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Until recently the preserve of selected cinemas - 3D is now poised to make the leap into our living rooms..

Until recently the preserve of selected cinemas - 3D is now poised to make the leap into our living rooms.

The new wave of 3D is well and truly with us, it seems. The science-fiction movie epic Avatar, widely held to be the best example of 3D cinematography yet produced, may have lost out at the Oscars, but it is still lingering at the top of the film charts and praised to the (computer-generated and flocked with floating mountains) skies.

Buoyed up by the acclaim for 3D films, television broadcasters now believe that 3D TV, for so long the province of science fiction itself, is the coming thing in home entertainment; indeed, it could be in your home within the next month. Sky will be the first to bring the extra dimension to home TVs in the UK, launching a new premium channel in April. It has already started screening 3D football matches in pubs; overseas, the US channel ESPN is also planning 3D sports broadcasts, starting in June.

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