Interview

I??m an ´old timer´. I was researching 3DTV in the 1980s. We trialled a system in Germany, an ´anaglyph´ system with red and cyan as the complementary colour casts of the L and R pictures, combined in the broadcast PAL picture. We sold (yes, sold) over six million pairs of glasses for the fi rst live broadcast from the NDR studios in Hamburg. The viewers saw a monochrome 3D picture full of maids poking feather dusters into the viewers?? faces ?? very cultured. Being monochrome in a time when colour TV was blooming, it really wasn??t going anywhere, so we didn??t do more live broadcasting. But we did make local trials with a colour system based on two PAL projectors and polarised glasses, to get the reactions of viewers.