MLB Extra Innings - C/D?

What is the EI home channel?

Extra Innings has a "home channel" where the screen is split into eight telecasts. The default audio comes from the top-left telecast, but you can move around to hear the other telecasts and select a channel/game from there.

Apologies for the confusion -- didn't realize that THIS new Strike Zone is the work of MLB Network, not Extra Innings.

Oh right. That's pretty nice. But I don't have Extra Innings, so a cheaper RedZone -alike would be great, even if it's only a few days a week.

Starting April 10, the service will broadcast in a live, whip-around fashion on Tuesdays and Fridays during the MLB regular season, beginning at 7 p.m. ET,

So this has to differ from MLB Tonight, right? It would be great it was similar to their daily anchor/analyst-free highlight segments.

YEAH, Strike Zone it has just been added to DirecTV, commercial free:

Per Channel 719. "MLB Network Strike Zone HD. Tuesday & Friday nights. Available with MLB Extra Innings and/or Sports Pack."

so i just got home from work, turning on the Strike Zone channel now.

anyone watch this yet today, how is it?

so i have been watching a bit of this. they seem to go away from games a little too fast for my liking. maybe i just like watching innings and how they build instead of this instant stuff.

MLB Network Strike Zone will be available on the following offerings:

Bright House Networks: Bakersfield, Calif. – Channel 1124; Birmingham, Ala. – Channel 464; Detroit – Channel 698; Indianapolis – Channel 425; Orlando and Tampa – Channel 1143
DIRECTV® SPORTS PACK and MLB EXTRA INNINGS® package: Channel 719
DISH Network, Multi-Sport Pack: Channel 153
Time Warner Cable: Albany, Austin, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Charlotte, Cleveland, Columbia, Columbus, Corpus Christi, Dallas, El Paso, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Milwaukee/Green Bay, New York City, Palm Springs, Portland, Raleigh, Rochester, San Antonio, San Diego, Syracuse and Waco.

so i was looking forward to the Phillies vs Giants game tonight as it was Lee vs Cain.

--------------i see right now in the 10th 0-0.--playing the Lakers game instead because i can't watch.

i wrote this on someplace else:

i looked in the on air guide and saw that tomorrows game (which is now today) is going to be broadcast on MLB Extra Innings channel 747. i get home from work and see that "Phillies vs. Giants" is gone on channel 747 and only "To Be Announced" is displayed instead. so i'm pissed and i call in. spent over a half an hour on the phone they transferred me to the technical dept and they told me yes it is suppose to be on. the tech tries a bunch of different things tell me that he has escalated this and to keep watching and it will be on shortly. i'm so mad, this was Lee vs. Cain tonight.

let us destroy this Corona ad that plays every inning on every game on mlb.tv

MLB.TV postseason package? alternate angles?

i just got my renewal notice from DirecTV for the 2013 season:

You are all set to enjoy another exciting season of MLB EXTRA INNINGS. We are renewing you at the lowest price of 6 payments of $33.33/month...

total price for this year is $199.98, so it actually went down $ this year.

i will tell you how it goes when i call DirecTV and try to get a discount again this year.

it went down 9.96 this year, number lock became unlocked.

Split mlb.tv with my father, this is pretty awesome. The stream to my Roku looks every bit as good as via cable.
Comes with the Extra Innings app - that means I can stream all the radio broadcasts (except for local), right?

er, At Bat app

I think you can even stream local audio. Blackouts only apply for TV broadcasts, iirc? Pretty sure I listened to a Jays game or two last year via that app.

Yeah, local audio isn't blocked, just tv. I listened to a lot of Braves games when my cable co couldn't figure how to flip a switch on Peachtree TV days.

just got off the phone with DirecTV, they gave me $5 off per month for a year. so getting a discount of $60 off again this year, which means i'm paying around $140 for Extra Innings this year.

i listen to a lot of local audio every night when the nats play and i don't have a television. so annoying!

http://www.privateinternetaccess.com

vpn for $7/month or $40/year is getting me around blackouts on mlb.tv (and nhl games) -- though only on my computer, i think, because the mlb ipad app demands that you allow it location access

You can set some routers to run through PIA's servers, which would let you get around blackouts on TV and on your iPad. The modem/router I have to have for my Time Warner Cable plan won't let me monkey with IP addresses, unfortunately. I don't lose too much - I'm more interested in Giants/Red Sox games than the Rangers or lolAstros.

just got a Genie, repost for myself:

If you do a smart search and key in AALL HDTV GIANTS CCHAN 696 then press the red button to do the keyword search and choose Show Types and then Events, it should catch only the Giants live games on CSN BAY AREA. If you do an autorecord, you can specify extra time to add to the end of the recording.

FirstRow is a pain to get to work (ie it doesnt cept for European football & the like)

that code did not work:

AALL GIANTS EVENTS LIVE CCHAN 696

i just got my renewal notice from DirecTV for the 2014 season:

You are all set to enjoy another exciting year of MLB EXTRA INNINGS. We will be renewing you at 6 payments of $32.99/month.

same price as last year.

i'm still in disbelief, the blackout policy is no more!

http://www.bizofbaseball.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5925:fox-releases-2014-mlb-broadcast-schedule-blackouts-eased&catid=57:television&Itemid=122

. As reported on Forbes SportsMoney, this year sees a slight easing up on national blackouts as part of the new agreement. Starting this season, subscribers of MLB Extra Innings and MLB.TV have the opportunity to watch Saturday MLB on FOX games subject to certain geographic black outs that protect games assigned to local FOX affiliates.

