The FinePix Real 3D W3 is Fujifilm’s second stab at a 3D digital camera.

Its first was a bomb, selling just a few hundred units worldwide, by the company's own admission.

Thanks to its binocular lens system, and twin 10mP sensors – designed, the Japanese camera maker says, to mimic the human visual system – the W3 can take both stills and video in 3D.

The one-third TVNZ owned Hybrid TV has eked out another point of difference for its TiVo recorder.

Through its Caspa service, which delivers content via a broadband connection, TiVo is now offering 3D content – because it turns out a TiVo set-top box can be used to decode 3D content.

That’s good news for the tiny number of New Zealanders who’ve brought a 3DTV so far (TiVo also argues, optimistically, that you can download content now and save it for the day when you buy a 3D telly).

TiVo says it will add 12 on-demand TV channels to its Caspa broadband service.

The new channels will go live on July 14.

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TiVo has yet to comment on how much the new channels will cost (Caspa’s current on-demand TV content is a mix of free and paid TV series, which are downloaded by episode).

Panasonic and Samsung have become the first companies in the world to commercially market 3D TVs (which also display a conventional picture).

Their prices are more than triple that of today’s tellie - at least when looking at entry-level prices at each screen size.

Panasonic is offering a 50-inch Viera plasma (previewed in Auckland by NBR here) for $US2900 ($NZ3877), bundled with a 3D-capable Blu-ray player.