Floppyhead – Digital Media and Streaming

Are you going to miss your favorite college football team’s BCS bowl game? Do you want to savor the victory at your own leisure? FOX Sports might just have the thing for you. I came across this press release from Fox Sports (via PVRwire):

FOX Sports today announced that, for the first time ever, full-length games from the 2007 Tostitos™ Bowl Bash on FOX – which includes The AT&T™ Cotton Bowl Classic, The Tostitos™ Fiesta Bowl, The FedEx™ Orange Bowl, The Allstate™ Sugar Bowl and The Tostitos BCS National Championship Game – will be available on the Internet via several leading digital download sites beginning December 28. Developed in partnership with the Bowl Championship Series, the complete content offering, which includes full-length games, condensed games, preview shows and highlights, is one of the most comprehensive collections of digital downloads ever to be made available online in association with a major sporting event. It also marks the first time that FOX Sports has made downloadable content available for sports fans on the Web.

I think Fox may be on to something. YouTube is full of sport highlight videos. I doubt the files will be in high definition though maybe I am wrong. If you are a Florida or Ohio State fan, this package might interest you. I know if I could buy a similar digital download of the Maryland’s 2002 Basketball National Championship game, I would. According to the press release, there will be many outlets for purhcasing these downloads:

Fans can access the Tostitos Bowl Bash downloads by visiting FOX Sports on MSN (http://foxsports.com), Fox Interactive Media’s Direct2Drive (http://direct2drive.com), Apple’s iTunes, Amazon’s Unbox, AOL Video, CinemaNow and Instant Media. FOX Sports on MSN and Direct2Drive will also offer a comprehensive programming hub for the Tostitos Bowl Bash, including a free, live simulcast of the AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic, which marks the first time a January 1st bowl game has been streamed live on the Internet.

Hopefully this catches on for all sports. I would love to be able to download March Madness games and the NFL playoffs.