LG NEW 3D TV COMING OUT SOON.
LG has announced that it’ll be showing off its Google TV at CES 2012. The Android-based Smart TV has a new-look user interface that’s populated by some familiar-looking icons. We can see from the press shot above that there’s icons for Chrome, Android Market, YouTube and Google Search as well as what looks like an icon for the launcher.
All of this is accessed by way of LG’s Magic Remote Qwerty, a smart remote control that (you guessed it) features a Qwerty keyboard.
LG’s press release says that search and social network functions can be used while you’re watching TV. Hopefully this’ll mean we can dispense with our two-screen viewing habits. Tweeting about whatever it is that Cheska’s wearing on #madeinchelsea from one display? Paradise.
The display of LG’s Google TV can also jump from 2D to 3D viewing modes. “LG has constantly strived to provide consumers with wider choices in home entertainment that bring the highest level of sophistication and convenience,” said Havis Kwon, President and CEO of LG Electronics Home Entertainment in a statement.
“Through Google TV, LG has merged Google’s established Android operating system with LG’s proven 3D and Smart TV technologies, offering consumers a new and enthralling TV experience.”
The LG Google TV is compatible with LG’s battery-free CINEMA 3D black specs, so its an affordable 3D home cinema option as well.
Due to be demoed in full at CES next week, we’re hoping get a better idea of how this all works. Sadly, while US punters will be able to snap an LG Google TV this year; us British punters will have to wait a little longer, until 2013 at the earliest. So unless Made in Chelsea is still running then, our @cheska85-baiting antics might never come to fruition.
China test-launches 3D TV channel
• Published: 2/01/2012 at 03:32 PM
• Online news: Computer
China's state broadcaster has test-launched a 3D television channel, state media said, in a bid to draw viewers and drive consumption by encouraging people to upgrade to 3D-capable sets.
File illustration photo shows television sets at an electronics store. China's state broadcaster has test-launched a 3D television channel in a bid to draw viewers and drive consumption by encouraging people to upgrade to 3D-capable sets.
Viewers in the world's largest TV audience now can watch the China 3D TV Trial Channel with a 3D TV, special glasses and a set-top box, Xinhua news agency said.
The 3D channel broadcasts three daily rotations of four-and-a-half hours of 3D content such as performing arts, cartoons, movies and sports, and promises programming from the upcoming London Summer Olympics.
State-run China Central Television launched the service Sunday, initially free of charge, with partners Beijing TV, Shanghai Media Group, Jiangsu TV, Tianjin TV and Shenzhen TV -- reaching China's biggest viewing and advertising markets.
To make up for current slim pickings in 3D programming available in China, or elsewhere, each partner broadcaster has established specialist 3D production units, Xinhua said.
The channel is due to have its full official launch on January 23 to mark the start of the week-long Lunar New Year holiday, when Chinese traditionally travel home and watch special variety TV programmes together.
In a year when the central government in Beijing has warned about a slowdown in China's economic growth, its head broadcast regulator told Xinhua the 3D channel can create demand for 3D TV sets "worth hundreds of billions of yuan."
"The launch of the 3D trial channel is a significant step in the development of China's television," Cai Fuchao, head of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, told Xinhua.
CCTV has in recent years fought fiercely not to lose viewers to more progressive programming at BTV, SMG and satellite channels such as that from central China's Hunan province.
China has roughly 500 million TV sets, according to Xinhua, and now also is home to more than 500 million Internet users and the fastest growing movie box office in the world, up more than 60 percent last year to $1.5 billion.
With their eyes fixed on the 3D channel test, some retailers of Chinese-made 3D TVs slashed the prices of a typical 42-inch model, often in half, to around 5,000 yuan ($790), the Made-in-China tech gadget blog reported in November.
MasterImage 3D to debut glasses-free 720p 3D tablet and smartphone at CES
Glasses-free 3D is hardly anything new (how are you guys digging the 3DS?) but how about high-def 3D without the frames for your peepers? That's a bit more impressive, especially considering this isn't an expensive television set we're talking about. It's an expensive phone and tablet line from MasterImage 3D.
The company's 4.3 inch smartphone and 10.1 inch tablet will be on display at this year'sConsumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, a representative told Joystiq earlier today. Each device will showcase full 720p high definition in 3D and utilizes MasterImage 3D's Cell-Matrix Parallax Barrier Technology to produce "brighter images, reduced moiré effects (or rippled appearance) and the ability to work in any orientation -- portrait or landscape." We imagine it'll also play Angry Birds.
