Will 3D technology save rugby?
Roar Guru By GladFop, 15 Mar 2010 The Crowd is a Roar Guru
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Samsung and Panasonic have just announced that they’ll be bringing 3-D TV sets to the US market starting today, and this could – repeat could – be instrumental in making some rugby games less boring for players and spectators wherever rugby is played.
The change could come about not because of the format itself, but because if sports on 3-D TV takes off, advertisers are going to demand that certain sports be made more watchable and more commercial.
Rugby’s an excellent case in point. Nobody’s interested in looking at an exquisite shot in three dimensions of a scrum being reset three or four times. And nobody will want to see the ball being kicked repeatedly from one team to the other even if it is in glorious 3-D. Pressure could well be applied to make the game more entertaining, more exciting, more capable of producing hard, fast running rugby.
Association football doesn’t have to worry about making any changes as people are quite happy with the present laws, as well they should be. In fact, it’s soccer that will benefit first as ESPN plans to set up a separate 3-D channel to broadcast the FIFA World Cup.
If there’s enough response, it’s possible that the RWC will also be offered in 3-D. It’s too late to change the laws for that event, but beyond it, who knows?
If the new technology is a success in the States, where rugby is growing, and in tech-savy Britain, Ireland and France, and later on in Oz, NZ and SA, it may force the IRB to make the changes they should have made years ago.
How much will it cost to have the latest in sports technology in your living room? It won’t be cheap. You’ll need to buy a 3-D plasma TV, a 3-D Blue-ray player, and rechargable 3-D specs. Ouch!
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March 16th 2010 @ 3:55pm
sharminator said | March 16th 2010 @ 3:55pm | Report comment
This is the stupidest article I have ever read.
I dont think whether people have 3-D tv´s or not will really effect their choice of sport, or the popularity of one ball game over another.
I also dont see how 3-D would benefit rugby anymore than any other sport.
March 16th 2010 @ 8:51pm
Sebastian V said | March 16th 2010 @ 8:51pm | Report comment
Will 3D technology save Rugby? no it won’t! It may help but more attractive gameplay will help more. What will help even more is some bloody footage on FREE TO AIR televsion. With all these new channels, One HD, Prime 2, put some bloody rugby on. I missed years of rugby because i couldnt afford foxtel. As soon as i got foxtel i was back into rugby. Now i cant afford foxtel again and im losing track again. I even had to pay for an online subscription so i can watch live stream, quality is sh–house though and the feeling isnt the same. League is more popular then rugby because its free!
March 17th 2010 @ 1:31pm
Big Al said | March 17th 2010 @ 1:31pm | Report comment
Rugby union is not a boring sport and I would rather watch 3 re-set union scrums than one joke of a league scrum which even a team of girls could move backwards. I love watching scrums. That’s why rugby is popular throughout the world, because the scrum is the most fearsome sight in the world of sport – it’s not for the faint hearted, it is pure, unadulterated sport. I’d go so far as to say that the rugby union scrum is the pinnacle of sport – it requires strength and courage beyond anything you would find on a league, AFL or soccer field.