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Two games each Friday night. You won't need a subscription to watch.
Two games each Friday night. You won't need a subscription to watch.
AppleTV Announces Deal For Friday Night MLB Games
- Thread starter Wingack
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So if you don't have AppleTV you can't watch two games on Friday even with an EI or MLB.tv subscription?
No subscription required "for a limited time"
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/03/apple-and-major-league-baseball-to-offer-friday-night-baseball/
Right, but do you need AppleTV to access it even if it's free?
In other words, if one has a non-smart TV so it doesn't have the app will these two games be available?
It appears not. Which is, of course, the point for Apple. They want people buying AppleTV appliances in order to watch their app.
Bald money grab by MLB though.
You'll need the AppleTV app, which doesn't require the AppleTV hardware and can be found on most streaming boxes (Roku, Chromecast, etc.).
It’s likely these are rights nobody else wanted. Assuming these are co-exist (not exclusive) and there’s not all that much value .
I imagine the local RSNs want the rights. Apple is getting two games each Friday night that no one else can broadcast.
Ah interesting, didn’t realize they were exclusive which certainly changes things. I thought this was similar to the other rights that Amazon got which were non exclusive.
Wonder if they will get each team an equal amount?
Wonder if they will get each team an equal amount?
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I refuse to believe this is in any way worse than the Fox Saturday games where if you weren't in their market, there was no way you could possibly watch the game, online or in a bar. When I was living in DC in 2005 (I believe), I wasn't able to see the Sox play the Yankees for the division with Randy Johnson pitching on the last day of the season.
This is def. better.
The Fox thing sucked. But in this case, if you don't have access to the app you're basically getting screwed out of two supposedly high-profile games per week despite paying for the package. That's bullshit.
Why would you not have access to the app? It's not like Apple TV is only on Apple devices -- I can get it on my Google TV and PS4, I believe.
There's an Apple TV app for PCs too. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/apple-tv/9MW0ZWQFH0M2?activetab=pivot:overviewtab
Just their smart TV platform. I recently bought a Sony TV that uses it as its main platform.
My point is, Apple TV isn't exactly locked down. Yes, there may be some rights issues with some companies, but it's not like it's restricted to only a handful of hardware manufacturers. Whereas the Fox Saturday deal was literally unwatchable if you wanted to catch the game (which even in 2005 was way late for that sort of thing), on this while maybe it would't work on your phone, you could pull it up on a computer if you had to.
If you really want to, you can just navigate your web browser to https://tv.apple.com/us/ and watch there. Apple TV Plus, as an aside, is pretty good, but that's topic for a different section of the board.
The app isn't available on my Samsung tablet, which is one of the primary ways I watch MLB.
I suppose I could use a web browser on my tablet, or just pull out my laptop. It's not a big deal, but it's one extra thing that I didn't have to think about before today.
I'm not saying it's the worst thing in the world, but I buy EI every year because I prefer to watch on my non-smart, big, old tv. If I have to watch every Friday on my laptop that would suck. In my opinion if you give MLB your money for a season long package you shouldn't then have some good games blacked out every week.
I don't have Xbox but I have a Wii. Would that work?
I don't have Xbox but I have a Wii. Would that work?
I don’t know. Can you access Netflix or Disney+ through Wii? I would bet that if you can get those services on your Wii, you can probably get Apple too.
I actually do have a Wii, but I was joking when I suggested that it could work with Apple. The thing is more than a decade old and I took it out of storage because my daughter wanted to play with it. I'll probably end up watching on my laptop if there's a game on that I want to see.
Forbes has some details on the deal.
Mike Ozanian @MikeOzanian
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MLB Deals With Apple And NBC Sports Worth $115 Million Annually Combined via @Forbes forbes.com/sites/mikeozan…
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MLB Deals With Apple And NBC Sports Worth $115 Million Annually Combined via @Forbes forbes.com/sites/mikeozan…
The NBC Sports deal is separate from the Apple deal (since it's not clear from the tweet). The NBC deal consists of Monday and Wednesday night games streaming on Peacock which will not be exclusive. That deal is picking up slack from ESPN, which dropped those games in their latest contract.
The Wii has Netflix and YouTube, but it doesn't support HD (max resolution is 480p) and the apps are no longer downloadable if you don't already have them. There is not an Apple TV+ app for the Wii.
The Wii U can manage 1080p and has a slightly wider range of apps available (Amazon Prime, Hulu, etc).
None of the Nintendo consoles have Apple TV+ on them.
Apple needs to stop trying to make AppleTV+ a thing. I will say that I wonder if the $30M in advertising means that the commericals will be nothing but ads for Apple products.
This is small potatoes for them. Apparently they're looking to spend 2b a year to get the Sunday Ticket starting in 2023.
https://9to5mac.com/2022/02/25/apple-nfl-sunday-ticket-deal/
https://9to5mac.com/2022/02/25/apple-nfl-sunday-ticket-deal/
I feel like Apple TV+ is excess brought on by the stock market bubble. I doubt they have very many paid subscribers but since Amazon and Google are doing it they have to do it too. I could be convinced that this is more about advertising Apple products than trying to get more subscribers though. We'll have to see how long it stays free.
