BCS Championship game live 3D broadcast coming to CES, movie theaters
By Richard Lawler 
posted Dec 3rd 2008 6:26AM
posted Dec 3rd 2008 6:26AM
Just in case you thought 3D was only for Thursday night NFL games and NBA playoff matchups, Fox Sports is broadcasting the first college football game in the format January 8. CEO David Hill dropped the info during the 3D Entertainment Summit, acknowledging plans to bring the 3D feed to CES (finally, we won't have to miss the big game this year -- like we'd ever watch an SD feed stretched on cheap hotel plasmas) and select movie theaters, but balked at pushing technology forward. Citing costs absorbed by broadcasters in switching to high definition, he's looking towards consumer electronics manufacturers to turn over HDTV profits and start another round of upgrades for early adopters. While they argue over who picks up the check we don't expect more than a few demos here or there, but with Panasonic, LG and others already taking the baton it's just a matter of time, maybe when ESPN takes over things full time in 2011?
First quarter 2 helmet to helmet hits by Gators on Sooners NOT CALLED....give me a break, who is gonna die in this game!
We just watched the 3D HD game in a theater and as far as I could tell all 80+ people there were disappointed. It had so much potential but was very poorly executed. Where was the game clock? Everyone was asking how much time was left every few minutes. Why were we watching the coach on the sideline while there was a play happening on the field? We never once saw an OU cheerleader while we saw the Gator cheerleaders every time there was a break in the action? When the offense has the ball why in the world would you give us a field level view right behind the defense so we can't see a damn thing that just happened? Nobody knew if we fumbled, got tackled or ran past the camera guy. Absolutely horrible decisions on what camera to cut to. It seemed like we were watching an amateur camera crew. Why the hell did we have to look at the water and city skyline during halftime? You guys didn't just figure out you were going to do a 3D game last week. You had plenty of time to figure something out for halftime or just let us watch the show that was provided at the stadium. If it was experimental and needed more work to look professional, then don't charge so damn much for the tickets to watch it. We definitely did not get our money's worth. We only paid $16 a piece for our tickets but I really feel sorry for the others that paid $25 for theirs. Great idea but it needs a lot of work to get anyone to pay to watch it again.