3-D Highlights CES 2010

PMG President Tommy Hadges made his annual visit to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and found that 3-D was one of the most prominent technologies:

All the 3-D images suffered from a slight loss of contrast (due to the lenses in the glasses themselves), but the depth looked very impressive in an excerpt of a FIFA soccer game & extremely compelling in 3-D footage of an NCAA football game (USC versus Ohio State). On the other hand, I wasn't that impressed by the 3-D demo of "Wheel of Fortune" & not sure at all whether the public will actually want to wear 3-D glasses whenever they watch TV, with non-glasses 3-D still a decade away.

Still, there's going to a be a lot of 3-D content available soon, with new channels coming later this year & next year from ESPN (with events including this year's World Cup soccer tournament & next year's BCS championship football game), DirecTV (actually 3 1080p channels, with one offering a mix of movies, TV shows & live events, one offering on-demand pay-per-view events & one free 3-D demo channel) & a full-time channel mixing new programming with old 3-D shows & movies, coming from Discovery, Sony & Imax.