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/mlb/mlbtv-offers-access-to-world-series-all-star-game?ymd=20140227&content_id=68422572&vkey=news_mlb

Beginning in May, MLB.TV subscribers for the first time will have the ability to watch live regular season games not being shown on FOX broadcast television in their respective territories. Using this year's first FOX Saturday national broadcast window as an example, here is how the new access applies to MLB.TV subscribers:

On May 24, the FOX Saturday national broadcast schedule features three regionally distributed games beginning at 7 p.m. ET: Cardinals at Reds, Nationals at Pirates, and Royals at Angels. Any MLB.TV subscriber in the FOX viewing territory of the Cardinals-Reds game would be able to watch the Nationals-Pirates and Royals-Angels games live on any supported device.

In previous years, MLB.TV subscribers would have been subject to national blackout restrictions for all three live games. The same policy then would be applicable to MLB.TV subscribers in the FOX viewing territories of the other two live games.

The accessibility to games previously blacked out to MLB.TV subscribers was introduced as part of the eight-year multi-platform media rights agreement MLB and FOX Sports announced in October 2012.

As I understand it, that is not a complete abolition of blackouts.

Right, but it IS the abolition of the nation-wide Saturday blackouts. Yes?

YES

and the All-Star game with the playoffs now being streamed as well.

has anyone's card been charged for mlb.tv yet?

I got an email a couple of days ago about Gameday Audio autorenewing, but I haven't checked my transactions at the cc site.

there is a rumor out there that "for the first time ever MLB.tv is included with your Extra Innings purchase." it more than a rumor but not confirmed as of yet for DirecTV, is confirmed for FIOS.

MLB.TV is included with MLB Extra Innings!

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/QqcDKH2_oppQCZPJBjK3hsLoN8Ep9uImqhjYf97qS3E=w276-h207-p-no

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--yNTKRFxAp8/UyJsLKUR7AI/AAAAAAAAAoA/A3Gzz2z9nw8/w793-h595-no/mlb.tv.jpg

so many things wrong with that graphic, even in the helpfully larger size

Can't feel my face.

who is in left/right/2b? is that darwin fuckin barney?

Maybe the guy who designed it.

http://www.directv.com/sports/mlb

New for 2014, MLB.TV, the #1 live streaming sports service, is now included with your MLB EXTRA INNINGS subscription. For the first time ever, you can now watch LIVE out-of-market baseball on every device. Additional details on access and activation coming soon.

Perhaps by 1:05 p.m. EST this Monday?

from the DirecTV board:

And the page says "Live streaming baseball"--not archived, not audio feeds, not Gameday features.

Welcome to Live streaming baseball with MLB.TV. You are only a few simple steps away from watching LIVE baseball on every device.

STEPS TO ACTIVATE

1. Select your provider

2. Login using your provider credentials

3. Link your credentials with an MLB.com account

To get started, please select your provider below:


STEP 1: SELECT YOUR PROVIDER

FNG Employee/Guest
Verizon FiOS
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DirecTV is now listed as a provider but when you click on it it doesn't let you activate yet.

Just checked one minute later and now it's active. I'm also subscribed and I will see if it's the premium version

Update: now watching free baseball on my computer from the premium link! Still can't get my app to work but will keep trying.

i have not tried yet as i want to call DirecTV to see if i can get a discount first.

so i just got off the phone with DirecTV and they are going to give it to me for $10 off per month, making it $137.94 for this year.

they also gave me an additional $10 off per month for 12 months and turned on HBO, Cinemax, Starz, Encore, Showtime, the Movie Channel and Sports Pack for free for two months with automatic drop off.

i'm a very happy customer right now.

"Not even 25m per year? LOL. Self esteem issues much, Mike Trout??" -- someone who made 25k last year and is looking forward to that potential 2% bump this year

Wrong thread (LOL).

According to an Associated Press interview with MLBAM chief executive Bob Bowman, (the MLB.tv blackout policy) may soon change:

"Everyone's trying to solve it," Bowman said. "If our hands were 4 feet apart three or four years ago, they are now 6 inches apart," Bowman said. "We're moving in the right way. We continue to talk. The dialogue is professional."

http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2014/8/22/6058011/mlbam-revising-blackout-policy-mlb-tv-regional-sports-networks-greed

i just got my renewal notice from DirecTV for the 2014 season:

You are all set to enjoy another exciting year of MLB EXTRA INNINGS. We will be renewing you at 6 payments of $32.99/month.

same price as last year.

and again same price.

just got off the phone with DirecTV, they gave me $180 in credits, so it cost me $17.94 for 2015. i usually only get $60 off.

With ESPN acknowledging that at some point in the future, but not for at least five years, that they might need to offer their programming a la carte, there is an understanding that the current bundling system will not last forever. While only a portion of cable subscribers are sports fans, cable companies continue to negotiate deals that put networks like ESPN on the standard cable tier with high per-subscriber fees, perhaps worried about erosion from its overall base of customers who might not get cable without sports. MLB has the ability to provide it’s product directly to consumers with MLB.tv, it is aware of a potential shift, and it is open to in-market streaming of games, a potential godsend to those currently blacked out of watching many of the games they wish to see.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/cardinals-billion-dollar-tv-deal-and-in-market-streaming/

Given the rate viewers are debundling, I've got to imagine MLB drops the local blackouts pretty soon

Back around Feb/March, I would have given it better than even odds of happening this year.