Tiger Woods in 3D on Comcast?
Comcast scooped DirecTV with yesterday's announcement that they would be the first to show a major sporting event in 3D, in this case, the Master's Golf Champion at Augusta.
Does that mean you'll be able to watch Tiger Woods strut around the fairway, resplendent in 3D glory? Well, that depends on weather he will play the event or not. Comcast's Derek Harrar posted on his blog yesterday: “This event will mark a series of industry firsts - the first live next-generation 3D broadcast of a major sporting event on TV, the first live simulcast of a next-gen 3D event online, and the industry's first live multi-camera next-gen 3D production “
DirecTV was thought to have beaten Comcast to the 3D punch with their announcement last month that they would be launching 3 new, dedicated 3D channels in June of this year. You can see those sweating execs sitting around the boardroom table now...
TV giants Panasonic and Samsung recently debuted their 1st generation 3D TV's to the public. With the runaway success of feature films like Avatar, the recent announcement of a codified 3D spec for Blu-Ray discs, HDMI 1.4, and now, major sporting events being broadcast in 3D, there might be enough imputus for 3D to really take off.
