3D Effect Gets Booed Off Stadium Scoreboard in 7 Minutes
3D Effect Gets Booed Off Stadium Scoreboard in 7 Minutes
Posted 12/14/2009 at 1:48pm
| by Bart Salisbury
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The new Dallas Cowboys’ stadium, dubbed by some “Jerry World” (and by others less charitable “Jonestown”), after Cowboy owner Jerry Jones, is cutting-edge state-of-the art, including a monster over-the-field replay screen capable of 3D broadcast. But the first ever attempt to show a game in 3D on the monster screen turned into a monster bust. So loud and persistent were the boos of fans, the experiment had to be halted after just six minutes and fifty seconds.
It’s not that the fans didn’t have the necessary equipment: 80,000 pairs of 3D glasses were handed out before the game. They just didn’t like it. Perhaps they were confused by the point of having a 3D broadcast of a game they were already watching in 4D? (It’s always been a puzzle why a replay of an event you’ve just witnessed in real-time is necessary to validate the experience, but so goes the world of big-time sports.)
President of HDlogix, Jim Spinella, said the broadcast “[g]ive us an opportunity to showcase the technology and to let people know who HDlogix is.” HDlogix made an impression with Cowboys fans all right, but perhaps not the impression it was hoping for.
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Keatah
December 15, 2009 at 1:37pm
Sounds like they're doing something new for the sake of just doing something. Enormous waste of time, money, and resources..!
Biceps
December 15, 2009 at 11:23am
I don't know that mixing large quantities of alcohol, rednecks and 3D technology makes a whole lot of sense. If everyone is already seeing double, why would they want to put on 3d glasses. Shoulda stuck with tennis.
onebxr
December 15, 2009 at 7:06am
Everyone here in dallas knows that the new stadium is called the deathstar. As long as Jerry owns the Cowboys they will fail.
MeTo
December 15, 2009 at 4:54am
That's all this 3D with glasses stuff will ever be. Epic Fail Stop the foolishness.
T_Amos
December 14, 2009 at 5:00pm
"It’s always been a puzzle why a replay of an event you’ve just witnessed in real-time is necessary to validate the experience..."
This is silly. You've been reading too much Kierkegaard and not watching enough football. Replays don't "validate the experience," they let you enjoy it twice, and with more time to take in the details.
bobmann
December 15, 2009 at 3:25pm
I'm sorry, but I had to reply to this. Throwing some esoteric philosopher into the mix doesn't validate your opinion. I doubt many people here are familiar with his work, which is something I'm sure you countedon. Kierkegaard didn't support your point. He supported freedom of choice, and surely would not have opposed this screen on moral grounds. Arguing that he preferred concrete human experience over some abstract form of experience is completely moot, since this would imply going down to the field and playing. Whether one watches on a screen or watches the field, they are still basically experiencing football vicariously. So you just sound like a complete tool on both counts.
Kalabajooie
December 14, 2009 at 4:51pm
Blurry image, double vision, potential nausea, and a huge headache afterwards? It's just like being there!
Two drink minimum anyone?
Caboose
December 14, 2009 at 2:45pm
Unless the cheerleaders are going to be in 3D on the big screen, I don't see much of the point...
-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-
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