11.17.2006

Watch entire baseball games in minutes

Someone finally figured out a way to make prerecorded baseball games watchable. The following writeup from the NY Times pretty much sums up what you need to know.

MagicSports 3 from CyberLink analyzes the action of a baseball game that has been recorded on a Windows-based PC with a TV tuner card, removing the commercials, the lineup changes and the foul balls. The interesting bits are arranged at the bottom of the screen as a series of thumbnails, labeled according to their excitement level. A strikeout gets one star, while a home run earns three. You can burn clips onto a DVD highlights reel.