3-D makes the leap to the small screen
3-D TV is coming. The question is how many people will be able to watch it.
Call it the “Avatar” effect. Cable programming giant Discovery Communications Inc., in partnership with Sony Corp. and big-screen theater operator Imax Corp., said Tuesday it would launch a 3-D channel in 2011. At the same time, Walt Disney Co.’s sports channel ESPN announced it was entering the 3-D fray with its own network set to debut this year.
“The momentum of 3-D in the last six months alone has been quite striking,” said Sony Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Howard Stringer, in a conference call to trumpet the partnership on the eve of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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