Comments on: ESPN Motion for Mac Launched

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

ESPN Motion is a great feature and the only reason I still bother to open up IE, as some one else also stated.

The sooner a non-browser restricted version can come out the better. I love the way ESPN is showing how css and standards can be used on a major site. I just hope ESPN motion can be ultilized by non-IE browsers in the near future.

By: Ramblings

Ramblings — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

ESPN Motion for Firefox and Mac

Earlier this week Mike Davidson announced ESPN Motion for Mac was being released, and cheers were heard around the world. There was however many questions on why if Mac Motion was made possible “by utilizing Flash MX video and plenty of fancy DHTML and…

By: Chris' Corner

Chris' Corner — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

ESPN Motion

I noticed that ESPN Motion for Mac has been launched. It appears that using some clever DHTML, CSS, and Flash, a once IE-only technology has now expanded to just about all popular Mac browsers (Safari, Firefox, and Mozilla have better support then IE f…

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

is it possible to save the espn motion videos to my hardrive so i can put together a folder full of videos without having to go to espn.com to see them?

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I have an ibook – recently upgraded to Tiger OSX 10.4.6. I cannot get espn motion for the life of me. Adobe flash 7, media player 9, quicktime 7, etc.

What’s a brotha to do?

By: bzbzb

bzbzb — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Has anyone tried ordering ESPN gameplan & watching via in-motion on mac?

By: bug

bug — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This works very well in Firefox on XP. Nice work. Now to get rid of that ActiveX crap….

By: Brian Behrend

Brian Behrend — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Motion works in Firefox!!

I just went to ESPN.com and I noticed the right side acting a little funny. I couldn’t remember if the Motion playlist had always been there in Firefox or not so I clicked on one of the items. Imagine my surprise when the status bar loads up and video starts playing.

Seems like our voices have been heard! Thanks a million Mike for giving me one less reason to ever touch IE.

By: Mr K

Mr K — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t see how if it can work on a Mac it doesn’t work in Firefox or others. It seems crazy to me that you would go to ALL that effort creating a Flash based version that is targeted to run on Macs and you would LIMIT it to just macs … why not just go Flash for the WHOLE thing? This would save ESPN a huge amount of money .. no longer having to encode for ActiveX AND Flash, and alowing visitors to use their choice of Browser.

I would also have thought that using Flash would open up NEW oportunities for ESPN to use technology such as CENTRAL to stream video directly to the users computer – again regardless of PC or MAC, or Browser.

Oh well .. nice to see them using Flash, sadly this is NOT enough to get me back to using IE … so untill the Firefox version comes out ….

By: Brade

Brade — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve never understood the point of Motion, given that you can watch all the day’s highlights on Sportscenter anyway. I think most people download it just because they’re mesmerized by technology, without really considering how useful it is or isn’t. I used to have it on a previous windows install, but I don’t appreciate things that run in the background and are that resource-intensive, so I quickly got rid of it and don’t use it to this day. Not saying the technology isn’t cool in its own way, but I just question the point of it.

By: Johnathan Grant

Johnathan Grant — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Can you comment on why ESPN went with Flash instead of a WMP9 based service on the Mac?
I saw a screenshot of an ESPN Motion icon in an OS X Dock once, and had assumed that was an implementation of the “download / prebuffer WMP9 video” version of Motion on the Mac.
Was Windows Media’s Mac performance simply not up to par? Or is the eventual plan to dump the ActiveX control in favor of the Flash plugin?

FWIW, the Flash version is nice, and appears to be at least as full featured as the existing version, if not moreso. I look forward to seeing it on other Disney sites (ABC.com, for one).

By: Jeff Croft

Jeff Croft — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

1. It’s about time. :)

2. You guys rock. I loved the Windows version, and the Mac version will be even more useful to me. Keep it up!

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

ESPN Motion on my machine decided it wanted to download about 300 megs worth of video. Not sure it would have kept going if I didn’t run out of HD space on the C partition.

By: David Schontzler

David Schontzler — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I actually kinda like it being IE-only since it autoplays. I just use IE for ESPN Motion and Windows Update and Firefox for everyhing else. Although, if ESPN Motion was available autoplay-free for Firefox, then I’d have one less reason to use IE.

By: Jeff Croft

Jeff Croft — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mike-

I finally got home from work to my trusty PowerBook and gave MacMotion a try — I really like it. It’s true, the video quality isn’t as good, but it’ still plenty good enough. I just prefer the non-invasiveness of this version of the Windows version. I like to go and “pull” the video I want, rather than having it “pushed” to me.

I don’t see any reason this version wouldn’t work under Firefox on Windows. Go ahead and tell the decision-makers at ESPN that I said it was okay for them release it for all platforms. If they don’t, I’ll just fire them.