Maggie Q is the New La Femme Nikita

The Fall TV season sci-fi brings lots of spies and zombies.

We can still lay claim to Maggie Q (李美琪) as she started her acting career here in Hong Kong before going on to Hollywood and moving from Naked Weapon to Mission: Impossible 3, Die Hard 4.0 and Balls of Fury.

Well now we’ll be seeing a whole lot more of Maggie every week as she takes on the role of the poor girl turned super-spy in Nikita – a new version of that great Luc Besson French movie La Femme Nikita that then was a US remake and then a popular TV series.

You can also see what other sci-fi TV shows are coming your way this Fall, and tell us which ones you think are the best. Our picks below:

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World Cup Comes to Hong Kong in 3D!

It’ll feel like the balls are hitting you in the face!

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to play in a FIFA World Cup game, with all the pressure and the fans cheering? HongKong’s Cyberport just found a way to make it happen.

Well, not quite, but close. Cyberport has just successfully completed its testing for live 3D broadcasting of 2010 FIFA World Cup football matches in Hong Kong. With the help of state-of-the-art equipment and facilities, Cyberport has inched its way to becoming the global pioneer to reach this “goal”.

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Samsung Begins the 3D TV Home Theatre Invasion

Samsung steps up in the 3D TV market with huge product line.

Like the Toruk Makto in Avatar, Samsung has jumped on their flying dragon with an aggressive launch of 3D HD LCD TV’s in Hong Kong. Slapping movie theatres in the face so fast, the can now speak the Na’vi dialect fluently.

The full HD LED TV Series comes in sizes from 40″ to 65″ mixed with the 3D Blu-ray player and the 3D Active glasses will  bring Hollywood movies screaming into your living room.

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JVC Brings 3D Cinema Tech to Your Living Room

Watch ‘Avatar,’ glasses and all, this time: in your underwear!

Avatar blasted on to local cinema screens at the beginning of this year in full blown 3D loveliness. So will we be able to enjoy all of Avatar’s 3D-ness in our own homes when it finally comes out on Blu-Ray.

So how can we replicate the amazing 3D cinema experience in our living rooms? A number of electronics makers have announced that they will be releasing 3D televisions this year to answer the demand for home 3D theatres.

JVC Hong Kong is the first electronics manufacturer out of the gate and introduces the GD-463D10 a 46-inch full HD 3D LCD flat screen television that is capable of displaying natural-looking 3D images. The GD-463D10 features JVC’s original 3D visual system, which includes an advanced picture engine and 3D decoder circuit. The new screen is compatible with line-by-line and side-by-side 3D input methods, both of which are popularly used for 3D content production.

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