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Jimbo

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Last reply Feb 20, 2025 · posted in Internet Television (IPTV) Discussion Forum

MLB Streaming

As the Title asks :

Whats the best / recommended way to get MLB (out of town) games.

Is MLB.TV still the way to do it, or seeing the teams are scattered all over the Streaming map, other options ?

I would like to be able to get Out of Market games as well as the occasional in market teams.
With the D* Extra Inning package, if you watched an OOT team and they played your local team, you had to watch it on the Local market feed. (Which was an RSN at the time).

I want to watch the Astros, Red Sox and Tigers (I'm in the Tigers/ Guardians market) ... what is the best way this year ?

Fwiw, MLB.TV is $149 this year for the whole season.

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Jimbo

Feb 13, 2025

Ok, thanks guys, your confirming what I was wondering.
I didn't know if there were any other Out of Market packages for MLB, it looks like MLB TV and Extra Innings is it.

I will most likely try MLB.TV this year ... I have used it before for awhile.

D* use to give you an Early Bird or Auto Renewal discount at one point ... didn't know if MLB TV did that if you signed up early or not.

Something made me think people were getting it for like $84 last year, but that may have been a Partial year I guess or just a figure I remembered from somewhere.

Curious, IF the Detroit Tigers are my Home market .... what do I need to get them, that would be another package, right ?

Mr Tony

Feb 13, 2025

Jimbo said:
Curious, IF the Detroit Tigers are my Home market .... what do I need to get them, that would be another package, right ?

Directv package that includes RSN (I assume you already have that)

savarese04

Feb 13, 2025

MLBtv is the best option as it comes with several other features that you can't get with EI packages. This includes the ability to get radio for all games, spring training games, minor league games, and i think the picture quality overall is way better than EI

Like others have said, search online for MLBtv discounts - there are ALWAYS discounts offered. a quick one just now showed me 35% for military and 30% off for capital one credit card holders. As someone else said, they have typically run a 50% sale on memorial day every year

b4pjoe

Feb 13, 2025

savarese04 said:
MLBtv is the best option as it comes with several other features that you can't get with EI packages. This includes the ability to get radio for all games, spring training games, minor league games, and i think the picture quality overall is way better than EI

You get free MLB-TV with your MLB EI subscription through DIRECTV so yeah...you do get all of those options except the spring training games as your MLB EI/MLB-TV package doesn't go into effect until the regular season starts. Sometimes they do give you access before the season starts but not always.

Jimbo

Feb 13, 2025

Mr Tony said:
Directv package that includes RSN (I assume you already have that)

Outside of D* ... I was debating about.

Mr Tony

Feb 13, 2025

Jimbo said:
Outside of D* ... I was debating about.

The point I was making is you wouldn't get Detroit games on mlb ei as it's your local team which it would be blacked out.

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Jimbo

Feb 13, 2025

Mr Tony said:
The point I was making is you wouldn't get Detroit games on mlb ei as it's your local team which it would be blacked out.

Correct ...
I would have to get them thru the RSN

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Bruce

Feb 13, 2025

Jimbo said:
Correct ...
I would have to get them thru the RSN

Fanduel will be selling access via Amazon Prime and direct from them-

FanDuel Sports Network

fanduelsportsnetwork.com

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Jimbo

Feb 13, 2025

Bruce said:
Fanduel will be selling access via Amazon Prime and direct from them-

FanDuel Sports Network

fanduelsportsnetwork.com

And I thought the RSN FEEs were bad ...

If I am reading this right, if I wanted the Tigers and the Indians, it would be $40 a month ???
I don't need both of them, however, with D*, for that outrageous fee, ($18 p/m) I got all of those that are listed, Detroit AND Cleveland and Cincy as well.
Use to pay $10 a month for PASS, that was the start of all this way back in the day.

In reality, if I want Just the Tigers, its about the same as it was with D*, but I get much less.

So, it would cost $149 for ALL the teams for the year, PLUS $120 for the Tigers.

Thanks for the Link.

Bruce

Feb 14, 2025

Jimbo said:
And I thought the RSN FEEs were bad ...

If I am reading this right, if I wanted the Tigers and the Indians, it would be $40 a month ???
I don't need both of them, however, with D*, for that outrageous fee, ($18 p/m) I got all of those that are listed, Detroit AND Cleveland and Cincy as well.

While technically true, you have to compare it a little differently, for example-

YTTV with those two RSNs-$123 a month.

DirecTV with the same RSNs, box fees-$150-160 a month?

Jimbo said:
Use to pay $10 a month for PASS, that was the start of all this way back in the day.

PASS ended 28 years ago, that was for one area, $10 more in almost 30 years is to be expected.

Jimbo said:
In reality, if I want Just the Tigers, its about the same as it was with D*, but I get much less.

But you are still paying less monthly in total, if you stick with YTTV and drop DirecTV, as you have been thinking about.

Jimbo said:
So, it would cost $149 for ALL the teams for the year, PLUS $120 for the Tigers.

Again, total it out, if your DirecTV bill is $150 a month x 12

DirecTV-$1800 for the year + $149 for MLB is $1949 a year

YTTV-$996 for the year + $149 + $120 for the Tigers is $1265 total, then you are saving $684 a year.

