3D TV does not score - Hifi

Is 3D television knockout? In the battle for 3D (programs) to make the standard has to address the media again. An important goal against The American ESPN, the biggest sports station in the country and one of the first parties to get the ball from the three-dimensional supply really rolling now throw the towel in the ring.

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We recently reported that all the English BBC stops offering 3D programs, broadcasts because too little range. Wimbledon next month will however, continue to be admired in three dimensions, but only the semi-finals and finals, and in the Netherlands only by satellite. However, additional satellite capacity leased by the BBC to make. Broadcasts in 3D for other countries available Tennis fans with a dish on the roof but without subscription with a service provider, also with their noses in the field, for the quarter and semi-finals of the men’s semifinals of the women and the finals of both, by Wimbledon become a partner in Sony HD 3D shot.

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All seems the grass of Wimbledon in 3D very strongly on the clay of Roland Garros

Ironically, it is precisely the lack of one of the hurdles that the advance of 3D content but not taken will not have adequate range of programs = not enough viewers = not enough new program offerings. While TV sets increasingly (default) equipped with 3D capabilities or at least 3D-ready delivered, and also a Hollywood heavy hitter in terms of glasses requiring output – with just about all the big titles this summer ( Star Trek Into Darkness, Man of Steel, Pacific Rim, The Wolverine, World War Z, Monsters University , …) in additional free third dimension. Though the latter is usually optional, his films often in ‘normal’ 2D to see, and let the box office figures of impressions-with-glasses compared to previous years show no growth.

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‘burden’ to 3D also get into the living room and keep, will thus be more on the shoulders of the film industry to lie. In terms of sales of 3D Blu-rays are the prospects for the enthusiast than a lot better. Netherlands in 6500 were only 3D movies sold in 2009 to the blue disc, was that in 2012 (over 170,000 in 2011) had risen to 350,000, calculated as the Consumers’ Association last fall.

Back to the TV schedule in 3D. Gizmodo ESPN has announced at the end of 2013 no content offering, which once again indicates that the planned revolution has not yet come. Reasons are in great line the same as those of the BBC, after tests include have to conclude that it “is not present yet (to it) is. The Olympic Games in London own

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ESPN 3D is the largest source of three-dimensional content for 3D television at home, know Gizmodo. Sport was the largest test case, started in 2010 in the wake of James Cameron’s Avatar , and without the restart of content production, this blow just turn out to be for the defense of 3D on TV. Recent “ If you can not get people excited about 3D action-packed sports, you can forget about getting them excited about 3D anything else .” To which we can add yourself: “That damn glasses always … ‘. Al does not embrace as the emergence of 3D without glasses provides a solution for this.

ESPN from the concept again

The new UltraHD horizon. Broadcasters and producers are busy with 4K broadcasts, and is expected to be the World Cup in Brazil next year summer UltraHD event where manufacturers of televisions with their recent and upcoming innovations (as also shown at the Consumer Electronics Show last January) go work. Sharper rather blurred, and without glasses, it would be quite able to work again … Provided that the stadiums are ready on time.

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