The Loquacious Limey

According to USA Today, Fox Sports [who else??] are currently in discussions with some of the larger theater chains to screen live coverage of College Football in 3-D. Their Chairman, David Hill, says he’d also like to offer coverage of NASCAR races in the same format, which he regards as television’s next logical evolution after Hi-Def.

Hi-Def is a revolution, of that there’s no doubt; The definition and clarity are immeasurably better, and 3D may indeed be a complimentary aspect in the case of a very few shows. But format is not the big problem, content is the problem; American television does not need to go Hi-Def, American television needs to go low crap. The balls they need are not oval, but crystal. Most current TV would demean the IQ of a comatose gerbil and people simply don’t want to watch. And last time I checked, that’s not the idea.

Until those in charge of TV acknowledge this truth and derive the same onanistic fulfillment from upgrading the content as they currently do from just tweaking the view, the ratings will fall, their profits will fall, and somehow we’ll get the blame.

And that’s not what we deserve.

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