Download Super Bowl Commercials

If you are a fan of Super Bowl commercials, you probably have a good memory of all the spots that were shown on the last Super Bowl telecasts. The usual thing you would do before was to get hooked on TV and wait for the spot to come out. Now, with the advent of video sharing websites, it’s never been easier to watch past and present Super Bowl commercials at a click of the mouse. But of course every one wants to have copies of those creative ads. To download Super Bowl commercials is one thing people always looked for. With iPods, iPhones and other media devices clamoring for portable digital content, it’s now become easier to download Super Bowl commercials.

Tatter Tate’s commercial was one of the most funny and memorable ads from the Super Bowl 2007 telecast. The ad featured NFL superstar Tatter Tate who smacks down on employees that do monkey business during office hours. This and many other Super Bowl spots are just among those videos that people would love to have a copy on their hard disk or on their media devices. There are many ways to download Super Bowl commercials.

The most primitive and the oldest way of capturing video from video sharing sites is the concept of video cam-cording your monitor. Sounds funny but this one really worked in the early days of YouTube and when people want to have copies of their favorite Super Bowl ads. It’s very easy, you can use that camcorder at home. Load it with a blank video tape and start shooting your monitor while the Super Bowl commercial is playing on the YouTube player. You can also use your mobile phone video camera although the file size is limited.

If you’d like to download Super Bowl commercials right into your own video camera or your cell phone, then the previously mentioned tip can do for you. But if you want to have a copy of the Super Bowl commercials on your hard disk, you definitely need a quicker way to do it. And a good example of this is by using desktop screen recorders. Desktop screen recorders are basically software programs that capture any activity on your computer screen. This includes the mouse movement and the videos that are playing.

Examples of desktop screen recorders are liteCam 2.0, Screen Recorder Gold 2.0, Bullets Screen Recorder and River past Screen Recorder. Among the four mentioned softwares, the liteCam 2.0 is the most popular. The software is easy to use. All you need to do is to specify which portion of the desktop screen you will record. The liteCam software lets you draw lines around the YouTube player. After this, you can press the record button while the video is playing. The biggest drawback when you download SuperBowl commercials using the second approach is that you will need to specify the portion of the screen every time you record.

Another recently available video ripping approach is Fire Fox’s Video Download plug in. All you have to do is to download the plug in from the Fire Fox website. Once it’s installed, a special button on the browser will let you save videos from any video sharing websites to any video formats such as mpeg or flash.

The video downloader extension of Fire Fox is yet to be signed. That means, the plug in is still in its early stage and it could pose bugs or errors. If you’d like to be ultra safe, you can apply the first tip or the second one. Just make sure that when you download commercials from the Super Bowl, you will only use it for personal viewing.