Mitsubishi Diamondcrysta RDT233WX Passive 3D Monitor With IPS Panel

Mitsubishi just announced a 23″ Full HD 3D monitor with IPS panel and LED backlight that uses passive polarization and passive 3D glasses, just like with the new LG Cinema 3D monitors, expected to be available in Japan starting May 30th. The monitor is with a native resolution of 1920×1080 pixels, 3.8ms response time (Gray-to-Gray) and maximum brightness level of 250cd/m2 in 2D mode and 100cd/m2 in 3D, the contrast ratio is 1000:1 standard and up to 5000:1 dynamic. The Mitsubishi

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'Avengers' Starts Shooting, Gets a Press Release

Superhero fans are frothing over the upcoming movie, "The Avengers." According to a new press release (via MarketSaw), production has begun -- and it's quite the star-studded adventure. Check it out below... "Production has commenced today in Albuquerque, New Mexico on Marvel Studios' highly anticipated movie 'Marvel's The Avengers,' directed by Joss Whedon ('Serenity') from a screenplay by Whedon. The film will continue principal photography in Cleveland, Ohio and New York City. Robert

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Hipso Partners with Level Vision Goggle-Less 3D TV

The next big electronics arm race---glasses free 3D TV--- is starting to build and the latest technology agreement between Hipso Multimedia and LEVEL Vision will add more competition to this burgeoning category. On April 11 Hipso entered into a five-year renewable distribution contract with LEVEL Vision that includes the North American rights to the company's 3D TV technologies. Hipso Multimedia Inc. CEO Rene Arbic describes LEVEL's technologies as a "Goggle-Less" solution that provide

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Glasses-Free 3D Coming to Planes and Cars

We don't even have glasses-free 3D TVs in homes yet, but there's already talk of other places where the technology will pop up. According to The Hollywood Reporter, MasterImage 3D is wheeling and dealing to put glasses-free 3D screens into planes and cars. Of course, they wouldn't name any of the actual companies interested, but said that it could be almost 3 years before we see the screens as part of air travel. "We weren't looking at (airlines and car makers) initially," says Roy

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Chicago's Adler Planetarium to start projecting 8K by 8K images from this July, put cinema screens to shame

Okay, so it's not quite 8K video, we're not there yet, but the Adler Planetarium and its brand new Grainger Sky Theater are about to show us what 64 megapixel images look like on a big screen. Described as the "largest single seamless digital image in the world," the picture inside the planetarium will come from 20 projectors hooked up to 45 computers processing data, and should provide the most lucid and captivating view unto our universe that one can get without

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Fat Girl Blu-ray Review

The Film
Director Catherine Breillat (Romance) isn't known for her subtlety and she seems to enjoy thrusting (for the lack of a better word) rather intense subject matter into the gaping mouths of the audience. Fat Girl has the potential to deeply disturb American parents, in particular, as the film deals with teenage sexuality in a way that Hollywood directors would never dare to touch. As I viewed Fat

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Panasonic offers Avatar 3D BD with BD Players & HTiBs

Panasonic is expanding its exclusive Avatar 3D Blu-ray disc program to enable consumers that purchase one of its Blu-ray disc players or Home Theater in a Box (HTiBs) to receive a copy of the highly sought after movie. The movie, which ignited interest in 3D content, is not available through normal retail avenues, and prior to Panasonic's expansion of its Avatar 3D promotion, the electronics giant required consumers to purchase one of its 3D televisions to get the 3D version of the movie.

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