Cable Industry News
Local cable providers offer look at 3-D
Tuesday, 13, April 2010
When Kathi Jacobs watched the Masters golf tournament on TV yesterday, the leader board didn’t appear as if it was on the television screen. It seemed as if she could reach out and touch it.Jacobs of Time Warner Cable was taking part in a demonstration of 3-D broadcast of the Masters yesterday. Time Warner and Cox Communications, San Diego County’s two major cable providers, are getting live 3-D feeds from the tournament this week, and both companies have been showing off the technology.
Cox provided the 3-D broadcast earlier this week at the Pro Kids Golf Academy in City Heights. Today, Time Warner is holding a second demonstration, showing the tournament in 3-D at the Country Club of Rancho Bernardo, 12280 Greens East Road. It’s open to the public from 2 to 4 p.m.The move by ESPN to produce the Masters in 3-D highlights the big bets that TV makers, movie studios and TV programmers are making to push the technology into the mainstream.
