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The Denon sound receiver has capabilities to connect with many sound sources, including the new media devices that appeared recently. It offers two USB ports and can decode all formats of sound that exist in the present. The output is always the best quality available.

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The IFA show in Berlin next month looks set to be the stage for Panasonic to showcase their full HD 3D TV technology, due to be launched to the consumer market next year.

The IFA, one of the worlds largest consumer electronics and home appliances trade shows, has been running since 2006 and is open to both industry experts and the general public.

One of the highlights of the Panasonic stand will be their 3D Cinema Experience area which will include two cinemas fitted out with its full HD 3D home cinema system (with a great deal of polarised glasses on standby too one would imagine!), where visitors can watch 3D film trailers, as well as take part in an “unparalleled 3D experience”.

Panasonic said its IFA demo “goes well beyond today’s conventional 3D technology, with far superior Full HD picture quality and a lifelike viewing experience”.

Source: What HiFi

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.”

They have been hinting at it for some time and now its official. In a move that could set the new standard for how we watch programmes at home, Sky have announced that a first ever 3D TV service will be launched by them in 2010.

Sky plan to offer a wide range of programs in 3D format including movies, entertainment and sports which possibly could include the 2010 Olympics. Imagine watching the javelin event in 3D or the hurdling with the hurdlers literally jumping out of the screen towards you!

This move follows extensive research conducted by Sky into the commercial feasibility of 3D TV alongside with the increase of consumer demand for the Sky+ HD service. In January this year after the price for a Sky+ HD box was slashed by two thirds an additional 534,000 customers signed up.

The service will be available from the existing Sky+ HD boxes so there will be no need to upgrade equipment, but an LCD TV with 3D enabled technology is required. It looks like polarised glasses will be next years must have accessory!

Will you replace your current LCD TV with a 3D TV? Or do you think Sky’s timing is completely off due to the recession?

The 3D momentum is certainly picking up speed, and Panasonic are ensuring they stay ahead of the 3D game with plans to release a 3D Blu-ray player by next year.

Having recently overcome some technical challenges, Panasonic are now working directly with Hollywood studios 3D development teams.

The extra storage needed to accommodate the demands of a 3D image have been combated by a new compression codec being fitted, plus the 3D Blu-ray player looks set to have massive processing power – enabling GUI (graphical user interface) and 3D disc menus.

Panasonic are not just stopping with a 3D Blu-ray player either, they also intend to develop a Plasma 3D Full HD Home Cinema System, a 3D-ready digital cinema projector and a 3D-ready MPEG-4 high profile encoder!

It all sounds very interesting as well as being a 3D fans dream come true.

Are you a fan of 3D?

There is no avoiding the hype regarding 3D TV these days -  manufacturers are already incorporating the technology into forthcoming LCD TVs and the general public seem willing, ready and very eager to embrace 3D TV available for home viewing.

Recently members of the Home Media Tastemakers forum (a small private group of technology experts, bloggers and academics) were asked to choose three blu-ray 3D movies as a wish list and the sci-fi classic Star Wars was the stand out favourite followed by The Matrix, Tron, Titanic, Harry Potter, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Dirty Harry, Saving Private Ryan, Spider-Man and the Lord Of The Rings trilogy.

Interestingly, older films tended not to create as much enthusiasm as a 3D blu-ray release, although Dial M for Murder and the original House of Wax were both considered to trendsetting 3D movies back in their day.

One panellist was prepared to stick his neck at and buck the 3D trend and chose not to pick a film for selection. He said instead “I really don’t want to see any movies in 3D, if a filmmaker cannot make a watchable movie in 2D, 3D isn’t going to make it better. 3D reminds me of Quadrophonic sound from the early 1970s. It was all the rage until everyone woke up and figured out it was an audio gimmick, just the way 3D is a visual gimmick!”

What do you think? Is 3D just a gimmick or the way of the future?

3D TV is set to readily available to the UK in less than two years time, and it seems that Hollywood may the driving force behind the new technological advancement in how we will watch our programmes at home.

With seven movies released in 3D already and a further eight to follow this year alone, including the highly anticipated James Cameron’s Avatar, TV manufacturers are pushing ahead with producing HD 3D LCD TVs – in fact we reported only last week that LG have already released the first of their 30 million 3D LCD TV to the Korean market.

Its not just movies and TVs that will be getting the 3D treatment either; the videogame industry is set to jump aboard the 3D bandwagon – UK developers Blitz are soon set to unveil their first 3D video game for Japanese games publisher Namco.

Eutelsat boss Guiliano Berretta told the Financial Times that: "3D is a real revolution. We are creating a specialisation in shooting and transmitting it. Normal TV has a limit. The rate of increase in TV revenues slowed this year. We can’t have double-digit growth unless we can grow the broadband business and a new type of TV consumption."

What are your thoughts on this…..another ‘next big thing’ created purely for hype or do we really want to have 3D in our homes? It would be interesting to hear thoughts on this.

Back in December 2008, we reported that LG is planning in launching a 3D TV sometime this year, now Dolby one the top end companies in audio technology wants to bring its digital 3-D cinema technology to the home.

Dolby’s introduced its technology to cinemas in 2007 and it is now used in more than 400 big screens in 24 countries.

Negotiations with content providers have already begun, Dolby wants content providers to encode its digital 3-D technology into Blu-ray movies, by doing this costumers will have no need to buy additional hardware, apart from the need of a 3-D enabled TV.

To watch 3-D entertainment we need to make use of special glasses, there are many types available from simple polarized lenses to fast-moving shutters, Dolby’s technology will support whichever glasses the TV manufacturer specifies.

The digital home 3-D entertainment era is upon us but its progress has been slowed by the lack of standardise technology; many associations are working on ways to help standardise 3-D home entertainment and avoid a 3-D format war like the one we experienced between Blu-ray and HD-DVD.

Dolby presented its technology to the Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineers (SMPTE) in September and received positive feedback, Dolby’s approach to 3-D is completely compatible and will not interfere with current standards been used.