Google Video & NBA team up <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">People who visit the Google Video homepage at http://video.google.com will be able to access 2005-06 NBA games and some of the greatest individual performances in NBA history. Marking the first time NBA fans can purchase full NBA contests online, each NBA game for the rest of this season, including the NBA Playoffs and The Finals, will be available to fans in its entirety for $3.95 per game, 24 hours after its conclusion.</div> NBA.com Download the games for your computer, PSP or iPod!!
$3.95 a game? RIP OFF. This adds up to $325 if you downloaded all 82 games of your favorite team. I don't know how google expects people to pay $4.00 a download. They won't be able to compete with NBA League Pass, free local coverage, and the power of Tivo. I'll just wait until the NBA finishes up the video archiving project with search features. I'd be willing to drop $5G's to get my hands on every single game of basketball since its inception. I'll save my $3.95 for Starbucks.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting shapecity:</div><div class="quote_post">$3.95 a game? RIP OFF. </div> Yup. <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">They won't be able to compete with NBA League Pass, free local coverage, and the power of Tivo. </div> Exactly, that's the first thing that came to mind when I heard the price/game. Unless people have some ridiculous desire to carry games with them on their PSP or Ipod there is no reason to pay that much. Even then, there are ways of putting NBA games in mpeg format and watching them on your Ipod for free. <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">I'll just wait until the NBA finishes up the video archiving project with search features. I'd be willing to drop $5G's to get my hands on every single game of basketball since its inception.</div> Wow, that's all it will cost?!
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Jurassic:</div><div class="quote_post">Yup. Exactly, that's the first thing that came to mind when I heard the price/game. Unless people have some ridiculous desire to carry games with them on their PSP or Ipod there is no reason to pay that much. Even then, there are ways of putting NBA games in mpeg format and watching them on your Ipod for free. Wow, that's all it will cost?!</div> They haven't figured out the actual cost or pricing structure for it yet. I just threw out a random number. From the article it sounded like they wanted to make it affordable for NBA fans, so $5Gs sounds about right.
I dunno, paying $5000 for, essentially, a handful of the best games played seems a bit much, and nothing like "affordable" in the sense of justifying cost vs. value. I'd much rather invest that same $5k and have it make some money for me.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting unbeliever:</div><div class="quote_post">I dunno, paying $5000 for, essentially, a handful of the best games played seems a bit much, and nothing like "affordable" in the sense of justifying cost vs. value. I'd much rather invest that same $5k and have it make some money for me.</div> It's not just a handful of games. It's EVERY SINGLE GAME played since they started recording TV games of the NBA. Plus there is a search feature that will go and filter through each game. For example, I want the clips of every single Steve Nash assist from the year 2000-current, it would go through and filter all that footage for me.
I don't think it's that bad a deal. I could see myself paying $4 to see certain games -- ones that they don't show on NBATV's Greatest games. I'd like to see some of those Rockets-Spurs games where Hakeem handed it to David Robinson in the '95 playoffs.
I've seen a lot of fight mixes made by that Yinka Dare guy, it'll be great to research the games where those fights happened. We can see what led up to them, who won the game, etc. I wonder if these games with have halftime and post game interviews. By the way, what happens if a game is broadcast on two stations (ESPN and local FSN for example)? I assume that they would put the game with ESPN commentary, but it would be great to have the option of buying a game with the local announcers (I'm sure Laker fans would love to hear Chick Hearn as opposed to a Tolbert or Walton). If anyone knows the answer to this question that would be great. Personally I hope that both options are made available.
Id download just the best games. Not EVERY GAME, theres no need. Who really wants to watch Atlanta V Detroit?? Kobes 62 would be my first one. Along with Tmacs and Vinces highest scoring game. I have jordans 69 point game on dvd. THE WHOLE THING WOAH! I have Tmacs 13 in 35, the whole game along with Tim Duncans highest score and Kobes 12 3pointers! I also got the ALL Star dunk comp, the year VC won it! But id love to have more and this will allow me to get, Jordans 63, Garnetts highest score and lots more!
Hmm I might've been wrong about downloading the vids to your iPod/PSP...it said somewhere that you can only copy it to a device if the video is not protected (which I'm now assuming means "purchased").
^^I don't think that you were wrong. Google has always had videos (that people uploaded) but until now you couldn't download them at all. I was downloaded some videos of people c-walking yesterday, and when you download it has a little drag down bar that gives you the options of Windows/Mac, Video Ipod, or Sony PSP. I haven't bought any NBA games yet (don't know if I will), but I would assume that it gives you the same options. Although that would give people more options for piracy, so you could be right and they might only make the NBA vids available under the Windows/Mac option.
If you can download (or even stream) something, you can put it on any other device if you know how. There are plenty of conversion programs out there, some of them will strip the annoying copy protection bullshit as well. I'm a huge proponent of free data, in the sense that once you purchase something you should have the right to freely use it in any (non-profit) manner. That means changing the file format, editing it, etc.
That is a rip off. 3 dollars a video??? Thats retarded, it should have been like 1.50, im sticking to NBA League Pass.
Just a word of caution: There's currently a growing uproar from users concerning these downloads. Apparently many are complaining that they are getting unfinished products, ie - not full games, and Google's only response to the complaints is that "all sales are final". Buyer beware.....
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting hagrid:</div><div class="quote_post">Just a word of caution: There's currently a growing uproar from users concerning these downloads. Apparently many are complaining that they are getting unfinished products, ie - not full games, and Google's only response to the complaints is that "all sales are final". Buyer beware.....</div> Hagrid nice to see you posting again. Thanks for the warning. I also heard some of the videos are only viewable on google's media player. It's too, bad google went public because the sharks are going to take this company over and ruin their vision.
i think it pays off more if you just want to use a P2P share network program kinda thin, you can download bunch of stuff and you are not spending a dime.
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i dont like watching games that have already happend, exept for the all star game.... i like watchin em live or the day afta
