3D TV, Sit and drool
’3D’s a revelation in TV. It’s a brand new way of telling stories. It’s also an opportunity to show sport in a totally different way.’
While we at Malaysia only started admiring the technology of high definition TV (HDTV) broadcast (astro beyond) some of the people abroad started ‘wow’ing to the latest technology of 3D tv broadcasting via a Sky 3D. Arsenal vs Man Utd game became the first live telecast of this latest technology. The’ll start a dedicated Sky 3D channel somewhere in April this year.
The technology basically replicates how human’s eyes see things. So the concept was applied by coupling two camera pointing the same direction. So the result, pretty much the same vision of human eyes. That creates the 3 dimensional view. That’s the easiest way to understand the concept.
Actually the idea of broadcasting football in 3D strangely came from the movie ‘Avatar’. Brian Lenz, Sky’s director of product design, learns a lesson from Vince Pace, the main technician behind James Cameron’s film and went behind the scene to see how it is made. That’s the benefit of sharing!
