Movie Theaters Aim for Live 3D Sports

[BJ_M]

"ZDNet has an article claiming that movie theater operators plan to be screening live 3D sports events by 2007 in a bid to lure sports fans away from their home theater systems and bolster sagging mid-week ticket sales." From the article: "Other chains are looking to much-improved digital three-dimensional projection for an experience theatergoers can't get at home. But while the projection has greatly advanced from the early 3D days, special glasses must still be worn to achieve the full effect."

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6053545.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

[yoda313]

Hmm... sounds good but I don't think I'd go to a theater for three hours to watch a sports game. What about commercials and stuff?? They already have too many in a theater I don't know about watching a sport broadcast.

Besides what if your team is getting creamed??? Are you going to stay the whole time just to watch it on the big screen??

I mean it might have limited appeal but I sure wouldn't do it regularly.

Maybe hockey playoffs

[AlecWest]

"ZDNet has an article claiming that movie theater operators plan to be screening live 3D sports events by 2007 in a bid to lure sports fans away from their home theater systems and bolster sagging mid-week ticket sales." From the article: "Other chains are looking to much-improved digital three-dimensional projection for an experience theatergoers can't get at home. But while the projection has greatly advanced from the early 3D days, special glasses must still be worn to achieve the full effect."

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6053545.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Well (ahem), I think they'll have a tough time luring sports fans to a theater ... unless theaters start applying for liquor licenses. I suspect sports bars with good TV systems will continue to draw fans from their homes ... just for their ability to provide fans with beer and munchies. But munchies alone (and munchies at "theater" prices)??? I think not.

On the 3D idea, I think that has merit. From what a friend in Burbank tells me, the upcoming 4th Indiana Jones film will be produced in a regular theatrical version AND in 3D. If the effects are good, it might be enough to generate a respectable audience.