3D TV …that’s all folks.
The two month trial for 3D TV is over. Now we'll have to wait for the outcome to see if we get anymore.
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ACMA has confirmed the end of the 3D trial it approved for Nine / WIN and SBS during the State of Origin and World Cup seasons.
The two-month trial ended on July 19.
Now we’ll have to wait for the bureaucrats to wade through the paperwork to tell us what we already know… we liked it.
“With the current tranche of 3D television trials having ended Monday, the Australian Communications and Media Authority felt that it would be useful to remind consumers that the ACMA can only make a digital television channel available for free-to-air 3D TV trials on a limited basis,” says ACMA.
The trials used unutilised digital television channels that were only available on a temporary basis and now the networks have to provide ACMA with reports on the outcomes of those trials. Maybe we can pester our pollies on this one, while we’re asking them about the anti-siphoning list and that dastardly net filter?
According to earlier media reports Seven has indicated an interest in the AFL Grand Final being available in 3D.
“The ACMA is now considering applications for a further tranche of short-term free-to-air trials and more generally expects to release a paper in the next few months on the future of 3D trials.”
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16 Responses
Hmmmm. Well I do agree I’d rather have more HD channels, but wouldn’t it be great if we could get TV in this country deregulated? Look at freeview.co.uk – this could be us too one day 😉
3DTV will be an amzing tool for documentaries, some movies, sports and sci-fi -but the prodyction cost will skyrocket. The ACMA could approve a Shared 3D TV channel, available to broadcasters on a program share basis of some sort – certainly betther than wasting spectrum allocating one channel to each broadcaster
Why don’t they continue with it…its the only(?) way to demonstrate 3D TV’s in retail outlets!
I agree with David S.
I also think that as long as 3D gives off negative side effects, such as nausea, it will remain a fad.
“we liked it”
yes, im sure all 10,000 people lucky enough to see something in 3D enjoyed it. 😉
Until they have 3D screens that don’t require the viewers to wear glasses it’ll remain a niche, almost a fad, market. The other problem is frequency bandwidth, we barely have enough for the digital channels we’ve got (and each 3D channel needs anywhere from 1.5 to 2.0 times the bandwidth of a 2D HD broadcast channel) so where is the extra spectrum to come from? Would viewers be willing to sacrifice all the current secondary digital channels for one 3D channel and one SD 2D channel from each of the networks? I doubt it. There wouldn’t be enough 3D content to make it worth while anyway.
2D Blu-ray is taking off quite slowly, 3D Blu-ray will take years before it has a decent library of content. Maybe by the time no-glasses 3D screens are available and the NBN is in place and giving us 100 Mb/s+ download speeds there’ll be enough 3D content to justify a few dedicated pay channels for it and downloading 3D movies and TV shows will be practical. Say ten to fifteen years from now. Minimum.
I think they people spending extra on 3D TVs right now are being ripped off. There is hardly anything on DVD/BluRay in 3D for the new sets/players and might be 5 years before it goes main stream. Just look at HD, it was launched years ago and we still have just three 1080 HD channels on FTA, 7, 9 and ONE. ABC and SBS are 720.
Have tried a few 3D-TV’s and am seriously unimpressed. When you don’t need glasses, then I’ll pay attention.
Give us more quality HD programming to start with, then think about 3D.
They can’t even dedicate HD channels properly so we have to settle for losing HD programs on ABC and TEN in favour of their dedicated channels. 3D is a fad and will go away.
I agree, excellent quality HD is 1st on the priority list. 3D channels are 100000000 on the list..
While I’m sure that 3D TV enhances the experience for sport, I’d much rather that the available bandwidth be given/sold to stations so that they can reduce the compression on their existing channels (SD and HD).
The overall quality of the picture on SD (and sometimes HD) is worse than when everything was analogue. I’m not talking about some crappy upload from some war-zone – anything where there is fine detail and moderate to high contrast explodes into a bunch of blocky artefacts. Sunlight glinting off moving water, passing tress, crowds at sporting events – all look horrible. We’ve been sold a lemon and should be complaining much louder than we are.
Is there an official channel for consumers to provide feedback?
Although I like the broadcasts, I was annoyed that there was no EPG with the transmission.
This made it difficult to know when the broadcasts were on and to program recordings. In fact the Samsung 3D TVs with their extended PVR feature could not set up a timer recording without an EPG.
No! It’s another fad which needs to nick off! I’m sick of the way technology has gone overboard in recent years. I only just got my DVD collection to a respectable size when Blu Ray came out. I buy a flatscreen TV and 3D TV comes out. Seriously? If I need to see things in 3D I will go outside! Film makers are using 3D as an excuse to write boring and lazy scripts too. Over it!
Seriously -3D TV is just a passing fad.
3D has been and out of fashion a lot over the last several decades and I see no reason why this time should be any different.
The expense required for a new 3D tv doesn’t match the scarcity of programs available.
Cinema tickets have ballooned for 3D screenings and I very much doubt 3D films will last there for too much longer.
A joint venture 3D channel, if that’s even feasible, would be the best option for FTA to make use of the technology at this stage, with it’s limited content. Obviously, this is some time away yet, but it seems a safe bet for the FTA networks.