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Intel’s upcoming next-generation laptop chips will have a dozen new features to improve graphics performance and will be able to play Blu-ray 3D movies, the company said on Thursday.

Laptops with processors based on the Sandy Bridge architecture will play Blu-ray 3D movies while preserving battery life, said Nick Knupffer, an Intel spokesman. Users won’t need to buy a separate graphics processor to specifically view 3D content.

Sandy Bridge chips are due to go into production later this year, Knupffer said. Company officials have said that PCs with the new chips could hit store shelves in the first half of next year.

The company is expected to shed more light on Sandy Bridge’s graphics performance at the upcoming Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Sept. 13-15.

Intel’s graphics improvements come from higher levels of integration and the addition of specialized accelerators to decode video, analysts said.

Intel for the first time will integrate the CPU and graphics processor on a single chip, said Nathan Brookwood, principal analyst at Insight 64. The current generation of chips based on the Westmere architecture have the CPU and graphics core on one piece of silicon, but as separate units.

The higher levels of integration will also help Intel cram in more transistors to improve graphics performance, Brookwood said. The Sandy Bridge CPUs and GPUs will be made using the 32-nanometer process, while with current chips, the CPU and GPU are made using the 32-nm process and the 45-nm process, respectively.

Graphics performance typically doubles from one chip generation to the next, said Dean McCarron, principal analyst at Mercury Research.

Intel’s current laptop chips are capable of 1080p video, and improvements in Sandy Bridge chips could bring a noticeable graphics improvement to PCs, McCarron said.

Intel’s chips go into more than 80 percent of the world’s computers and the company is widely recognized for its CPU design, but lags behind Advanced Micro Devices in graphics. AMD later this year will release a family of chips called Fusion that integrate the CPU and GPU in a single chip. The first Fusion chip, code-named Ontario, will go into netbooks and ultraportable laptops. The next wave of Fusion chips for laptops and desktops will be released next year. AMD has already said Fusion will allow users to view Blu-ray movies and play 3D games.

However, Intel’s improvement in integrated graphics will not affect the discrete graphics market, McCarron said. There is a growing interest in switchable graphics, in which laptops have both integrated and discrete graphics, McCarron said. That allows users to switch between them depending on the application they’re using.

More laptops are shipping with both graphics processors — up to 45 percent of the laptops worldwide in the second quarter, McCarron said.

“Irony here is that each graphics solution — whether it’s Intel integrated or discrete — is succeeding on its merits,” McCarron said. “It’s not like you’re picking one or another.”

The sudden ramp-up in adoption of discrete graphics cards in laptops came at the start of this year, when Intel released its new Core family of processors, McCarron said. Users were perhaps unhappy with the integrated graphics performance of Core chips, which is why they bought discrete graphics cards.

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IRVINE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, Inc. (MDEA) today announced the launch of its nationwide 3D Experience Tour, which will introduce its unparalleled lineup of theater-like immersive 3D^* DLP^® Home Cinema Televisions to U.S. consumers. The tour packs Mitsubishi’s latest and greatest 3D TV technology into Mitsubishi’s Mobile Marketing Showroom, a 995 sq. ft. 18-wheeled home theater experience that gives viewers across the country the chance to experience the industry’s largest and broadest lineup of 60-inch plus large-screen 3D-capable TVs available today.

“…the best looking consumer-level set we’ve ever laid eyes on.”

The tour will showcase Mitsubishi’s full lineup of very large 3D DLP Home Cinema TVs, including an 82-inch behemoth which offers more than three times the viewing area of a 46-inch screen. All 3D DLP Home Cinema TVs use the same core DLP technology as the vast majority of 3D movie theaters to deliver a cinema-quality 3D sensory experience at home.

Sharing the stage will be Mitsubishi’s flagship 3D LaserVue^® TV, one of the world’s most energy efficient large screen TVs, bettering EnergyStar^® by 50 percent. LaserVue is the only TV that uses advanced laser technology to deliver true cinema-like color, approximately doubling the spectrum of color available in any other TV.

Engadget, the acclaimed technology blog, recently called LaserVue, “…the best looking consumer-level set we’ve ever laid eyes on.”*

For consumers who want fully immersive, cinema-quality 5.1 Dolby^® Digital surround sound without the hassle of extra wires and speakers, Mitsubishi’s 3D Experience Tour will include the Unisen^™ Immersive Sound LED TV series. The Unisen series integrates up to 18 intelligent speakers that use an advanced algorithm to delay and project perfectly balanced, independent sound waves that bring concert-quality audio to the viewing experience, without the clutter of separate audio components.

