Displays & Screens Part 2
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| 12:00 UK time, Friday, 22 January 2010
Here's the second part of the Displays & Screens discussion with Quentin Cooper and Richard Salmon.Ìý In this second part they explore the recent advances in 3D television and what the current technical trials are.Ìý This may be of interest to those of you who were wondering if and when the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ may be trialling 3D- as this film makes clear the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ is well up to speed on developments, but we remain cautious about its suitability for domestic use.
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Comment number 1.
At 24th Jan 2010, citizenloz wrote:Note quite sure how this discussion "makes clear the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ is well up to speed on developments".
It explains 3DTV in general no more than countess resources on the web already do, and says nothing about what the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ itself is actually doing. Is the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ trialing 3DTV? Has it tried producing any 3DTV material, or trialing their broadcast?
This discussion tells me nothing about the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ's plans. If anything, it comes across like the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ is far less keen on 3DTV than other broadcasters and consequently doing nothing about it...
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Comment number 2.
At 24th Jan 2010, Ant Miller wrote:Hi citizenloz,
The point we're trying to make is that there's pretty much nothing going on with 3Dtv for the home at the moment that the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ R&D department hasn't investigated in depth. We've trialed anaglyph tech several times over the last few decades, and the other technologies available have been tested from a production and display point of view, but there are no active 3D broadcast trials.
We're not setting out the stand for the strategy of the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ in this area, and I'm sorry if we've given the impression that you'd find that here. This is the R&D blog, and R&D explores technolgy, finds the potential, and the challenges there, but the overall strategy is made in a broader context, incorporating our technical input but also taking into account all the public value tests that thhe ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ charter requires.
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Comment number 3.
At 27th Jan 2010, HD wrote:What about auto-stereoscopic (glasses-free) displays? What about multi-view (eg. 9 view) 3D? What about eye tracking 3D displays that change the 3D viewpoint? What about real 3D ie. not just a seperate left and right eye image but real 3d TV in real 3d space? What is the EBU doing with 3D? Will the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ iPlayer be updated to support 3D as well as updated to support interlaced content or higher frame rates and resolutions? Will the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ be working towards 1080p50 per eye 3D or will 3D force a halving of resolution or frame rate? Will 3D TV broadcasts mean an extra around 50% or 40-70% or more bitrate depending on content? Will the viewer be able to control the 3D viewing position?
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