Sensio Technologies is in talks with additional device makers to support...
Sensio Technologies is in talks with additional device makers to support its 3DGO! on-demand 3D movie service, Chris Saito, the service’s general manager, told us Monday. It’s too soon to name any of the companies, he said. Only select Vizio…
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3D TVs in the U.S. will offer the service at launch this month, via an app. But Sensio is hoping to get its service offered on more TVs, as well as via set-top boxes and “hopefully” through videogame consoles, said Saito. Sensio will offer 3D content from Disney on the service as part of a new content license deal, Sensio said earlier Monday. The Disney content will be available on compatible CE devices in the U.S. starting on an unspecified date this month when the much-delayed service finally arrives, according to Sensio. Initially, more than 20 Disney 3D on-demand titles, including animated classics and live-action adventure movies, will be made available, Sensio said. The titles will include Brave and Frankenweenie, Sensio said in a news release. Coming Disney titles will include Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas and his live-action Alice in Wonderland, Monsters, Inc., all three Toy Story animated features, Tangled, Up, Chicken Little, Tron: Legacy, Meet the Robinsons, the Robert Zemeckis animated movie A Christmas Carol, Finding Nemo, G-Force and Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience, according to Sensio’s website. Sensio is “more determined than ever to realize our promise to address the lack of 3D content to the home and to support” its Hi-Fi 3D technology customers with “the best library of 3D content in the market,” CEO Nicholas Routhier said in the news release. The company is “looking forward to the next few months, as more content providers will join us in this effort,” he said. Sensio is now hoping to start its several-times-delayed service in mid-March with “around 50” titles from all content providers, said Saito. The delay had “nothing to do with us,” he said. Sensio was waiting for Vizio to make a needed “firmware upgrade” to its TVs, he said. Vizio didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Hi-Fi 3D is a “frame-compatible” technology that Sensio said provides “high-fidelity stereoscopic images using conventional 2D channels.” The technology currently is being deployed in passive 3D TVs, but can be modified for use in active-shutter TVs as well, said Saito.