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I celebrate failure
News of multi-million dollar abject failure by the Dallas Cowboys brings joy to my heart.
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Still, Cameron has to be hoping his movie does better than the 3D experiment conducted Sunday night by another American icon: Jerry Jones' Dallas Cowboys. The mammoth HD monitor at Texas Stadium was devoted to 3D visuals, and fans were given special HDlogix glasses to enjoy the spectacle.
I know what you're thinking, and you're right -- it is indeed silly to make people who are at a live event view that live event on a Jumbotron. Especially if they have to take the 3D glasses off to clearly see the game.
The crowd booed, and stadium officials called the whole thing off after just seven minutes -- but not before CBS, which was broadcasting the game, gave its announcers a chance to tout the effect -- something that was hard to do when the TV images just looked like the lame red-blue-and-blurry 3D junk you might've seen in the previous century.
As for Cameron's Avatar, we shall see -- literally. Personally, I find it hard to believe the colors will be as vivid -- and images as sharp -- if I'm viewing them through a polarized screen instead of seeing them on a (newly affordable) HD TV set at home.
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