“3D TVs are the next big step for us,” said Choon Lee, Vice President Director at the Digital TV Research Lab. “We will try with one or two markets in 2009,” he said. Although he wouldn’t specify which markets.

“The start may come from home shopping channels. It’s easier to introduce and show off the products in 3D.” 3D QVC, here we come. “It’s relatively easy to make content for animation. So comics and shopping will be first. Then it will migrate into soaps and other areas.”

Although he said it wouldn’t involve replacing your whole home cinema set-up. “It will involve a slight change to Blu-ray, not replacing the discs.”

Japan already has 2 hours of 3D a day on satellite & in the US 3D cinemas are pretty commonplace, T3.com reports.

The monitor relies on a PC to run the software, so will run on completely different technology to the 3D TVs. Panasonic already proposed a new Blu-ray Disc Standard for 3D Imagery.

No pricing info is known yet.