MLB.tv
I broke down and bought mlbtv’s postseason special. It seems to be the only way to avoid vapid “debates”, financial meltdown news, and political commercials.
I was afraid they’d force an install of MS Silverlight, but it doesn’t. It uses an embeded MS media player (same as Netflix) The quality seems pretty good. The commercials a blanked out but not cut out, so there’s however many minutes of “Ballgame in Progress…” blank screen for the duration of the commercial. In-game commercials are still there.
They have 400k, 800k feeds of the game from both the home tv station (NESN for the Sox, usually) and away stations, plus the home radio station (WRKO or WEEI for the Sox) and away station, plus alternate feeds for each (usually Spanish language).
The series games are not available for live video, but the audio is. Archives for the season are available, but I’m not sure when this offer ends. On some pages it sounds like it will end at the end of the World Series, on other pages it sounds like it ends at the end of February (right before 2009 spring training).
But for $10, it’s worth the experiment. Certainly cheaper than Comcast. Right now I’m watching the Aug 12 BOS v. TEX game that ended up 19 – 17 with the 10 run first.
We’ll see how it goes.
