Sony, Samsung and other consumer-electronics heavyweights are uniting to support a technology that could send high-definition video signals wirelessly from a single set-top box to screens around the home. The consortium due to be announced Wednesday is an important development in the race to create a definitive way to replace tangles of video cables, but doesn't end it -- both Sony and Samsung also are supporting a competing technology.
You’ll probably still need special glasses. But 3-D movies and other video could become routine home-entertainment options within the next few years. The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, a New York-based technical society for the motion imaging industry, has established a task force to define the parameters of a “stereoscopic 3-D mastering standard” for home video.
Citing the philosophy of their founder, executives of Matsushita Industrial Electric shared details with visiting members of the press about the company’s Earth-friendly environmental impact management efforts, known company wide as the “Eco Ideas” strategy. The massive company-wide effort by Matsushita — soon to be officially renamed as a company to its more famous brand name, Panasonic — aims to increase the energy efficiency of its products, significantly reduce the company’s carbon emissions, and promote the proper management and disposal of chemical substances used in the production process.
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