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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
• 1880-1895 Eadweard Muybridge, William Dickson (working for Thomas Edison) and others experiment with stereoscopic motion pictures.
• 1922 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. • 1936 MGM releases “Audioscopiks,” a 3-D short.
• 1939 “In Tune With Tomorrow,” a 3-D film premieres at the New York World’s Fair. • 1952 “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
A refrigerator with a built-in TV set