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NFL to Broadcast Game Live in 3-D

by Lee Bains on November 25, 2008 at 11:42 AM




Next Thursday's game between the San Diego Chargers and the Oakland Raiders will, thanks to the NFL, be the first pro football game to show via live, 3-D broadcast, reports the Wall Street Journal.

Being shown in three movie theaters -- in Los Angeles, New York and Boston -- the special, private broadcast will show to rows of business types in the broadcasting and electronics fields.

Howard Katz, the NFL's senior vice president of broadcasting and media operations, hopes that these private screenings will introduce the technology's capabilities to a broader audience. "We want to demonstrate this and let people get excited about it and see what the future holds," he told the Wall Street Journal.

The future should hopefully hold the standardization of the 3-D format. At present, while 3-D home TVs are publicly available, the particular models now in production could encounter compatibility problems, or obsolescence, in the coming years as the technology develops.

For our part, we hope broadcasters and the like hurry up and put those 3-D standards in place. Because we can't wait to don our 3-D glasses and lay our eyes on this thing. [From: Wall Street Journal]

Tags: 3-D, 3d, future tech, FutureTech, nfl, sports, top

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