The Belgian daily paper in French, La Derniere Heure (DH), printed its first European paper issue in 3D format. Each reader gets a pair of special free-of-charge glasses allowing them to skim the paper contents. All photos and ads in this special issue are three-dimensional, but the textual part remained the same, according to the BBC. DH Editor stated that due to high costs they did not intend to continue issuing the paper in this format. The critics in France welcome the novelty, but the final outcome was characterized as “far from perfect”. The editor, Hubert Leclercq, revealed that the preparation of this issue took two months, and that the paper format was bigger than the regular one. The newsstands contained 115,000 copies.”We hear about 3D cinema, TV and video games, so that we walked that road too”, says Leclercq for the AFP. “It takes only few minutes to get used to 3D photos.” Still, many were not happy with blurred photos which were hard to focus on.