Filed under: Video, iPhone, iPod touch
March Madness comes to the iPhone
The NCAA and CBS Sports have teamed up to stream the upcoming Men's College Basketball Championship tournament for free online at NCAA March Madness on Demand. You can watch the "high quality" videos online for free, but even more interesting is a nifty $4.99 iPhone / iPod touch app (iTunes link) which allows you to watch every game from the first round to the National Championship. Unfortunately, this will only work over WiFi and not 3G. Nonetheless, if you've a big college hoops fan this looks like a must-have app.
CBS Sports NCAA March Madness On Demand is $4.99 from the iTunes Store.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
str1f3 said 9:26AM on 3-14-2009
I'm not a big sports fan but I'm getting really tired of seeing this wifi only garbage. What does AT&T/apple think? People are going to watch the entire tournament on their phone?
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brian said 9:36AM on 3-14-2009
Too bad the iPhone can't handle regular old streaming video--even from Apple's QuickTime Streaming Server--on its own. (Or did they silently fix this and no one told me?)
strf3--no, maybe not the whole tournament, but if you've got to catch a game at work or something, it wouldn't be that bad. And technically, it was the dev's decision to require WiFi, not Apple's or AT&T's
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OmniGeno said 12:00PM on 3-14-2009
@brian: This would be infinitely handy at work, but unfortunately I don't have wifi there. Hopefully work will let me do CBS's MMOD (March Madness on Demand) on my computer...
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Kwjayhawk said 12:41PM on 3-14-2009
If I'm watching on Wifi I'm going to sit in front of a 22''+ to enjoy the games. Very lame idea.
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Ben of BenandJacq said 12:46PM on 3-14-2009
Smells like an app I would regret having bought. Excited about it, but if I have to have wi-fi I'll just take my laptop with me and stream the games for free.
Glad to see the iPhone can now do what most other AT&T phones have been advertising for months.
I'll pass on this app, but I came really close to buying it. But 5 bucks for something that will only be used a few weeks per year even if it works perfectly seems silly.
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Adam said 1:19PM on 3-14-2009
If your iPhone is jailbroken, use VoipOver3G by modifying the plist file and it will work over 3G!
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David Hildreth said 2:40PM on 3-14-2009
No 3G and they are charging for it? WTF?
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jon maddox said 5:57PM on 3-14-2009
If all you're looking for is a way to check the scores and see how your picks are doing in their games, we built a super fast app to do it. Brackets was made for 2 second at a glance checking of the tournament games. Check it out at http://mustacheinc.com/brackets.
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stick30 said 8:46AM on 3-15-2009
can some one post the .plist string for the cbs march madness app?
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A said 8:12PM on 3-15-2009
com.mobitv.marchmadnessapp2009