and scientific and engineering modeling 
programs, the content does not. With the technology ready long before 
the content, it's an evolution that's similar to that of HDTV, and it 
will require equally daunting upgrades to the infrastructure that 
delivers television signals into homes.

Nevertheless, a small New York startup called X3D Technology 
demonstrated a 3-D 50- inch plasma screen at the Consumer Electronics 
Show in Las Vegas in January, and it had a roomful of analysts and 
attendees transfixed. "It was the coolest thing I've ever seen, and 
I've been in technology for 20 years," says Andrew Shulklapper, an 
analyst with DisplaySearch, which is not doing or seeking to do 
business with X3D. X3D is starting out by shopping its screens to 
retailers looking for displays that are literally eye-catching, with 
its sights set on 3-D TV down the line.

...

http://www.forbes.com/2004/05/05/cx_pp_05053dtv_ii.html
 
 
 
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