September
5 The future of TV: 3-D sports and porn

HD TV is already retro; it's 3-D TV that has everyone excited. "A few weeks ago I found myself in a converted warehouse in Burbank, where a rig housing two cameras shot my image and transmitted it onto a flat-screen TV on the other side of the room," writes Richard Siklos. "With the benefit of polarized glasses - the cheap clear-plastic ones you now put on when you go to a 3-D movie in a theater - I saw myself in three crisp dimensions, practically leaping out of the television." Most enthusiastic about this development are producers of sports and porn, but ESPN exec Chuck Pagano estimates the first 3-D broadcasts in the U.S. are three years away. [Fortune]