Does anyone here have MLB TV?

If I read it right you can stream all games from the web to your TV or just watch them on your computer. I'd like to be able to smoke a stick in the garage and watch the game (cable guy said it won't work with the cable box, something about being too far from the source).

Anyway. Is it any good?
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I have mlb.tv, but not on tv. I get it on any computer, my iphone and my ipad.
I have no idea if or how I can get it to work on the tv, don't care though.
It's freakin awesome, D.
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I have it but never tried streaming it to the TV. The video quality is awesome even on my phone but the only drawback is no local games due to blackouts.
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I don't really care about it on my TV, I just want to sit outside, smoke a cigar and watch the ball game.

As far as blackouts go, maybe only 10 or so games are blacked out here for the Giants, would that be the same on MLB TV?
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1) yes
2) yes, if you have the hardware, eg ps3
3) yes
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It depends.
Cox Communications has exclusive rights here in San Diego to broadcast the Padres. Cox Channel 4 is available to all cable subscribers and they show ~140 games a year. However, due to the "contract", MLB cannot broadcast the Padre games in the San Diego market.

It sucks. Were it not for that, we would have given up cable long ago.
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I've only ever had one game blacked out that I can remember. A guy can watch any game that's on at any time. If the game is blacked out, you can watch it 90 minutes after it's over.
I can also watch any game at all on replay at any time I want.
It looks absolutely glorious on the iPad, D. If it's broadcast in HD, it's on the iPad in HD. Plus, I get both feeds for each game. If one is in HD and the other not, I just switch. It allows me to listen to announcers I like.
So even the blackout thing doesn't really matter. :-)
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Will it come over xbox, Vic?
I never tried. I watch netflix on xbox all the time. It'd be cool if I could get the ballgames on it.
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This I don't know. Just got it in the last update I think on the PS3.

It's less than half the price of buying the baseball ticket on DTV, so it's a great deal as far as I'm concerned, not to mention you can also stream to the iphone, ipad, etc, which I couldn't do if i bought the DTV package.
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Seems to me there is an easy way around this.

Buy MLB for a friend or family member who lives in another market, and register their address. If you can't buy it for them, have them buy it and reimburse them.

Have them give you the password, etc.

These are one way connections as far as I know, they know where you are because you TELL them where you are. If I was in a San Diego Starbucks on Wifi, the games blacked out for me would be the NY games, not the SD games, they have no way of knowing where I literally am unless I tell them that.

Not that I advocate duplicity. I'm just saying.:-)
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Vic, I'm not sure how mlb.tv figures out where I am when I'm at home (ip tracking I suppose) but on the ipad and iphone it asks if it can use the device to find your location. If I choose no, it defaults to "you ain't getting anything, then."
So it actually looks at the market I'm in, rather than where I'm from.
I found this out because I tried grabbing the Indians game while I was out in Cleveland a couple weeks ago. No dice.
I figured on my computer here, I could log in with a proxy. It's really not necessary, though. I can see where it might be an issue if my home team was in a playoff run, but I got the Buccos. :-)

I was trying to bend my brain as to how I'd stream this stuff to the tv, but I'm clueless. Any ideas for me? :-)
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Easiest way would be does the xbox have a browser? If so, browse to the mlb site just like you would on a computer and you "should" be able to stream from there.
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Hmm. I stand corrected.:-)
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Nope, no browser as far as I can tell. For Netflix, there's a downloadable app, then Netflix shows up in the video marketplace.
I took a quick look and someone says it will stream to the xbox with TVersity. I think he's talking out his ass, but I'll check.
MLB.tv doesn't run in the browser, per se, but in a pop up app called nexdef. I think I can watch it with flash 10, too. Regardless, it's in a pop up and I don't even know how I'd stream that with Orb Media.
I'm mental. I don't even want to do this, but I can't stand not being able to. :-)
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TVersity is a media server that runs on your computer. Without researching I'm assuming what that person is saying is install TVserity on your computer, leave it running, connect to TVersity with the xbox and stream away, set it up for MLB and stream away

The xbox will recognize windows media or other servers running on the computer?

No way to do it with Orb as far as I know.
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I can grab files on my pc with Orb/Xbox, Vic. I don't think I can catch a live stream though.
I'm going to grab TVersity and see if I can make it work. Thanks, brother!!! :-)
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Since your so close to the Giants area, I'd be worried about blackouts. You might not be able to get many, if any Giants games. $100+ wasted to see your team play. But you could watch ANY other MLB game anytime you so desire.
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I'm the same way. Too funny (even though it's not).
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If I can catch 90% of the games on CSN-BA, wouldn't I be able to do it via MLB.TV?

I guess I'm kind of ignorant to the black outs thing. Will someone please explain, if I am missing something?
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S-Video?
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