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Impressive broadcasting numbers
Next time you are going to watch a World Cup match on TV try to think about how the picture and sound comes to your home.
30.000 square meter center in Munich is the nerve broadcasting center for the 2006 World Cup TV signal. It’s the first time that every match will be broadcast in 16:9 HDTV. All of this work is being done by Host Broadcast Services (HBS).
Take a look at these impressive numbers:
Microsoft Soccer Scoreboard
Follow your favorite teams and players during the FIFA World Cup tournament with Microsoft Soccer Scoreboard. Put in the team you want to follow, and this cool litle program will track upcoming games and the most recent scores. You will be able to check out your team’s schedule, standing, and news.
Microsoft Soccer Scoreboard acts as a RSS reader. Enter your favorite sports-related RSS feed into the application and watch it display the news headlines all on its own.
The Sports Blog Network
If you are looking for sport blogs than you should check out Sports Cartel - The Sports Blog Network.
By the time of writing this post there is no soccer/football blog involved in the network.
Sports bloggers wanted
b5media is looking for sports bloggers:
As we ramp our up new sports offering, there are still a number of holes we need to fill. In particular, these are: baseball, basketball, hockey, football (American). If you are interested in blogging on any other sports, let us know.
If you wnat to applay read their Standard applicant tips.
Soccer Blogs
Get your soccer info from SoccerBlogs.net:
SoccerBlogs.net is an aggregator that summarizes new posts across the growing network of soccer focused blogs. Soccer blogs are really starting to take off and I want to make it easy to find ones you’d like to read. If you know of one I should add, please write to me. I’d appreciate any other suggestions and comments.
This site aggregates posts from a growing database of and present links to them here. I am periodically checking the syndication feeds (either RSS or Atom) for a number of blogs and saving a link to entries.
Germany’s largest brothel to open before World Cup
If you will be tired of watching World Cup or you won’t have tickets, than you might think to visit a brand new Germany’s largest brothel near the Olympic Stadium.
Organizers of what they claim will be Germany’s largest brothel unveiled the building, which is set to open in time for the 2006 World Cup soccer tournament.
The Artemis brothel near the Olympic Stadium is a four-story building with a pool, sauna and movie theater will accommodate up to 650 men and 100 women at any one time, said Norman Jacob, the lawyer representing its backers.
World Cup 2006 on 3D television
Viewers of the 2006 soccer championships could see the ball fly out of the screen, in live trials of a new 3D TV system
Viewers of next year’s soccer World Cup in Germany could find themselves watching the ball fly out of the screen, in live trials of a new 3D television system.
The German firm Grundig has developed a system capable of displaying 3D pictures to people sitting in different parts of a room, without the need for special glasses.
“We will have the prototype product by the end of 2006 and 3D TVs and DVD players on the market in 2007,” says Thomas Haida, Grundig’s director of product development.
