MLB EI dual feeds

[T_N_T]

The EI schedule is beginning to populate the guide. It does look encouraging. There are multiple listings, for example, of the Tigers opener v. KC. Three channels listed for that game alone.

Not all of the dual feeds are setup yet, but yes you have 722, 723,723-1(HD), I think 722-1 may be involved in that as well, its not all setup yet, but its getting there.

726/727 show the Dbacks and Reds as well.

EDIT: As soon as I say that all of the channels go back to saying Regular schedule or "To be Announced", maybe they are just tweaking things?

 

[T_N_T]

Right now it looks like only one HD channel per set of dual feeds, maybe there will be one, but it looks like you'll only get the home teams feed if you want to watch it in HD as of right now.

 

[stuckingoo]

Right now it looks like only one HD channel per set of dual feeds, maybe there will be one, but it looks like you'll only get the home teams feed if you want to watch it in HD as of right now.

I'm not sure on this but it might be the case that the visiting team won't typically be bringing their HD equipment on the road. I'm speaking only from experience watching Center Ice and the Red Wings. Just about all the home games are broadcast in HD but on the road, practically none of them are. I like watching the home team announcers though they tend to be such homers I can do without them too....and usually prefer the away team HD broadcast over the home team SD broadcast.

 

[FlyingJ]

As pathetic as this may sound...I actually had a discussion with my son yesterday about this. If we have the other teams HD feed and our teams SD feed, because of the announcers, which are we gonna watch. Decided that (since we have 2 setups in one room, one for the projector) we would actually watch the HD version and turn on the sound from our teams casters if there was one. Look at all the thought going into the season

 

[ScoBuck]

Dual Feeds Are On. This is GREAT.

Interesting, opening day and I am gettng the KC vs. DET game on both 722 (FSN KC) AND 723 (FSN DET) in SD, and 722-1 and 723-1 in HD.

More interesting is that the home team is NOT broadcasting the game in HD, while the FSN KC feed IS in HD. Can;t imagine why FSN DET is not showing the game in HD (even though it is on the HD channel).

EDIT:
FSN DET is now showing in HD, must have been technical issue at start of game.

 

[IceRunner]

I just switched from Dish to get Extra Innings and was glad to see this. Back when Dish had EI, it didn't offer dual feeds.

Unlike DirecTV, Dish does offer dual feeds on Center Ice. I hope that the dual feeds for baseball mean that there will be dual feeds next season for hockey.

 

[Sori4mvp]

This is great news, I have been hoping they would do this for a LONG time now!!!!! Now I can watch EVERY Yankee game on YES without having to do the address "move"! I'm stoked!!!

 

[smaug07]

I just switched from Dish to get Extra Innings and was glad to see this. Back when Dish had EI, it didn't offer dual feeds.

Unlike DirecTV, Dish does offer dual feeds on Center Ice. I hope that the dual feeds for baseball mean that there will be dual feeds next season for hockey.

DirecTV does offer dual feeds in their Center Ice coverage and has for a good part of the season. As for the MLB dual feeds, I think it is great and a long time coming. It appears as if the dual feeds will be with the channels that they offered last year in the package. This would include the Canadian channels RSN and TSN for the Blue Jays, Comcast Philadelphia for the Phillies, and Cox Channel 4 for the Padres, but will not include any over the air affiliates as in the past. Today, several games had over the air broadcasts for one of the involved teams, and none of these feeds was part of the duel feeds. This is still a shortcoming of the Extra Innings package that is not a problem for NBA League Pass or NHL Center Ice. Today we got to see all 14 scheduled games because each one had at least on satellite delivered network carrying each game. There will be days (and nights) where games will be carried only by OTA affiliates, and these will most likely not be part of the package. I think the addition of dual feeds is great; I absolutely love the amount of HD games available; and I think the Game Mix channel is of value as well. But I would still like to see some OTA broadcasts be made available for the package as this would make MLBEI complete.

