Prepare yourself for an experience that is the equivalent of watching a standard def broadcast, in widescreen, that doesn't even look very 3D or very impressive. You'll see a lot of fuzziness and blurriness going on, when they zoom in on certain things, and quite honestly, it just looks lame, no other way to really describe it.
Watching NBA in 3D was one of the biggest letdowns that I have ever experienced in new audio/video technology. I was expecting to be wowed like I was when I first saw the NBA in High Def, but it isn't even close. It's a joke to even mention the two in the same sentence.
There are two huge problems with it, imo
1. The resolution is WAY TOO LOW. I mean really.... The resolution is a joke. Unless they can figure out another way to do it, they might as well stop doing it, because it's doing a disservice to the whole 3D thing in general.
2. They need to figure out the camera angles that work, and.... STICK WITH THEM! Seriously, the low down, on the floor camera angles work the best, and THEY NEED TO STICK WITH THESE CAMERA ANGLES FOR THE WHOLE DAMN GAME! Also, they need to stop switching back and forth between various camera angles so much. One thing about 3D, is that it takes your brain a couple of seconds to get acclimated towards the new viewpoint. When they switch back and forth between various camera angles and don't give your brain a chance to adjust, it just causes headaches and eyestrain.
I was more letdown by 3D football. I expected to be wow'd by all the talk of how great it was but in reality was really crappy for all the reasons you wrote about the ESPN NBA presentation. The resolution is just way too low.
It is important when resolution or quality of ESPN-3D progaming that you say what your ESPN-3D source is because D* uses 1080i SbS for ESPN-3D and Comcast uses 720p/60 TnB for ESPN-3D.
I agree with what Anthony said. Mainly over the weird angles and too much jumping around between cameras. It made me dizzy. Same with football. I've yet to see baseball, but I'm hoping that'll be good since camera angles don't change nearly as much.
Boxing is ok just cuz you're only following two people.
I've watched some of the NBA 3d games via D* and they have been a mixed bag. Sometimes the depth is breathtaking, and then another angle will be bland. I would hardly call it SD quality though, it looks pretty good on my 58" sammy plasma. I am waiting for some 3d baseball though. How did the all star game look last year for those early adopter's that were able to catch it?
I have watched a few and I think they looked excellent. Great depth in the game and during timeouts when players walked to the bench etc. It felt like we were actually at the game. They could look even better if they had more 3d cameras but for this early in the broadcast life of 3d basketball I really enjoyed the games and am looking forward to more.
I'm sorry, but I watch a lot of replay of games and either ESPN or Comcast does not know how to properly do 3D. The left and right images are not synced up properly. One side is either a fraction of a second slower that the other. It is really annoying and almost hurts to watch in fast action. The same thing is happening with this game live. I am watching it with a JVC DLA-RS40 projector.
Comcast broadcasts ESPN-3D in 720p/60 using 3D TnB format which means that your PJ receives the content for both eyes at the same time.
Do you know how the content for both eyes gets displayed on your 1920x1080 unit? Is it possible that they are being displayed at 30 or 60 fps using frame sequential mode which if true would mean that they are not displayed at the same time?
Originally Posted by walford
Comcast broadcasts ESPN-3D in 720p/60 using 3D TnB format which means that your PJ receives the content for both eyes at the same time.
Do you know how the content for both eyes gets displayed on your 1920x1080 unit? Is it possible that they are being displayed at 30 or 60 fps using frame sequential mode which if true would mean that they are not displayed at the same time?
When I change to ESPN 3D, my projector tells me it is switching to 720p 60 mode and I then have to manually set the projector to display top and bottom.
When I watch a basketball game in 3D without glasses on, I can see both images and when they are dribbling that the right side hits floor a fraction of a second before the left image hits the floor.
The problem appears that the top and bottom images are received at the same time by the TV, however, since only one is displayed at a time they can not be displayed at the same time. Apparently your PJ does not correct for this when processing TnB content but does correct for the time difference when processing SbS content received by all of the 3D content you are receiving from Comcast.
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