Mitsubishi will tweet from all locations throughout the tour, including the cities below. Follow the Mitsubishi Mobile Marketing Showroom on Twitter to find out when it will visit your area at www.twitter.com/Mitsubishi3D.

August 26-28- Detroit, MI

September 12-13- Norwalk, CT

September 17-26- Northern New Jersey

October 15-17- Boston, MA

October 22-24- San Antonio, TX

October 29-31- Dallas, TX

November 5-7- Albuquerque, NM

November 12-14- Tulsa, OK

November 19-21- Dallas, TX

The 3D Experience Tour will highlight Mitsubishi’s fourth generation of 3D-capable TVs and introduce local consumers to demonstrations of fully immersive entertainment that rivals going to the movie theater, sitting on the sideline of a game or being a character inside a video game. Mitsubishi has spearheaded the 3D movement into the home, selling 3D-capable TVs since 2007, being first to demonstrate 3D TV at retail and also showcasing 3D directly to consumers for over two years.

“3D is moving quickly into broadcast, theatrical and gaming content as consumers seek to immerse themselves in the games, movies, and sports programming they love,” says Max Wasinger, executive vice president of sales and marketing, Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America. “The Mitsubishi 3D Experience Tour brings this experience to towns and cities across America so that consumers can experience for themselves the eye popping, jaw dropping difference our cinema-quality DLP technology makes in 3D entertainment. This year represents the third consecutive year that we have used our mammoth big-rig Mobile Marketing Showroom to tour the U.S. and demonstrate 3D TV as it would be experienced in the home. We’re excited to again hit the road and introduce our unparalleled 2010 lineup of large screen, immersive 3D DLP Home Cinema TVs to America.”

About Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, Inc.

Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, Inc., manufactures and markets a comprehensive line of premium quality 1080p 3D DLP Home Cinema TVs and Unisen^™Immersive Sound LED TVs, along with the world’s first laser TV: LaserVue^®. Recognized as the world leader and innovator of large display high-definition televisions, Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America builds products that lead the industry in quality, performance and ease-of-use. For additional information about MDEA, visitwww.mitsubishi-tv.com.

*See http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/mitsubishis-laservue-hdtv-makes-triumphant-75-inch-return-beco/

LaserVue is a registered trademark of Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, Inc. Unisen is a trademark of Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, Inc.

DLP is a trademark of Texas Instruments. Dolby and Dolby Digital are registered trademarks of Dolby Laboratories.

* For support of all 3D formats, Mitsubishi 3D-Ready TVs will require the use of a 3D source device that outputs the 3D checkerboard format or a 3D source device coupled with the Mitsubishi 3D Adapter. In all cases an emitter and matching 3D active shutter glasses or DLP Link active shutter glasses are required in order to view 3D content.

* The Mitsubishi 3D Adapter may be used to display 3D content only when connected to a Mitsubishi 3D-ready TV, Mitsubishi 3D TV or Mitsubishi 3D-ready LaserVue TV. A 3D source device coupled with the Mitsubishi 3D Adapter is required to support display of 3D games, 3D broadcasts from terrestrial/cable/satellite and 3D Blu-ray disc content.

Panasonic, a worldwide leader in Full HD 3D technology, announced today that it has become the Official 3D Sponsor of this week’s BLUE Ocean Film Festival & Conservation Summit in Monterey, California.  BLUE is a global film festival and conservation summit for underwater filmmakers, marine researchers and conservation leaders. The festival also provides the public the opportunity to experience the world’s largest collection of ocean films.

At BLUE Ocean Film Festival, Panasonic will demonstrate its end-to-end range of Full HD 3D solutions which includes the critically-acclaimed VT25 Series of Full HD 3D VIERA^® Plasma HDTVs, 3D Blu-ray Disc Players and the AG-3DA1 – the Full HD 3D professional camcorder much anticipated by independent film makers.  Also on display will be a new underwater housing for the 3DA1 that will allow videographers to capture life beneath the surface of the ocean in stunning Full HD 3D.

Panasonic will also sponsor a panel discussion titled 3D: Nature’s New Dimension on Friday, August 27 at the Portola Hotel & Spa moderated by Barry Clark, executive producer at Mandalay Media Arts.  Eisuke Tsuyuzaki, Panasonic’s Chief Technology Officer for North America, will be among the featured panelists at the discussion.

One summit attendee will also win a Panasonic Full HD 3D VIERA Home Theater System which includes a VIERA VT25 Series Plasma, Panasonic 3D Blu-ray Disc Player and four pairs of Panasonic Active Shutter 3D Eyewear.

