Shilling (not Curt) for MLBAM

by Cleveland on Feb 27, 2008 11:50 AM EST

shill(shĭl) n. - One who poses as a satisfied customer or an enthusiastic gambler to dupe bystanders into participating in a swindle.

shill·ing v. - To act as a shill.

As was mentioned at the end of the "Baseball Begins Wednesday" diary, our first spring training games is slated to be Webcast on Gameday Audio at MLB.com (run by MLB Advanced Media [MLBAM])

On Friday, our spring training game against the Padres is scheduled to appear in Live Video (I assume anchored by the Padres TV broadcast team). According to the site itself - no blackout restrictions will apply to the game (finally).

For those of you that already have MLB.TV or Gameday Audio, the above serves as a reminder. For those of you who don't, it might serve as a call to action.

For as little as $15, you can grab a yearly subscription to Gameday Audio (great if you're on dial-up) or you can get 1 month of Spring Training MLB.TV and watch and listen to all the games being broadcast. Of course, you could go all in (perhaps with a few friends) and purchase the yearly MLB.TV premium for $120 and guarantee a seat to every game in the majors, with the exception of Los Royales in season if you're within their broadcast territory(blackout restrictions...). </shilling>

There are drawbacks to the service (can't easily watch on your television, broadcast lag, crazy blackout restrictions [good luck Iowa]) - so I don't want you to pad David Glass's pocket book if you don't see value in it.

If you can't tell - I just can't wait for 2:05 CT today.

Have a good day Royals fans!

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Bought it last year

We'd hook it into my big screen with an s-video cable out of the laptop and watched almost every Royals game...pretty sweet stuff...(note...I live out of market in Illinois...so no blackout here)

I'd rather be watching baseball.

by Sisquatch Kids on Feb 27, 2008 12:09 PM EST reply actions

S- Video

Did the picture stay the same as it did on your laptop or did it improve with the TV?

by MileHighKCfan on Feb 27, 2008 2:24 PM EST up reply actions

Better on TV

The resolution of your normal (non-hd) TV set is much less than your laptop monitor. When you blow up a 400k feed to fullscreen on a TV you can still see some artifacts on the screen, but definately not as many as you would notice on your monitor. However, if you have access to the 700k feed (MLB.TV Premium), you cannot easily tell a difference from the regular TV feed. This year, with 1 Mbit feeds, there really should be no difference.

by Cleveland on Feb 27, 2008 6:51 PM EST up reply actions

So...

Are you saying that the picture quality on a non-hd TV is going to be better than the laptop or worse?

by MileHighKCfan on Feb 28, 2008 11:06 AM EST up reply actions

It will look better

by Cleveland on Feb 28, 2008 11:53 AM EST up reply actions

Thanks

Guess I'll be looking for an S-video cable now.

by MileHighKCfan on Feb 28, 2008 4:35 PM EST up reply actions

iPhone..

Why can't everyone play nice? Can apple unlock wma support in their firmware already or could someone convince the mlbam to broadcast in other formats to let those of us with the iPhone use their service?

Being able to listen to the games wherever I am at would be amazing... Oh well.. At least I can keep up with RR (though posting isnt exactly a breeze from this thing..)

by ctrell on Feb 27, 2008 12:15 PM EST reply actions