ACMA says No to NRL Grand Final in 3D
Nine is late handing in its homework to ACMA. Punishment? No NRL Grand Final in 3D for you.
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The Nine Network has jumped the gun on announcing it will screen the NRL Grand Final in 3D.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has not issued a licence to Nine despite the network announcing its plans to media yesterday.
The State of Origin and World Cup broadcasts were allowed under a two-month 3D broadcast trial which expired in July but networks were due to report to ACMA.
ACMA says, “Nine has not yet delivered a report on its previous 3D TV trial to the ACMA. Providing a report on consumer, reception, interference and technical issues was a condition of the previous 3D TV trial licence. The report was due within 30 days of the expiry of the licence (18 August) but has not been received.”
Yesterday Nine CEO David Gyngell and NRL Chief Executive David Gallop were both quoted in a Nine Press Release trumpeting the 3D Grand Final, planned for October.
“Nine is thrilled to once again bring rugby league fans the most technologically advanced way to watch their game,” said Gyngell.
Yesterday TV Tonight asked Nine if new trials had been approved by ACMA, but an answer has not yet been supplied.
ACMA has indicated to Nine that no further trial licences will be issued before the report is received and considered.
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13 Responses
Channel 9 promise a lot of things they can’t deliver!
@Andrews (and anyone else) – there is not sufficient bandwidth in any of the station’s HD channels for them to fit a 3D HD stream. It would have to be SD and compressed so it’d look worse than SD. The two dozen people who were gullible/desperate to impress someone enough that they actually bought a 3D TV ain’t gonna be happy watching a sub-SD picture on a big HD screen.
@ Andrew – yes I know – either the 3rd channel will be HD or GO becomes HD with the 3rd channel SD. Either way there is still 2 x SD and 1 x HD.
Nine could easily use their HD channel to show 3D TV in side by side format, at the expense of showing regular HD (where you would see two images next tio each other).
If Nine did that, they’d have the HD channel swowing 3D, while 1 of the SD’s is Nine primary and the other GO or the 3rd channel.
Well they are “getting rid” off in terms of the main channel viewing… Yes there will be an “HD” channel, but it is in no way linked to the main channel.. unless they do a simulcast of the main and HD channel for special events like the finals (afl and nrl)…
Back on topic.. who gives a crap about 3D – 10 years later there is still 4×3 material going to air in primetime on the main channels (Undercover boss, amazing race…)
@Andrew B: Nine is not ‘getting rid’ of their HD channel, even if they launch a new channel it will just be replacing 9HD with a new HD channel. In any case, I don’t believe a single HD channel has enough bandwidth to allow them to substitute with a 3D channel. The 3D channel for the trial was on a separate UHF frequency and not actually on 9’s broadcast channel.
And, if they do luanch their 3rd channel when 7mate launches, will they actually show the grand final in HD in any case? Hopefully they would.
Seeing they are about to take away their HD channel to make way for their 3rd channel, what is stopping them from using the existing HD channel that day for the 3d broadcast?
I don’t know anyone that has or is even remotely thinking of buying a 3D TV.
At least FoxSport will have the US Open Finals in 3D… for those with 3D sets and PayTV.
Sounds like Nine putting the cart before the horse, or the 3D before the license LOL
So right now PayTV is the only place to get reliable HD and 3D TV… so much for FreeView, as they say, you get what you pay for 🙂
7 said the AFL GF will be in 3D
Why would they get the nod and not 9?
7 said they hope to do AFL in 3D. They didn’t make any confirmed announcement yet.
Gee, all 4 people with 3D TV won’t see it after all.
Oh, well that was quick!