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omg

http://news.com.com/NBA+to+create+huge+digital+archive/2100-1025_3-5989364.html?tag=nefd.lede

brilliant, brilliant idea. i can only imagine the time i'll spend digging through ancient games on this. forget assembling highlight reels- i imagine i'd have about as much interest in that as i would imixes on itunes, aka nearly none- i just want to dig up classic games and watch them without waiting for espn classic to get around to it.

of course, will they let you watch a complete game? i want to see wilt chamberlain's 100 point game. i want to see magic playing center as a rookie in the finals. i want to see havlicek steal the ball. but i want to see context, not just the minute-long clip.

pricing? i want this to be free, dammit! what would you pay? i might pay itunes-level prices for a good quality file i could keep and rewatch or burn to dvd; 99 cents sounds about perfect.

― metonymus prime (rgeary), Friday, 9 December 2005 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

ooh, i'm not thrilled about that article ending with everyone's favorite bit of corpspeak, "monetize." i'm willing to pay a nominal fee for this sort of stuff- since obviously they'll be incurring pretty sizeable costs for bandwidth, storage, live people cataloging plays; but i'm not that interested in paying live-ticket-level prices to see old games that currently next-to-null value sitting on tape in a vault.

― metonymus prime (rgeary), Friday, 9 December 2005 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

I want to see Mullin pre-flat top!

― Obsessing over the unobtainable and nonexistent. (Leee), Friday, 9 December 2005 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

or jordan with hair! it's hilarious

― metonymus prime (rgeary), Friday, 9 December 2005 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

there's no footage of that 100 pt game

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 10 December 2005 00:44 (nineteen years ago)

dammit! MAYBE IT NEVER REALLY HAPPENED

― metonymus prime (rgeary), Saturday, 10 December 2005 05:04 (nineteen years ago)

capricorn one

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Sunday, 11 December 2005 02:24 (nineteen years ago)

lolz

― metonymus prime (rgeary), Monday, 12 December 2005 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

peter hyams is responsible for several of my least favorite films ever! imagine the pain he could inflict on a vast pool of nba game tape

― metonymus prime (rgeary), Monday, 12 December 2005 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

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