{"id":600,"date":"2008-09-15T19:48:11","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T23:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgillin.com\/?p=537"},"modified":"2008-09-15T19:48:11","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T23:48:11","slug":"in-time-for-playoffs-skybox-comes-to-ipod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/in-time-for-playoffs-skybox-comes-to-ipod\/","title":{"rendered":"In Time for Playoffs, SkyBox Comes to iPod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vividskyco.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"SkyBox on iPod\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vividskyco.com\/mlbss_web\/images\/01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"343\" \/><\/a>More than two years ago, I wrote about SkyBox, an innovative handheld computer that gives fans access to statistics, replays and even concession menus from their seats at a sporting event. I know that as a rabid baseball fan, I frequently want to see replays that the big board in the stadium doesn&#8217;t always oblige to show me.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the producer, Vivid Sky, Inc., has announced SkyBox for the iPhone and iPod touch. SkyBOX Baseball offers on-demand video replays, real-time analytical stats on players and teams, in-depth player bios, current scoreboards, trivia, games and more goodies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\">Fans in stadiums outfitted with the company&#8217;s proprietary SkyBox Stadium Technology can access video replays from multiple camera angles on-demand, view precise pitch and hit-tracker graphics and browse the team store, according to a press release. The iPod application costs $2.99 from <a href=\"https:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewSoftware?id=289309356&amp;mt=8&amp;v0=WWW-NAUS-ITUHOME-TOPAPPLICATIONS\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BTW, I&#8217;m not getting paid to promote this service. I just think it&#8217;s cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than two years ago, I wrote about SkyBox, an innovative handheld computer that gives fans access to statistics, replays and even concession menus from their seats at a sporting event. I know that as a rabid baseball fan, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/in-time-for-playoffs-skybox-comes-to-ipod\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[50,65,70],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pTy95-9G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}