I read gizmodo like twice a day and usually it's the same quality as engadget.com However since news like this spread from blog to blog virally if one gets it wrong they all do. No reason why this can't be real though- could be a one-off promotional proof of concept thing. to prove my earlier point here is another gizmodo article:
http://gizmodo.com/5027707/film-industr ... ng-at-home
it points directly to the page silversurfer showed in another thread.
also it'd anoying that they keep using red/cyan glasses images at 3d-related threads. Then again what else are they to put? polarized glasses look just regular glasses and shutterglasses- well, why replace one stereotype with another? Overall though I'm very encouraged by this news- though I won't hold my breath for any satellite channels to start broadcasting in 3d any time soon (which would be soo amazing since I have a satellite modem which I use just for watching sat tv on the pc). For instance if news channels like bbc world, france24, cnn, aljazeera english, etc would offer stereo3d versions every report would be like actually being there. Then again as I've said I'm not holding my breath- if this happens before 2012 I'll be impressed. If it happens later like 2020 I won't be surprised.
EDIT: I started talking about the parallel thread, my bad.
btw, that article says
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers intends to tackle this problem, and has given the problem over to the newly formed 3-D Home Display Formats Task Force
will they at least try to contact MTBS or the other way round? seems all we do here is sit and complain and somewhere some super exclusive "motion picture 3d task force" is formed. I call for Niel to get an interview with them or something, get involved with em.