March 06, 2008
Watching pre-season baseball on mlb.com
I signed up for mlb.com's video service so I can watch some of the pre-season games. Their video player is by far the poorest system I've seen.
The video quality is fuzzy. The frame rate is choppy. The screen blacks out on a regular basis. Murphy's Law: the image will skip frames at just the moment you want to see a pitch cross the plate, or a player reach for a challenging play.
I'm tempted to cancel this thing right away and try to get my $$ back ($20 per month), but I'll probably give it another chance and see how it works with one of its own games. This one is from ESPN.