Much like fashion styles and pop culture influence slowly migrating north to Canada, so do technology trends drift from the big screen to the household television. As 3-Dimensional movies have move into the mainstream consciousness over the course of a slow rise since 2003, television makers have worked hard to keep up with the trend. Now that 3-D popularity is booming to an all-time high on the silver screen, with an unprecedented three 3-D movie releases per month, including some of the year’s most popular titles like Toy Story 3, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Despicable Me, it seems the TV counterparts are finally laying the groundwork to keep up.Many home theater owners like to stay on the cutting edge, up to date with the latest and greatest equipment on the market. All early precursors out of Hollywood indicate that 3-D television is the next big thing, with little danger of going the way of the ill-fated, mid-90′s rise of the Laserdisc. In anticipation that the 3-D infatuation is here to stay, many of the world’s top Television producers are working on ways to update their 3-D capabilities. LG, Panasonic, Samsung, Sony and Toshiba all plan on incorporating the capacity for 3-D enhancements into their high end TV models at some point in the 2010 calendar year. This year has already seen some these big names in home electronics roll out their first attempts at completely 3-D ready TV sets, receiving mixed reviews. A debate in tech circles has sprung up as to whether LCD or plasma screens cater better to 3D technology, with early returns leaning towards plasma. To prepare for the home-video release of popular 3-D titles, the first 3-D Blu-ray players went on sale in 2010, as well. One challenge facing TV makers is how to ditch the goofy, 3-D goggles. Efforts are already underway in this endeavor, as Chinese company TCL offers a sans-glasses set already available for nearly 20,000. Like all ahead of their time releases, the prices are sure to go down as the technology becomes more familiar in years to come, making it a plausible purchase for home theater owners. All major TV producers plan on 3-D TV sales and programming to play a major factor in their foreseeable future developments.