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ESPN says, "Up Youze" (for a while more) :P
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Feb 9, 2006, 09:20 PM
 
Want to watch NCAA B-Ball? Buy windoze. Or to quote ESPN exactly:
"We have detected that your system is not currently equipped to use ESPN Motion. A Mac OS X version is in development, but for now, if you would like to use ESPN Motion, you must be using a PC with Windows 98 or better."

(What would NOT be better than a PC with Windows?)

Is it possible progress that they contend an OS X version is "in development"?
Couldn't they go with Real or something that is cross-platform? (They couldn't do QT of course.)

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Feb 9, 2006, 09:27 PM
 
No huge surprise that sites never have a link "tell us how we're doing", eh?
     
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Feb 9, 2006, 10:12 PM
 
ESPN was working on Mac OS X at some point was it not?
     
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Feb 10, 2006, 01:36 AM
 
That's their story.

And they're sticking to it!
     
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Feb 10, 2006, 06:32 AM
 
Huh? What page can you not view? ESPN Motion works on OS X without any additional software needed.
     
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Feb 10, 2006, 09:33 AM
 
See:
http://proxy.espn.go.com/ncb/fullcou...;source=TTPic#

Click on the link " * Click here to check system requirements" ... which does the same "get a PC" moaning in IE for Mac or FireFox.
     
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Feb 10, 2006, 11:41 AM
 
You see, it's cheaper to pay people millions of dollars in development, or, to pay licesning and software fees to Microsoft and Real instead of using something free, like QuickTime.

Or something like that.
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Feb 10, 2006, 12:57 PM
 
Originally Posted by macsfromnowon
See:
http://proxy.espn.go.com/ncb/fullcou...;source=TTPic#

Click on the link " * Click here to check system requirements" ... which does the same "get a PC" moaning in IE for Mac or FireFox.
Awww, so "ESPN Full Court" is not supported. ESPN Motion, the client/player, only needs Flash 7 and can be viewed just fine on a Mac...

http://espn.com/motion
     
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Feb 10, 2006, 01:42 PM
 
Originally Posted by rickey939
Awww, so "ESPN Full Court" is not supported. ESPN Motion, the client/player, only needs Flash 7 and can be viewed just fine on a Mac...

http://espn.com/motion
Thanks for the clarification rickey, I was confused as well.

Any guesses how long this will take ESPN? It is much like MTV's distate by making MTV overdrive and the like non Mac compatible. Idiots.
     
   
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