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Are You Ready for 3-D in Your Living Room? Hollywood Can’t Wait.

Peter Kafka in Media on January 7, 2010 at 3:30 am PT

The movie studios–along with consumer electronics manufacturers–hope that “Avatar” has convinced you that 3-D is something you’d like to see at home, too. DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg makes his pitch.

Sony Hopes 3-D Pops TV (And Blu-ray and Vaio and PlayStation) Sales

Peter Kafka in Media on September 2, 2009 at 7:25 am PT

Big, beautiful high-def TVs are so plentiful and so cheap that nearly everyone who wants one has one. So what can TV manufacturers do to goose sales? Add new features and hope consumers clamor for them. Hence, Sony’s announcement that it’s making a big bet on…3-D TVs. CEO Howard Stringer is using the IFA Technology Show in Berlin to announce that Sony will make 3-D Bravia sets. And 3-D Vaio laptops. And 3-D PlayStation3s. And 3-D Blu-ray DVD players.

TiVo Time-Shifts DirecTV Partnership

John Paczkowski in News on September 3, 2008 at 11:44 am PT

So TiVo’s on-again, off-again relationship with DirecTV? It’s on again. After ditching the TiVo platform in Feb. 2007 for a competing personal video recorder made by sister company NDS Group, DirecTV has circled back to embrace the PVR pioneer’s platform once again.