3D-TV pioneers from Mexico are recording the World Electronic Media Forum (the bi-annual meeting organized by the World Broadcasting Unions, including the EBU) in all its dimensions. The WEMF's meeting agenda combines technology issues with economics and programmes, to try to identify interrelationships between different dimensions of broadcasting and the media. What, for example, are the new challenges coming out of the age of convergence?
Internet and Broadcasting
Delegates from all over the world came to Mexico City to find out. The WEMF Sessions cover the relationship between Internet and Broadcasting, the impact of the digital switch over, journalists just doing their job in mortal danger, helping persons with disabilities (now subject of a recent UN Convention), and the need for broadcasters to work closer to bodies like the UN to ensure the public hears the important things.
4th WEMF shot in 3D
Special about this 4th WEMF, is that it is being shot in 3D TV by the mexican broadcaster Televisa - though not yet broadcast in 3D. Televisisa was a pioneer of 3D TV broadcasting, and (along with German broadcaster ARD) made some of the fisrt 3D TV anaglyph broadcasts in the 1980s. To celebrate their history, below are two 3D still pictures shot at the WEMF.
 the 3D camera used |  David Lewis (EBU) speaking |
To view the photos in 3D you will need the usual 'anaglyph' glasses which have red and blue filters. Click on the photos for the full picture. The photos are courtesy of 3D expert David Wood, who is at the WEMF for the EBU. Read more about David's observations in his WEMF blog.