Jim Jacobs collection of fights. Old Article but interesting DVD pirates filling their shelves -- and customer orders http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=3390712 16,000 :shock: Tyson was a lucky MFer. But anyway, I wonder why they still can't create a ESPN boxing channel and show the fights. Why not at least have it online. I guess money does dictate everything. To much to run??
16.000 is realy a whole lot :happy hope the quality aint that bad.... they should make it on blue ray, dvd or something to higher the quality and maintain the films at all costs, its history.
I made an argument in the Classic section that the promoters of boxing are operating as if its 20 years ago. These guys are old school and exist in a technology bubble that never really made it out of the VHS days. Right now the value for content has never been higher because it's so much easier from the producer's end to monetize their library. If I'm ESPN right now, I'm beating down Netflix and Amazon's door in order to secure licensing deals, which are quite profitable for content providers- especially when that content isn't doing a damn thing but sitting in a closet, unaired, 95% of the time. Netflix doesn't have anything like to fill out its sports library that's available to watch online and it'd instantly attract fans to sign up for the service, even if they started with a small number of big fights. The lure of being able to see a big fight you wanted, in great definition, on an HD tv is pure gold. Then, to capitalize on the physical DVD market, you use some of those proceeds to start an "a la carte" service that creates DVD/Blu Ray's to customer's orders. Instead of producing 10,000 copies off the top, wait until a customer order before burning it. Let the order pull the DVD through your order process instead of pushing it all first and hoping for the best. That way even less popular fights are still profitable and you're not sitting on an assload of inventory. The ways they could monetize that library and help the sport are endless and I refuse to think that if an OK business school student like me could think of it, that the pros can't see some of them. But they just don't give a **** if they're going to keep feeding fans that same bull**** of the economics not being in favor of it. They just don't feel like pursuing it because they might actually have to build something proactively instead of responding when the trend's already peckerslapped them in the face until they've gone blind like they usually do.
Good read. Another example of the boxing business living in the past, when it should be profiting from the past. If any sport could make business out of nostalgia it's boxing.
16,000 fight films kept in the dark for no reason. Even the material they make available is tampered with. I bought the broadcast recording from the Louis-Schmeling 1 fight and the ESPN geniuses thought it a brilliant idea to cut out the third round entirely, overlay a stupid slapstick sound effect during the fighting and replace some of the between round analysis with their own descriptions.
That really sucks! It’s borderline sacrilegious. Something else along those lines that ruins it is when they re-record the calling of the fight, adding their own commentary. “And we are now halfway through round 3. Now pay attention, fighter X is about to land that vicious left hook!”
