I just discovered ultitv.com which has a large number of Ultimate game videos available for download for a modest subscription fee.  For example, the dozen videos in the UPA 2007 collection are $8.   These include all of the UCC 07 finals plus a number of highlight films.  Each download is 150MB+.

Despite some limitations I’ll get into later, I was pleased to find this site. 

It fills a need that isn’t met by either the free video sites or mainstream media.  The highlight videos you find on YouTube are fun to watch but show you very little of actual game flow if you want to try to learn something. 

And coverage on old-school TV is shamefully lacking.  You might find footage of the 2006 extreme moto-parachute-kite-skating championship. but you won’t see Ultimate.  (Does anyone know of any good coverage that I’m missing?)

The limitations of ultitv are in the ordering process and in the resolution; I believe there’s a business opportunity to provide a better platform for video publishers like Ultitv.

You order subscriptions via Paypal and you need to wait for someone to manually add your credentials to the site.  (To the sites credit, this happened by the next morning for me.) 

As for resolution, the (quicktime) videos are only 320×240 pixels, a far cry from hi-def. Don’t expect football style multi-camera coverage of course, but the video does show the whole field with captions on fouls and dead space edited out.

I’m certainly willing to pay for the convenience of having an edited, high quality, quickly downloaded game, especially for something that’s not quite mainstream.  If they don’t exist already, I can imagine paid video hosting services that provides e-commerce, hosting, and video conversion technology to sites like Ultitv in exchange for a share of the revenue.

Update:

It’s found ultitv clips aren’t actually the entire games, they’ve been edited down to fit in around 20 minutes and 150MB.

Here are ultimate clips on Google Video longer than 20 minutes, including some championship games.

See also the Ultimate Frisbee page on Squidoo, which links to a set of free Ultimate video sites, including the utlimate section of cstv.com