The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) starts off a standards process for active 3D glasses.

The standard should ensure that a company's 3D glasses will be compatible with another's 3DTVs.

To reach this aim, the CEA created a 3D Technologies Working Group (named "R4WG16")-- and asks for manufacturers and companies to send in their proposals by March 31st.

At the time of writing we have no details of companies actually signing in on the plan.

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CeBIT's opening day houses the iF gold awards-- where Loewe receives the award for its Individual line.

Loewe Individual is a slim LED-backlit LCD range coming in a variety of styles and formats-- with customer choices for anything from inlay colour to floor stand type. Screen sizes range from 32" to 55" (with either high gloss or contrast filter panels), while audio comes in surround (from 2.0 to 5.1) with a variety of speaker types and configurations.

The jury chose a total of 50 gold award winners out of the 2756 product entries taking part this year.

Go Loewe Individual Receives iF Gold Award

Toshiba announces the commercial availability of its large glasses-free 3DTV sets-- models with screens larger than 40".

Soon launching in the European market, the company has prototypes of, amongst others, the world's first 65" glasses-free 3D set and a 56" set.

However the company still has to decide on which actual models to launch. Toshiba currently offers glasses-free 3DTVs with 12" and 20" sizes.

Toshiba's prototypes carry a LED-backlit 4k2k panel, while the company says its viewpoint overlay technolgy allows users to even move their heads while viewing 3D content without compromising the effect.

Go Toshiba to Announce Large Glasses-Free 3DTVs

Researchers at MIT present a new system capturing images and sending them over internet to a holographic display at around 15 frames per second-- using a Kinect camera and standard computer equipment, providing a glimpse at holographic displays' new potential.

The team are also confident they'll be able to boost the frame rate to feature film frame rates (24 fps) if not TV (30fps).

The MIT team's setup consists of a Kinect camera feeding data to an ordinary laptop. The laptop relays the data in real-time to a PC over the internet-- a PC with x3 commercial GPUs computing the diffraction patterns building up the hologram. The only non-off the shelf component is, of course, the holographic display itself, an experimental system designed at MIT itself.

However the researchers are also working on a successor to the holographic display-- one that's potentially comercial, smaller, cheaper to manufacture and producing larger images.

A glimpse into a future after 3DTV? Perhaps. Texan display product company Zebra Imaging already shows interest in the technology, saying that "it’s a hop, skip and a jump away from reality."

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A CEA study says manufacturers are are making big advances in energy efficient TVs-- with the average TV consuming less energy than a 100W incandescent light bulb.

The study takes power consumptions on digital TV models from the 2003 - 2010 period, with LCD and plasma displays ranging from 13" to 65".

Some highlights include LCD active power use falling by 63% for the period (with standby power dropping by 87% from 2004 to 2010) and Plasma TV active power falling by 41% from 2008 to 2010 (with standby use falling 85% from 2008 to 2010).

The CEA says that thanks to the Energy Star program (alongside technological innovation and industry competition) the digital TV industry achieved energy savings taking their analog predecessors decades to reach. The organisation expects LCD TVs to make 82% of 2011 global TV sales, shipping 27.1m units, and predicts plasma TVs to ship 4.6m units.

The study also mentions standard flourescent backlighting for LCD sets is also making way for LEDs-- increasing the TV sets' power efficiency while enchancing the display's brightness and contrast.

Go CEA Study Finds Dramatic Increase in TV Energy Efficiency

Acer's GN245HQ is the first supporting Nvidia's HDMI 3D solution, making it deal for both 3D movies and gaming machines.

It comes as a 23" LED backlit screen with 16:9 aspect ratio, 120Hz refresh rate and 100m:1 contrast ratio. Maximum resolution is 1920 x 1080.

The monitor carries HDMI and DVI-DL connections. The IR emitter is integrated in the set (unlike earlier Nvidia 3D systems requiring a USB IR emitter), and includes Nvidia's active shutter 3D glasses.

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