http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/ Engadget Comments for ESPN 3D officially launches with FIFA World Cup coverage: live from Bristol http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/Jun 11th 2010 12:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/Jun 11th 2010 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/Not even 3D could save Day 1 from this sad display of football. Hopefully tomorrow we'll see a real match or two.]]>Jun 11th 2010 8:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/Jun 12th 2010 5:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/
mtf]]>Jun 11th 2010 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/Jun 11th 2010 12:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/I didn't notice that. HDS maybe, but I just assume that's some company that was hired to film all of the games. ]]>Jun 11th 2010 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/
Like CBS. I don't quantify CBS, ESPN. ABC, BBC, Sky (wait, that isn't an acronym :-D) as acronyms even though I think all but maybe ESPN actually have a somewhat well-known meaning (BBC is probably the best known). I just Googled ESPN - Entertainment and Sports Programming Network. ]]>Jun 15th 2010 3:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/Jun 11th 2010 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/Jun 11th 2010 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/Jun 11th 2010 12:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/Jun 11th 2010 12:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/
]]>Jun 11th 2010 12:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/you better worry aholes cause Mexico isn't going anywhere but second phase]]>Jun 11th 2010 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/I got Mexico on a World Cup sweepstake with work and i still wanted them to lose! :(]]>Jun 11th 2010 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/
Be realistic for once. Stop being nationalist. I know you love your country and what not, and I respect that. But they are simply no match for stronger teams. If you think that they have a chance simply because they won over an old, slow, playless side of Italian seniors, then......good luck to you. I do admit that here in the Concacaf Mexico might be partly the "one to defeat" but that's only because the Federation wants it like that. It's all politics. Anyway....long live the World Cup.]]>Jun 11th 2010 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/check this http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/statisticsandrecords/headtohead/team1=mex/team2=uru/index.html

France is the strongest opponent of the group for Mexico.
But still lets wait and see what happens, in futbol nothing is cast on stone.]]>Jun 11th 2010 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/Jun 11th 2010 4:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/
If statistics meant something, you could argue that Mexico has beaten Brazil a few times. But then again, they have never knocked them out of a tournament. You could reply with, "They beat Brazil in the Gold Cup final in 2003!." Yeah...but...Brazil was invited, first of all. So they didn't really cared. Sub-23 team reached the final on a tournament where they were the invites. Second, it was played in Mexico's home turf......on a Concacaf Competition. Mexico was designed to win that tournament. Just like the recent Gold Cup.

You might also say, "They beat Brazil recently on the Copa America in Peru. 2 nill, I think.' Yeah. But again, they didn't knocked them out. Brazil went on to win the final. Mexico got creamed on the next round against Argentina.

Honduras, on the other hand, eliminated Brazil on the Copa America in 2002. KNOCKED THEM OUT. See the difference? Now, I'm not saying Honduras is better than Mexico. Although I do believe Mexico will not benefit from seeing a side from Central America rise and stand against Mex. Like I said before, it's all politics.

Nevertheless, good luck.]]>Jun 11th 2010 6:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/Uhh... do you mean "aren't beign shot by ESPN" ?
Also, I would've loved to have seen RSA's goal in 3D.
Damn that would've looked amazing.]]>Jun 11th 2010 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/Read the whole sentence...