 

[T_N_T]

DirecTV does offer dual feeds in their Center Ice coverage and has for a good part of the season. As for the MLB dual feeds, I think it is great and a long time coming. It appears as if the dual feeds will be with the channels that they offered last year in the package. This would include the Canadian channels RSN and TSN for the Blue Jays, Comcast Philadelphia for the Phillies, and Cox Channel 4 for the Padres, but will not include any over the air affiliates as in the past. Today, several games had over the air broadcasts for one of the involved teams, and none of these feeds was part of the duel feeds. This is still a shortcoming of the Extra Innings package that is not a problem for NBA League Pass or NHL Center Ice. Today we got to see all 14 scheduled games because each one had at least on satellite delivered network carrying each game. There will be days (and nights) where games will be carried only by OTA affiliates, and these will most likely not be part of the package. I think the addition of dual feeds is great; I absolutely love the amount of HD games available; and I think the Game Mix channel is of value as well. But I would still like to see some OTA broadcasts be made available for the package as this would make MLBEI complete.

The dual feeds are cool, but they don't have enough OTA stations yet, and a team you already get on an RSN say's "not available in your area", which makes you switch back to the original RSN channel, which I think they should get rid of that, so you can just stay in the MLB EI tier.

 

[iceturkee]

DirecTV does offer dual feeds in their Center Ice coverage and has for a good part of the season. As for the MLB dual feeds, I think it is great and a long time coming. It appears as if the dual feeds will be with the channels that they offered last year in the package. This would include the Canadian channels RSN and TSN for the Blue Jays, Comcast Philadelphia for the Phillies, and Cox Channel 4 for the Padres, but will not include any over the air affiliates as in the past. Today, several games had over the air broadcasts for one of the involved teams, and none of these feeds was part of the duel feeds. This is still a shortcoming of the Extra Innings package that is not a problem for NBA League Pass or NHL Center Ice. Today we got to see all 14 scheduled games because each one had at least on satellite delivered network carrying each game. There will be days (and nights) where games will be carried only by OTA affiliates, and these will most likely not be part of the package. I think the addition of dual feeds is great; I absolutely love the amount of HD games available; and I think the Game Mix channel is of value as well. But I would still like to see some OTA broadcasts be made available for the package as this would make MLBEI complete.

satelliteracer at dbstalk is reporting that directv is working on this and should have hd feeds available for toronto, san diego and philly soon.

 

[xzi]

The dual feeds are cool, but they don't have enough OTA stations yet, and a team you already get on an RSN say's "not available in your area", which makes you switch back to the original RSN channel, which I think they should get rid of that, so you can just stay in the MLB EI tier.

They may very well fix that--it for me today with YES (even though it was a rainout) and it works that way with Center Ice so no reason it won't work with EI eventually for you if not already.

 

[ScoBuck]

Wow - this is great. Today there are 11 games on the schedule in HD. four of them are listed with Dual Feeds.

Gonna be a great HD season. MPEG4 - quality!

 

[T_N_T]

Ok, the Braves/Pirates game, I can see the Peachtree tv feed, which apparently doesn't have commercials, but I can not see the FSN Pittsburgh SD/HD feed, it is saying that "this program is not available in your area"(727) message, if we are going to do dual feeds, why am I being blackedout on some games? I am in the Braves regional market in TN, I don't know if that is why the FSN Pitt feed is blackedout, but it doesn't make much sense anyways.

 

[rad]

Ok, the Braves/Pirates game, I can see the Peachtree tv feed, which apparently doesn't have commercials, but I can not see the FSN Pittsburgh SD/HD feed, it is saying that "this program is not available in your area"(727) message, if we are going to do dual feeds, why am I being blackedout on some games?

I have it on 628-1 and 628 plus the 617,744 and 741/741-1 feeds in Austin. If you're in Atlanta area I thought that MLB-EI would still black out the out of market feed for the local game.

 

[stuckingoo]

Wow - this is great. Today there are 11 games on the schedule in HD. four of them are listed with Dual Feeds.

Gonna be a great HD season. MPEG4 - quality!

Aye. Baseball was meant to be watched in HD. I've just been watching the Halo's HD broadcast of their Twins game. Most excellent. Can't complain about the content today.

