Tag Archives: 3D
Google TV and 3D TV
The pre-CES announcements are coming thick and fast, and particularly interesting are the announcements around Google TV. Google are announcing that they have engaged with multiple parties in the delivery of Google TV integrated into TV sets, particularly LG and Samsung. Samsung was understood to be getting involved already last year, so they are not [...]
Desire for 3D
… and the 3D silliness continues. 3DTV marketing ramped up significantly this year, though the vendor sales pitches continue to fall on deaf ears for a number of reasons. Despite the hype, data suggests people generally find the technology expensive, 3D content limited, and the glasses annoying. 3DTV set sales haven’t taken off, and they [...]
Memories of IBC2011
It has been over two weeks since my heady five days at the RAI in Amsterdam, the first without construction work for the first time in quite a few years. As always there was an awful lot of catching up with friends and ex-colleagues, but there was a serious amount of tech fun to see [...]
CES sinks in
It has been some weeks since CES closed and we can now see what the big push of CES has been. No big surprises but it was Tablets and 3D. Now 3D was a big drive from last year as well and it has made regular appearances at other conferences and exhibitions focused at the [...]
3D a no no… also non, nein, and nee
Looks like the latest killer feature that TV manufacturers’ want us to get into is not a big smash. Brits say ‘no, no, no’ to 3D TV • reghardware. I would agree, this is simply not a big enough improvement to warrant a new investment when most people in these countries made their purchase decisions [...]
HD Penetration, what about 3D!
This article offers a very interesting view of the US market, one which is arguably more mature than many in Western Europe. Research: HD owned by many, watched by few | Advanced Television. This can only be a worse picture in the UK and other European countries. But what about 3D? The market penetration challenge [...]
IBC2010 is at an end
There… it is finished, and by many accounts it has been a very successful one for the industry, although I would like to see the gross receipts from business done before I would crown it. It was a business-like IBC, with no real wow ‘almost products’, but an awful lot of ready to ship technology [...]
Anga Cable 2010
I found myself with a spare day in the week due to an interesting approach to public holidays by the Netherlands. With this I decided to take a day trip over to Cologne to take in a show that previously I had always found myself unable to attend – Anga 2010. This show is organised [...]
Sky 3D
Now that Sky have announced the launch of their 3D channel in April and touted the super secret Pub shows this weekend, I might be changing my mind a little. It will be a feature of every TV in two years but will be barely used and event driven. Definitely not something that will justify [...]
CES and All New Things
As I sit here (not at CES and not having been there), it seems that all the news coming out of CES is talking about 3D TV, eBooks and tablet computers. I find the industry preoccupation with 3D rather disappointing, and most of my industry technical colleagues are similarly underwhelmed, notably because even as being [...]