"It should be noted that none of the 25 World Cup matches that'll be delivered in 3D are being shot by ESPN" ...it clearly says that none of the matches are being shot by ESPN.]]>Jun 11th 2010 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/Jun 11th 2010 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/Missed that 'none' when I read it...]]>Jun 11th 2010 1:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/Their Using Sony Handy-Cam 3DHD. You know the one thats hand made in Japan from Samurai's, using hattori hanzo Steel. ]]>Jun 11th 2010 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/Jun 11th 2010 12:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/
I have a 3D projector, but I don't have access to the games' stream. :(]]>Jun 11th 2010 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/Nah...you're lying.]]>Jun 11th 2010 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/
One correction I would make is that LG has a passive polarised 3D TV available in europe and presumably the US soon enough (the effect on which I prefer to active shutter based TVs) its just a shame so few games are in 3d, else I'd have bought a 3d Tv for the world cup.]]>Jun 11th 2010 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/Jun 11th 2010 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/
Sorry for the rant. Hopefully this is impressive. I have seen 3d rigs in some friend's homes and I have yet to be impressed by the 3D effect. Me myself, I will hold off and keep my Kuro for now.]]>Jun 11th 2010 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/
Robbed? Like the bull offsides against Mexico? Should've been 2-1, Mexico. South Africa got lucky. The refs definitely seemed 'friendlier'. (And I supported SA).]]>Jun 11th 2010 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/
"A player is in an offside position if he is in his opponents' half of the field and is nearer to his opponents' goal line than both the ball and the next to last opponent."

The South African keeper came off his line and left only one defender on the line thus the Mexican was offsides.

]]>Jun 11th 2010 1:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/Thank you sir for the clarifying the uninformed of the rules of what other people call the real football. The Mexican player was offside by a mile. On the other hand, twice did a Mexican defender pull down a SA player by the jersey with no call. I would say that the Ref's must have dropped their whistle on those two plays.]]>Jun 11th 2010 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/
]]>Jun 11th 2010 12:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/I'm not really a sports fan, but ESPN has all sorts of neat effects and technologies that keep the tech-enthusiast side of me entertained. Plus, since they have eight cable channels, or whatever, in addition to ABC, they wouldn't have to do some crazy time shifting with no explanation for the viewer.

I'm glad to see that at least some one is trying to move the way we watch TV forward. They would have insane ratings whether they spent the money on this or not. In the age of cutbacks and to-rich-for-their-own-good executives, thank you Disney, and thank you ESPN. ]]>Jun 11th 2010 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/Sad about ZAR though, could easily have won :o]]>Jun 11th 2010 12:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/

HELP!!!!!!!]]>Jun 11th 2010 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/
time warner NYC i mean!!! help!!!]]>Jun 11th 2010 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/Jun 11th 2010 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/Jun 11th 2010 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/Jun 11th 2010 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/3 months ago, every other post would have been "3d sucks" "3d is a gimic" "3d will fail"

]]>Jun 11th 2010 1:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/Jun 11th 2010 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/Jun 11th 2010 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/
Mexico has played 5 times the first match in a world cup. Never has won.
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Double negatives FTW!]]>Jun 11th 2010 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/Jun 11th 2010 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/
And what do you think people said when they saw a group of people watching a TV for the first time? "Look at the weirdos just staring at a box for hours!"

Technology changes. Get used to it.]]>Jun 11th 2010 8:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/
I wish Mexico had won, South Africa is the least strong team in the group...]]>Jun 12th 2010 1:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/espn-3d-officially-launches-with-fifa-world-cup-coverage-live-f/
objectively though:
1) Current TV transmissions standards (SDI) mean that for live 3D to be transmitted over normal TV channels the signal is interlaced one way or another ... this means that we loose 1/2 the information (not resolution) per eye for each frame, it also means we lose 4 times the information for a given time-interval. This mostly means we get a very flat color picture ... see Avatar, most people will agree the normal version had much better color resolution

2) 3D doesn't work for all shot-types, it means overall he viewer looses out on fast transitions, action-shots ... shame really

3) The current 3D camera lens systems always gives you the feeling that you're floating over the field like in a video game ... only the wider-angle shots with little zoom give a believable picture. (though Sony seems to be working on a new prototype that tries to eliminate this ) but it never gives an accurate view "as if you were there"

The more I look at this the more I get the feeling the broadcasters are forcing this technology on us to 'keep us sweet' in the hope something better comes along soon ... ]]>Jun 12th 2010 2:46AM