Mobile Devices Could Change The Way Fans Experience Live Games

It’s as old as the radio — some fans at sporting events want to be in the moment, others want to expand it. We’ve come a long way from the days when a transistor with a mono earpiece and the successor two-inch handheld TVs were the high tech solution. Today’s fans can follow the game they’re attending or others via video-capable cell phones, WiFi-enabled PDAS and more. The latest additions are devices or applications specifially designed for the live sports experience. Ed Baig has a good roundup starting with St. Louis start-up Vivid Sky‘s SkyBox, a WiFi, Windows Mobile device displayed at Demo ’06. If it gains acceptance with leagues and teams — and the $1 million seed funding it was seeking at Demo, the SkyBox would offer users, who either rent the device for $10-20 or pay $3-5 to use their own device, access to a plethora of game content from stats to video from a variety of camera angles.

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