Don’t get me wrong, I am all in favor of all media finding increased distribution, and if the NFL wants to show a game on Yahoo I’m all in.
I’m also not here to wonder if the technology will hold or if we will have buffering or if I will be too lazy to push the remote control button.
I wonder about the second screen and the buffer between social media live and streaming video live.”
I watch a fair amount of sports and run a decently successful blog about the Mets. I usually hang out on twitter during Mets games. Sometimes I have to temporarily unfollow one of the beat reporters’ twitter feed because he is ahead of the television. He’ll write “oh no” and then I live in fear for 4 seconds until my TV shows the Mets blowing the game.
I also watch a lot of MLS and find myself using the English SAP function on the Uni Mas site so I can watch soccer AND the Mets. However, streaming is delayed, and I get spoiled by twitter.
Which brings me to the NFL. I wonder what the stream delay will be. Will I be able to hang out on twitter during Yahoo NFL or will someone in London tweet that the Jaguars just ran back a pick-6? That would take the fun out of it. Yes I could stay off twitter, but I’m not going to.
Will it work or will it be the Game of Spoilers? Time will tell.
Oh and Twitter – STEAL THIS IDEA – set up a “delay all tweets by xxx seconds” function so people can enjoy spoiler free television shows.
