This Sunday, sky will broadcast the Arsenal versus Manchester United match in 3-D. They will be broadcast in this at selected pubs around the UK. The not releasing the names of the pubs, because of the demands this would create, as they want regulars at these props to see the matches. The Premier league match will be filmed in 3-D and broadcast across the ninth pubs chosen. These are in London, Manchester, Dublin, Cardiff and Edinburgh. They have been given some of the first 3D ready TV sets in the UK. LG have supplied these TVs and they are 47 inch wide LD920. These TVs require passive glasses to be used.

This model of TV will be on sale in the UK from April, almost certainly making it the first 3-D TV in the UK.

Sky already has a whopping huge 37 HD channels – 30 more than anyone else in the UK so it’s only natural for them to look at the 3D TV market too.

At the moment they’re looking at the 3D TV market and reckon that their latest Sky HD box will cope with 3D TV once you’ve got a special 3D TV.

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It seems that more sports matches will be filmed and shown in 3D this year.

Only two of England’s Six Nations matches will be shown in 3D.

They will be shown in selected Cineworld cinemas and tickets will cost £12.50 or more.

You will be able to buy tickets from 29th January.

If you are a customers of O2, the  current England rugby team’s sponsor, then you can book priority tickets by texting 3D to 2020 from 25th January. If you want to get priority 3D sports match tickets you can become a customer of O2 here

The games being shown in 3D will be

The England v Ireland rugby game on 6th February 2010 at Twickenham,

This match will have the honour of being the very first European live 3D sports broadcast.

The England v Wales match on February 27th will be the other film.

In the first 20 days after its release,  Avatar – James Cameron’s new film has bought in $1.1 billion worldwide, making it the No. 2 top-grossing film of all time. There’s still time for it to make number one too – Titantic is at number one – but we wait to see what happens in the next few weeks.
Cinema audiences are buzzing with this new 3D technology. With Cineworld planning to show LIVE 3D coverage of World Cup matches this summer.

The CES is being used as a showcase for 3DTV and a prototype from Samsung is exciting as it does away with the need for 3D glasses. However at this stage it seems you have to sit looking directly at the TV at the right distance away to get the right affect.

Also at the CES Panasonic have included the required 3D glasses with its 3D TV.The glasses are very slick in design and definitely not made from cardboard!

Whilst 3DTV is in the very early stages of commercialisation it’s going to get bigger and bigger as we progress towards the World Cup as that’s being filmed in 3D.