That’s the question being asked by io9.com. Director James Cameron has promised us that Avatar represents a huge technological advancement, a blending of real-world performances and imagination that will transport us to the foreign world of Pandora in an immersive, visceral way. But developers of medical technologies are looking to achieve the same sort of […] More
The UK’s Guardian has a story on how 3-D is improving the financial lives of movie theaters in the UK with record revenues in 2009. You can read more at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/dec/11/uk-cinemas-enjoy-3d-boomtime More
Insight Media’s report “Stereoscopic 3D Gaming Report,” syas that researchers concluded that the install base of 3D-ready televisions will rise to “over 40 million” by 2014. The report says a lot of this growth will be driven by video games. More
The Los Gatos Observer has a piece on the HDi, Ltd. 2-D/3-D TV which will be released next year and which Steve Wozniak called, “the best demonstration of 3-D technology I have ever seen.” There’s more at: http://www.losgatosobserver.com/2009/12/09/los_gatos_HDi_introduces_3D_tv More
MakeUseOf.com has a nice little primer on the difference between MP3 and MP4. You can read it here: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/technology-explained-what-is-the-difference-between-mp3-mp4/ More
The first question is… do you care? The second is how are they going to do it? The Dallas Morning News has a piece on the first ever public demonstration of HDlogix real time conversion of 2-D HDTV video into 3-D, to be followed by the first live 3D broadcast on Cowboys Stadium’s giant Mitsubishi […] More
Wired has a nice piece on the impact of coaxial cable at: http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/12/1208coaxial-cable-patent More
Fierce IPTV reports that Ruckus Wireless, the technology vendor whose name has become fairly synonymous with the IPTV-over-WiFi home network wiring model, has won European and U.S. patent recognition for a multicast-to-unicast transmission conversion concept that is key to successful IPTV distribution in the home. Read more at: http://www.fierceiptv.com/story/ruckus-patents-video-conversion-scheme/2009-12-07#ixzz0Z3H4vvVJ More
Eastman Kodak Co. said yesterday that it is selling off its organic light-emitting diode business to LG Electronics, a South Korean television and mobile phone giant. There’s more on this story from Rochester, NY’s Democrat and Chronical website at: http://rocnow.com/article/business/200991204006 More
We’ve learned from NABET-CWA Local 11, the union that represents NBC’s producers, writers and technicians, that they have vowed to “pull the plug” on the network’s “Christmas in Rockefeller Center” telecast which includes the lighting of the famous Rockefeller Christmas tree and dozens of celebrities tomorrow, because management has failed to bargain fairly with them. […] More
oled-display.info has a report on Richard Hart from KGO Television seeing HDI Ltd’s., demonstration of their laser-driven 3D TV technology and stated, Take it from me, weve seen RealD, Dolby, Film, all kinds of 3D and this is the smoothest yet. Here’s the report (video): http://www.oled-display.info/hdi-3d-lasertelevision More
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