Mobile Live Crowd

Think about this: from just about anywhere in the world you can watch the hoop at the moment a slam dunk has been made over your mobile screen! You can almost hoop yourself!

People are very fascinated by live broadcasts, live music concerts, and live sports games. The authenticity is what we find so appealing – knowing that what we’re watching is for real, it’s not an act of pretending and it’s happening right now as we speak!

Imagine yourselves the following situation: I bought sits for the latest most popular sports game - Super Bowl, NBA… you name it. Drove all the way to the stadium, wore my team’s shirt, bought soft drinks and hot dogs, and went to my seats. I actually did everything the way fans do. Eventually, I found myself staring on the huge screen to see only part of what’s going on in the court\ field (I’m 1.52m so believe me, it is hard even to see just the screen without people blocking my view...). Unfortunately, the same happens the at music concerts.

I feel like I paid a lot of money to be in the crowd, to be able to scream my lungs out (and to choose not to - ladies shouldn’t curse, right?) and see only a small fraction from the whole happening\ event. If you look deep enough, you could say that I didn’t really get the action in LIVE. Besides all the excitement of being part of the huge crowd and actually being there in *real flesh & blood*, it isn’t any different from watching a game at home. Both ways I end up watching at the screen. I know what you’ll say - that at the stadium we can feel as part of the big crowd… my answer to you is - that even at home, a homemade cheering crowd can be easily arranged. All you need is to gather a few friends, buy some drinks and a few bags of family size of Frito-Lays and send the girls to a night out. (Between us, sports aren’t my biggest interest, so I’ll go out with the girls… :-))

I’m having a thought here of a nice feature with some added value for the "homemade cheering crowd", so tell me what you think of it. How about recording the "homemade cheering crowd" through the mobile, and sending the audio\ visual\ both recording as an MMS message to the stadium's speakers\ big screens\ both and have the "homemade cheering crowd" be heard\ seen\ both over there, while they’re actually sitting on the couches in front of the TV, at home.

Well, either way, most of us end up watching the game through the screen. Either way the real action is mediated. So, my questions to you are: what’s the real difference between a live game and a taped game if both are seen through the glass? If we always get the action through the screen, would people care to watch TV on the mobile (in that case, the liveness would be to watch the action on the fly, rather than in real dimensions)?