It may be a “mere” icing on the cake of HRH Queen Elizabeth
II’s Diamond Jubilee PR blitz, but is the queen’s 2012 Christmas message a sign
of the traditional House of Windsor adapting to modernity?
By: Ringo Bones
Of all the annual Christmas messages being broadcasted on TV
since her reign, the 2012 Christmas Message broadcast by HRH Queen Elizabeth II
will be more special compared to her previous ones, not only because this year
is the queen’s Diamond Jubilee, but also it will be the first time it will be
seen on 3-D. Is this a sure sign that previously conservatively traditional
institutions like the Royal House of Windsor is keeping up with the times?
It seems that a number of previously “conservative”
traditional institutions have jumped on to the contemporary tech bandwagon.
Even the Vatican had joined in as Pope Benedict XVI just started his own
Twitter account a few weeks ago and attracted a million followers within the
first 24 hours of opening. So why wouldn’t the British Royal Family be free in “Keeping
Up with The Jones’s” like the rest of us?
Well, at least the
Queen’s 3-D Christmas Message for 2012 is more than just an empty hi-tech whiz-bang
extravaganza. She did manage to hail the triumphant show of skill of both
Olympic and Paralympic athletes during the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic
games, and the army of volunteers that made the games and her Diamond Jubilee a
success. Given that the world’s TV and movie audience at large seems to be
distracted away from 3-D and instead being currently seduced by 8K ultra high
definition TV, the British Royal Family sticking with tried and true 3-D TV broadcasts
that needs 3-D glasses / goggles to be viewed correctly is somewhat good news
for the future of an imaging system that caters to us enthusiasts who still
give a damn about true-blue binocular vision. Well, at least the 2012 London
Olympics was broadcasted in 3-D.
