SuperBowl Commercials

As they’ve done for the past few years, iFilm.com has collected all of the 2005 SuperBowl Commercials online. Most websites are posting their own commercials as well, if you want to watch or download them directly. Even though I watched the entire game, I think I missed a few ads. I liked the Tabasco and Ameriquest ads the best. Overall the ads didn’t seem as ground-breaking or innovative as they have in the past.

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NFL Game Audio on Audible

CNET News.com (and others) are announcing that NFL will deliver game audio through Audible.com: Under terms of the agreement, Audible.com will offer MP3-compatible audio broadcasts of the Super Bowl and conference championship games. Listeners can download the entire broadcast, or selected highlights, the morning after the game. Consumers can download the games, from NFL.com, Audible.com and other online retailers, onto their MP3 players, including Apple Computer’s iPod, Audible said. This should be interesting. I can definitely see the game summaries/highlights being useful. (Ideally I’d like them that evening rather than the following morning.) I think the post-game summary on the…

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NASCAR in HDTV

Another reason to get with the program and upgrade to high-def TV: Beginning next year, NBC and Turner Network Television (TNT) will televise their entire portion of the 2005 NASCAR schedule in high-definition. … TNT and NBC’s full-season of HD NASCAR coverage will begin with NASCAR Busch Series and NASCAR NEXTEL Cup racing during the weekend of July 1 and 2, 2005 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla. … All of the main cameras used for NBC and TNT’s coverage, as well as the production truck, will be native HD. The feed will be transmitted in high-definition and…

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Wrapping up The Chase

NASCAR’s season-ending “chase to the championship” wrapped up last weekend and overall feedback seems to be positive. Last weekend’s race was pretty exciting at the end. At first I thought the constant “points as they run” updates on TV would be tiring, but it was pretty cool how close everyone was and how a few positions made the difference. Full Throttle has some quick points about the season, including the fact that 8 of the final 10 races were won by title contenders (Joe Nemechek and Greg Biffle were the only non-contender winners). By the way, Full Throttle is good…

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