Talk about Football

Talk about Football coverage and it would be tough to beat the Malaysians. Astro, the pay channel network here is showing all the matches live and to beat everythign else has come up with this nice interactive mode.


For eg; in the picture below when there are like 2 matches live, I can pick and choose which one to watch. The highlights of the current match and the previous day keep happening and you can choose what to watch. The fixtures, stats and the latest news on the teams and tournament are available at the press of a button.

And when there is only one match live, the functionalities get better and better. Like there are 2 cameras on an individual player from each team (in this case it was the Brazil-Ghana match and the camera was on Ronaldinho and I think Asamaoh/Appaiah). so at any moment you feel like seeing their individual movement/skill it is possible.

There is a Tactical camera which gives you a top view of the whole stadium. you can actually see how the 4-4-2 combination moves in the actual match. very intersting sometimes.

And the highlights of that particular match keeps running. So if you lost out on a goal, you can quickly catch it in the highlights and watch the rest of the match. Pretty good I say.