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Wildcats offering all home games on DVD for $65

Spent a bit more time with the DVDs after getting home tonight.

They really don't know what overscan is. The overscan area is cropped off. Since NBL.TV games are designed for computers and don't keep overscan in mind, this runs the scoreboard off the edge of the screen even when my TV is set to display the overscan area. When it's set as most TVs would be, some of the clock disappears.
They don't know what interlacing is, either, or something. There are interlacing artifacts all over the Breakers game, but seemingly only from the close-up sideline camera. Which makes no sense.
They've stuck a dirty great "Wildcats.TV" logo on the upper right corner of the Breakers game.
Picture quality, as expected, is terrible. Since I have my own copy of the Breakers game, here are screenshots taken at the exact same frame in both:
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http://imageshack.com/a/img811/73/ssus.png

Thanks for the review.
That's a little surprising, since it takes minimal extra effort to do some basic editing and include chapters. I do that even for the games I save for myself from the TV telecasts.
For the price I guess I'm not going to complain though. Hopefully it proves popular and worthy of repeating with a little more attention to detail next season.

Got mine in the mail today. Popped in the Townsville game for a few seconds to check it out.

They only sent the last two games
There's a menu, which is an improvement on 2010
It's a single-layer disc, so NBL.TV games will likely look pretty average
The post-game press conference is included
They've not bothered to edit the start at all, so it starts with a graphic just sitting there with warmups going on in the background for a few minutes, before the open plays
They don't know what 'overscan' is, so the menu runs off the edge of the screen
There are no chapters


It's a step up from their 2010 grand final DVD, but there's still a lot of room for improvement.

I'm all over it. Will get back to you shortly.

The alternative possibility is that Perform and Ten crews in other states aren't as friendly with handing over the footage.

I know it's been mentioned that the NBL is in charge now, so should have the footage in the first place, but when was the last time an NBL broadcast showed any footage from a game earlier in the season?

The re-writing of the NBL's contract with Channel 10 wasn't entirely one way in favour of 10. One of the things the league got out of it was non-exclusivity for 10, meaning things like NBL.TV became possible. I'm guessing that is also the reason clubs are able to sell DVDs now.

Agree that the home games only thing is a little curious. I'm thinking that maybe the NBL has dished out the DVD rights for all games to the home teams, so that if I wanted to buy a Wildcats road game vs. say Adelaide, it would be the 36ers I would buy from. Of course that only works if all the clubs are on board with it, and it doesn't sound like that's the case. (then again, until yesterday I didn't know the Wildcats were on board with it either ... promotion and communication in general are still not the strong points of the NBL!)

The Wildcats have a lot of priors for doing things on their own that may stretch what their contracts would seem to allow...

Witness some of the shenanigans regarding the And1 deal and Perth's willingness to go to alternative merch suppliers.

The fact its home games only is a bit odd?

I'm guessing they told him "We don't know what Wildcats are. Please elaborate"

haha!

It looks like these DVDs are produced by the Wildcats not Channel TEN.

As you were.

Hmm this is interesting considering what channel TEN have told me (ATF).

However hopefully this opens the doors for other teams to offer something similar.

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