3D game shows come on down…
Posted on 08. Feb, 2010 by "Mitch" in Cable, Industrial, Uncategorized
The Hollywood Reporter has a little piece about how the game show industry is looking at 3D to improve or revitalize the viewing experience. The first show to really toy with the idea in the next year or two is Wheel of Fortune. A 3D clip of “Wheel” was screened Friday morning at an open house for Sony’s new 3D Technology Center on the Sony Pictures lot. It looks like Sony is really going all in when it comes to getting people warmed up to the changes in developing content for this new format. Off the top of my head, I’m not sure what could be added or handled differently that could make 3D standout as a ”cool” feature for game shows, at least if glasses are required. However it’s nice to see that people are considering the potential for 3D content, and I think we will see people approaching and developing game shows for autostereoscopic TV sets that will be rolling out in the next 5 years. 3D in the home, as we keep saying here, will be a different experience and have a more subtle visual utility to it at least when it comes to passive content like watching a TV show.
Harry Friedman, executive producer of “Wheel” and “Jeopardy!,” introduced the clip.
“One of the biggest challenges is keeping a game show fresh — by changing the show without changing the game,” he said. “We do that with enhanced production value, such as set design. We typically do dimensionalized sets, which are made for 3D.”
He added that there is no set time that this could be rolled out. But we could see some novelty in game shows using 3D on passive 3D tv sets.
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