Sports, universally, are watched live. Yet, there’s a segment of fans that are dependent on their DVRs, catching up on games later or fast-forwarding them. Power users try to predict which matchups could go to overtime and schedule their systems to record by an extra hour or so. However, oftentimes, these thrilling games tend to […]
News flash football fans: get ready to add another day of the NFL to your weekly calendar. The NFL is not adding another game to the week, or another team to the league, but they are rolling the dice with a new partnership with Twitch, a live streaming video platform owned by Amazon, and EA […]
The 2015 NBA Finals had over 98 million video views. There are 33 NBA players with more than one million fans on Facebook, led by LeBron James with 33 million fans; these are staggering numbers that the NBA could not ignore. Since working with Facebook in 2007, the NBA has been able to target more […]
Virtual reality is continuing to impress people around the sports world. We first read about how virtual reality was being used to train athletes and then it shifted to entertaining videos for fans. And now as the technology continues to develop, we are watching virtual reality as it is pushing the broadcasting envelope. NOS, a Portuguese […]
Anybody who has watched professional soccer may notice that a number of advertisements on the field are solely meant for the television audience. Most fields have advertisements painted near the goal, which appear 3D only to those watching from home. Vizrt, a real-time graphics company, is raising those types of advertisements to the next level, […]