LG Electronics is to be the main sponsor of a new global music event which partners both Formula 1 and Universal Music.

F1 Rocks fuses Formula 1 racing with music to create a series of live music events from the Formula 1 locations all over the world.The world premier of this music extravaganza will take place at the Singapore Grand Prix next month. The three day event is going to be headlined by Beyoncé, Black Eyed Peas and ZZ Top.

Other artists confirmed Simple Minds, N*E*R*D and Chinese pop legend Jacky Cheung. The show will also feature guest appearances from top Formula One drivers and celebrities.

Two TV shows featuring celebrity interviews, stunts and music highlights from the F1 Rocks event will be also be produced.

Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of LG Electronics said “F1 ROCKS with LG will allow us to further broaden global awareness to build a deeper understanding for our style and technology positioning with an even wider audience that embraces music and entertainment as a passion. It is a natural fit for us to become part of such a premium global music event!”

Tickets will go on sale from today priced between £65 and £90.

If anything is going to speed up the production of 3D LCD TVs and Plasma TVs to the UK market, the news that the first full 3D game is due for release this month certainly will.

Invincible Tiger: The Legend of Han Tao is developed by Blitz games and will be released on the Xbox and PlayStation 3.

Exciting times for those who are looking forward to enjoying their TV and games in this format. However, despite LG releasing their first 3D TV to the Korean market, the pickings for the UK 3D enthusiast are very slim.

Most major manufacturers are working hard to have 3D TVs ready for late 2009 and early 2010. The Samsung Series 4 TVs are currently the only full 3D TVs on the market which come in both 50” or 63” sizes. The only other alternative at the moment is (for gamers at least) is to buy a 3D PC monitor.

Blitz Games Studios CTO Andrew Oliver told Techradar that “the UK is still relatively thin on the ground when it comes to 3D ready TVs and displays, while the market is starting to grow quite rapidly now in Japan and the US. Following Sky’s recent announcement and the release of games such as ours we’re confident that we’ll start to see a rise in the number of TVs that the average consumer in the UK will be able to buy.”

Movie lovers will like this. If you want to access a movie on demand service without an external device or set top box then LG has come up with the ideal solution.

It was announced recently that LG will be adding streaming capability to their HDTV range with VUDU (an internet on demand video company). To access this package all that is needed is a TV with an Ethernet port and LG’s NetCast Entertainment Access which provides streaming movies, TV shows as well as content from Netfix, Yahoo! Widgets and YouTube.

The VUDU streaming movie service will be updated every week with newly released films from major studios available months before subscription based services, traditionally around the same time as the titles are released on DVD and all without any monthly fees.

Alain Rossmann, CEO of VUDU said “VUDU is blazingly fast on LG’s Broadband HDTVs and makes discovering and watching new HD movies a truly exciting and fun user experience. With this alliance, VUDU is raising the bar on delivering Hollywood movies to this new class of Smart TVs”.