April 04, 2007
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Maury Brown wants to know if you are one of the 5000 Extra Innings subscribers who can't switch to DirecTV.
Posted by David Pinto at
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I am a Dish Network subscriber and I cannot afford to switch because they do a credit check and my credit is not good enough.
Just get MLB.TV and watch all you want.
I've got to say, MLB.tv sucks. The video quality is crap when you enlarge to full screen, I had trouble exporting it to my TV, and the between innings ping pong noise is maddening. If In Demand doesn't work out a deal, I'm going to miss a lot of games this year.
Even MLB.TV's new Premium tier option is no substitute for standard TV, let alone HDTV. A 700k feed is the best you can get and it looks like crap in full-screen mode (19").
Couldn't disagree more about MLB.TV. The quality on my computer was fine on full screen with the 700K feed. Why would you want to export it to a television set, anyway? Watching it on the computer (with my chair tilted comfortably back) let me keep other windows open, like the CBS scoreboard. Which let me look at stats and keep track of other games, then switch to them when things got interesting.
The Pong graphic is silly, but I never watched it. Just switched to another game based on what the scoreboard was telling me. Anyway, it's a lot better deal than the overpriced Extra Innings package. No way I'm ever going to buy that package again, even if it becomes available on cable.
One drawback of MLB.TV is the Mosaic feature, which still needs fixing. I've tried it a few times and it's buggy.
One other big advantage of MLB.TV: archives. I made a comment on another thread about Tyner's hilarious steal in last night's Twins-Orioles game. Just went to MLB.TV to watch it several times over, plus other plays from the game.
It was even funnier the second time around.
Sorry to sound like a salesman, but that's not all. MLB.TV gives you radio access to every game, so I can listen at work. I'm sorry, but there's just no way I'm going to spend more money for less product on Extra Innings.
Um, what about people who have purchased nice HDTV's and would like to actually use them? Does MLB.TV do anything for that? I look at a computer all day at work. The last thing I want to do is stare at one while I'm at home too. This is so frustrating.
I don't have HDTV and I'm not about to spend the bucks for one. Call me cheap. I admit that picture quality on the Internet is not quite as good as on cable or dish, but I'll gladly take the trade-off for more product.
Funny story about how being on the computer helps. I was watching the Nats-Marlins game last night on MLB.TV. One of the announcers (Sutton, I think - he's landed in D.C. now) said that De Aza was a "Juan Pierre" type player.
Donald obviously meant this as a compliment. So I glanced at the CBS scoreboard's player stats. In the minors De Aza did indeed rack up the kind of crappy OPS numbers that Juan specializes in. He could be every bit as bad.
It's nice being able to check mediocy immediately. No wonder Joe Morgan doesn't believe in statistics.
I'm a Mets fan in New England and have loved Extra Innings. I thought mlb.tv would be a decent alternative but if last night is any indication it is going to be a long year. I tried watching the Mets-Cards game and I think the longest I went without the screen feezing and jumping around was about 4 minutes. No fun to watch a game like that.
Not can't, won't. I did get mlb.tv, but only because the cable company is footing the bill 100%. I like to be able to sit on my couch a few feet away from the tv, with remote in hand while watching a game, not huddled in front of the computer. It isn't the same experience at all.
Last year I bought mlb.tv and extra innings. (I really like to watch as many games as I can.)
Mlb.tv is really terrible. Even if they don't bring EI back to cable, I wont be buying mlb.tv. It's awful.