“Panasonic is proud to support the BLUE Oceans Summit and have the opportunity to share with many of the world’s leading oceanographic filmmakers and experts our industry-leading work in 3D technology,” said Panasonic’s Tsuyuzaki.  “The underwater world is among our planet’s most fascinating and mysterious places. The arrival of the 3D era provides filmmakers with a tremendous opportunity to capture the beauty of the ocean in a realistic and immersive way that was not possible a few short years ago and share it with people worldwide so that they too may gain a greater understanding of how important our oceans are.”

“We are very excited to have Panasonic as an official sponsor of the BLUE Oceans Film & Conservation Summit,” said Debbie Kinder, CEO / Executive Director, BLUE Oceans Film Festival.  “The arrival of the 3D era is a very exciting time for the talented film makers that participate in BLUE Oceans and having Panasonic’s industry-leading 3D technology demonstrated here will really give us all a first-hand look at the tremendous power that 3D brings to film making and how it will enrich the entertainment experience for viewers.”

For more information on all of the events and activities at the BLUE Oceans Summit, visitwww.blueoceanfilmfestival.org/home.html. For more information on Panasonic’s Full HD 3D technology, visitwww.panasonic.com/3D.

The International 3D Society’s Stereoscopic 3D Technology Awards will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 19, at Mann’s Chinese Theatre.

The 3D Technology Awards honor technological achievement in the stereoscopic medium — mainly cinema, television, special venue, themed attractions, video games, PC and other media. Also to be recognized are individuals and organizations that have made a significant impact on the advancement of stereoscopic arts and technologies from January 1, 1980 through December 31, 2009.

Entries from the 3D professional community from August 2009 – May 2010 are voted upon by a blue-ribbon 3D Technology Awards panel.

“The International 3D Society is seeking to honor the contributions of engineers, scientists, and inventors who have helped to create the stereoscopic medium,” said 3D Awards Committee co-chair and Oculus 3D President Lenny Lipton. “We are interested in calling attention to work that has been done in the recent past to advance the technology of the 3D moving image.”

Buzz Hays, Society Chair and Senior Vice President of the Sony 3D Technology Center, Sony Corporation of America, added, “For those of us who have worked in 3D, it is nice to see our colleagues recognized with awards presented by their peers.”

Jim Chabin is President of the International 3D Society, a non-profit professional community dedicated to advancing the arts and technologies of Stereoscopic 3D.

The 3D Technology Awards Show will feature MasterImage3D passive glasses and technology. Rules, regulations and entry forms are available online. There is no entry fee for submissions. The deadline for submissions was May 30, 2010. Nominees will be announced prior to the show.
International 3D Society sponsors include Signature Sponsor XpanD and Founding Sponsors MasterImage 3D, Panasonic Hollywood Lab and IMAX.

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An 84″ video wall system has been unveiled by Sunny Ocean, a new display solution that doesn’t need the aid of the usual 3D glasses for enjoying 3D entertainment. With 3D technology being the main focus this year, the new solution should be a dandy to check out.
Sunny Ocean shares that 3D images and videos can be viewed at any angle of a room and should be great for commercial and outdoor use.

This includes large spaces and venues which would require high resolution displays for the public to enjoy.

The said 3D video wall from Sunny Ocean actually debuted in Singapore at the Youth Games.

International sales and distribution agreements for the new 3D display will start at the IFA next month in Berlin.

This new 84″ Display from Sunny Ocean follows their initial offering, a 3D projector that was on hand at the CeBIT 2010 which required no glasses to operate.

Verizon has completely a field trial on its fiber-optic FiOS network, in which it delivered bandwidth approaching 1 gigabit per second (Gbps) to business customer in Taunton, Massachusetts.

The demonstration, conducted in June via Verizon’s gigabit passive optical network (GPON), was designed to show that today’s FiOS equipment can support higher bandwidth–including 1Gbps throughput–without major changes to the network, the company said. The GPON platform, developed by Motorola, supports bandwidth of 2.4Gbps downstream and 1.2Gbps upstream to customers connected to the passive optical network.

Verizon’s point here is that FiOS is more than capable of delivering throughput that far exceeds current maximum speeds. For consumers, today’s FiOS Internet tops out at 50Mbps downstream.

“This kind of bandwidth capacity will provide Verizon the ability to continue to meet FiOS customers’ needs by offering more bandwidth to support services such as 3DTV, ultra HDTV, multiplayer gaming and HD video conferencing,” said Brian Whitton, executive director of Verizon’s technology group, in a statement.

The actual throughput speeds in the field trial were 925 megabits per second (Mbps) to a local server, and more than 800Mbps to Verizon’s regional test speed servers. The existing FiOS service was left in place, and the trial didn’t degrade the customer’s voice, data, or video services, the company claims.

