JVC Kenwood and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment announced today that I, Robot, the successful science-fiction action film, will be the first title in a series of legacy movies being converted to Blu-ray 3D for the home. JVC Kenwood has developed a new 2D3D conversion process that will convert movies to Blu-ray 3D. Futuresource is predicting some 8.8 million households with 3D-equipped HDTVs by the end of 2012 and over 18 million households by the end of 2013. The increased interest in the format will bring a greater demand for quality 3D movies in the marketplace.
LG announced the worldwide opening of 3D World, a premium content service that will be available to LG’s CINEMA 3D Smart TV users in nearly 70 countries. With DNA from LG’s original 3D Zone Smart TV app launched last year, 3D World gives LG customers access to an expansive selection of high quality 3D content via a card on the Home Dashboard. LG 3D World allows customers the ability to search through high quality 3D content across numerous content categories such as entertainment, sports, documentary, kids, and lifestyle. Once the content is selected, LG’s CINEMA 3D Smart TV brings it to life in beautifully rendered 3D images. The action scenes in sports become more dynamic and exciting, documentaries more realistic, educational videos in the kids’ category more captivating.
Fujitsu Laboratories and Fujitsu Research and Development Center have developed a technology for retrieving partially similar models from stored 3D CAD models. In the manufacturing industry, for example, new parts designed using CAD models are not designed from scratch. By retrieving and reusing models with similar shapes from the existing models which incorporate prior design know-how, companies are able to shorten design time. Until now, while global shape retrieval has been possible, the inability to retrieve and reuse partially similar shapes has posed a challenge.
Sony’s F65 CineAlta camera delivers 4K image resolution—the highest resolution currently available in the digital motion picture production industry. Last autumn, Sony announced that the camera’s SRMASTER recording formats (F65RAW files and 2K/HD MPEG-4 Simple Studio Profile) would be promoted to the market as an open platform. Since that time, Sony has worked to gain the industry’s broaden support for these formats by providing technical specifications and development assistance to content production equipment manufacturers. As a result, in February, six makers of nonlinear editing system and color grading solutions launched new product releases with full support for the SRMASTER format.
The next generation GeForce GTX 680 GPU has arrived, and it packs a faster, smoother and richer gaming experience into a GPU that is simply cool and quiet. The GeForce GTX 680 GPUs are built from an ultra power efficient Kepler architecture featuring Nvidia’s new SMX streaming multiprocessors and innovative Nvidia technologies like TXAA, FXAA, Adaptive VSync and GPU Boost. Thanks to the new Kepler architecture, the GeForce GTX 680 has again set the bar for performance while at the same time using drastically less power than our Fermi-based models.
LG introduced the world’s biggest 3D TV at a launch event for new products in Beijing on Tuesday. The 55-inch TV produces vivid and bright images on its organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display. LG showcased various new 3D products, including TVs, monitors and smartphones at the launch.
In December, MIT Media Lab researchers caused a stir by releasing a slow-motion video of a burst of light traveling the length of a plastic bottle. But the experimental setup that enabled that video was designed for a much different application: a camera that can see around corners. In a paper appearing this week in the journal Nature Communications, the researchers describe using their system to produce recognizable 3-D images of a wooden figurine and of foam cutouts outside their camera’s line of sight. The research could ultimately lead to imaging systems that allow emergency responders to evaluate dangerous environments or vehicle navigation systems that can negotiate blind turns, among other applications.
This year’s Panasonic booth concept at CES 2012 fully exemplified Panasonic’s commitment to be the No. 1 Green Innovation Company in 2018 and featured Panasonic’s comprehensive energy solutions that begin from the entire homes to entire towns, as well as its cutting edge digital AV products with main focus on the Smart VIERA TVs.
LG will introduce its highly anticipated Google TV at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. LG Smart TV with Google TV combines the familiarity of Google’s Android OS with the convenience and comfort of LG’s 3D and Smart TV technologies, offering consumers a new and attractive home entertainment option. LG’s Google TV’s most attractive feature is its ease of use, thanks to the combination of its Android-based user interface and the Magic Remote Qwerty designed by LG. LG’s Google TV’s user interface and main screen have been designed for convenient browsing and content selection. Multi-tasking is also possible, as the search, social networking and TV functions can be run simultaneously. The user interface can be accessed using the Magic Remote Qwerty which combines the user-friendly benefits of LG’s Magic Remote with a QWERTY keyboard.
LG is introducing four new home theater systems at this year’s CES, equipped with LG’s latest 3D sound technology. By combining its 3D Home Theater Systems with LG’s Cinema 3D Smart TVs, LG aims to solidify its position as the leader in 3D home entertainment. Of the four new 3D Sound Home Theater models scheduled for launch during the first half of 2012, the BH9420PW will be the first to be unveiled at CES 2012. The BH9420PW incorporates LG’s very own 3D Sound Zooming technology, which constantly synchronizes sound output with the location and movement of the on-screen 3D images on a Cinema 3D Smart TV.
