Posted on 09/04/2009 1:08:39 PM PDT by Red Badger
BERLIN--We're here at IFA at the Sony press conference, where Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer reckons the "3D train is on the track--and we're the ones to drive it home." 3D is Sony's big push, but we're more interested in the announcement of a movie-download service for PS3 and PSP, via the PlayStation Network.
Sony has announced its first 3D-compatible Bravia LCD TV, to arrive in 2010. It promises a high frame rate and 1,920x1,080 pixels per eye to give what Sony describes as "high-definition, high-quality 3D images." 3D-enabled Blu-ray players are set to follow and even the PS3 will be involved.
We're shown the trailer for 3D movie "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs," which includes burgers falling from the sky straight at the camera.
From the sample footage shown off here, live football looks like rubbish, unless players run right up to the camera, but games and nature programs look great in dimensional triplicate.
After Sony's recent restructuring, Sir Howard on Wednesday also unveils a new global motto for the company: "Make Dot Believe." Who's Dot? Sir Howie's grandma back in Wales? Oh, hang on, sorry, it's "Make.Believe."
PlayStation Network's video-delivery service for Europe will allow you to download and rent moviefilms to PS3 and PSP, and transfer them between the two.
PSN has all the major studios on board: Sony, Warner Bros, Universal, Paramount, Disney, MGM, Lionsgate, and local networks. It'll kick off this November.
Whoa, the last time I saw a ball game like that was
when the x wife and I made a gallon jug of pina coladas
and sat in the sun in the outfield.
Being a Pirate fan, that is what I see every friggin’ day.
You mean that’s what the Pirate batters see every day.
If you still gotta wear glasses 3D will only be a gadget.
Wow.
It has to be Real 3D to not have the glasses. It’s pretty cool, but the kind with glasses is dorky.
The picture shows glasses, so I’m thinking it’s the same old stuff. 3D with the glasses has disappeared as a fad so many times before, you’d think they figure out people don’t really like those things.
I wear glasses and I see EVERYTHING in 3D!.......................
I’m wearing glasses too. Which is part of the problem with the 3D glasses, they don’t tend to interact well with real glasses.
If I take my glasses off I see like that TV pic.................
I just get eye fatigue.
They have some new movies that don’t require the glasses and it was pretty good.
I haven’t seen them. Since the glasses don’t work well if you wear regular glasses I pretty much just avoid the whole 3D thing.
It’s still glasses. I remember the polarized lenses from the 80s 3D fad, they were still dumb, and they didn’t work well if you person had to wear corrective glasses. Any 3D where the viewer must wear glasses will be a fad and eventually go away, both because of the dork factor and the interaction with corrective glasses problem.
I wear pretty substantial glasses and the 3D specs they handed out at Avatar worked fine over them.
Considering the last time I did the 3D thing it nearly made me puke I’m not taking the risk.
I’ll buy! Actually been trying to hold off getting an HDTV precisely because I knew all the hardware/software was available, just needing standards & content to make 3D happen.
I don’t mind the glasses so long as the effect is effective. This may finally push me to get contacts.
So ... counter to the obligatory naysaying (amuses/amazes me how many people take the effort to read a thread & post thereto declaring their lack of interest), where do I buy one?
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