Glasses-free 3DTV Demonstrated

NewSight Japan demonstrated a new 70-inch glasses-free 3DTV at Japan Finetech last week. The display is said to use “parallax-barrier technology” that renders viewable 3D images without glasses.

C3D World Spring 2010

At the 5th China International 3D World Forum & Exhibition in Shenzhen, China, I presented “3D Decoding and 3D Output Considerations for Set-top Boxes and Blu-ray Players.” Sigma Designs was a sponsor this time, since the turnout was so great when I presented at the Fall 2009 show (~250 attendees each time). Lots of work being done on 3DTV in China.

South Korea’s KT, LGT, SK Broadband Join 3DTV Push

South Korea’s major IPTV service providers plan to ride on the current 3DTV boom by launching 3D services in the latter half of this year, following plans by the terrestrial, cable, and satellite providers to start 3D services on a trial basis.

3DTV Happenings

From today’s Warren Communications News:

3D is ‘a must-have,’ Intel says, predicting the technology ‘will move to immersion’ quickly in CE and PC products.

Global 3DTV shipments to hit 78 million by 2015 from 4.2 million in 2010, iSuppli says.

Cross-industry trials of 3D satellite-transmission to kick off this spring, SES says.

Content Repurposing for Mobile Applications

There’s an interesting article in the Jan/Feb 2010 issue of SMPTE’s Motion Imaging Journal that discusses using dynamic reframing to enable traditional content to be automatically and real-time adopted to the constraints of hand-held devices. It basically identifies regions of interest, then zooms in on these regions.

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