Sony Open To Broadcast In 3-D; Company Extends Tournament Sponsorship
by Charles Boyer on Dec 1, 2010 9:11 AM EST
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PrintSony Corporation has extended its title sponsorship of the PGA Tour's first full-field event of their golf season, the Hawaiian Open. The company inked a new deal and added an additional three years, through 2014.
The company also announced that the tournament will be a platform to show off its latest broadcast and consumer television technologies. Starting in 2011, the Sony Open will be offered in 3-D. This won't simply be an enhanced version of the regular two dimensional broadcast either -- the 3-D edition of the event will feature a separate crew and TV announcer, and it will also require its own editing truck and transmission facilities, all of which come at significant cost to the company.
Many consumer electronics firms like Sony are counting on 3-D TV for a future revenue. While roughly 50% of US households have at least one HD TV, most of those televisions are relatively new, and many of them were purchased at significant cost by their owners. Secondly, 3-D programming is far from ubiquitous, which in turn limits the value for early adopters who upgrade. Sony claims some 83 million US households have 3-D capable televisions now, and by making the Sony Open available in 3-D, among other events, it hopes to increase demand for the new sets even further and also to help provide value to current 3-D set owners.
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That’s great – but it would be even greater if a 3D TV didn’t cost half a year’s salary. :-)
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
AW EASY,that
was cold man…Haven’t ya heard…Our President froze all raises…Poor Ol Court will just have to make due with what he’s got now…..STUB
last time I checked
CG is not an employee of the US federal government.
"(I)f you think you've got an inside track to absolute truth, you become doctrinaire, humorless and intellectually constipated." Saul Alinsky
I'm Waiting
I’ve bought in to way too much tech over the years before the prices starting dropping…the $500 CD player in 1983, my old LaserDisc player, my first HDTV – a lovely 25-inch Sony model that used a traditional CRT, my second HDTV, a 57-inch projection set capable of only 780p/1080i yet a bargain at $4K, etc etc etc…
Now I have gotten smart. We got a Panasonic Viera plasma unit that is all the TV we need, and even if it won’t do 3D, that’s fine. I can take a Caribbean vacation for a week for what a decent one costs at the moment, and on top of that, I would need to purchase 3 extra pairs of those ugly glasses you have to have to see 3D on a current set anyway. On top of that, I have seen that Sony and other companies have sold the first units of “glasses-free” 3D sets in Japan this year, and that tells me it will be the next big wave of 3D technology. And…the prices will drop to below $1000 sooner or later. They always do.
by Charles Boyer on Dec 1, 2010 10:55 AM EST up reply actions
my first HDTV
was a lovely 30-inch Sony with a CRT. That thing weighed in at close to 150 lbs.
I’ll buy 3D television when I can get a 50-inch, glasses-free model for about $500, probably never.
"(I)f you think you've got an inside track to absolute truth, you become doctrinaire, humorless and intellectually constipated." Saul Alinsky
Damm nation D...for once
I’m with you…ta hell with them….I don’t care if I ever get 3-D…If I want it that bad, I’ll get in my car and go to an actual event….Now that’s 3-D…..STUB
My friends says the same thing
Then again, he also mentioned how it might be a real boon for porn.
He has a point. You would shocked at how much new tech has been driven by the porn industry. It made videotape players ubiquitous, because of the rooms at the back of the old video rental stores (LOL.) Then there were high resolution computer monitors. The better to see Ms. January in all her glory, not to mention her when she decided to take up “acting” later in her career. The Internet itself has been described as the greatest porn delivery system in human history, and as little as 10 years ago, 90 of the top 100 websites ranked by profit were porn sites.
Soooo, as soon as we start seein’ 3D skin flicks available, you can count on the price dropping to where folks like us who just want to see sports and Hollywood films in the technology will buy in without needing a second mortgage.
by Charles Boyer on Dec 1, 2010 12:10 PM EST up reply actions
When the LCD TV’s came out, I started saving up for it and ended up letting a year go by before I thought about it again. Went back to the store and was STUNNED. I ended up with a TV that was 4 times better and nearly twice the size of what I was going to get a year earlier…and it was $100 cheaper.
I’ll wait on 3D – we’ll have holographic TV before too long.
