3D: Where Is It Going?

Have you heard about this wacky 3D craze?

It started around 1922 when the first feature-length motion picture to pop out of the screen—Power of Love starring Terry O'Neil and Barbara Bedford—was shown in Los Angeles. It only took another 30 years for Bwana Devil and House of Wax to make stereoscopic 3D a hit again... and three years later, the 3D fad dissipated once more. Of course, 3D never completely left the movies, and it started its resurge in the 1980s

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TiVo email database compromised by Epsilon security breach, spambots stir into action

If you're subscribed to any of TiVo's email-based communiqués, now would be a good time to make sure your spam filters are up to scratch. Epsilon, TiVo's email service provider, has reported the discovery of a security breach that has compromised the privacy of some customers' names and / or email addresses. A rigorous investigation has concluded that no other personal data was exposed, however it's not just TiVo that's affected -- other big names, such as

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Panasonic SC-BTT350 Blu-ray 3D Home Theater in a Box (HTiB) Review

Get Your 3D On
For those who have purchased a high-end flat panel LED, LCD or plasma HDTV in the past year, you may have brought home a feature that you're either very excited about, or that you swore you'd never use. Yes, I'm talking about 3D TV. 3D capability is being included into more and more high-end and even midrange HDTVs and projectors these days. You may find that you

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Panasonic and XPAND 3D Pushing a New Standard for 3D Glasses

Panasonic and XPAND 3D announced that they have formulated M-3DI, a new standard for 3D active-shutter eyewear products that is supposed to bring compatibility among 3D TVs, computers, home projectors and cinema projection. Currently the M-3DI standard uses infrared communication technology, but radio communications is to be considered for the next step of the evolution of the standard, if there turns out to be such. Licensing of the M-3DI technology is expected to begin next month, providing

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Samsung Becomes the World's First in Mass Production of Transparent LCD Panel

Samsung has announced that it began mass production of a 22-inch transparent LCD panel in March this year. The panels come in two types, the black-and-white type and the color type, and they have a contrast ratio of 500:1 with WSXGA+ (1680*1050) resolution.

Compared with the conventional LCD panels that use back light unit (BLU) and have 5% transparency, Samsung’s transparent LCD panel boasts the world’s best transparency rate of over 20% for the black-and-white type and

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Toshiba Spectacle 3D, The First 3D Monocle Is Finally Here…

Coming straight from Toshiba you are soon going to be getting the first 3D monocle, a real technological innovation among all the 3D-capable solutions available today… and with it you are going to be able to see so real stereoscopic 3D effects, just like in real life. Finally someone doing the April 1st joke tied to 3D technology and they did went to quite some lengths to make it look legit, and if you think this is simply impossible, then just close one of your eyes… and… it

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Major Studios to Launch $30 Home Premiere VOD in April - Why?

Hollywood has had some bad ideas over the years, but this one may take the cake -- do they still eat cake anymore in tinseltown? Too many calories are bad for the figure and one must look good on the red carpet. VOD has done rather well for the folks at Netflix, Amazon, and VUDU, but the next generation of video-on-demand has us scratching our heads. The details are still a bit sketchy, but according to

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