Avatar disc release date notifications have been rather murky and nebulous, to say the least, but James Cameron revealed that a standard DVD/Blu-ray has been slated for release on April 22nd, and a special edition DVD and Blu-ray 3D version coming in November. We’re still waiting for 3D-capable TV displays.
HDMI Licensing, LLC announced a few moments ago that the three-dimensional portion of HDMI 1.4 specifications is now available for public download at the official HDMI site. With HDMI specs for 3D already out, we may see 3DTVs come to market even sooner than we may think.
All the discussion and demoing at this year’s CES over three-dimensional viewing technology is finally manifest in the form of the Samsung BD-C6900 3D Blu-ray player, which just popped up for preorder on Amazon today….and unceremoniously dropped off the site a few moments ago.
The largest maker of LCD television displays by volume, Samsung Electronics announced today in a press release that it will be the first company to begin the mass production of panels used for three-dimensional TV displays, in both LED and LCD High-Def formats.
Following the announcement of the first 3D television network coming from ESPN this coming June 2009 (salivate, sports junkies), Discovery, IMAX and Sony are revealing plans for their own joint-venture 3D TV channel, in 2011.
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Broadcom is big into many areas of the electronics industry and many of the consumer electronic products we use each day have Broadcom technology inside. Yesterday Broadcom announced a new 1080p capable media processor for mobile devices. Broadcom is now unveiling a new single-chip Blu-ray solution called the BCM7632.
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3D technology is certainly maturing today and is growing at a very fast rate. We have 3D notebooks on the market now and 3D ready projectors and TVs ready to work when 3D broadcasts are offered. NXP has announced a new 3DTV coprocessor today that will help bring lower cost 3DTVs to market.
3DTV will be a huge market in the coming years. I mentioned a 50-inch Panasonic 3DTV set to hit the market next year last week that will be among the first 3DTVs to land in homes around the world. The Panasonic 3DTV certainly won’t be the last set to hit the living room though.
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