TV makers bet big on 3D but payoff uncertain

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makers want more for 3D than they can get, he said. neither Samsung, Sony, Panasonic or Canada Goose Parka LG has gained the technological advantage. Until that outcome becomes clear, I not investing, he said.

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major impediment beyond making sure everybody has glasses is cheap Canada Goose making sure there is something interesting to watch, added Paul Gagnon, director of North American TV research at DisplaySearch. not going to have the breadth of content that high definition has right now. It will take years to build that up.

Gagnon estimates some 1 million 3D television sets will ship worldwide in 2010, a sliver of a total TV market that is expected to top 200 million https://www.forcanadagoose.ru units.

DisplaySearch sees a total canada goose uk shop of 9 million units of 3D TVs shipped in 2012.

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LCD TV sales are still strong, but profits are shrinking fast as prices for the TVs drop.

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As a maker of TVs, blu ray video players and the PlayStation 3 game console, Sony canada goose coats could show at the CES the ways that the Japanese conglomerate many arms can join around 3D. But even Sony buy canada goose jacket cheap Chief Executive Howard Stringer was unclear on when 3D TV would hit its stride.

do have 3D cameras, and 3D video games, 3D content and Imageworks that does 3D for other studios. So we have a lot of different disparate assets, lots of beads on the necklace, Stringer told Reuters in December.

question is: the necklace going to add up to something concrete and profitable? he added. won Canada Goose Coats On Sale know for a little while.

But in Las Vegas on Wednesday, TV makers lined up to tout their latest 3D projects and products. Samsung on Wednesday said it would develop thinner, more power efficient light emitting diode (LED) 3D TVs to boost its existing line up.

The Cell system boasts 143 times the processing power available in current TV models and still requires users to wear glasses to watch images in 3D.

Panasonic, the biggest maker of plasma TVs, is Canada Goose online especially hungry for a slice of the 3D pie, hoping that Canada Goose sale the lower cost of adapting plasma TVs to 3D would yield higher margins.

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