Get Major League Baseball HD on Roku
Friday, August 21st, 2009 running time 07:00
How do the MLB games look on the Roku, compared to, say, DirecTV's MLB
Extra Innings? Jim Louderback, our resident expert on baseball in HD
makes the call!
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" We love HD content no matter where it comes from here written three there are told a baseball fan that's what we were very -- when broke -- the partnership. With Major League Baseball to screen. Teams that 99 dollar broken Netflix player. Joining us right now is our resident I got busy every Mets game possible except for this season because apparently they're sucking. Revision 3 CEO Jim moderate back do you how many -- do you do you normally watch. You know what -- 162 games a year I may watch sixty -- seventy a lot of -- among the background. But I like watching the games and illiterates ever Cisco they don't play a lot of little regular TV so in the past what I've done. And when did this -- subscribe to the extra innings on DirecTV so I can see a lot of the games now looks like there's a better way. So the scanner of what's in the form for -- these extra innings what's the and the kind of annual cost them what sort of what tasty which I wanna do it's about 253. Dollars that's pretty healthy and that's on top of like probably hundred bucks your pain exactly. For your right now so how's the quality of the DirecTV transmission beautiful we looks really good it's you know date it's -- really good HD I have a 52 inch screen and it looks really good so is it is good is the over the air broadcast -- though he gets a little bit less good because you know what -- impressive mpeg four putting you know there's so it's not going to be. As good as some of that over there but it's good enough and it looks great. So -- news MLB that -- year mlb.com. Premium how does that stack so here's what happens -- that you can subscribe -- do this for a couple years stuff online to the mlb.com. TV package. This year was the first time that they had a really good looking HD version they did so reliant last -- They're back to flash. And 410 dollars for the year you could basically watch any game live or on demand. Except for the ones in your home market so they black out local games. That's their service is -- not a problem right giants fans San Francisco that would be an issue of and these fans emphasis same thing. The wrong if the 75 mile radius for the blackouts to us and -- do. So the Adobe that a 110 dollars you get all this stuff it's great but and I did a little bit of a test of this earlier this year put up my blog lot of back dot com. I took my notebook computer hooked it up to my victory and I checked that HD version verses the DirecTV stuff not nearly as good really balky. -- pain in the -- your notebook up every time -- wanna watch a game. But that's why when this came out on the Brokaw also excited. Because -- you know it's essentially the same service and a single subscriptions too much on your wrote to or you know exactly is just like Netflix and the setup is just like Netflix basically. Where you -- and MLB dot TV slash broke -- you get a code that you type in that code authorizes your. PC or your Internet account to work on the road -- boss so. How much are all these gains in the NBA needs to be quite. -- They're always did they always good good. With the the other thing that's really caught on as I walk you through off just this is the wrote to interface here and -- on video Netflix of course with the mlb.com beta. Just came out. And the neat thing that I like about it is he got all these games are on demand but there also live -- you can pick. Which version to listen to so we'll go back to yesterday he did like your home or away announcer or the giants and now I'm gonna go to the -- version this is the Mets game from last night which I've not watched yet. Aren't covered when it comes to sports I'm fine watching it on demand. You know afterwards if I don't know the score. So I don't know the score the -- great experience for me for those who aren't particularly familiar with the roof to boxes if he doesn't caches and automatically download additional hard drives and it is essentially streaming over the net. And you're gonna you're fairly healthy broadband connection yeah it it'll dumbed down so you get a less high definition signal if you only have you say. You know -- Labarca remake of the program works pretty well all of this is basically get the home announcer the away announcer. Bright and higher as about that I wanna listen to my favorite announcers the Mets once all display that. There was already watching this you can start from the beginning -- resume. And you'll see what happens is it retrieved it and every time you fast forward it's always that take a couple seconds ten to thirty seconds to actually get to that point of the video. These -- doing it right now. There a couple of issues with that one if you watch the game of the man was like -- and if you want to live. They don't actually show the commercials. I was with a commercial breaks happen on demand. You get that to the three minute break where they business -- the screen so it's commercial free do you get a black space you guys that wealth up black space you get a particular image but we just turn this down. So it is really similar to the to the online version is some blocking is -- artifacts especially in this -- emotion you know I think you and I could be fooling myself here. But it -- it -- notebook computer up as well. I think this is the better looking image -- my notebook computer however it happened to have you dvi. But I can about just going to be that much better. And it is noticeably worse than DirecTV. You -- lot of blocking this and you can see when the key frames happened you see blocking this. Here on the on the field and on the dirt but you know what. I'm just I really opponents straws here because when you sit down and get a nice distance away and watch the game. It's pretty darn good experience so if you're obsessive on the HD experience local over the years and with that next to be something like DirecTV crises past. But this is a third of the price of the season past no DirecTV subscription. It's available on your notebook anywhere you travel and you -- two I'm thinking you've given us a big thumbs up I give it a big thumbs up -- the -- we have a lot of baseball fans as you said. Ron Richards accused -- doesn't have cable subscribers to MLB saw this we're playing whether rollers like I'm buying that box today. I think he's the host of iFanboy occasion and who were on results or marketing guru -- that we -- and Ryan Bennett who runs all programming is also a big baseball fan. He saw this and said to balky I would pay the money for the cable -- satellite. So it's all about what you could put up with me next year. I am not pair of -- DirecTV this is good enough. And I get more games to so hats off to -- could have -- for putting on what I think is critical package and it's indignantly yesterday at a Feller. NHL. Or parent NASCAR so the thought -- amid an audience out of the -- but I got to take no because DirecTV pays. Boatloads of money to be the only wants to show out of market games so you can stream MLB -- an H NFL football games. If you're outside of the US that the speakers here NHL I would think so but we'll have to --"
