Why is MLB Extra Innings more expensive on D*? Because they offer more games. - Page 3

It's not being broadcast in HD here, SD only as far as I can tell.

Hey atleast you guys get ota games. I love watching the Giants/Dodgers series and most of those games will be ota only.

Anyone notice what I would call a "pulsing" effect in the video for MLB EI games that are HD through Directv? It's especially noticeable in large areas of solid color, it can be very distracting on a 62" display, thinking of calling and complaining, but i'm sure they'll tell me to go pound sand

Haven't noticed that pulsing with any of the games I have watched on a 64" display.

The quality has been remarkably better than in the past.

I am stunned at the quality and quantity of MLB in HD. It is far more than I expected -- or DirecTV advertised.

So for this free view, D* unlocked the YES and NESN networks even though I live in Maryland. If I sign up for the package will they still be available or will they go away? On the NBA package they blackout HD games on the sports channels that are not offered as part of the NBA package. I am thinking D* will do the same for baseball. Anyone know how it is supposed to work? I am really only interested in HD games.

WTF!!!!?????!!!! The early games (NYY-TB, BOS-TOR, etc...) are all blacked out?!!??!!
well it only took a couple days for mlb and D* to piss me off, this is f*cking bullspit!!!
The FOX national games dont start for hours.....last year the early sat games werent blacked out (AFAIK)

The FOX exclusive rights rule is in effect today.
Sad but true. It's a shame, but those are the rules as AFAIK, this was happening last year as well.

Yes, the Saturday blackout rules are insensible.

On the Indians telecast last night they said there would be no Indians TV today because of the FOX contract. However, they went on to say that this would be the only Indians game affected.

this is complete BS im pissed. i want to spend my sat afternoons watching baseball yet im forced to watch the FOX broadcast. if im gonna spend $229 dollars i want to be able to watch any game that is available. if i would have known this, i wouldnt have purchased MLB EI yesterday

Maybe you should have read all of the information available to you before you purchased. DirecTV's website explains all of the blackouts.

thanks for the advice...i still would have purchased, just bitter that im forced to watch braves/mets. tigers/white sox all afternoon

I do sympathize with you. The MLB blackout rules are a joke. To be positive for a minute, this rule does not apply every Saturday of the season.
Keep your eyes open to the MLB schedule and maybe next time you will know a day or two in advance which games will NOT be available because of
the Fox rules.

Yeah, it sucks. In years past though it was worse because many of the games FOX aired weren't even in HD. Here it was, Saturday in the summer and you couldn't even see a baseball game in HD, used to drive me nuts.

There are 3 games tonight per the DirecTV site, although I'm not much interested in any of the teams myself.

http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/global...ssetId=3160004

It does suck big time especially early in the season with so many 1:00 games across the country.

Does this apply to the TBS games too on Sunday? God that would suck if so.

4 night games available on a Saturday is putrid.

Can someone link me to these "Fox rules"?

I understand the blackouts (kinda, does anyone really understand MLB rules?) but I don't think I am familiar with this Fox deal in place.

This has been the first chance I have had to sign up for any services with D* since I just picked them up in October, so I was hoping to watch baseball all day today before work and there is not one single game on for me to watch at all until this evening. Not one channel has had an MLB game on that I have seen in my guide.

http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/global...ssetId=1100045

WOW, that is a crazy deal, I never knew that before.

ESPN gets all the Sunday night games and FOX gets all the Saturday day games, crazy.

Thanks for the link btw

From someone who's has this package 3 of the last 4 years, I can say that there's more games now than there ever has been before. I think it's a pretty fair-priced package. I don't like the Super Fan fee for HD, but what are you going to do, no other provider can even come close to providing as many HD games as this package does.

As far as the blackout rules, you'll need to talk to MLB about that, DirecTV has no control over it.

No, the fox rules aren't supposed to take effect until mid-May, it says so on mlb's website, even though the early games were blacked out you could still watch them through mlb.tv, part of it is D* being way to overbearing with the blackouts...they are blacking out the f*cking REPLAY of the yankees d-rays game right now...but they are letting the nats-cards replay go through, they need to get their thumb out of their butts over at D*....i almost think mlb is fine with letting the early games be blacked out as long as they can still charge people for them on mlb.tv, I understand the fox blackout of games going on at the same time but half of the early games are about over before the fox games start....

This is standard MLB blackout procedure and has nothing to do with D*. If you are out of market, you will not see live baseball on sportspack channels without EI. Nor will you see replays on out of market channels whether you have EI or not. It has been this way for years.

Anyone living in Yankees territory would not have been blacked out on live or replay.

What about games being blacked out that are Local but have no Local feeds. Happened with the twins game a few days ago FOX NetW and one of the MLB channels were the only 2 I could find both came up as not in avlible. Shouldn't I get the MLB channel atlest. I can understand FSN north or a OTA feed. But why blackout when no channels get it

I'd wager that the website dweeb cut and paste the language from 2007 and forgot to update the date. IIRC Fox's Saturday games didn't start at beginning of the season last year.

jdg

I have EI and sports-pack, and as far as i can tell I have been able to watch other replays no problem (haven't tried a whole bunch), but i'll check more often now, i know i've tuned in to at least a couple of out of market replays since the season started. If you believe that D* never mistakenly blackouts the wrong programming, then you are very naive. Here's a out-of-market replay for yah, I'm watching Eddie Murray's 500th HR game on MASN right now (man does David Wells look thin). I'll check the TB-NYY replay tonight.

My other strawman is the fact that the early Saturday games weren't blacked out on mlb.tv, even though the were blacked out for MLBEI; i'm pretty sure both are supposed to follow the same BO rules....

I was just counting the HD games for the week and there are about 60 and that doesn't include the double feeds of home and away announcers. That would put it closer to 80. Good job D*.

I've noticed that some times the HD feed in the 700's (D*) is a blank screen, but if you find the same game on the appropriate RSN in the 600's it works (at least that was the case for the rockies-braves game tonight), so if the hd feed in the 700's maybe try checking hdsportsguide.com and the 600's, I think sometimes D* is mapping the wrong feed for the HD's in the 700's which is causing the problem

I wonder if this actually works for some people:

It should work, is likely not legal and may also be a violation of the agreement w/ D*.

I really don't know what you people are talking about. I get the Mets, Devils, Rangers, Knicks, Yankees and the Islanders all in HD and I don't even have any sports packages.

I'd trade them all to watch the Steelers and Pens. Pirates suck.

Um, because you live in those teams' territories. The topic is the EI package for out of market games.