Toshiba may not launch HD DVD products until 2006, breaking its previously stated deadline for the introduction of the technology. (the register)

the battle is not so uninteresting to watch, even not so different to others on standards and formats: sony has blu-ray, bought mgm and has columbia tristar and disney in its boad. on the other side stands toshiba with time warner, universal and paramount. 20th century fox hasn't decided yet, which keeps the run open. (hddvd) there have been negotiations going on for a while and toshiba's announcement to go its way. but now their flag waves: wait.

3D TV: A Scalable System for Real-Time Acquisition, Transmission and Autostereoscopic Display of Dynamic Scenes, Hanspeter Pfister, Wojciech Matusik, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

stereoscope, wheatstone (1838) parallax stereogram, ives (1903) integral display, lippman (1908) parallax panoramagram, ives (1928) lenticular sheets (1930s hologram, dennis gabor (1948)

acquisition: model based, light shield system, multiview video compression

huebschman (2003) holographic display, holo video

according to bruce sterling: dead media

Devignes's stereoscopic zoetrope (1860) Stereoscopic phenakistoscopes: Seller's Kinematoscope (1861), Shaw's stereoscopic phenakistiscope (1860) Bonelli and Cook's microphotograph stereo-phenakistiscope (1863), Wheatstone's stereoscopic viewer (c. 1870) 3-D projection systems: d'Almeida's projected 3-D magic lantern slides (1856), Heyl's Phasmatrope (1870), Grivolas's stereoscopic moving pictures (1897), the Fairall anaglyph process (1922), Kelly's Plasticon (1922), Ives and Leventhall's Plastigram, aka Pathe Stereoscopiks, aka Audioscopiks, aka Metroscopix (1923,1925, 1935, 1953), Teleview (New York 1922), polarized light stereoscopic movies (1936), Ivanov's parallax stereogram projector (Moscow 1941), Savoy's Cyclostereoscope (Paris 1949), the Telekinema (London 1951), Space Vision (Chicago 1966)

hey, ifa2005 people, the acronym hdtv has a long history and died out not just once, according to the pointer above:

dead video: ...Panasonic HDTV, (1974), dead color television formats: Baird Telechrome, HDTV, PALplus letterbox format, etc

well, 'the other' view, interesting hdtv battle and history - maybe not so different at all, in the end ...

70 meters are high.