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
I’m guess that the ultimate end to this road is where entertainment companies put experiences directly into your brain that are indistinguishable from reality. That’s not a new idea, Philip K. Dick used that idea as the plit in the book “Total Recall” (forget the horrid Schwarzenegger violence porn flick BTW)…the main character had memories of being a hero of a resistance movement on a colony on Mars, and the question was whether the experiences were real, and if they were, who would introduce the idea that they weren’t? Very heady stuff, typical of Dick, and science fiction at its best.
by Charles Boyer on Dec 1, 2010 1:24 PM EST up reply actions
Isn’t that what Edward Nygma came up with in Batman Forever ?
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
I think so, but I am not an aficionado of the Batman series. The Philip K Dick book was from the 1960s, so it may be the original.
It’s kind of like the whole Terminator “Skynet” idea — it was lifted wholesale from a 1970 movie called “The Forbin Project.” Wiki that one up and tell me it wasn’t.
by Charles Boyer on Dec 1, 2010 1:45 PM EST up reply actions
you didn’t miss anything – Jim Carrey played Nygma – The Joker
I thought Skynet was just computers/machines controlling the world
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
It is. In the Forbin Project, the US Government builds a super-computer called Colossus that runs the national defense…including its nuclear missiles. Not long after it is activated, it becomes self-aware, takes its creator (Forbin) prisoner and starts looking for a Russian counterpart it knows exists. It finds it, and the two join forces. Colussus then informs humanity it is not fit to govern itself, and that it will do the job from now on. The government tries to sneak into a missile silo and disarm a nuclear missile, with the idea that if that works, they will do it to the whole arsenal. They get discovered and Colussus explodes the warhead and gives humanity the “tch tch tch”…
It’s one of the best nihilist apocalypse stories I have ever seen. Since it was made in 1970, it’s portrayal of what a computer of that magnitude would look and sound like is amusing, but the story still stands strong as a good one.
by Charles Boyer on Dec 1, 2010 2:11 PM EST up reply actions
I remember the movie – Eric Braeden was Forbin. Great movie.
Don’t forget the WOPR in “War Games” (lol) (let’s play Global Thermonuclear War…how about a game of chess ?)
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
I thought the Terminator seires
told the story well. Arnold was perfect as the Terminator , but the idea of a Skynet type system becoming self aware seems probable to me in the future.
I have been told that a plasma TV
uses 3 times the power an LCD TV uses. So I waited a year and got a 42 " one. That was 4 years ago. It is half what I paid for it then.
I don’t care about the power, it’s minimal in the grand scheme of things here at the hacienda. What I did care about was the brighter and far more vivid picture, and that the set I traded for (long story, traded a old car with 225K milies for the TV, brand new) was rated as the best one to buy by Consumer Reports and other rating services.
by Charles Boyer on Dec 1, 2010 1:26 PM EST up reply actions
Minimal for an individual.
The story about plasma v LCD was in Britain if everyone who had a TV had a plasma, we would need another power station than we have now. LCD in every home instead would mean one less power station than we now have. That’s a lot of power.
let me guess – that was a government study – lets take the wildest exaggeration of a situation and turn it into what will happen next week and run with it. Creates a terrific panic in the population.
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
My you are paranoid.
no, just facts based on what products do. And no one panics…many still have their plasma.
who developed the facts ? the government or the news ? oh wait – they are the same over there.
It’s not paranoia – just pointing out that it’s a ridiculous set of statistics. Think about it. Do you really believe that everybody is going to get rid of whatever TV they have now and go buy a plasma ? Plasma screens aren’t even what people are seeing as the hot item anymore since LED came out.
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
Isn’t the BBC owned by the government ?
And no – the government doesn’t own radio or TV stations here…unless you count NPR “public” broadcasting.
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
ok – funded by taxes….and taxes are controlled by……altogether now….the government
funny thing about station ownership – I read a study a few years back that the owners tend to be pretty conservative politically, but the on air people tend to be highy liberal. weird.
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
uh-huh – keep thinking that. :-D
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
No one said our system is perfect.
Such a system will never exist. Your idea of one isn’t either. The main problem is how you can be so smug about yours.
That's A Case of Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics
Sure, if everyone had a plasma TV, you might need another power station contributing to the grid.