Verizon has big plans for its FiOS brand. It’s reportedly working with Motorola to develop a tablet device that would allow customers to watch FiOS digital TV. All of this is great news for Wealth TV, who has set a Jan 2011 deadline to go 24 hour 3D programming, including 2 projects currently in production with  and Al Caudullo Productions,  WOW 3D And Markets &Tastes 3D.

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Panasonic has just announced that the VIERA full HD 3D plasma TV range will be expanded with the introduction of the Panasonic VIERA GT25 Series. This 42″ piece of consumer electronics will target those who want stereoscopic 3D viewing in their living rooms, where the TC-P42G25 is going for a relatively affordable $1699.95, while its larger sibling, the 50″ TC-P50GT25 is $400 more expensive. Expect to see both models hit the market later this month, and to make things more expensive for those who want to branch out to 3D viewing will be disappointed to know that they have to fork out more dough to purchase Active Shutter 3D Eyewear as those are sold separately. [Press Release]

Sony’s Blu-ray flashed onto the scene, beating out a format war with HD-DVD, and almost as quickly faded into potential antiquation, as critics noted a lack of compelling value proposition. The picture was better than DVD, but not dramatically better, and consumers have been diving headlong into the convenience of online streaming, a choice that sacrifices true HD, convenience over quality.

Along these lines of desolation and has been status, Blu-ray has caught an edge that seems to have momentum to catapult it back: stereoscopic 3D. In this new arrangement, 3D could very well position Blu-ray as a must have in millions of living rooms, while Blu-ray drives 3D conveniently into homes.

Critics of Blu-ray blasted the technology as over-engineered, yet those very same advanced capabilities has been the advantage in delivering 3D home video, which requires storing and moving massive amounts of data. There is no comparison between web streaming and Blu-ray in this arena, Blu-ray easily surpasses.

A single Blu-ray disc can hold an entire 3D movie at full 1080p HD resolution, and the players can pump that data to the screen with no problem. With Web streaming, the consumer doesn’t need a lot of storage space, but few broadband services have the speed to handle a dual load of 1080p video for the left and right eyes — required for 3D.

Don Eklund, Sony Pictures’ executive VP for advanced technologies estimates a player must be able to handle 50-55 megabits per second (Mbps) for 3D with full HD for both eyes. An Akamai Technologies study pegged average broadband speed in the U.S. (including consumer, corporate and mobile) at just 3.8 Mbps. AT&T’s DSL maxes out at 24 Mbps.

Blu-ray’s stakeholders tout the image quality, but in terms differentiating features for consumers, the 3D element has the upper hand in driving sales.

The current onslaught of 3d films being released is a testament to remerging technology that exploded in the early 1950’s. Starting Aug 13 and running for two weeks in august, New York City’s Film Forum  is hosting  a two week classic 3-D series featuring films from the golden era of Hollywood’s foray into 3-D cinema, 1953-54.

Today Avatar lies at the pinnacle of state of the art 3d film making, and we are on the threshold of 24 hour 3D channels beaming into homes around the world. Wealth TV (http://www.wealthtv.com) will be launching around the clock 3D programming in Jan 2011. This isn’t the first time the public has undergone a period of insatiable craze for 3-D entertainment.

Re-looking at these pioneers truly demonstrates how far the art and technology of 3-D cinema has come. The Film Forum, located at 209 W Houston at the edge of NYC’s SOHO district, is the only cinema in New York equipped to screen vintage double screen 3-D projection. The 15 films featured will be screened with polaroid filters and lenses using double projectors, 2 reels running simultaneously, one for the left and right eye respectively.

Included in the series are some of the most accomplished films of this era. KISS ME KATE (1953) is a show within the film staging of Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew, the Broadway musical adapted for the screen by MGM, and serious stereoscopic dance fest.  HOUSE OF WAX ( 1953) tells the story of Vincent Price as a mad wax sculptor who,  aided by his muted henchman, repopulates his Victorian Chamber of Horrors with Wax coated victims. DIAL M FOR MURDER ( 1954) is Hitchcock’s tale explores a flat broke husband’s jealousy of his rich wife’s friendship with another man, and his plan for the perfect murder.

You can find more information and the entire slate of films scheduled at http://www.filmforum.org/films/classic3d.html .

With mass appeal for 3D programming growing, the demand for home systems is ever rising. Samsung’s dominant position as a provider of home 3D systems (http://3dguy.tv/3d-store-2/3d-tvs-2/) calls for 3D content at an unprecedented pace.

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