This isn’t directly an answer to your question, but I thought I would share how I did this in the past. For part of the 2007 season I was really into trying to get “game tape” of the Rams games so I could go through them and see how people did. The way I did it was using a computer with Windows Media Center. I had a coaxial cable line directly hooked into my computer and I would record every Rams game. Then I used a video editing program to take that file, convert it to something usable, and edit out commercials and breaks. In the end I would have a video that was just every play back to back and was pretty quick to watch.

The cons of this were that it was really time consuming. It probably took me a few hours to go through and edit it the way I wanted plus you need to have a computer with Windows Media Center to do that. But if you have the time and a computer that can do that it does work.

Now my computer is upstairs and not hooked into a cable line. I have a Tivo and I was thinking about trying to do a similar thing (editing the .tivo files and making a video) but I haven’t looked into it recently. Again this would be a lot of work so I don’t know if I am up to it. I think I am going to try to save every Rams game on my Tivo all season so I could go back and watch if I wanted to. Again you have to have a DVR to do this and the disk space to keep all the videos (and it wouldn’t be editied).

I have never seen the iTunes highlights or anything like that so I can’t talk about them. $25 sounds like a lot to me for some highlights. How long are the videos? For $25 I would expect a video of the whole game (but maybe that is unrealistic).

Just thought I would share my brief experience with NFL game tape.

I watched all 16 games on direct TV and came away with a gut ache from 14 of ‘em. I’d like to forget Linehan, Haslet, Zygmunt and more than half the players ASAP.