Comcast XFINITY TV → [X1] ESPN ending its 3D television broadcasts, 3D TV is dead

»deadspin.com/espn-is-yan ··· 12855045

Pretty much the death knell for broadcast 3D.

I am one of the few who actually like 3-D programming. Was watching some last night. Loved Saturday college games in 3-D. That stinks.

An article on the MCN site today about it too:

ESPN Shutting Down 3D Channel At Year's End
Cites Lack Of Viewer Interest In Enhanced Service
By Mike Reynolds & Kent Gibbons, Multichannel News - June 12, 2013
»www.multichannel.com/dis ··· d/143865

Ultra-HD is now the new thing that the equipment manufacturers are pushing now: »[HD] Get Ready for "Ultra-HDTV"

The thing is, one application for Ultra-HDTV would be glasses-free 3DTV, as the major difficulty in the development of that has been the large number of pixels needed on a screen to accommodate different viewing angles.

EDIT: Article on the LRC site: »www.lightreading.com/dig ··· 40156713

From an article (»www.tvnewscheck.com/play ··· ars-end/) on the TVNewsCheck site:

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In an interview with TVNewsCheck two weeks ago, ESPN CTO Chuck Pagano said the sports network was still actively involved in pushing the service, but added that he thought 3D would evolve as part of a 4K infrastructure.

“I think 3D will evolve when you start seeing some of the TV sets that will be out there that do not have the eyeglass in front of them, but truly have a lenticular lens in front of the set that you can watch stuff without glasses,” Pagano said.

In an email to TVNewsCheck, an ESPN spokesperson said the network continues to experiment with Ultra High Definition television production tools to produce programming for the current ESPN family of HD channels.

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good 3d is nauseating to watch. hope they use the bandwith for something good.

Based on industry news, would seem to be 4k...