*****MLBTV THREAD***** (1 Viewer)

[culdeus]

I seriously think viera cast doesn't do a region check. I will know 100% by tomorrow. Only reason I doubt this is true is I have to think someone on the internet out there would have pointed this out by now.

The other thing is that I found is that didn't update the blackout policy on the national splits like Xbox and the regular website did.

This could be big

I'm just not sure what the panasonic is doing now I can't make it play anything on my home IP, but VPN is ok. In any situation the PQ on the viera is horrible vs. Xbox so I've gone back to the Xbox. I'll look more into this later.

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

My iphone lets me play local games, but xbox/ps3/laptop won't. Not sure how that is happening, but I'll take it. Thanks Steve Jobs!

 

[JZilla]

Yeah droid is blacking the locals out. Makes sense as I've been cursed since I switched.

Not sure what changed on the iphone - blackouts were ACTIVE last year - but that's pretty sweet.

 

[culdeus]

Iphone should black out games unless you run a location spoofer. It does on mine until I activate the spoofer.

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

Iphone should black out games unless you run a location spoofer. It does on mine until I activate the spoofer.

I'm not running anything. It's a miracle!

 

[culdeus]

Iphone should black out games unless you run a location spoofer. It does on mine until I activate the spoofer.

I'm not running anything. It's a miracle!

this is interesting. Do you have location services on? Does it show a location in a map program prior to loading video?

 

[Wooderson]

Any idea how to change the time zone with the Apple TV? It's stuck on Eastern.

Damn East coast bias.

 

[East Coast Bias]

Any idea how to change the time zone with the Apple TV? It's stuck on Eastern.

Damn East coast bias.

Reported.

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

Iphone should black out games unless you run a location spoofer. It does on mine until I activate the spoofer.

I'm not running anything. It's a miracle!

this is interesting. Do you have location services on? Does it show a location in a map program prior to loading video?

It does the little location check, zooms in on MN, then says I'm good. I recently upgraded to iphone5 and loaded from the backup, but I'm pretty sure I've updated the app once since then. There's a new update out there, but I'm scared to load it.

 

[Wooderson]

Any idea how to change the time zone with the Apple TV? It's stuck on Eastern.

Damn East coast bias.

Reported.

 

[Wooderson]

Hmm I'm able to watch blacked out games on my iPhone 4s. I was able to stream it to my Apple TV as well.

 

[Jaysus]

Hot Diggity: http://goo.gl/QeE83

 

[culdeus]

already running 50% off deals

https://secure.mlb.com/enterworkf...-554577103

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

Almost double-payed as it was auto-renewed for me this year. Heads up!

Spring training games that you can watch on MLB tv are listed here:

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_info/broadcasts/spring_mlbtv.jsp?&affiliatedId=mlbMENU

For $25 more you can add MiLB, but I didn't pull the trigger. I figure I'm more likely to watch MLB games that I missed instead of expand to MiLB.

 

[RnR]

Confirmed that DirecTV is once again offering MLB.TV for free with a subscription to MLB Extra Innings.

 

[rodg12]

Confirmed that DirecTV is once again offering MLB.TV for free with a subscription to MLB Extra Innings.

Awesome! Have you activated yours yet?

 

[East Coast Bias]

Anyone using this yet? Can't get audio or video on my phone.

 

[RnR]

Confirmed that DirecTV is once again offering MLB.TV for free with a subscription to MLB Extra Innings.

Awesome! Have you activated yours yet?

Yep, just had to link DirecTV acount to MLB.com account and it was ready to go. Spring Training on my phone as we speak.

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

Anyone using this yet? Can't get audio or video on my phone.

Had it on my phone on the ride home playing video, but wasn't really watching, more listening. Kept crapping out on me though. Have it on the PS4 right now and its running great.

 

[East Coast Bias]

Anyone using this yet? Can't get audio or video on my phone.

Had it on my phone on the ride home playing video, but wasn't really watching, more listening. Kept crapping out on me though. Have it on the PS4 right now and its running great.

Must be my phone. I can use both on my laptop.

 

[rodg12]

Confirmed that DirecTV is once again offering MLB.TV for free with a subscription to MLB Extra Innings.

Awesome! Have you activated yours yet?

Yep, just had to link DirecTV acount to MLB.com account and it was ready to go. Spring Training on my phone as we speak.

Sweet. Activated mine as well. Just watched Aaron Judge hit a 3 run bomb for the Yanks.

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

Anyone using this yet? Can't get audio or video on my phone.

Had it on my phone on the ride home playing video, but wasn't really watching, more listening. Kept crapping out on me though. Have it on the PS4 right now and its running great.

Must be my phone. I can use both on my laptop.

Yeah, I think my phone is the issue as well...####er was HOT while using it. Battery probably ready to pop.

 

[East Coast Bias]

Got my issues worked out with the help of mlb.tv support. I couldn't get past the blackout check on my phone. I had to enable developer options and uncheck allow mock locations. Now I can watch on my phone.

 

[pollardsvision]

Trying to figure out why I have issues watching MLB.tv at home.

I watch on a Chromebook, which the mlb.tv support guy says is not supported. I know it can work because I watched all day at the restaurant yesterday with it working just fine, and there were apparently some common work arounds for Chromebook users last year involving using mlb's old media player.

There's also my internet connection, which may or may not suck. It's Verizon's enhanced whatever. I asked the live chat lady about upgrading and she said there was nothing to upgrade to. Bandwidth test was 1346 when mlb recommends 1800. Still, it's hard to believe that my current service just won't work (though it's always lagged like hell watching it on the PS3 in year's past).

