3D televisions the norm within five years, experts predict

By Ben Leach 813AM GMT 10 Mar 2010

Tim Burton"s Alice in Wonderland 3D surfaced Britain"s motion picture box bureau charts at the week finish

Samsung, the Korean electronic giant, plans to launch a 3D range that will be in shops prior to the finish of March.

The televisions will be marketed as the worlds initial high definition, three-dimensional LED televisions.

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The televisions will come with dual pairs of 3D eyeglasses and a Blu-ray version of Monsters vs Aliens, Samsung said.

"Weve not long ago had developments in how 3D drive-in theatre are shot," pronounced Boo Keun Yoon, the companys boss of visible arrangement products.

"I hold 2010 will be the year of the 3D radio revolution. Probably by the finish of this year, well see an bomb expansion in demand."

Panasonic, an additional Japanese company, has voiced it will sell the initial 3D radio at a Best buy wiring emporium in Manhattan this week.

Sony, that hopes to proceed offered 3D sets in June, wants to sell 2.5 million televisions by Mar 2011 rounded off one tenth of all the worldwide radio sales.

Experts have expected a "slowburn" of sales in the UK, with prices starting at around �2,000.

"HD is still a comparatively new judgment and consumers are only removing used to it but 3D will be the subsequent big thing", David Kempner, John Lewiss prophesy buyer, told the Guardian.

"Given it has the await of all the vital manufacturers, 3D record has got movement of the own but it additionally requites calm providers to await it and there is a time loiter there."

But 3D televisions are expected to turn at large affordable since the record at the back of them does not cost most some-more than existent sets.

"The appendage cost of production isnt significant," Jim Bottoms, executive of the record consulting association Futuresource, told the Guardian.

"Set makers are starting to soak up 3D in higher-end televisions this year. Very quickly, positively by 2015, probably each full-sized radio will have 3D capability."