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The official site of Seligball has endured criticism about usability over the past few years, but the breadth of services now available is astounding.

Tonight, check out the live broadcast of a Red Sox-Yankees spring training contest, offered free of charge.

MLB.TV promises to be a valuable service to baseball fans everywhere. The price of the season package is comparable to Extra Innings, and the month by month rate is quite reasonable. The site claims that approximately 45 games a week will be available, subject to local blackout. The archive feature might become an invaluable tool to the baseball researcher (since even a hardcore fan can't watch more than a couple of games at the same time). It will be a godsend to baseball fans living outside of North America.

If you have sufficient bandwidth and processing speed, this might be the answer to all your baseball prayers. The Blue Jays-Yankees game 2 weeks from today is on the spring schedule

Posted by robertdudek on Thursday, March 13 2003 @ 09:01 AM EST.
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_snellville jone - Thursday, March 13 2003 @ 12:01 PM EST (#93656) #
The demo looks very good. I was expecting a small fuzzy picture like their highlight clips, but the picture quality is excellent small screen and only slightly pixelated full screen. The best part is the lack of bells and whistles, just straight baseball- no scoreboard, no count graphic, no stats. Hopefully this is how they intend to keep it. I probably won't be able to pay for the whole season, but an exciting pennant race in the last couple of months might induce me to pay 30 bucks.

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_snellville jone - Thursday, March 13 2003 @ 07:38 PM EST (#93657) #
O.K., now that I look at the real game, I take it all back. The picture quality is so bad I can't make out the names on the uniforms and they are just using the YES network broadcast. Oh well...
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robertdudek - Thursday, March 13 2003 @ 09:09 PM EST (#93658) #
My stream started off well. 350 kbps is a little grainy unless you have the size set on minimum. Then it froze up. I don't think it's my system - I suspect network traffic.

I think internet infrastructure has to improve before watching a game on the web will come close to watching it on TV.
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_Jonny German - Thursday, March 13 2003 @ 09:25 PM EST (#93659) #
I was very impressed with the streaming - had it on from the second inning to the seventh with no blips. Pretty rare that you see that in any kind of internet video. Grainy, yes.
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