Put away those funny glasses: the BBC has decided to abandon its experiment with 3D after deciding there was insufficient appetite for it among audiences.
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BBC to drop two-year 3D experiment after Doctor Who anniversary episode
Friday 05 July 2013
3D broadcasting will end in November this year
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Wednesday 27 February 2013
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Last night's viewing - The Dark Ages: an Age of Light, BBC4; Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream, BBC4
Wednesday 28 November 2012
For a while now, Dan Cruickshank has been television's paramount Reverential Whisperer, his voice dropping series by series until it has become a rasping shadow of its original form. He does have some competition, though, if the first episode of Waldemar Januszczak's new series The Dark Ages: an Age of Light is anything to go by.
'Ice Age' puts chill on 'Spider-Man' at box office
Monday 16 July 2012
"Ice Age: Continental Drift," the fourth film in the animated series featuring a woolly mammoth and his prehistoric friends, trampled "The Amazing Spider-Man" and took the top spot at US and Canadian box offices yesterday with $46m.
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Thursday 07 June 2012
3D announcement seen as an attempt to pre-empt Apple.
Monetary frights at the movies
Friday 20 April 2012
As unemployment and ticket prices both rise, will young adults be able to afford a trip to the cinema? Geoffrey Macnab reports
To 3D or not to 3D – that is the question
Tuesday 21 June 2011
Viewing in that extra dimension is being pushed as never before. Could it really be here to stay, asks Rhodri Marsden
The $175m flop so bad it could end the 3D boom
Monday 21 March 2011
Disney expected 'Mars Needs Moms' to strike it rich in cinema's new gold rush. Then audiences saw it... Geoffrey Mcnab reports
3D 'Yellow Submarine' sunk by spiralling costs
Wednesday 16 March 2011
Fans of The Beatles are no longer packing their bags for a return journey beneath the waves to the land of submarines: Disney has announced that it intends to scrap an eagerly awaited 3D remake of the cult 1968 film Yellow Submarine.
Dazzling spectacles: How arthouse film-makers are helping to rid 3D of its gimmicky image
Thursday 10 March 2011
As a host of enticing movies get set for release, James Mottram welcomes cinema's vivid new dawn
James Watt bust to appear in 3D
Monday 21 February 2011
A sculpture of James Watt, one of the Industrial Revolution's greatest engineers, has been created using 3D technology.
Toshiba unveils glasses-free 3D TV
Monday 04 October 2010
Toshiba believes it has a solution for television viewers who like 3D but hate the glasses.
3D-television: A whole new way of seeing?
Wednesday 29 September 2010
This week, Sky launches its 3D-television service. The cinemas are full of three-dimensional movies and a heap of hardware has hit the shops. But is this what consumers want?
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