Yesterday, reports about 3-D living rooms, 3-D mega screens during sports games and European channels specializing in the trend popped up as a result of the electronics conference in Las Vegas. Today, the 3-D news doesn’t stop but solidifies itself with the announcement that ESPN will hope on consumer electronics bandwagon with the introduction of 3-D sports channel.
The network has announced it will be up and running sometime in 2010 and that live sports events will be broadcast in 3D technology, beginning with the June 11, FIFA World Cup soccer match.
The channel will not be 24 hours like traditional ESPN, but instead operate 3-D matches intermittently with an estimated 85 in its first year.
Sony, Panasonic and other major manufacturers have been developing 3-D televisions as a means of bolstering sales now that the purchasing price and demand for flat screens has subsided. In an interview Chuck Pagano, ESPN's VP of technology, referred to the future of television as a "3-D tsunami.”
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