" We love HD content no matter where it comes from here written three there are told a baseball fan that's what we were very -- when broke -- the partnership. With Major League Baseball to screen. Teams that 99 dollar broken Netflix player. Joining us right now is our resident I got busy every Mets game possible except for this season because apparently they're sucking. Revision 3 CEO Jim moderate back do you how many -- do you do you normally watch. You know what -- 162 games a year I may watch sixty -- seventy a lot of -- among the background. But I like watching the games and illiterates ever Cisco they don't play a lot of little regular TV so in the past what I've done. And when did this -- subscribe to the extra innings on DirecTV so I can see a lot of the games now looks like there's a better way. So the scanner of what's in the form for -- these extra innings what's the and the kind of annual cost them what sort of what tasty which I wanna do it's about 253. Dollars that's pretty healthy and that's on top of like probably hundred bucks your pain exactly. For your right now so how's the quality of the DirecTV transmission beautiful we looks really good it's you know date it's -- really good HD I have a 52 inch screen and it looks really good so is it is good is the over the air broadcast -- though he gets a little bit less good because you know what -- impressive mpeg four putting you know there's so it's not going to be. As good as some of that over there but it's good enough and it looks great. So -- news MLB that -- year mlb.com. Premium how does that stack so here's what happens -- that you can subscribe -- do this for a couple years stuff online to the mlb.com. TV package. This year was the first time that they had a really good looking HD version they did so reliant last -- They're back to flash. And 410 dollars for the year you could basically watch any game live or on demand. Except for the ones in your home market so they black out local games. That's their service is -- not a problem right giants fans San Francisco that would be an issue of and these fans emphasis same thing. The wrong if the 75 mile radius for the blackouts to us and -- do. So the Adobe that a 110 dollars you get all this stuff it's great but and I did a little bit of a test of this earlier this year put up my blog lot of back dot com. I took my notebook computer hooked it up to my victory and I checked that HD version verses the DirecTV stuff not nearly as good really balky. -- pain in the -- your notebook up every time -- wanna watch a game. But that's why when this came out on the Brokaw also excited. Because -- you know it's essentially the same service and a single subscriptions too much on your wrote to or you know exactly is just like Netflix and the setup is just like Netflix basically. Where you -- and MLB dot TV slash broke -- you get a code that you type in that code authorizes your. PC or your Internet account to work on the road -- boss so. How much are all these gains in the NBA needs to be quite. -- They're always did they always good good. With the the other thing that's really caught on as I walk you through off just this is the wrote to interface here and -- on video Netflix of course with the mlb.com beta. Just came out. And the neat thing that I like about it is he got all these games are on demand but there also live -- you can pick. Which version to listen to so we'll go back to yesterday he did like your home or away announcer or the giants and now I'm gonna go to the -- version this is the Mets game from last night which I've not watched yet. Aren't covered when it comes to sports I'm fine watching it on demand. You know afterwards if I don't know the score. So I don't know the score the -- great experience for me for those who aren't particularly familiar with the roof to boxes if he doesn't caches and automatically download additional hard drives and it is essentially streaming over the net. And you're gonna you're fairly healthy broadband connection yeah it it'll dumbed down so you get a less high definition signal if you only have you say. You know -- Labarca remake of the program works pretty well all of this is basically get the home announcer the away announcer. Bright and higher as about that I wanna listen to my favorite announcers the Mets once all display that. There was already watching this you can start from the beginning -- resume. And you'll see what happens is it retrieved it and every time you fast forward it's always that take a couple seconds ten to thirty seconds to actually get to that point of the video. These -- doing it right now. There a couple of issues with that one if you watch the game of the man was like -- and if you want to live. They don't actually show the commercials. I was with a commercial breaks happen on demand. You get that to the three minute break where they business -- the screen so it's commercial free do you get a black space you guys that wealth up black space you get a particular image but we just turn this down. So it is really similar to the to the online version is some blocking is -- artifacts especially in this -- emotion you know I think you and I could be fooling myself here. But it -- it -- notebook computer up as well. I think this is the better looking image -- my notebook computer however it happened to have you dvi. But I can about just going to be that much better. And it is noticeably worse than DirecTV. You -- lot of blocking this and you can see when the key frames happened you see blocking this. Here on the on the field and on the dirt but you know what. I'm just I really opponents straws here because when you sit down and get a nice distance away and watch the game. It's pretty darn good experience so if you're obsessive on the HD experience local over the years and with that next to be something like DirecTV crises past. But this is a third of the price of the season past no DirecTV subscription. It's available on your notebook anywhere you travel and you -- two I'm thinking you've given us a big thumbs up I give it a big thumbs up -- the -- we have a lot of baseball fans as you said. Ron Richards accused -- doesn't have cable subscribers to MLB saw this we're playing whether rollers like I'm buying that box today. I think he's the host of iFanboy occasion and who were on results or marketing guru -- that we -- and Ryan Bennett who runs all programming is also a big baseball fan. He saw this and said to balky I would pay the money for the cable -- satellite. So it's all about what you could put up with me next year. I am not pair of -- DirecTV this is good enough. And I get more games to so hats off to -- could have -- for putting on what I think is critical package and it's indignantly yesterday at a Feller. NHL. Or parent NASCAR so the thought -- amid an audience out of the -- but I got to take no because DirecTV pays. Boatloads of money to be the only wants to show out of market games so you can stream MLB -- an H NFL football games. If you're outside of the US that the speakers here NHL I would think so but we'll have to --"





