Technology, strong economies, pump attendance
Asian TV companies focused on their technological strengths at December’s Asian Television Forum in Singapore, with many execs pointing to 3D TV as the way forward.
A bevy of booths had 3D screens with glasses on offer, and the event hosted, among other themes, a 3D TV seminar exploring the impact of the technology on home entertainment and how to control piracy in the 3D market.
The Fashion TV channel used the event, themed Above and Beyond, to announce that it is ramping up 3D content.
The network, which has just finished filming the fashion weeks in Milan and Paris in high-def 3D, plans to create more than 40 hours of 3D content a year for its FTV HD channel and video-on-demand service.
“This is the first step ahead of launching a full 3D HD channel” next fall, said Fashion TV founder, prexy and CEO Michel Adam Lisowski.
Based in France, Fashion TV is available in 193 countries.
The Asia-Pacific region has weathered the global slowdown better than any other region — Singapore is expected to register 15% economic growth this year, making it the fastest-growing major economy in the world.
This was reflected in the buoyant atmosphere at the confab, which ran Dec. 8-10.
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