Personally I have been thinking about a potential market for NBA fans. With the HUGE emergence of DVDS in todays market why doesnt the NBA come up with more NBA DVD's for sale. For example take their stock of OLD NBA GAMES, and sell classic NBA GAMES and make a MARKET out of it. They could have one large market to sell classic NBA games that would interest anyone, such as Jordan games. And within each NBA city or NBA Arena they could sell classic games of their home team with target markets consisting mostly of those fans in their own respective cities? Or maybe even sell all classic NBA games of each team to everyone if the market for classic NBA dvd games becomes big. Personally I feel if the NBA made their classic stock of NBA games into DVDS where there is good quality and no commecials, and also EXTRAS like post game etc......they would sell like crazy. Wouldnt you be interested in buying classic NBA Houston Rockets Games? Where you can watch their great games with great quality and also some extra features and interviews that occured during the times of the game? Even without the extras they would be great to have. What do you guys think? Personally I think these would sell if the right games were sold in the right spots, and the most popular NBA games with most fan interest could sell worldwide, while less notorious games that arent special to NON fans of that specfic team could have their own target market within their own city, with possibly an abilty to order on the internet for outside fans? What do you guys think about this? Dont you think it would be cool if the NBA did this?
I'd buy that for a dollar.... Seriously though, I'd be very interested, especially in getting some of our classic playoffs....I would love to get my hands on that WC series vs. the Spurs when Olajuwon dominated Robinson, that would be awesome!
I would definitely go for some of the classic games/series. How about the WC finals against the Lakers when Sampson nailed that halfcourt shot to win it (was that 86?) and get into the finals against Boston? I wonder how far back the NBA video archives go - it would be great to see some vintage Moses, Rudy, Calvin, etc. hooping it up!
I would KILL for a DVD of the Rockets/Magic 95 Finals. NOt just some highlights, but the whole series. Also it could have special features like the postgame interviews, and player reactions now some 7 years since the Championship. I would pay ANY price for that.
I would be interested, but since I already have the championship games on tape, I would want the DVDs to have "bonus" content, like interviews of the players, coaches, media coverage, Gene Peterson play-by-plays, etc. Kind of like the Clutch City tapes they produced after the championships, but with more focus toward the big games and the plays within those games. They could probably splice alot of the stuff they used for the tapes into new DVDs. In essence, they would definitely have to differentiate it from the pure NBC broadcasts and the Clutch City tapes.
I would definitely consider purchasing DVDs of some select games (primarily Rockets games) if the price were reasonable. Once I finalize my current CDR/CD-RW projects (vinyl & cassette conversion) I plan to switch my interest to VHS conversions. If it's not against the law, I will share/swap with those like-minded Rockets fans.
This is the one thing I worry about. As it is, I was about to set up a computer with a couple hundred gigs of hard drive space to archive all of the Rockets games this season. It would sort of be like Tivo. I'd convert the videos to DVD's in about a year or so when hopefully a standard format for DVD recording is decided upon. I sent an email off to nba.com asking them whether it was technically legal to do this because for one thing I don't want Clutch getting in trouble when this place turns into a file or video-swapping hangout for NBA-copyrighted material. I'm afraid I don't even want to know the league office's answer to what I asked them...
Well the way I understand it, it should be entirely legal to record the game and let other people see it also just as long as your not selling the copies. So I can record a game on say a DVD-R and then make a copy for lets say Dr of Dunk and it is technically legal. Now if I go out and start selling the DVD's then I'm in for a big lawsuit. I doubt the NBA will want you to set up a website and distribute the games freely. They might want to start selling the games and if they are already out there in a easy to access digital format then they have a problem on their hands. With that said I think its a great idea Dr. and I would love to see it done. Also I would love to buy Classic sports DVD's I have already emailed the NBA and NFL. If I remember correctly you could get a copy of a game from the broadcaster... I could be totally wrong though.
hell, I'd buy Summer League games. I have no idea why the NBA won't offer this. Rockets games are going to be recorded and black marketed in China, like they wouldn't believe...guaranteed!!! They might as well start doing it now, before China sets up a server for us. We don't really need to organize this DoD....because, it will be happen! Face it Stern!! You better start offering DVDs for sell, or a Napster will pop up in China that you will not be able to stop. btw: *wrong forum* really guys, I suggest keeping this out of the high traffic forum, because this is so illegal to discuss swapping games.
I dont understand why they dont sell these classic NBA games? Dont you think they would sell? I mean tons of people would buy cheap vhs quality for $15 a game or something....can you imagine if they were CLEAR dvds with extras? They would sell like crazy. Stern might as well make use of his OLD STOCK OF NBA GAMES instead of putting a few of the same games on NBA classic with no EXTRAS, and edited games. PLEASE STERN!!!!!!
Forget about discussing swapping games, the issue is why doesnt stern and NBA sell their old stock of NBA games to the NBA Fans?? They would sell like crazyy...better than some cheap t-shirts that no one cares about, or a cheap NBA DVD FInals video that only appeals to one team fan base at best.