Cinedigm network supports live 3D transmission in the US

On the 8 January 2009, the BCS National Championship, the final of the NCAA US college football calendar (my best understanding, not being an American) was broadcast out of Florida's Orange Bowl in 3D.

The broadcaster was supported by 3ality Digital for the local production and cameras and broadcast over satellite on International Datacasting using DVB-S2 modulation to 80 Cinedigm Entertainment cinemas located across the US. The transmission was encoded using Sensio's Cinelive compression technology with decoders in each of the recieving cinemas. The production was shown in stereoscopic with passive polarised glasses.

Overall image quality was generally considered to be quite high, although there were complaints of reversed polarity (R-L) in cinemas, which required viewers to wear their lenses upside-down, although it is not clear where this error lay in the production chain.