Three NBA Regular-Season Games Added to ESPN 3D Schedule

ESPN 3D has added three NBA telecasts to its eight-game regular season schedule, including a Christmas Day matchup (Dec. 25) featuring the Chicago Bulls and Derrick Rose at the New York Knicks and Stoudemire at 12 p.m.  The Phoenix Suns and two-time league MVP Steve Nash will also host back-to-back ESPN 3D games in January. They will take on the Los Angeles Lakers and Kobe Bryant Wednesday, Jan. 5, and the Knicks Friday, Jan. 7 (both games at 10:30 p.m.).

ESPN 3D NBA Schedule

ESPN 3D’s upcoming telecasts also include the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl on Saturday, Jan. 1, and the BCS National Championship Game on Monday, Jan. 10, as well as Winter X Games beginning on Thursday, Jan. 27.

About ESPN 3D

ESPN was the first to announce in the United States an exclusive 3D network in January 2010 which was the culmination of more than three years of testing 3D television.  ESPN has produced several 3D domestic telecasts in 2010, including: college football, the State Farm Home Run Derby, the Masters, a Harlem Globetrotters game and in 2009 the USC vs. Ohio State college football game. ESPN has developed best practices for utilizing the technology in live game applications which have provided the ability to streamline workflow operations, adjust 3D camera positioning, perform transmission tests and gauge fan reaction to a 3D telecast versus a traditional telecast.  In addition, ESPN utilizes cutting-edge technology located at the ESPN Innovation Lab in Orlando at the ESPN Wide World of Sports complex at Walt Disney World to continue to develop innovative production enhancements.  ESPN 3D is available in the United States to approximately 62.5 million households and has carriage agreements with AT&T U-Verse, Comcast, DIRECTV and Time Warner Cable. It will launch in 2011 on Verizon FiOS TV.  Sony was named the first official sponsor of the network in January 2010.

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LG will unveil consumer passive 3D TVs at CES in Jan, but market starting April, 2011

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WITH 32-INCH TO 55-INCH screen sizes to be on offer from April 2011, LG Display’s passive eye boggling technology tellies will have the big selling point that you will be able to use the stereoscopic specs you got at the cinema.

These LG 3D TVs polarise the screen so the glasses can have lenses that don’t do anything, or are passive to use the jargon. LG has let slip that they will go on sale in the UK in April, but they will be unveiled at CES in January.

Speaking at the unveiling of an online promotional interactive video, LG told The INQUIRER, “In April we’re going to launch a whole new range of… TVs which is based on passive technology. We’ll be going from 32-inch to 55-inch, we’ll have a number of different series with different features and different prices.”

Cinemas use passive glasses because they are able to project images onto the big screen that the passive glasses can present to the wearer’s two eyes in such a way as to provide the appearence of depth. Because passive glasses are just lenses, they are very cheap compared to active glasses that cost about £100 as they require a shutter system and radio communication with the display.

LG is hoping that its interactive 3D telly promotion, which can be found here and shows pre-filmed sequences played in relation to keywords from viewers’ requests, helps to inform a public that thinks High Definition tellies will turn any signals plugged into them into an HD 1080p quality picture.

For those waiting to buy the auto-stereoscopic spec-less tellies, LG does not expect them to tip up until later in the decade. It expects prototypes to appear more widely soon, but for LG Display commercial viability is still some years away.
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