[Philip Lelyveld comment: lessons from the US Open Tennis Tournament.]
[TV Technology]
The 3D broadcasts of the US Open Tennis Championships last month from the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, demonstrated that the increased efficiency of 3D production techniques and equipment enabled CBS and its production team to almost double last year’s 3D camera coverage without increasing the production cost.
Since last year’s US Open tennis finals telecast was awarded the George Wensel Technical Achievement Award for outstanding 3D broadcasts from The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, these new production techniques mean that a far wider range of sports broadcasting in 3D is going to become possible, feeding the need for 3D programming into lagging sales of 3D TV’s and, even more significantly, home 3D glasses. …
DUAL CAMERA 3D RIGS …
SHARING ‘EYES’ …
“Since a lot of the shadow 3D cameras were positioned low on the court, in what we call cut-outs, this gave the viewers an experience in 3D that is like no other medium,” CBS’s Aagaard said. “It’s hard to watch tennis in 2D after you have seen it in 3D.”
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