My theater, and apparently numerous others, had the right and left image reversed. The result is exactly what Matt describes, a “sort of 3D”. In the 3D biz, this is referred to as “pseudo stereo”. You perceive some depth, but it just doesn’t look good, or right. My guess is that some, maybe all, of the broadcast feeds had the right/left reversed.

Luckily for my theater, I knew what was up and told everybody to turn their glasses upside down. This corrects the problem. Nobody in the theater had realized how bad the image was until they saw it correctly, and then they were amazed at the difference!

There were some other glitches (camera misalignment, satellite feed pauses). But overall I thought it was great. They need a little more game info – down/distance, clock – and more use of the press box camera angle to follow the action.

There were some problems but the picture at my theater was great. About 1/3 of the problems I saw were technical. The other 2/3 were more with execution (and much more correctable).

Here is my own blog on what I saw:

http://virtualvector.com/archives/164

I was at the game in a theatre in Brooklyn and it was a great success and we loved the quality – people attending had a great time and a few small glitches aside – I was really impressed with the quality – your description does not do justice to the experience we had last night.

I’m not alone in saying that we were absolutely blown away. To be honest, I was already on board before we got there, thinking if nothing else it would be cool to see the game in a movie theater, but my two friends were incredibly skeptical. I was only able to convince them to come after showing them the posts about the success of the NFL’s broadcast of the Chargers-Raiders game a few months ago.

Anyways, in our Brooklyn theater, it felt like we were on the field. While there were certainly a few times where the focus went out, the picture was NEVER blurry, it was just in double vision. Myself and the rest of the theater oohed and ahhhed as they finally seemed to get it right by showing the overhead view for most of the second half.

I agree with you, the 3D fx looked great, but the game looked great as well. We own a 56″ high quality HDTV at home, and the picture at the movie theater felt sharper than that. And again, it also felt like we were in the huddle whenever they went to a tight shot of Tebow.

In addition, the commercials they showed were amazing and seemed to take full advantage of what was a glimpse into true power of 3-d. The Oakley commercial left everyone speechless and the nature (?) one was also very, very cool. I don’t know if you saw those in Vegas as well, but they were stunning.

In fact, after the game, my buddies remarked they would have gladly paid 40 dollars instead of 20 for their ticket and they were excited for the opportunity to take an NBA game for All-Star Saturday night (if we can convince our girlfriends to do Valentines day on some other time than the 14). We also thought it would be cool to see hockey in 3D.

Appreciate your feedback, I wonder if there was something off with the picture you were seeing because over here on the east coast, the positive praise for 3D was coming left and right.