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Betty Woo is offline Betty Woo
2008-06-11 , 03:59
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Originally Posted by Greyghost View Post
I made use of my credit card to subscribe for the mlb.com tv premium service (I will use it for the five days, for sure, and if this works, well, who knows?)

The first thing I check was the viewer on my pc. Works fine. The 400k is in 4:3 and looks good. Crisp but small. No ability to resize of go fullscreen. The 800k is in 16:9 and also looks good but small w/no resize options. The 1.2m is in 16:9 but seems smaller and can't be resized in the viewer either. I may have missed something but it doesn't seem worth 15+ bucks a month to get the tiny screen. Then, I went to see the Astros, my team. Blackout. Now it really doesn't seem worth it, even for the audio, as I can get those games off the air for free, just not on my N810.
You can't watch it in full-screen mode? When you look at the attached .jpg of the viewing screen, do you not see the viewing and volume slider (it disappears within a few seconds but you can reactive it by moving your cursor across the window)? To the right are the three sizing options for the screen *and* each of them is dragable (well... except the full screen mode, of course).

I think even the archived games can be resized. 'Course, I gave up and downloaded SilverLight for Macs so maybe you're still using WMP 11's option?

Yeah. Blackouts. I got POed 'cause the Mariners were playing the Toronto Blue Jays and they were blacked out. Um... sure the Jays are the only Canadian team but there's a good three time zones between me and Toronto... MLB seriously doesn't think a blackout should effect an *entire* country, does it?

So I called up customer support and got someone in the Phillipines who used up a lot of my long distance time and ten minutes, only to tell me it's blacked out 'cause it's on a Canadian national sports channel.

At least I got to watch the series from my bed. Where I almost cried (a lot). Man. The Mariners are a sad, saaaad bunch this year But hearing the Toronto announcers talk about the Mariners line up was a hoot. Very complimentary towards all the wrong people (well... right names, no way should be be complimented).
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