AFL Grand Final in 3D
ACMA issues a licence to Seven for the AFL Grand Final in 3D, and grants Nine their NRL Grand Final 3D broadcast too.
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Channel Seven will air the AFL Grand Final in 3D.
The game on September 25 is a joint project between the Australian Football League, Panasonic Australia and Seven.
Seven CEO David Leckie said: “We are looking forward to meeting the challenge of producing the first live 3D television coverage of an Australian Football League match and it being the biggest game of the year and one of the great moments in sports. We’re delighted to be working with Panasonic to make this happen.”
AFL boss Andrew Demetriou said, “The broadcast of the 2010 Toyota AFL Grand Final in 3D will represent another fantastic leap forward in the presentation of our game to fans across Australia.”
Viewers with 3D televisions will be able to watch the game on digital channel 40.
The broadcast also signals the start-up of new channel, 7mate.
A license for the broadcast has been approved by the Australian Communications and Media Authority in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Newcastle, Adelaide and Perth.
ACMA today also agreed to a 3D broadcast of the NRL Grand Final for the Nine Network, despite a statement last week that Nine had not delivered its report on its first 3D trial. It then received that report late on Friday (has ACMA ever moved so fast to make a decision?).
The new licences, to be issued separately to the Seven Network and the Nine Network, will be valid from 18 September to 8 October 2010.
ACMA says it will suspend consideration of any further 3D TV trials while it conducts a review.
18 Responses
I have a 3D TV and love the broadcasts when they actually come on…I cant wait too see the AFL and NRL grand finals in 3D.
The picture quality and viewing experience is far superior to HD TV.
Maybe all you people should actually see it before bagging it.
What a joke Country Folks left out in the cold once again No 3d Broadcast. The way it is 3d TV’s should only be sold in the city centre’s and not in country area’s and everyone made aware that you will not be getting any 3d broadcasts
@ Craig
That is where you are wrong. The AFL grand final will be Seven’s last broadcast in HD before switching over to 7mate at 6pm.
To 3D TV in general i think its a waste of time and money. I have always hated 3D and i think it is crap that people are marketing this type of thing.
@Daniel – if you wish to watch a football match where the commentators don’t talk bollocks or carry on like excited schoolboys watching a playground fight, you’ll need to switch to the round ball code.
I just want to watch the bloody match – with unobtrusive graphics and commentators who don’t talk bollocks. This 3D gimmick is such an unnecessary, overblown wank.
@pepe
pepe channel 9 has broadcast every single NRL game in HD for the last two years and state of origin, with the exception of one or two games from Auckland in SD
It’s the stupid AFL’s issue for not ensuring in the broadcast contract that all games be shown in HD. Of course the networks will take the cheap way out…As do 9 on the NRL games – ALL are SD… If you want sport in HD get foxtel… simple as that..
@Andrew B, the fact that it is on 7HD (or 7mate) doesn’t mean that it is in HD, only that it is on an HD channel.
The AFL is always on 7HD when it is on 7 (they are simulcasts atm), but it’s only SD upscaled, not produced in HD.
Of course, being that they want to broadcast it in 3D, they have to produce it in HD, so they may be giving us an HD AFL game after all.
Well as long as the coverage is good i dont care about 3D tv. Seeing how i dont even have one. As i said as long as the Coverage is good i dont care about 3D tv.
Anyway 3D tv is useless if you want to watch the match in 3D go to the game.
@Andrew B: Don’t be fooled. It may be called a HD channel but I have never seen a Seven AFL broadcast that looks true 1080i. Compare it to Nines live Friday night NRL coverage and you will see the difference in quality.
7 is way behind 10 when it comes to HD. I think this is only the 2nd time ever they have done an AFL match in HD, whereas ONE does 2 every week.
And will we PRIME viewers get the HD? Who knows?
and as per usual, anything west of the mountains misses out. Why sell 3D tv’s in the regionals?
So the Grand Final with now be in Analogue, Digital SD, HD on 7Mate and now 3D on 40, that’s a lot of coverage for the one event!
The AFL Grand Final will still be in HD on 7mate. The 3D broadcast is on an additional temporary channel – digital ch 40 – which will not impact on Seven’s ability to show it in HD.
Wow, the 4 people with 3D TVs will be so excited!
Bugger that. Channel Seven would much rather broadcast David Koch’s bald head in true HD rather than broadcast there biggest asset, the AFL in HD.
The game is bad enough in 2D. No need to punish people further.
7 loves following everyones lead don’t they. but they don’t bother having their afl coverage in hd but they want to jump on the band waggon of using 3d instead of using HD Coverage. maybe they should be improving their coverage before using 3D