DirecTV and Panasonic flipped a switch on the nation’s initial 24 hour 3D network this morning, promulgation n3D out on channel 103 to all properly equipped viewers. Of march, if you’ve got your 3DTV, your H21 or higher heavenly body receiver as well as a little 3D specs, what will you be watching? Besides events similar to the arriving NASCAR competition from Daytona, an exclusive 3D feed of the MLB All-Star Game and (locally accessible broadcasts of the Yankees/Mariners series, July’s schedule is packed with demo content like Guitar Center Sessions with Peter Gabriel and Jane’s Addiction as well as Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia. Beyond that there’s the couple of IMAX flicks upon the brand-new DirecTV Cinema in 3D channel, as well as World Cup games from ESPN 3D through video on demand, check Zap2it for the full schedule but don’t be repelled to see the lot of repeats, for right away.

Show full PR textDIRECTV and Panasonic Launch Nation’s First Suite of 3D Channels

n3D™ powered by Panasonic Features the Variety of 3D Sports as well as Entertainment Programming Including DIRECTV’s Exclusive Broadcast of FOX Sports 2010 MLB All-Star Game in 3D

BRAND-NEW YORK, July 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — DIRECTV, the world’s many renowned video service and Panasonic, the universe personality in 3D TV record, ushered in a brand-new age in the fast growth of 3D entertainment for a home with a launch currently of three 3D channels, including n3D™ powered by Panasonic – a linear channel dedicated exclusively to 3D programming and viewable on 3D radio sets including Panasonic’s line of award-winning VIERA Full HD 3D TVs.

n3D™ powered by Panasonic, is right away accessible at no one more price to millions of DIRECTV HD customers upon channel 103. Throughout a month of July, n3D business will have access to exclusive, strange 3D programming such as Guitar Center Sessions with Peter Gabriel as well as Jane’s Addiction, as well as one more titles such as Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia, Wild Safari: A South African Adventure as well as N Wave Picture’s S.O.S Planet, African Adventure: Safari in a Okavango and Encounter in a Third Dimension.

n3D will additionally suggest special events such as this weekend’s running of the NASCAR Coke Zero 400, the internal promote of the Yankees-Mariners array upon July 10-11 as well as DIRECTV’s exclusive, national promote of FOX Sports 2010 MLB All-Star Game in 3D upon July 13.

In further to n3D, DIRECTV is additionally rising DIRECTV Cinema™ in 3D on channel 104, that is now charity IMAX titles Deep Sea 3D and Under the Sea 3D as well as n3D On Demand upon channel 105, which is now delivering replays of ESPN’s 3D coverage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup matches. DIRECTV additionally launched ESPN 3D on channel 106 upon June 11.

“The capability to move high-quality 3D programming into the home is the outrageous enrichment in the expansion of television,” pronounced Derek Chang, senior manager clamp boss of Content Strategy and Development for DIRECTV. “Our innovative technology has authorised us to lead a attention in HD as well as you have been stability upon which same trail by establishing ourselves as the premier destination for the most appropriate 3D observation knowledge accessible. We have been unapproachable to be partnering with Panasonic and are vehement to broach this new dimension of television to millions of DIRECTV HD business across a nation.”

“This is the vital milestone in a immature story of 3D home party as well as Panasonic is really unapproachable to work with DIRECTV to move consumers this new TV channel dedicated to one side to 3D programming,” said Joseph M. Taylor, Chairman & CEO, Panasonic Corporation of North America. “We have launched the VIERA 3D TVs and Blu-ray 3D Player, as well as they have been really good perceived by consumers, though we know the key to a success of 3D for the home is the availability of calm. The arrival of n3D powered by Panasonic underscores the actuality which consumers will have entrance to the fast flourishing operation of 3D TV programming together with live vital sports as well as entertainment events, as good as cinema upon 3D Blu-ray Disc in 2010.”

Panasonic is a exclusive presenting sponsor of DIRECTV’s n3D channel. In January at a Consumer Electronics Show, DIRECTV as well as Panasonic voiced their skeleton to launch 3D TV channels as well as have given worked together to precedence relations with programming partners as well as film studios to acquire brand-new as well as existent 3D calm. For some-more information upon DIRECTV’s 3D channels gratefully visit www.directv.com/3D.

Last month, DIRECTV HD business perceived the giveaway program ascent enabling them to have entrance to the 3D channels on DIRECTV. DIRECTV HD business will need a 3D radio set and 3D glasses to view 3D programming upon DIRECTV.

Panasonic is the tellurian personality in a development of end-to-end Full HD 3D record solutions together with a world’s initial Full HD 3D video camera that annals to solid-state memory, Full HD 3D Blu-ray Disc authoring, as well as a endowment winning VT-25 Series of Full HD 3D VIERA Plasma TVs and 3D Blu-ray Disc Players. For some-more information upon Panasonic’s Full HD 3D record, revisit www.panasonic.com/3D.

About DIRECTV, Inc.

DIRECTV (Nasdaq: DTV) is the world’s most renowned video use delivering state-of-the-art record, unmatched programming, a many extensive sports packages accessible as well as attention heading customer service to the more than 25 million business in the U.S. as well as Latin America. In the U.S., DIRECTV offers its 18.6 million business more than 130 HD channels and Dolby-Digital® 5.1 theater-quality tune (when accessible, entrance to exclusive sports programming such as NFL SUNDAY TICKET™, award winning technology like the DIRECTV® DVR Scheduler and aloft customer compensation than a heading wire companies for nine years running. DIRECTV Latin America, through the subsidiaries and dependent companies in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia, and alternative Latin American countries, leads the pay-TV category in record, programming as well as service, delivering an unrivaled digital radio knowledge to 6.5 million business. DIRECTV sports as well as party properties embody three Regional Sports Networks (Northwest, Rocky Mountain and Pittsburgh) as good as the 65 percent seductiveness in Game Show Network.

About Panasonic

Based in Secaucus, NJ, Panasonic Corporation of North America markets a broad line of digital and other electronics products for consumer, commercial operation and industrial use. The association is a principal North American subsidiary of Panasonic Corporation (NYSE: PERSONAL COMPUTER, as well as a heart of Panasonic’s U.S. branding, selling, sales, use as well as R&D operations. Panasonic is affianced to practice prudent, tolerable use of the earth’s healthy resources as well as strengthen the surroundings by a company’s Eco Ideas programs. Detailed report about Panasonic’s environmental stewardship may be found in the Panasonic Report for Sustainability 2008 (www.panasonic.net/csr/reports) and Environmental Data Book 2008 (www.panasonic.net/eco/env_data/back_number/). Information about Panasonic and its products is accessible at www.panasonic.com. Additional association report for reporters is accessible at www.panasonic.com/pressroom.