Displaying items by tag: 3D TV

Sony and LG, among the last bastions of 3D TV, have declared 3D dead as image quality via 4K, Dolby Vision and HDR takes over. Samsung stopped its 3D in 2016.

TV stations worldwide are nixing their 3D plans and Foxtel has joined them, today axing its 'Foxtel 3D' channel.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority is to issue licences to Nine Network Australia, provided certain conditions are met, to conduct trials of 3D TV featuring daily highlights of the 2012 Olympic Games.

The Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society (IBES) and Ericsson have received Global Telecoms Business's 2011 Innovation Award in the remote education category for UniTV, a project that explores the use of an IPTV platform to deliver educational service in a number of fields such as medicine, chemistry and engineering by developing 3D content.

The ACMA has completed its review of trials of 3D TV undertaken in 2010 and says it will consider authorising further short duration trials, but will aim to ensure that consumers are not duped, as happened in the previous trials.

So you thought 3D TV was only for watching football? New research from the University of Melbourne has used 3D technology to broadcast virtual reality surgical operations via 3DTV.

Sony's latest Blu-ray range emphasises 3D, but there's also something for those who bought a hi-def TV without the features that are now commonplace.

Telstra will screen the first Australian cinema commercial in 3D - a version of its current T-hub commercial - during three new 3D movies to be released in Australia tomorrow, 27 May.

Expect Sony to launch its 'lens to lens' 3D offering this coming July

Fox Sports is aiming to make Australian television history with a dedicated live sports broadcast of the Socceroos' last home match before the 2010 FIFA World Cup, all in HD 3D.

Samsung is using the soccer World Cup as an excuse to announce some value-add bundles across its new 3D TV range.  New purchasers can score bundled movies, Blu-ray players and home theatre systems.

See drops of sweat flying directly at your face; hear the bone-crushing impacts and the mouth guards spinning to the back corner behind your sofa.  Yes, the State of Origin will be taking place right in your own living room with all the thrills of 3D television.  This is the hype, will the reality live up to it?

Panasonic has revealed its line-up in what is brewing as the next technology showdown, the home HD 3D television war.  iTWire had a chance to try out some funky eye-ware (not allowed to call them 3D glasses apparently) and check out the latest Neo Plasma and full HD 3D Blu-ray Disc players from Panasonic.

A news report says LG will sell 3D glasses for only AUD $79, making them much cheaper than the reported US $150 Samsung will charge US consumers for 3D glasses, but with no 'standard' for active-shutter 3D glasses, will LG's glasses work properly with other brands?

An initial test of 3D TVs by Consumer Reports, an independent testing organisation in the US, has shown that Panasonic's 3D plasma TV is delivering a better picture than Samsung's LED-backlit LCD 3D TVs, but there's no word yet on Sony's new 3D TV models.