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At the end of last year, BSkyB demoed what could well be a large part of the future of sports broadcasting: the transmission of sporting events in 3D. The system, which is currently being developed, uses an ordinary Sky+ box to decode the two separate images required to create the three-dimensional effect. Users then simply view the screen through a pair of 3D glasses.