• The Wall Street Journal, Tuesday, January 6, 2009 9:45 AM

Animation giants have vowed this year to turn three-dimensional technology into a fixture in your living room. The quest to deliver 3-D television shows, movies and videogames to homes will be a hot topic at the Consumer Electronics Show, which kicks off Wednesday night in Las Vegas. One key hurdle: persuading users to wear special glasses associated with most 3-D technologies.

Companies including Samsung Electronics, Mitsubishi Electric and Hyundai IT have begun selling what they call "3-D ready" TV sets. These sets refresh the images at high speed to help reduce the headache-inducing tendencies of early 3-D offerings.

There isn't much programming (or advertising for that matter) to exploit the new TV sets, but companies such as Dolby Laboratories and TDVision Systems plan to use CES to discuss new formats to encode and distribute 3-D signals, to encourage new content.

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