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One of the more interesting bits of news from the National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas this week was from TDVision Systems, which released a special 3D visor two years ago.

Now, the company says that it can project a stereoscopic image using a TV, which will appear in 2D on an ordinary television but in 3D when connected to one of the newer, 3D-capable displays. The kicker is that the company claims that there is “no loss in color, resolution or frame rate” when rendering the 3D technology as 2D, which would mean that 3D movies could be broadcast to the market at large without a specially formatted channel. Unfortunately, it’s also a claim that I cannot independently verify.

At the CEDIA show last year, both Samsung and Mitsubishi showed off the next generation in DLP technology: 3D technology. While the 3D performance wasn’t jawdropping, I’d suspect it would do a passable job rendering Beowulf and other 3D-encoded films. TDVision said it presented Blu-ray discs encoded using its technology, including a “dimensionalized” Star Wars clip.

The real money for the company, however, is selling its devices to studios as an encoding and distribution solution. TDVision manufactures a 3DP2 camera, which directly encodes recorded video into its native 3D format. Whether or not the company will succeed, there’s definite evidence that the studios see 3D as a next-generation technology, if not the saving grace of movie theaters.