What do you think of the odds they get a Red Sox or Yankees game?
Do you mean: Red Sox vs the Yankees? Or Red Sox vs the O's or Yanks vs the Royals? Because I doubt that they get the former, but I would bet that Apple+ gets the latter.
And you're 100% right, the world didn't need another streaming service when Apple+ came along. I got it free when I got a new iPhone two years ago. I watched "Ted Lasso", which I liked. I saw the Beastie Boys documentary, which was catnip to an aging Gen Xer. And my wife liked "The Morning Show" which I found stupid and overwrought. There's a few other things that I'll tune into "The Afterparty" was really well done, but it's not essential. But TBH, I feel the same way about Hulu and Amazon.
I got a news alert from the WSJ that says that Peacock is after a deal for Sunday broadcasts that start at 11:30 am. I'm know that's what I want to do with my summertime Sundays! And those 8:30 am starts local time in Oakland and Anaheim will be a blast for the west coast fans!
I'm bumping this thread because I stumbled upon something awesome: 13 seasons of This Week in Baseball are available on Apple TV+. I had no idea this was available anywhere. Goes back to the late 70s. I am watching one from September '89 right now. I watched TWiB religiously growing up, so this is a fun discovery.
It was all the way at the bottom of the page for me (watching through Chrome on PC right now), so you may need hunt for it.
edit: dammit - there are a handful of episodes from each season, not the complete thing. Still kind of fun.
It was all the way at the bottom of the page for me (watching through Chrome on PC right now), so you may need hunt for it.
edit: dammit - there are a handful of episodes from each season, not the complete thing. Still kind of fun.
View: https://twitter.com/katienolan/status/1512118469797371904?s=20&t=z522H3uXAb-oGRQMyRi7IA
Here are the broadcast crews involved:
Here are the broadcast crews involved:
Amazon Prime instead of Apple TV, but either way, this is just so stupid. I will now illegally stream this game because apparently paying for cable just to get YES AND subscribing to MLB.tv clearly isn't enough.
View: https://twitter.com/Yankees/status/1517559914834677763
View: https://twitter.com/Yankees/status/1517559914834677763
Yeah, you can. They basically took the WPIX games and moved them to Prime, so if you're in-market, instead of watching on a different channel, they expect you to have a Prime subscription. Nothing changes for out of market.
Cardinals - Reds tonight on AppleTV. This is not good.
The broadcast is so dim it looks like an eclipse, and the call is incredibly awkward. The people on the call sound like they all met each other an hour ago and are there to read scripted bits about Hunter Greene's philanthropy.
Chris Young has some nice moments doing color commentary, but he gets uncomfortable quickly when the main PBP or sideline asks him a random question.
The broadcast is so dim it looks like an eclipse, and the call is incredibly awkward. The people on the call sound like they all met each other an hour ago and are there to read scripted bits about Hunter Greene's philanthropy.
Chris Young has some nice moments doing color commentary, but he gets uncomfortable quickly when the main PBP or sideline asks him a random question.
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Wait for the late game and the the crowd (or lack thereof)
I also don’t get the Chris Young love anywhere He’s awful
I am not an expert but when I watched NY on there last Friday via my Roku, I could not figure out how to pause it, and I was scared to play around much for fear of losing live action so I just left the whole game on live (I think it has been years since I had done this). Waiting for commercials to go to the kitchen or bathroom had become a distant memory, but that was my Apple TV experience (and it's quite possible I just couldn't find the pause button).
I checked tonight and don’t think there is a way to pause the live stream. I watch on the built in ATV app on my TV (Android). The normal play controls I see for VOD seemed disabled.
I’ve been surprised at the poor stream quality from the first games and it doesn’t seem to be improving - something is out of sync and I think frames are being dropped and or delivered out of order. Fellow streaming media colleagues I’ve talked to locally say they haven’t noticed but that they are watching on actual Apple HW (not an embedded app like I am) so maybe they’ve tuned only for that, but the experience is disappointing on my system.
Has anyone else noticed frame jitter on the games?
Apple is also having lots of trouble with the interstitials - ad inserts, promos syncing, etc.
Live streaming is much harder to get right than VOD.
I’ve been surprised at the poor stream quality from the first games and it doesn’t seem to be improving - something is out of sync and I think frames are being dropped and or delivered out of order. Fellow streaming media colleagues I’ve talked to locally say they haven’t noticed but that they are watching on actual Apple HW (not an embedded app like I am) so maybe they’ve tuned only for that, but the experience is disappointing on my system.
Has anyone else noticed frame jitter on the games?
Apple is also having lots of trouble with the interstitials - ad inserts, promos syncing, etc.
Live streaming is much harder to get right than VOD.
Tomorrow's game is on NBC Peacock. I suppose it's the same deal, you have to give them your email address and some private info. If anyone finds out it's possible to watch without doing that, then I hope I hear about it, b/c I am beyond pissed with MLB for making deals to sell our information to these services. Manfred is the worst. Yes, worse than Selig.
You don't have to watch. There were decades when we didn't have the "right" to watch every game