 

[Sori4mvp]

DirecTV does offer dual feeds in their Center Ice coverage and has for a good part of the season. As for the MLB dual feeds, I think it is great and a long time coming. It appears as if the dual feeds will be with the channels that they offered last year in the package. This would include the Canadian channels RSN and TSN for the Blue Jays, Comcast Philadelphia for the Phillies, and Cox Channel 4 for the Padres, but will not include any over the air affiliates as in the past. Today, several games had over the air broadcasts for one of the involved teams, and none of these feeds was part of the duel feeds. This is still a shortcoming of the Extra Innings package that is not a problem for NBA League Pass or NHL Center Ice. Today we got to see all 14 scheduled games because each one had at least on satellite delivered network carrying each game. There will be days (and nights) where games will be carried only by OTA affiliates, and these will most likely not be part of the package. I think the addition of dual feeds is great; I absolutely love the amount of HD games available; and I think the Game Mix channel is of value as well. But I would still like to see some OTA broadcasts be made available for the package as this would make MLBEI complete.

For the last year or maybe two years the EI package has included games for the Yankees that are carried on the local MY9 (WWOR ch 9 in NY) This was not the case in prior years when the Yanks were covered by MY9 or before that WCBS Ch. 2. So they seem to be making some progress with as well.

 

[smaug07]

For the last year or maybe two years the EI package has included games for the Yankees that are carried on the local MY9 (WWOR ch 9 in NY) This was not the case in prior years when the Yanks were covered by MY9 or before that WCBS Ch. 2. So they seem to be making some progress with as well.

DirecTV started offering WWOR telecasts about midseason last year. But that was the only OTA broadcast offered. I checked the INDemand (cable's version) of MLBEI for April and they have OTA broadcasts from WKYC in Cleveland and WPIX in New York. WKYC broadcasted the Indians-White Sox game and that feed was not on D*. It will be interesting to see if WPIX, CW11, is shown on D*. My question is if this is a package that is offered by D* (and InDemand) as contracted through MLB, why aren't these OTA telecasts made available? What is MLB trying to prove? Or is it that D* has to "negotiate" for carriage of these channels because they are not offered nationally on their system? It makes no sense to me as I think MLB could very easily make these telecasts available for the package. After all, their MLB.TV subscription package online offers these OTA telecasts.

 

[FlyingJ]

I have it on 628-1 and 628 plus the 617,744 and 741/741-1 feeds in Austin. If you're in Atlanta area I thought that MLB-EI would still black out the out of market feed for the local game.

That is the way I understand it to be.

 

[bleedblue23]

DirecTV started offering WWOR telecasts about midseason last year. But that was the only OTA broadcast offered. I checked the INDemand (cable's version) of MLBEI for April and they have OTA broadcasts from WKYC in Cleveland and WPIX in New York. WKYC broadcasted the Indians-White Sox game and that feed was not on D*. It will be interesting to see if WPIX, CW11, is shown on D*. My question is if this is a package that is offered by D* (and InDemand) as contracted through MLB, why aren't these OTA telecasts made available? What is MLB trying to prove? Or is it that D* has to "negotiate" for carriage of these channels because they are not offered nationally on their system? It makes no sense to me as I think MLB could very easily make these telecasts available for the package. After all, their MLB.TV subscription package online offers these OTA telecasts.

You wouldn't think that it is a contractual problem, considering D* is trying to provide the 4SD feeds along with CSN Philly and the Canada feeds but more of an uplink issue. It is very rediculous considering that these ota stations are available on Directv in the local markets and in HD.

 

[cariera]

You wouldn't think that it is a contractual problem, considering D* is trying to provide the 4SD feeds along with CSN Philly and the Canada feeds but more of an uplink issue. It is very rediculous considering that these ota stations are available on Directv in the local markets and in HD.

The problem is that CSN Philly and 4SD are not available on Directv in those local markets. Ask any baseball fan in Philly or San Diego. They do not get to see their local team with EI at any time, on any EI channel or any RSN.