I’m watching the Cards on TV, and listening to the Rockies radio on my MLB.com Gameday subscription. For crying out loud! It’s about a minute apart! The radio is way behind.
I haven’t tried to do this very often; I bought Gameday to listen to the Orioles in Denver, and now I’ll (randomly) listen to either the Orioles or the Rockies here, but when the Orioles or the Rockies are on TV here, I want to listen to the announcers in sync!
I’m paying good money for this, MLB.com - get your shit together. Assholes.
I was really pissed off yesterday because after months of hearing advertising to “watch your favorite team on your computer” I ponied up my money for MLB.TV only to be told the game was blacked out in my area when I tried to watch it. The fucking point of watching it on my computer is because I’m at work and don’t have access to a tv . Before anyone asks the powers that be have no issue with me watching the game while I work.
I listen to NHL radio while instant messaging with my best friend who has Centre Ice. There’s usually a lag of about 40 seconds, so it sucks when she goes “OMG SCORE!!!” and I’m wondering how it went into the net if it’s still in the opposite end. At least NHL radio is free, it must suck to have that bad of a lag on something you’re paying for.
There’s ALWAYS a delay, even when it’s not through mlb.com. When I was a kid, the Giants’ radio guys were way better than the TV guys (probably still is the case, but I wouldn’t know), so I attempted to watch the game with the TV on mute and listen to the radio broadcast, and there would still be a gap in timing.
I loved MLB’s Gameday doohickey - I had it for years when I was in living in the Midwest. So there’s a delay. Big deal, it’s still a great service for people living outside of their team’s radio signal. And yeah, I wish I could listen to the Giants through KNBR’s website, but it’s cool to be able to listen to ANY game, if there’s an exciting pennant race or someone’s pitching a no-hitter.
Sorry for the hijack, but I don’t think this deserves its very own pitting…
How can MLB consider Charlotte, NC the TV market for the Baltimore Orioles? They are 450 miles away, and without a satellite dish, unavailable on TV here (Time Warner cable doesn’t carry MASN here.)
So, I cannot get the 19 Yankee/Oriole games with my MLBTV.com subscription.
Fuck Time Warner Cable and fuck the inane MLB blackout rules.
What you are observing may not be MLB’s fault, but the technology. All streaming Internet radio stations, AFAIK, will be buffered and behind the source signal. This doesn’t matter much for canned music sites, but I can see your frustration for live events.
If you don’t believe me, connect two or more computers in the same room/house/office/whatever to the same feed and listen to the differences. Unlike an over-the-air RF signal, they won’t be playing the same thing at the same time, and they can be minutes apart.
I don’t know if a refresh will re-sync, but you might try it. Somewhere, someplace, there might be a setting for buffer length, and for live events, the shorter, the better.
I sometimes try to do what Frank is trying (mostly during the playoffs) but I use my XM radio for the audio instead. Even with the satellite delay of the dish and the satellite delay of the XM, it’s still not in sync (generally the video is ahead.) So what I do is pause the DVR and sync it up as close as I can with a pitch.
We have one television in our house, and for 99.9% of our entertainment that’s all we need and all we want. We have no interest in getting a second TV.
My wife’s not a big baseball fan, and wouldn’t be too happy if i commandeered the TV for every baseball game i wanted to watch. I joined MLBTV precisely so i could go upstairs and watch the games on my computer on those ocasions when she wants to watch something else on the TV. But, because i’m in the Baltimore area, 'm not allowed to watch Orioles games on the computer. It fucking sucks.
I wouldn’t even mind if they played advertisements between innings and during pitching changes, the way they do on TV, but to not allow me to watch my home team on the computer is stupid.
I have DirectTV with the Tivo feature, so when I listen to the internet radio broadcast, I pause the TV to get it in sync with the internet radio broadcast.
That was better than listening to over the air radio because it is usually ahead of the TV and my “Fast Forward Live Broadcasts” feature on the TIVO seems to be disabled.
Another slight hijack. How does MLBTV know where you live? If you want to watch Baltimore games, then tell them you live in Zaire or something like that…
jtgain, I assume this is in reply to my earlier hijack. I thought of that, but when you sign up originally and pay (credit card) they base your primary viewing area by your zip code. According to their FAQ (bolding mine) they can also tell where you are based on your IP address.
This is my second season with Gameday Audio, and I’ve never had a problem with the delay because whenever I watch a game I just suffer with the MASN announcers. I do sometimes follow the game that I’m listening to via ESPN’s gamecast, but I find their delays to be similar and they’re not far enough off each other to annoy me.
My only gripe is that I bought Gameday Audio specifically so I could listen to weekday games at work, but I just found out that my current office’s web browser setup isn’t compatible with the service. However, that’s an annoyance with my office, not with Gameday Audio.
Frankly, I have no sympathy for those who bought MLB.tv and are now complaining about blackouts: when I looked into that service last year the blackout warnings and notices seemed pretty clear/obvious. Which is why I didn’t sign up for it.
I knew about the blackout situation when I signed up originally, 3 years ago. At that time Orioles games were televised here on some cable channel, so it was fine (better than fine actually because that was 19-20 Yankee games I actually got to see on TV instead of the computer.) My gripe is that I can’t get Oriole games now because the cable company doesn’t carry MASN, but it’s still subject to the blackout.
I hear you. I have MLB Extra Innings through the cable company. Luckily, my team isn’t blacked out as it’s nowhere near me. What does suck, is if I want to watch a game when my team isn’t playing and I get the blackout. When I’m paying $159 a season, I think I should be able to watch any game. Not all “local” teams they are blacking out are broadcast on my local or cable TV.
You guys are lucky. There are no live broadcasts of any team available for subscribers living in Japan or Korea. The lousy package offered by MLB to Japanese cable and satellite subscribers has mostly Red Sox, Yankees and Mariners games. Sigh.
Yeah, about. $14.95 is still good money. Just not very much.
