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[brooklyneast05]

Historians specialising in broadcasting media may come to look back on 11 June 2010 as a crucial date in the transformation of the way people consume television in the home.

The American sports broadcaster ESPN has announced that it will use the starting game of the World Cup between South Africa and Mexico to unveil the first dedicated 3D television network, allowing viewers at home to watch the match in the glory of three dimensions.

The move is far more than a mere technological gimmick. Industry advocates are pinning hopes on 3D-TV as the next stage in the development of the medium after HDTV and Blu-ray.

The obstacles to lift-off are phenomenal. Home users will have to invest in new 3D televisions which at least initially will cost more than $2,000.

They will also have to get used to the ignominy of wearing those funny goggles in the home, a necessary accessory as current 3D technology relies on the glasses to filter two sets of synchronised footage separately to the left and right eye thus creating the three-dimensional effect.

There are experiments underway with glasses-free 3D, but the technology is primitive at present.

ESPN hopes to lure rich and experimental viewers — the so-called "first adopters" for whom money is not an object — to invest in the new televisions by promising to broadcast at least 85 live sporting events to its new 3D channel in the first year, starting with 25 World Cup games and then moving to professional basketball, college basketball and football. It will also hope to grab the attention of extreme sports followers by broadcasting the annual X Games competition featuring skateboarding, rally car racing and other events in Los Angeles in July.

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what do you think

[Mikeplyts]

No matter what type of third dimensional effects it's in, it doesn't change the fact that I, and mostly everybody else, will spend that amount of money for this new technology, unless there's some really really big fanatic of ESPN and sports and stuff like that who'd be willing to spend any amount of money to get one of the most advanced viewing experiences of television. And even if someone does buy it, it'd probably get boring to them eventually watching the same network with the same programs in the same three dimensional effects so either way, you're still going to watch Texas get their asses beat by Alabam, or Kobe make some other "amazing" jump shot and regardless of the effects, someone viewing it in 2D (or normal/standard effects, whatever) could, might, and will have just as much fun, joy, thrill, and so on as someone else viewing it in 3D. I mean, jus' sayin'.

/rant

EDIT:
Fixed typo, thanks JC.