The NBA's digital archive project aims to make its archive of nearly 60 years of content available for anyone on the internet to view and construct highlight reels with. Statistics will be annotated to time marks which will facilitate search string accessibility. Scheduled for completion in 2011, the footage will include player interviews and alternate-angle camera shots that may have never been shown on the air. The NBA expects to save money through the conversion of its vast library of tapes amassed over the decades into the diminutively sized physical space digital media affords. The NBA hasn't decided yet whether they'll charge for this service.

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