Smatterings of more 3D content are starting to appear on Australia’s major metropolitan pay television service, Foxtel, from a “Despicable” start that should start becoming a lot more “spicable”!
Hot on the heels of Foxtel’s announcement that it was bringing the “Despicable Me” movie in 3D to Foxtel suscribers with a 3DTV comes news of the next piece of 3D content that will eventually make up an entire universe of stuff to see in 3D.
Courtesy of the National Geographic Channel, Foxtel will air NatGeo’s award winning documentary “The Eye 3D” on Tuesday the 22nd of February at 9.30pm, on Foxtel’s 3D Channel (Channel 201), in what Foxtel says is “the first 3D documentary to be screened on Australian television”.
To take part in the 3D extravaganza, you’ll need a Foxtel iQHD set-top box (or iQ2, it’s the same thing), a 3D capable TV, and you’ll need to have subscribed to the HD Sports Package – even though NatGeo’s new 3D documentary has about as much to do with sports as Foxtel has to do with contributing to NASA’s future mission to Mars.
However, that’s the way those whacky subscription TV packages go – if you want to see a 3D documentary about space and telescopes, you’ll need an HD Sports Package.
So, what exactly is The Eye 3D going to be about?
Well, Foxtel explains that The Eye 3D, (which has nothing to do with cyclonic eyes), instead focuses on “the most powerful optical telescope in the world: the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), situated on the summit of Cerro Paranal in Chile’s Atacama Desert.”
We’ll learn that the VLT is the “sharpest eye of humankind”, and that it even “outperforms even the Hubble Space Telescope in some wavelengths. One of the most fascinating scientific instruments ever built, it has found its home in one of the most exciting yet arid places in the world.”
To view the program, you’ll need to tune into the Foxtel 3D Channel and set the mode on your 3D capable TV to “Side-by-Side” 3D mode and use the 3D glasses supplied with your 3D TV.
Original post here: http://www.itwire.com/your-it-news/entertainment/44868-foxtel-giving-users-the-eye-in-3d