When the National Football League broadcasts next week's San Diego-Oakland game to theaters in three cities, it will mark the first time that the league has used 3-D technology during a live event.

The game will be shot using special cameras and broadcast via satellite to theaters in Los Angeles, New York, and Boston on December 4.

The event will be a demonstration to show how the technology can be used to provide a more realistic experience in a theater or in the home.

Now remember when heavyweight boxing matches used to be show in theaters in the one of the first applications of pay-per-view?

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