Thing is Easing, you’re right, but be aware that it’s a fact that was generated to propagate a certain political viewpoint and that by itself it may be true, but it also probably lacked a certain context that would give the whole picture.
Then again, what’s not mentioned is that plasma tv’s usually consume less power than a 1970’s era CRT TV. When people changed over from them, did any power generation facilities suddenly find themselves obsoleted?
I didn’t think so.
Also, I should mention that the greenies who come up with that sort of stuff are also the very ones who resist us upgrading our power infrastructure here in the US using the environment as a reason. Wait, what, it would be bad for the environment to retrofit existing power lines and substations to make them use LESS power? Right.
Then they also resist nuclear power plant construction. Nukes are evil awful things that kill people just by simply existing. Radiation will be the end of us all? OK. I just walked to the mailbox and was cooked alive by the solar and ground radiation that’s part of the background of living on the Earth. And typically, you could stand within 10 feet of the walls of an NPP and not receive any additional radiation. So once again, RIGHT. And they really don’t want you to know that nuclear is carbon-neutral, meaning there are no carbon emissions created by NPP operation. That would kill two arguments of theirs with one stone.
by Charles Boyer on Dec 1, 2010 3:35 PM EST up reply actions
I only used this example to show the difference between the Plasma and LCD
Whatever I think about it won’t make a difference in this crazy world.
We know THAT’S not true, Eas. All of England is worried about what kind of dress the future princess will be wearing. Your thoughts could change the course of history right now. :-)
(by the way – the princess to be is stunning ! but the “commoner” angle for a billionaire’s daughter seems a bit odd) :-)
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
Very odd.
She does decend from a miner many generations past. But the real truth is no one really cares about the wedding. The days of Charles and Diana are long gone.
The media do go on and on and on and on
about the “commoner” angle, which means they are out of touch with the majority of people and their own readers who couldn’t care less. I wish William & Catherine a happy marriage as I would wish any other couple.
Wendy, it's probably because
a section of the media are employed just for this sort of thing. Like you, I hope they are happy, but that’s where it ends for me.
TECHNICALLY, isn’t the “commoner” tag correct since they aren’t of royal lineage ? (although it wasn’t uncommon for titles to be bought back in the day)
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
like a commoner ? what do you mean ?
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
so did Eliza Doolittle….after a little practice The girl’s not from Liverpool. :-D
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
Isn't that inverted snobbery, Easing?
My accent has changed over my working years – still southern – but judged as quite posh. Does that make me less of a person?
You should hear mine Wendy.
It’s so messed up I’ve been asked if I’m from 5 different countries. I have had to explain my first 20 years of life because they didn’t understand why…it bores me a lot more than anyone else hearing the story.. my comments on the bride to be accent is simply how the media is portraying her. No one asks to be born in a given place and I would never judge anyone that way at all. Accents mean nothing…how one treats others whatever their background is what matters.
True That
I have known some world class pricks with Eaton accents and known some world class gentlemen with the brogue of a Northumberland miner. And vice versa. Accents mattered not, their character did.
Funnily enough, where I live, there is a Durham County and it is given the same amount of respect in the region as is County Durham. Durham itself is an old blue-collar industrial city known for its tobacco companies, most of which are folded, closed or shadows of themselves in the ever declining market for that sort of product. Those industries did give rise to Duke University, ironically enough, a school best known for its world class medical center. These days, medicine and pharmaceuticals are the main industries there. Well, that and computers, as IBM alone employs some 70K in Durham County. Cisco and others, many tens of thousands more. Some backward place.
by Charles Boyer on Dec 2, 2010 8:14 AM EST up reply actions
well change the story, Eas ! From now on, the confusion in your regular accent is from your MI-6 training – and since you retired from Her Majesty’s Service, your language training has kind of melded together to form this conglomeration of accents. :-D
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
well NATURALLY it’s “Secret” service – it ain’t a simple task for 00-Eas to carry out assassination by golf ball in public.
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
"Naturally" was one of Sean Connery's quotes
in some of his early Bond films. Thought you might have got that one :)
anyway it doesn't work that good..Dear sister wanted to buy one last summer..
so i went with her for some test..all i got from it was nausea and a big headache..
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