Anyway, so I have reason to believe, and not believe, that it's my device and my internet connection.

Told the mlb guy to cancel my service if they really don't support Chromebooks. Of course, the service is actually working pretty good since I told him that (takes a few days for mlb to decide if a refund is allowed).

Not sure what to think. Anybody watching on a Chromebook with no issues?

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

I don't get why a chrome book would be an issue.

 

[pollardsvision]

I don't get why a chrome book would be an issue.

I don't either. Streaming #### like this is sort of what they are built for. That's just what the customer service guy said with a lot of confidence, and a quick perusal of 2014 complaints make it sound like mlb.tv doesn't officially support chromebooks.

It's working decently now, but only with this link: http://mlb.mlb.com/mediacenter/?nexdef=true

This one wouldn't work (though it did yesterday on Comcast).

 

[njherdfan]

Trying to figure out why I have issues watching MLB.tv at home.

I watch on a Chromebook, which the mlb.tv support guy says is not supported. I know it can work because I watched all day at the restaurant yesterday with it working just fine, and there were apparently some common work arounds for Chromebook users last year involving using mlb's old media player.

There's also my internet connection, which may or may not suck. It's Verizon's enhanced whatever. I asked the live chat lady about upgrading and she said there was nothing to upgrade to. Bandwidth test was 1346 when mlb recommends 1800. Still, it's hard to believe that my current service just won't work (though it's always lagged like hell watching it on the PS3 in year's past).

Anyway, so I have reason to believe, and not believe, that it's my device and my internet connection.

Told the mlb guy to cancel my service if they really don't support Chromebooks. Of course, the service is actually working pretty good since I told him that (takes a few days for mlb to decide if a refund is allowed).

Not sure what to think. Anybody watching on a Chromebook with no issues?

It's very hit-and-miss for me on my Chromebook. It's pretty good when I'm at school, where there's very strong internet, but at home it's not great.

 

[Grahamburn]

I'm just using a Roku. It's fantastic.

 

[rodg12]

Trying to figure out why I have issues watching MLB.tv at home.

I watch on a Chromebook, which the mlb.tv support guy says is not supported. I know it can work because I watched all day at the restaurant yesterday with it working just fine, and there were apparently some common work arounds for Chromebook users last year involving using mlb's old media player.

There's also my internet connection, which may or may not suck. It's Verizon's enhanced whatever. I asked the live chat lady about upgrading and she said there was nothing to upgrade to. Bandwidth test was 1346 when mlb recommends 1800. Still, it's hard to believe that my current service just won't work (though it's always lagged like hell watching it on the PS3 in year's past).

Anyway, so I have reason to believe, and not believe, that it's my device and my internet connection.

Told the mlb guy to cancel my service if they really don't support Chromebooks. Of course, the service is actually working pretty good since I told him that (takes a few days for mlb to decide if a refund is allowed).

Not sure what to think. Anybody watching on a Chromebook with no issues?

If that is 1346 bps (or 1.3 mbps), that is most likely your issue. Tough to stream mlb.tv at that speed. I used to have 1.5 mbps internet and always had problems streaming on it until I upgraded to 10 mbps like I have now.

 

[pollardsvision]

Trying to figure out why I have issues watching MLB.tv at home.

I watch on a Chromebook, which the mlb.tv support guy says is not supported. I know it can work because I watched all day at the restaurant yesterday with it working just fine, and there were apparently some common work arounds for Chromebook users last year involving using mlb's old media player.

There's also my internet connection, which may or may not suck. It's Verizon's enhanced whatever. I asked the live chat lady about upgrading and she said there was nothing to upgrade to. Bandwidth test was 1346 when mlb recommends 1800. Still, it's hard to believe that my current service just won't work (though it's always lagged like hell watching it on the PS3 in year's past).

Anyway, so I have reason to believe, and not believe, that it's my device and my internet connection.

Told the mlb guy to cancel my service if they really don't support Chromebooks. Of course, the service is actually working pretty good since I told him that (takes a few days for mlb to decide if a refund is allowed).

Not sure what to think. Anybody watching on a Chromebook with no issues?

If that is 1346 bps (or 1.3 mbps), that is most likely your issue. Tough to stream mlb.tv at that speed. I used to have 1.5 mbps internet and always had problems streaming on it until I upgraded to 10 mbps like I have now.

It actually hasn't been too bad lately. It streams okay on the Chromebook using that old/nexdef site, but both the PS3 and Chromecast are much better. Chromebook worked perfectly at work with a better connection though.

I'm going to try the Chromecast out at the restaurant. We don't have enough potential sports interest to justify expensive cable packages. Just cancelled ESPN because there's no point with college football and basketball seasons over. Some afternoon baseball streaming could really hit the spot though.

BTW, never do something stupid like get drunk and tell the MLB customer service rep to cancel your service because it doesn't work perfectly on one of the four ways you have available to watch. The cancel order can't be reversed. Not a big deal, but I've paid for the mlb.tv twice now in the past 5 days, and who knows when the refund on the first one will happen.

 

[Peyton Marino]

anyone have issues with choppiness in streaming to chromecast? video runs fine on my laptop, but it gets choppy when I try to stream to TV.

 

[East Coast Bias]

If you have TMobile it appears you can get this for free this year.

 

[rodg12]

Included with MLB Extra Innings on DirecTv again this year.  Just re-activated my account this week.