-PJ
Posted on 08/23/2007 1:13:49 PM PDT by Las Vegas Dave
Mitsubishi may launch a Blu-ray player early next year that can convert 2D movies into 3D images.
That's according to an article at CNET.com.
The web site reports that Mitsubishi recently hosted a technology exhibit for the media at the Westchester County Club in New York, the site of this weekend's Barclay PGA Golf Tournament.
During the exhibit, the company handed reporters a pair of 3D goggles and displayed several images on screen that showcased the special effect.
"Most of us were pretty impressed by the demo, which included clips from movies, commercials, and sporting events. There was real depth to the 3D and you got that whole feeling of things poking out at you from the screen," said CNET.
But the surprise of the event was Mitsubishi's disclosure that it was working on the 3D Blu-ray player and it may be ready by early next year.
Philips has stated that it plans to issue a 3D HDTV in the next year or so, a set that would not require 3D goggles to appreciate the effect. But this is the first mention of a set-top that would convert a high-def disc into 3D.
CNET writes that Mitsubishi would not discuss possible pricing for the 3D Blu-ray player, but it said it was discussing integrating the technology into a well-known game console. That would likely to be Sony's PlayStation 3, which now has a Blu-ray player inside.
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Lasvegasdave
Pinging the list.
Wonder if this is a derivative work from the 3D developed for Disney?
I’m holding out for free-air holography. :-)
3-D on a flat screen = meh!
Essentially, the LCD shutter glasses open and close the left and right eye lenses in coordination with flickering the image on the screen between left eye and right eye images. Page flipping (the better method), involves rapidly switching the screen between left eye and right eye images, and interleaving splits the image between even and odd rows on the screen.
Companies like eDimensional (www.edimensional.com) have the glasses and software to convert 2D to 3D. They also have hardware to plug into TVs to do the same.
-PJ
True 3D will come FIRST to porno! Bet on it.
in my day all we had were two channels of black and white tv and the screen was 2 inches wide and it was static half the time and that’s the way it was and we liked it! We loved it!
I’m asking Santa for one of these....
http://www.klegg.com/MediaPCTV2.html
BTW Klegg is based in Las Vegas.
In my day we used to walk 10 miles to school,up hill (each way),in a foot of snow.... ;-)
You must be older than me.The worst I can recall is three channels on a ten inch wide screen.
-PJ
The first time I ever saw TV was about 1946 in Chula Vista, CA and the home of my grandmother. The screen was maybe six inch diagonal, to my young eyes anyway. The program was The Buster Brown Show wherein I got my first experience of Froggy the Magic Gremlin plunking his Magic Twanger.
Bump
We were 'way ahead of you: we had a plastic magnifier lens thingy that, when filled with water and placed in front of the 2 inch tube, made it appear to be 3 inches!!
'-)
PINGING THE HDTV LIST
DIRECTV: 20-40 New HD Channels Likely By Sept. 16
The satcaster should have 70 new HD channels by the end of September.
By Swanni
Washington, D.C. (August 29, 2007) — DIRECTV told TVPredictions.com tonight that it will likely add from 20 to 40 new High-Definition channels by Sunday, September 16.
That date coincides with the 59th Annual Emmy Awards and DIRECTV has scheduled a post-awards party that night in Los Angeles to promote its new high-def lineup.
Asked tonight if the HDTV expansion will have taken place by the Emmy party, Eric Shanks, DIRECTV’s executive vice president of entertainment, said “it will be real close” to that date.
DIRECTV launched a new satellite in July to expand its High-Definition capacity to 100 channels by year’s end. (The satcaster plans to launch another satellite to increase the capacity to 150 HD channels next year.)
In an interview with TVPredictions.com, Shanks said DIRECTV will have added 70 new high-def channels by the end of the third quarter, which ends at the end of September. He said it will have the 100 HDTV channels by year’s end.
Shanks added that DIRECTV will add a minimum of 20 new HD channels on the first day of the expansion.
“It will be more in the 40 range if all goes well,” he said. “It’s still fluid so we can’t say for sure.”
After the first rollout, DIRECTV will add another group of channels soon thereafter and then another group until it reaches the 70 mark by the end of September. The satcaster now has approximately 10 national high-def channels.
In other remarks:
* Shanks said the new high-def channels will retain their current standard definition channel numbers. For instance, CNN HD will be channel 202, the same as the standard-def CNN.
The satcaster’s HD receiver will automatically default to the HD channel when a high-def viewer turns to that channel. However, the standard-def channel will remain and can still be watched by going up or down the dial.
“We don’t want people to have to learn new channel numbers,” Shanks said.
HD DVR owners who have set those standard-def channels to record future programs will have to manually re-set the recording to HD if they want to watch the high-def version of the program.
* The new HDTV channels will be on DIRECTV’s new satellite, launched in July, and will transmit in MPEG4. However, the NFL Sunday Ticket’s lineup of HDTV games will remain on DIRECTV’s current satellites and will transmit in MPEG2.
But Shanks said DIRECTV will not need to drop an existing HDTV channel from the lineup to make room for the high-def games each Sunday, as it did last year.
“We will do some shuffling to make room, but there will be no dropping of HD channels like last year,” he said.
* DIRECTV’s existing lineup of HDTV channels will remain in the channel 70s and will stay for now on the current satellites, which transmit in MPEG2.
Hey, they just delivered my HDTV today. Got a 64” Mitsubishi DLP. Can’t wait to get this puppy hooked up. Also got the Bose 321 GS II sound system and Magnolia installation. Spending the kids’ inheritance, heh.
My brother-in-law had to be one of the first with a portable phone. The sucker was OD Green and had a huge 12 volt (?) attached to it. It was fascinating...and laughable.
He thought he was hot sh*t, but it reminded me of carrying a PRC-77 (15 volt) back in my Army days.
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