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NBC and SoBe feature ‘Monstrous’ 3D event for Super Bowl XLIII
By April MacIntyre Jan 6, 2009, 3:46 GMT
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Are these the Red/Green versions I used back in the 50's?
Who cares about the SoBe adds? If we need these glasses to watch Chuck then I got to have them. 'Chuck' might possibly be the greatest show of all time.
I agree Chuck is one of the greatest shows of all time. It's the first time since Nip/Tuck first aired that I've just been hooked on the show from the beginning. I'm excited about this 3D thing.
I just picked up some of these glasses and immediately got on the web to try them out. Looked at a couple of anaglyph photos and thought 'This is pretty crappy' But, after going to Colorcode 3-Ds site and looking at some of thier sample images and video I came away impressed. For short viewing periods this is some of the best home d I have ever seen.
There are going to be a lot of upset and disappointed people due to the
way that Pepsico's distributors handled this promo. These guys spent
$7 Million on the glasses alone, millions on ad time, millions on promotion
so that people knew to go to the stores for the glasses, millions on
celebrities for the ads, for animation in 3D... it goes on and on. After spending all of that, they entrusted this multi-million dollar baby to be sent out in a hasty and shoddy manner. In many places, the glasses were just tossed in the back of the Pepsi trucks where they went forgotten, got lost, or in some cases, the drivers, or the stock-clerks at the stores stole whole cases of them to sell online. The same crooked distributors who have stolen and resold Pepsi product for years have now fouled this up as well. That is what I call being penny-wise and pound-foolish... you spend like crazy to get a great idea in motion and then cheap-out at the most important moment: the actual customer service. I for one will be watching Chuck if I can find a miracle and score glasses, but I will also remember how these 'genius' execs run their business: poorly. The good news is, poor management + layoffs for workers = a fat bonus for the fat-cats.
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