I went to see the new Sony 3-D television sets and I was immediately impressed. For those who have not seen them, the experience would be absolutely no different to seeing a 3-D movie at the cinema, other than the fact that they would now be able to do it perfectly easy with live TV at home.

There are two catches – one is that you are going to have to wear glasses in front of your own TV set which I am sure is going to lead to all sorts of strange headaches and other symptoms and the other thing is that basically nothing is being broadcast live in 3-D at the moment in South Africa. I cannot imagine that people would rush out to buy it now just to watch a few Blue Rays in 3-D, but it is definitely a sign of the future and I think just as this World Cup in SA is moving more and more consumers to HD (I upgraded my office decoder to HD as well), it will take a major sports tournament, which is broadcast live in 3-D, to start the sale surge of these sets. I understand that a game a day from the current tournament is being broadcast internationally in 3-D. I think given our priorities, and that HD has only really got going in SA recently, that 3-D going mainstream, is a number of years away still.