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BSkyB To Launch 3D TV Service In 2010

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the and-what-is-it-that-drives-technological-progress? dept.

TheSync writes "The Guardian reports that BSkyB will launch Europe's first 3D TV service in 2010. You will need the Sky+ HD set-top box, and a '3D ready' TV set (glasses-based stereoscopic system such as LCD shutter glasses or polarized glasses). Note that the first 3D TV service was from Nippon BS Broadcasting BS11 for use with Hyundai 3D sets."

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  1. Pfft. by thatkid_2002 · · Score: 5, Funny

    My TV is 3d already. It's kind of a rectangular prism style shape with a curvy CRT screen.

  2. Keep giving the people what they don't want by ZackSchil · · Score: 4, Insightful

    HDTV gave people more detail (something they actually wanted) while at the same time freeing up a great deal of radio bandwidth in the switch to digital.

    No one wants 3D TV, so why is it being developed? Isn't market testing supposed to weed out dumb ideas like this? Hell, 3D barely maintains its status as a novelty in movie theaters, and there it's backed by huge ad campaigns and popular content. It can't even gain traction in the technology-obsessed, immersion-seeking gamer community!

    3D TV makes watching TV more complex and expensive without giving back much of value. The television is too casual a medium to complicate with shutter glasses. Until the free-standing 3D projector is invented, television should remain a 2D affair.

    1. Re:Keep giving the people what they don't want by rschwa · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Hell, 3D barely maintains its status as a novelty in movie theaters,

      actually, 3D is one of the only reasons to bother going to the theater vs. watching it from the comfort of my living room for a tenth the price. Some of the new 3D movies aren't too bad.
       

      3D TV makes watching TV more complex and expensive without giving back much of value. The television is too casual a medium to complicate with shutter glasses. Until the free-standing 3D projector is invented, television should remain a 2D affair.

      I agree with this.