How New Media Affect TV Viewing Supplementary Material for Chapter 5 in When Media Are New Copyright 2010, John Carey and Martin C.J. Elton Last updated 12/11/10 Part 2
Watching TV on the Web
Mobile Phones
3D TV
Abbreviated 3D Timeline
1830 Charles Wheatstone creates the reflecting mirror stereoscope Eadweard Muybridge, William Dickson (working for Thomas Edison) and others experiment with stereoscopic motion pictures Short films in 3-D are presented in New York using the Teleview Projector; in Los Angeles, a feature length 3-D film, “The Power of Love” is screened for the press MGM releases “Audioscopiks,” a 3-D short “In Tune With Tomorrow,” a 3-D film premieres at the New York World’s Fair “Bwana Devil” a 3-D feature length film is released
1953, It Came From Outer Space 1969, The Stewardesses 1974, Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein 1983, Amityville 3D 1991, Muppet*Vision 2004, Polar Express 2010, Avatar Select List of 3D Movies
1981 – 3D TV has been tried periodically
Streaming Web Video Onto TV Sets
Epilogue Bad Ideas Resurface
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