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Baseball Coverage Coming To Consoles
Gamasutra reports that "ESPN and MLB Advanced Media are extending their current digital rights agreement through 2013, and expanding it to allow Major League Baseball content delivery through video game console services. In addition to delivering live game streaming through ESPN properties ESPN360.com and ESPN Mobile TV, the cable television network's agreement expansion includes 'alternative platforms,' like Xbox Live via its Marketplace, along with other download services like the iTunes Store and portable devices like Microsoft's Zune." Further details for the rest of the digital rights agreement are also available.
to sleep. ZZZzzzz....
i think coverage of the latest advancements in the arts and sciences or streaming lectures by insightful minds to be a cooler feature then some dudes hitting a ball with a stick.
oh no he didint
On the Oregon Cost born and raised, On the beach is where I spent most of my days
Now I can watch guys standing around doing nothing (and getting paid more comparatively to do it) on my console!
Obviously you haven't played MGS4.
Living in a region of the world where Chess Boxing is bigger than Baseball, I can tell you that I absolutely don't care about this. Ironically, I probably couldn't use it even if I did care, because these things are typically locked down with region locks, totally ignoring the 'World Wide' part of this internet thingy, making the whole thing kind of a bad joke.
Oh, well. I guess if you have no ambition to ever take any market share from Chess Boxing...
I was very dissapointed when I realized this story had nothing to do with getting baseball stats from a command line.
and when your Fantasy Scientist League consumes roughly 10 billion dollars of just lost productivity (nevermind actual gambling), you won't have to let us know, cause we'll all be playing. Bonus!
By the way there's nothing really keeping the lectures off XBox Live! aside from someone to sponsor them.
consoles are not for us nerds.
Most people seem to be pushing this away, when really it has large potential. Its no secret that delivering content via consoles is a good idea, but something like sports - SPORTS - is coming to consoles. Television could benefit largely from embracing technology, particularly when integrated with the interface, connectivity (to teh webs) and interactive controls (motion sensor, the Wii's oh so fancy pointing, touchscreen) that we see in many of today's consoles. Don't overlook an industry that needs help - needs an overhaul. Being able to dial-in shows to watch on my Wii instead of my non-existent digital cable would be great! I mean, really, I can't afford that. And then I'd be able to cut back on my bill if I didn't have cable...maybe this wouldn't be a good idea for TV after all.
seems like a complete waste of time.
seriously, if you like baseball so much go out and play it.
gaming is for stuff you can't do in real life, not for people too lazy to do it.
and yet strangely, it is.
They're using their grammar skills there.
This story has some interesting details. The summary has no submitter, and the subject isn't that interesting to Slashdotters, but it does happen to have a number of high-value adwords like 'baseball' that brings in higher paying Google ads. Of course, if no one clicks on them, then they still generate zero income. Weird.
Why don't they get a smart camera, point it at the field and track what the players and the ball are doing, and then get EA Sports MLB 2009 or whatever to recreate it digitally as its happening?
I thought they were going to say you could pull up whatever the big baseball game EA is putting out these days and watch the computer-generated characters run through the play-by-play.
Wouldn't have to be 100% accurate, a ball that lands somewhere in center field and is thrown in for a double could be represented however the engine chooses to render it, as long as the result is the same.
Maybe throw in a special button that allows you to watch the "real" clip via streaming video, for a fee (or better yet, in exchance for watching a 5-second ad as part of the intro). You'd only need/want to hit the button on a close play.
Your Brain + EEG + LEGO Robots = Brainstorms
I can see it now: "Your iPod has crossed state lines into the blackout zone for Team X. Please turn back to view content."
Seriously, if they can't get it right on old media (incredibly idiotic blackout rules), how are they going to do it on new media?
Oh, I long for the days when restricting viewership wasn't seen as a great business plan for growth.