From The technology behind the Super Bowl broadcast: “Steaming bodies in the snow. Bone-snapping tackles. The stiff-arm. These are the iconic images of pro football, and they’re low-tech in the extreme. While the game itself remains a contest of brute strength, raw speed, and little red challenge beanbags, the entire transmission infrastructure that brings the games into our homes and plasters them on our televisions in HD is exactly the opposite: millions of dollars of the most complicated broadcast technology on the planet.” Ars.Technica provides a nice little explanation of the digital first-down line, the cablecam, SuperVision (for crazy instant replay), EyeVision (think the Matrix), and a peak into the technology that’s stuffed into the broadcast trucks. Pretty interesting stuff.