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by Michael Grotticelli June 28th, 2011
 Samsung has introduced a 4000 x 2000 pixel resolution 3-D television set (called 4k-by-2k). The number of typical pixels was multiplied by a factor of 100,000. Leading 3-D manufacturers like Sony, Panasonic and Samsung do not seem worried that a lack of enthusiasm for 3-D by North American audiences could cause lasting damage to sales. All three have introduced expensive new, high-end 3-D viewing technology for the home.
Both Sony and Panasonic have introduced new projectors. Sony’s VPL-HW30ES incorporates the latest lamp technology, dynamic lamp control system and a brightness level three times greater than the company’s first 3-D home projector, the VPL-VW90ES. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 3DTV, home theaters, Panasonic, projectors, Samsung, Sony
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by Michael Grotticelli June 27th, 2011
 With its modular components, the Meduza can be set up in minutes, has interchangeable lenses, precise remotely controlled variable interaxial and precise convergence adjustments. The Meduza, a camera that can capture 4K digital stereoscopic 3-D images, has been chosen by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to shoot the final Space Shuttle Launch at Cape Canaveral, FL, in mid-July.
Crews from NASA will use the Meduza camera to shoot the launch in 4K 3-D and high-speed (120fps) 2K. Weighing less than 15lbs, the camera system can support any number of cameras fully synchronized without the use of cabling. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 3D, cameras, Meduza Systems, NASA, Shuttle launch
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by Michael Grotticelli June 27th, 2011
 Crews are using five 3-D camera rigs from Element Technica with Sony HD cameras mounted in different configurations. This year’s 2011 Wimbledon Championships tennis tournament finals matches are being broadcast live in 3-D by the BBC with support from UK-based production company Can Communicate.
Crews are using five 3-D camera rigs from Element Technica (ET) with Sony MPE-200 HD cameras mounted in different configurations. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 3D, beam splitter, Brainstorm Multimedia, cameras, Championships, Element Technica, estudio, finals, graphics, mirror, rigs, Sony, tennis tournament, Wimbledon
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by Michael Grotticelli June 27th, 2011
From this May to September — the typical summer movie season — American motion picture studios will release 16 movies in the 3-D format. That’s more than double the number last year.
From their financial performance so far, movie executives are running scared.
 While 3-D has provided an enormous boost to films such as “Avatar” and “Alice in Wonderland,” it has undercut lesser quality films that are trying to milk the format for extra dollars. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 3-D, audiences, films, Hollywood, reaction, sales
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by Michael Grotticelli June 6th, 2011
A newly available 3-D app for iOS devices — like Apple’s iPad and iPhone — uses Head-Coupled Perspective (HCP) technology to create an amazing 3-D image without special glasses.
 HCP does not create a true stereoscopic view, but provides a kind of monocular 3-D display whereby the same picture (and resolution) is seen by both eyes. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 3-D applications, Apple, HCP, Head-Coupled Perspective, i3D, iOS, iPad, iPhone
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by Michael Grotticelli June 6th, 2011
3ality Digital, based in Burbank, CA, has entered into a partnership with Red Digital Cinema, makers of the Epic 4K digital cinematography camera, to collaborate on new technology and help educate the industry on the proper techniques of stereoscopic acquisition and post production. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 3Ality Digital, 4K, cameras, digital cinema, education, Epic, production
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by Michael Grotticelli June 6th, 2011
 Panasonic’s AG-3DP1 3-D camcorder was used for the first time in a live broadcast. Eurosport’s live 3-D broadcast was distributed by many of the largest operators across Europe. Sports fans with 3-D-capable TV sets can visit the Eurosport website to know if the 3-D broadcast is available in their country and learn how to access the channel to enjoy the matches in the exceptional immersive experience that 3-D offers. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 3-D, broadband, cameras, French Open, Internet, networks, Orange, Panasonic, technology, Web
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by Michael Grotticelli June 6th, 2011
It began with an article on Boston.com criticizing the digital projection at AMC Loews Boston Common on Tremont Street for its supposed gloomy, underlit images drained of color on eight of the multiplex’s 19 screens. Those just happen to be the same theaters using new Sony’s new 4K 2-D/3-D digital projectors.
 Reduced-quality 3-D images may be the fault of theater projectionists not using the correct lens on the front of Sony’s 4K projectors after screening a 2-D movie. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 3-D, AMC Loews, Boston.com, Digital Projection, movies, resolution, Sony, theaters
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by Michael Grotticelli June 6th, 2011
 Eventually, NHK hopes to solve current 3-D resolution limitations by combining broadcast transmission with broadband streaming. Japan’s NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories has demonstrated a new dual-stream Hybridcast process for transmitting full-resolution (1080p) 3-D video data via terrestrial broadcast and a separate broadband Internet connection to home television sets. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 3-D, broadband, display, dual stream, Hybridcast, Internet, NHK, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, Science & Technology Research Laboratories, stereoscopic, streaming, transmission, Web
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by Michael Grotticelli May 23rd, 2011
Veteran production companies Game Creek Video and NEP Supershooters will share the duties in covering the NBA Finals series for ABC Sports and ESPN. Also, as in years past, they’ll both be using a full complement of HD production equipment onboard their production trucks to manage the live 720p HD telecasts and bring the action home to viewers.
 The 3-D convergence area onboard NEP Supershooters’ SS32 truck will be used extensively during the NBA finals on ABC. A new aspect this year will be a live 3-D broadcast of the series (the first ever), carried on the ESPN 3D channel. Due to logistics, some of the games (Games 1,2 6 and 7) will be handled by NEP Supershooters’s SS31 3D-capable truck while Games 3,4, and 5 will utilize SS32. Both have a similar equipment complement to handle the stereoscopic telecasts. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 3-D. HDTV, ABC, audio, Calrec, cameras, Canon, consoles, ESPN, EVS, file formats, Game Creek Video, Grass Valley, intercom, lenses, NEP Supershooters, outside broadcast, Pesa, production companies, rigs, routers, servers, Sony, switchers, Telex
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Michael Grotticelli is writer and editor of Broadcast Engineering’s “Beyond the Headlines” and “Sports Technology Update” e-newsletters. Each week, he provides a fresh perspective on the latest in 3-D technologies and innovations as well as report on real-world applications of 3-D in the broadcast, professional video and film industries.
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