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Tackling Tech: The Live-Streamed Super Bowl – Change & Challenges
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- Published on 07 January 2016
Once watched primarily on black-and-white TVs, the Super Bowl eventually came to color sets, TVs without legs, wall-mounted flat screens – and now to Internet-connected TVs and a wide array of mobile devices from smartphones to tablets.
CDNs Win the Sports Video MVP Award
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- Published on 31 December 2015
If the sports video industry held a tech awards show, you'd have to give content delivery networks (CDN) the Most Valuable Partner (MVP) trophy for their fast-expanding role in getting captivating content from its origin to an array of fan-owned consumer electronic viewing devices.
Tackling Tech: The NFL Targets Youth to Expand its Brand
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- Published on 27 December 2015
The way to a youth's heart is through his or her Internet connection.
Faced with a growing youthful population that gets its content via broadband instead of through living room TVs delivering programming from large pay TV packages, the NFL has introduced an appealing list of items to help them enjoy America's game now and for years to come.
Tackling Tech: Virtual Reality Gets Real for Pro Sports in 2016
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- Published on 17 December 2015
After a frenzied year of investments, product launches and studio interest, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), the nation's largest consumer electronics trade group, is proclaiming 2016 the year of legitimacy for virtual reality. That should mean new and better viewing options for sports fans.
NFL Officiating: Why a Tech 'Fix' Isn't Enough
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- Published on 10 December 2015
Lost in the ongoing bashing of officiating is a short sentence from NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell when asked about problems facing the league after a number of controversial calls.
"We need to train them differently," he said of officials but did not elaborate.
Tackling Tech: Data Usage Caps – Fear & Loathing for Sports Streamers?
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- Published on 03 December 2015
When the clock struck midnight Tuesday evening, Comcast began testing monthly Internet data caps for customers in a list of cities, an effort that if made permanent, could pose problems for sports fans set on streaming live NFL games and massive libraries of on-demand video content.