As mentioned in post topic, I’ll be away in Tekong until around 24 October 2009, serving National Service (NS) in the enhanced batch, Basic Military Training Camp (BMTC) School 1. Thus won’t be updating frequently or until 2 weeks later! 
p.s – National Service is ARMY
Take care people~!!
Technology really do advance faster than anything else, recently there were 3D movies being launched and is showing in cinema theaters, and even new 3D TV technology are available now!
Sony has did it again by releasing this new single-lens camera able to capture 3D images.
The majority of existing 3D set-ups use two-camera systems to record images tailored specifically for the left and right eye of the viewer, whereas the new camera takes a single image that is split by mirrors and recorded on two sensors, resulting in a “smoother” picture, according to Sony.
Viewers will be able to watch the 3D images using special polarised glasses. Without them, they will just see normal 2D television, according to the firm. This camera is especially good in capturing sporting events.
The new camera is one of a number of developments being put forward by the firm, which hopes that 3D TV is about to take off.
This week, the firm also opened the doors to its European research labs to show off a different 3D camera technology for recording football games.
The technology uses three fixed cameras to record the entire football pitch. The images can them be mapped and, using software, create a 3D view.
There have been a number of forays into the 3D market, pioneered by the film industry.
In 1953 The House of Wax became the first commercial 3D movie. However, the early technology caused unsteady images that induced nausea.
A second attempt was made in the 1970s, using stereoscopic images that required users to wear red and green glasses; while the image was steady there was considerable loss of colour quality and it also failed to take off.
The latest revival, dubbed “The 3D Wave” kicked off in 2003 with the release of the film Ghosts of the Abyss.
Users now wear polarized glasses – rather than the standard red and green spectacle – with the resulting image “fooling” the brain into thinking it is 3D.
Meanwhile, the technology to capture in 3D – or create a virtual 3D image using conventional cameras – has also been getting cheaper and is now affordable by some traditional TV and satellite broadcasters.
In 2008, the BBC broadcast the world’s first live sporting event in 3D, beaming back an England vs. Scotland game from the Six Nations to a cinema in London.
In addition, the corporation’s director of London 2012, Roger Mosey, said there were plans to capture some of the Olympics in 3D. He said the following,
We could, and I believe should, capture some of the Games in 3D. Nobody would expect the Games of 2012 to be comprehensively in 3D because the technology will be nothing like widespread enough; but it would be a shame not to have any images of London that were part of an experiment with what will be one of the next big waves of change.
However, Fergal Ringrose – editor of Europe’s broadcast technology magazine, TVB Europe, told BBC News that Sky was in a rather unique position and that the majority of broadcasters were still reluctant to embrace 3D TV. He said the following,
Very few broadcasters are in the position to control the entire process. We did a reader survey on 427 broadcasters across Europe and asked them if 3D TV was on the horizon. Only 15% said yes, and another 20% said they were looking at it as an option. That’s somewhat underwhelmin.
What do you guys think? Would 3D TV take off smoothly in these couple of years? Or would it still be a great challenge? :p
Cheerios~
P.S. – Counting down, 4 more days to army enlistment!
Source: BBC News (edited from original)
Michael Jackson’s This is it” captures Jackson like you’ve never seen him before. “Michael Jackson’s This is it” will only be screening for 2 weeks from 29th Oct and pre-sales for the movie tickets will begin early Oct in Singapore.
Here’s the official trailer video:
Visit the official website @ http://thisisit-movie.com.sg/
