Uefa Offers Euro 2008 Vod Service
The official UEFA website for this summer’s Euro 2008 tournament – euro2008.com – has launched live video-on-demand service.
The offering will allow fans worldwide to follow matches live and on demand by downloading highlights and full match reruns.
The video offering is available in three different packages:
Matchpack at €1.99 – this includes access to any of more than 8,000 individual matches from the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup, UEFA European Under-21 Championship, and UEFA European Football Championship since 1992. Users will have access to stream or download highlights or replays of full matches, and can also browse through key match events.
EURO2008 Pass for €19.99 – this package includes all of the 31 matches in the Euro 2008 tournament, and users will be able to access full match reruns and highlights.
Also available are additional annual subscription options with access to all UEFA football season matches, with or without Euro 2008 matches.
Free video coverage of Euro 2008 – In addition to the services highlighted above, the UEFA web team will offer the fans a free daily magazine show throughout the month of June. This will be a twice-daily production comprising interviews, reviews and the latest news from the streets of Austria and Switzerland, as well as from all the team training camps – providing exclusive views from behind the scenes at the tournament. The show will be an eight-minute video, with the content also being made available as a vodcast.
UEFA is also making all Euro 2008 final tournament matches available via a live internet simulcast produced on behalf of, and in cooperation with UEFA broadcast partners and rights-holders for Euro 2008.
