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NCAA Highlights – A Perfect IPTV Application

The following video provides the few highlights from San Jose State University’s 37-0 loss to Stanford last week in Palo Alto.  What makes this possible is a new licensing deal between Veoh (the player and online video network), NCAA and Collegiate Images, LLC, the licensing and rights clearance agency for video and still images. 

 


“NCAA Football Highlights on Veoh.com

The application that Veoh has developed allows fans to grab highlights of a game, mix them together and share them with their friends.  It was not obvious to this author whether it is possible to edit or change the order of clips.  As you can tell by the score, the videos are not in chronological order, which is what I wanted.  Social networking aspects appear to be via emailing, on Veoh’s site, embedding the video into blogs, web site or sites like MySpace or Facebook. 

There is no audio with the clips.  This is probably because releases/contracts would need to negotiated with the on-air talent and the broadcasters.  The lack of audio could be a feature, however, as a great social aspect to this could be the addition of fan audio, whereby fans could record their own play-by-play and send it to their friends.  Interestingly, the following video still has the FSN bug on the upper right hand corner.   

Probably the most amazing thing about this application is that the license occurred in the first place; media rules are definitely changing.  The RSS feed capability pushes content highlights to the desktop automatically.  This is exactly the type of application that IPTV has been promising for years.  It will be interesting to see how this sort of application will compete against the limited highlight reels provided by the local broadcasters. 

The other amazing thing about this service is that it was able to find any SJSU highlights.  What a huge loss for this team that was a bowl winner last season.   

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