China Trials Its First 3D TV Channel 48
rtoz writes with the news that Chinese viewers will soon be able to watch a 3D TV channel service, to be opened in late January. Excerpting: "The first stations for the 3D trial are China Central Television, Beijing Television, Tianjing Broadcasting TV, Jiangsu TV and Shenzhen TV. 3D programs will be offered daily from 10:30 am to midnight. The programs include animation, sports, documentaries, TV dramas, entertainment and live broadcasting of big events, such as CCTV New Year's Gala and the London 2012 Olympic Games. The stations will charge no viewing fees during the early phase of operation."
First show getting great reviews (Score:4, Funny)
It's roughly translated to "Woman Read Chairman Mao To Inspirational Music In Front of Picture of Chairman Mao." And I hear it looks *amazing* in 3D.
Well They Had Something Better But ... (Score:3)
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The only three programs on Chinese television are dramas set in Ancient China, dramas set during the cultural revolution, and sappy Korean soaps.
Although it's no worse than anyone else's programs.
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Do you really have to ask the obvious?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/16/3d-tv-health-risks-7-peop_n_540227.html#s81731&title=People_Who_Are [huffingtonpost.com]
Smell a class action from these ppl? It would need an opt out / in kind of service, so a dedicated channel, can't opt out of hbo 10:30 pm to 12:00 AM, so we can't do it like the Chinese period.
Just a fad (Score:1)
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3D Television is great. You can have a great big TV blaring away in your living room, and all of your flatmates, not having goggles of their own, will think it's a blurry mess. They'll leave you in peace.
3D Sound is easy, as long as you can avoid tripping over the speaker wires.
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Neither you nor I know much about how the Kims behaved: information coming out of NK is so tightly controlled that we are basically relying on western propaganda.
The Taliban - the religious fanatic element is insane, but the majority of the Taliban comprise people who are worked up against occupying forces.
Hussein - no, I'd put China on a par with Hussein: both corporate secular dictatorships with little notion of freedom; brutal to dissenters; keen to preserve ownership of various previously autonomous reg
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I never understand how can someone claim that China (or anyone else for that matter) is a nation of slavedrivers and you don't consider yourself one, since you (and everyone else) knowingly but cheaper products manufactured in China precisely for that reason.
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Have you ever actually been to China?
I mean I don't love their government either, but seriously? Normal people there live normal lives for the most part.
There are no slave-drivers or slaves. A lot of the "horrible" things they allow, like 16 year olds able to work in a factory, were common-place in the US not long ago.
The Chinese government may not be a leader in human rights, but nor are they close to Hussein.
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I have been to China and about 45 other nations across the globe. You go to any dictatorship and the right parts of the right towns everywhere show people living "normal lives for the most part". You miss the greater proportion living as peasants or whose lives consist of walking a few metres between dormitory and factory line. You miss the prisons. You certainly miss what simply isn't there: people hearing and speaking freely; the access to humane, independently administered and proportional justice; the o
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The Chinese government may not be a leader in human rights, but nor are they close to Hussein.
No, they just occupy other 1000 year old countries like Tibet and claim they're just waiting to be "freed" by the PRK. Oh, and there was that thing in Tianamen Square.
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The Chinese government may not be a leader in human rights, but nor are they close to Hussein.
No, they just occupy other 1000 year old countries like Tibet and claim they're just waiting to be "freed" by the PRK. Oh, and there was that thing in Tianamen Square.
What, the big TVs saying "PEACE" and "TRANQUILITY" and music playing, or the metal detectors on the way in?
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A lot of the "horrible" things they allow, like 16 year olds able to work in a factory
Well, I'm from Germany, and I started to work at 16 in 1986, which worked great for me since I was completely fed up with school.
It wasn't until 10 years later that I decided to go on to college for a few years. With a lot of "real live" experience already accumulated. I think something like that makes far more sense than being "educated" outside the real world until almost 30, like in some cases I have seen, and then let loose into the job market.
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What, like the US?
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Here's a hint: it is not in anybody's interest to annoy China too much. The keyword here is "interest", just as it was with Iraq and Afghanistan.
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3D won't be worth a hill of beans until you can feel the..... ummmmmmm....
Lets say that the adult movie industry are gagging for this feature, without it, 3D is incomplete!!!
I can't wait to be bent over and raped by a huge black cock.
Great! (Score:3, Insightful)
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In 3D it's easy to circumvent by looking around the side of the black rectangles.
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I wonder what pixelation looks like in 3D.
I wonder if they can do a volumetric cut of "offensive" images, so they can for example, cut off the image of a guy's dick so you don't see it when it is broadcast. Might be easier to cut it off in real life first though, especially if he is a political dissident.
Even better, broadcast a 3D image of the police coming to arrest you if you say anything treasonous to scare potential dissenters. They will never know if it is a 3D projection, or the real police, Like Arn
China is the new savior of 3D? (Score:2)
Big Cost, little demand (Score:1)
Jiangsu (Score:2)
Oh, neat. I'm in Jiangsu. Except for some reason all of my channels come from the Philippines. I'm getting good at Tagalog, which doesn't really help me in China.