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TiVo adds 3D

TiVo customers will be able to download 3D content such as movie trailers and short animations from June.

TiVo is joining the 3D revolution.

From June TiVo customers will be able to download 3D content on a 3D enabled television set, starting with movie trailers and short animations. Movies and documentaries are expected to follow later.

3D State of Origin and World Cup games will also be accessible starting from tonight.

The PVR also has the capacity to store 3D content for playing later if the owner hasn’t yet purchased a 3D set.

Robbee Minicola, CEO Hybrid TV said, “Many consumers think 3D is just another fancy feature to get people to buy a new television. Not true. Anyone who has sat in Harvey Norman and experienced a 3D movie on a 3D TV will tell you it was the single most exhilarating entertainment experience of their life. Now match that experience to viewing 3D sport and you have simply died and gone to heaven.”

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  1. 3D is possible in 1080p thru HDMI 1.3 on Mitsubishi Dlp TV’s. The 3D uses a checkerboard pattern rather than two separate images like on LCD tv’s which do require HDMI 1.4 to stream that much information. I own one and play Video Games with a Nvidia graphics card and Nvidia 3D Vision. And it is sweet!

  2. Wow… a lot of unfounded claims by posters.

    No, HDMI 1.4 is Not a requirement of 3DTV. It’s only a requirement if both eyes are to get a full resolution image at a high refresh rate (not really feasible with broadcast television anyway).

    Both the FTA and Foxtel 3D channels are side-by-side stereoscopic 3D (half the horizontal resolution per eye). No special equipment is required to transmit that to the TV (both the iQ2 and the TiVo will be able to do it). All you will need is a 3D capable TV to split the side-by-side image and display them for each eye.

    Secondly, this isn’t really a major new technology, so it isn’t that expensive (the only real added expense over a ‘normal’ TV are the glasses and the circuitry required to control them) so waiting 5 years shouldn’t really make a difference in price (except that plasma/lcd TVs should come down in price in general… hopefully).

  3. 3D TVs actually aren’t particularly expensive…. full price in harvey norman you’re looking at $3k-odd… which means in reality it’s even less…

  4. I do what i did with my digital. I’ll wait for a few years until they become cheap. Anyone remember the early days of flat screen tv’s? They cost almost as much as a brand new small car. I remember my mate brought one when they first came out. I waited a few years. Paid a third of what he did for a bigger tv. Which i guess is what is going to happen with 3d tv. We need those over zealous suckers, to go out and buy them while they cost a fortune. To keep the interest alive. While the wiser consumer wait for the price to go down…way down.

  5. I kind of agree with Robbee Minicola, CEO Hybrid TV.
    3D TV is really great to watch, though I don’t know if sitting in Harvey Norman watching 3D TV quite compares to watching 3D in the cinema, however compared with what we’re used to in the home 3D TV will be a big change.

    Bring on more 3D content. 🙂

  6. @GuanoLad: it could he the same reason as to why they want to see it in colour, or in HI-def. If the technology is available, and it improves viewng experience, then why not utilise it.

  7. IMO if you want to see sport in 3D then go to the game!

    Right now it’s expensive and limited, just like the early days of most technology, maybe in 5 years it will be ready for the masses.

  8. @Guanolad

    My guess is most of the people all pumped up about this are too young to recall the times in the past when 3D movies (or 3D anything) has had a shot at being popular.

  9. I’m a bit sceptical about this.

    Not about 3D being awesome, but that the TiVo devices can actually support 3D.

    The TiVo hardware is ancient.

    Even though TiVo was released fairly recently in Australia, the hardware is based on 5 year old hardware from the US.

    It doesn’t even support HDMI 1.4, which I’m pretty sure is a requirement of 3D TV.

  10. Not only that it will be many many years if ever there is a decent OB in 3D.. Look at the Socceroos.. It was 3 or 4 cameras, all wide shots, no replays.. and different commentators… The same will happen tonight… and yes it looks great, although it is a far cry from being the single most exhilarating entertainment experience of my life…

    Hey Tivo… I am still waiting to order a pizza!!

  11. What’s going to happen when the 3D fad passes – which it will – and everyone is left with obsolete equipment?

    I know 3D has its fans, but its very costly nature has seen it come and go over the decades and I no doubt think this phase will be any different

  12. “Anyone who has sat in Harvey Norman and experienced a 3D movie on a 3D TV will tell you it was the single most exhilarating entertainment experience of their life” – big call!

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