{"id":86219,"date":"2010-09-14T00:32:12","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T16:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/european-operators-ses-eutelsat-announce-3-d-initiatives\/"},"modified":"2010-09-14T00:32:12","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T16:32:12","slug":"european-operators-ses-eutelsat-announce-3-d-initiatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/european-operators-ses-eutelsat-announce-3-d-initiatives\/","title":{"rendered":"European Operators SES, Eutelsat Announce 3-D Initiatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SES Astra <\/strong>has formed an initiative with broadcasters  and consumer electronics vendors to support the introduction and take-up  of 3-D TV services in Europe.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The initiative aims to reach an industry-wide understanding of the  minimum technical specifications for the introduction of 3-D television  and broadcasting. SES said the initiative has received the endorsement  of various European broadcasters, including public and private TV  channels as well as representatives from the consumer electronics  industry. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cWe are very pleased with the results of our initiative which  represents a major leap in the introduction of 3-D television across  Europe. By working closely with our broadcast customers and the consumer  electronics industry, we are again demonstrating our ability to bring  together key-industry players to drive innovation in the field of  broadcasting technology,\u201d Ferdinand Kayser, CEO, SES Astra said in a  statement. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3-D TV will drive the shipment of 40 million 3-D TV sets worldwide in 2013, according to<strong> IMS Research<\/strong>  forecasts. By 2015, IMS Research expects that more than 70 million 3-D  TV sets will be shipped. \u201cWe are not as bullish as some other firms, but  I believe that our forecast is quite realistic considering the  aggressive rollout and pricing strategies of many leading OEMs in the TV  space,\u201d Anna Hunt, a research analyst at IMS Research, said in the  report.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Separately, <strong>Eurosport<\/strong> announced it will use <strong>Eutelsat<\/strong>  capacity to transmit the U.S. Open (tennis) in 3-D at IFA, a consumer  electronics show held in Berlin. The U.S. Open in 3-D will be available  on a dedicated Eurosport 3-D signal transmitted to Panasonic\u2019s IFA booth  via Eutelsat\u2019s Eurobird 9A satellite.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cThis partnership with Eurosport leverages Eutelsat\u2019s 3-D experience  and the core asset of our broadcast satellites to deliver a new  generation of rich content requiring a 15 Mbit\/s signal to fully  appreciate stunning 3-D effects in the home,\u201d Eutelsat COO Andrew  Wallace said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SES Astra has formed an initiative with broadcasters and consumer electronics vendors to support the introduction and take-up of 3-D TV services in Europe. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The initiative aims to reach an industry-wide understanding of the minimum technical specifications for the introduction of 3-D television and broadcasting. SES said the initiative has received the endorsement of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}