If you add the Ohio Baseball teams, another $120, you are saving $564 a year.

If you pay more to DirecTV, a bigger difference of course.

Jimbo said:
Thanks for the Link.

You are welcome.

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savarese04

Feb 14, 2025

b4pjoe said:
You get free MLB-TV with your MLB EI subscription through DIRECTV so yeah...you do get all of those options except the spring training games as your MLB EI/MLB-TV package doesn't go into effect until the regular season starts. Sometimes they do give you access before the season starts but not always.

good to know! it used to be that they were completely separate. glad they fixed that.

meStevo

Feb 20, 2025

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savarese04

Feb 20, 2025

Manfred is delusional. he's gonna run MLB into a Pac-12 situation where he should have left the deal he had alone and not chased money that doesn't exist.

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Bobby

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Last reply 20 minutes ago · posted in DISH Network Support Forum

Dish 4K Event Listings (No Discussion)

This is a thread that will keep you apprised of 4K events that will be showing on Dish channel 540. Keep looking here for information.

As of today, 9-27-17, there are no scheduled events posted for the next 2 weeks. That is subject to change on a daily basis.

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Bobby

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MLB, Brewers at Dodgers, Wednesday 10-14, 5PM PDT, Channel 148-02.

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MLB, Brewers at Dodgers, Thursday 10-15, 6PM PDT, Channel 148-02.

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CFB, Notre Dame at BYU, Saturday 10-27, 4:30PM PDT, Channel 148-03.

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Former member 209992

Last reply 36 minutes ago · posted in SatelliteGuys Support Center

Site is slooooow

For some reason, the satelliteguys.us site is loading a lot slower than usual on both Chrome on my Asus laptop and Safari on my iPhone.
I'm also seeing longer appearances of the blue bar at the top and the "3 blue bars" loading symbol.
Is anyone else also having the same problem? Thanks in advance.

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Foxbat

Today at 1:22 PM

Yeah. It's probably something going on with the MacBook as my iPhone has been pretty snappy.

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Today at 2:49 PM

I have been optimizing the site the past few days... and got us here now.

We are rocking now!

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Foxbat

40 minutes ago

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Yeah. It's probably something going on with the MacBook as my iPhone has been pretty snappy.

I rebooted my MacBook Air and it's zipping right along. Sorry, but it was taking over 20 seconds to load pages, with the pulsing blue bars so it was munching on something.

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Scott Greczkowski

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Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat.

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Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat.

WTF… …What the Foxbat!

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dishstaller

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Last reply 48 minutes ago · posted in Internet Television (IPTV) Discussion Forum

Hughesnet cancelling email addresses

Wasn't exactly sure where to post this. Just had a customer come in inquiring about internet. He has HughesNet and had heard good things about mine. He asked if we provided email addresses and it kinda caught me off guard. I said he should be able to keep whatever email he had been using....my sister in law is still using a BellSouth email addy and they haven't been around here for many years. He said he had gotten a letter from HughesNet stating that they had until Nov 16th to save, move, forward, whatever, their Hughesnet emails because they would lose them after that date.

I have never heard of a company simply mass-deleting email accounts (the customer still has his HughesNet service). From what I understand, in the past, the company who was ditching their email service simply sold the customer base to a company like Google.

Anyone else getting this letter. He said he would show it to me tomorrow when I go out there and set up his internet.

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Foxbat

Today at 2:37 PM

Doing a Google of the HughesNet Email notice, it seems that HughesNet has been trying to eliminate hosting emails since 2019. And with HughesNet filing Chapter 11 back in August, it would be a smart move to switch to a more stable Email provider. Even AT&T farmed out their Email to Yahoo! years ago.

SpaceX's Starlink and the Cellular 5G Home Internet solutions have pretty much relegated HughesNet and its high latency, low bandwidth Internet service to History. If Earth had shorter days, maybe a Geostationary Internet Solution might have stood a fighting chance…

dishstaller

Today at 2:57 PM

Well, I helped him set up a gmail acct....I actually wanted to see what the new process is for setting up a gmail acct since it had been years since I set mine up. Anyway, I showed him how to forward the emails he wanted to keep over.

navychop

Today at 3:16 PM

Foxbat said:
If Earth had shorter days,

Wouldn't we then die of old age sooner?

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Foxbat

48 minutes ago

navychop said:
Wouldn't we then die of old age sooner?

Still the same number of years, just more Sunsets…

dishstaller

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Last reply Today at 3:00 PM · posted in The Chit Chat Club

Man falls to his death on roller coaster at 6 Flags in GA

Can't help but wonder if a worker overlooked checking the harness. I rarely ride a roller coaster anymore but when I do I check the harness myself pretty aggressively.
Can't imagine what the son is going through.

Dad levitated and bled then fell to his death from coaster

Eyewitnesses have shared fresh details of the horrific accident that happened at Six Flags Over Georgia on Monday afternoon.

www.dailymail.com

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Jimbo

Yesterday at 11:02 PM

Back on the Goliath Roller Coaster ... I'm interested to find more details as well ...
Like where on the track did this happen (somewhere I read that it was on the climb up the top), which is impossible ...

They really need to take that ride and add at the very least, seatbelts ...

The Park is opening back up on Friday, the ride will Not be opening ... personally, I would keep it closed until different type of restraints can be designed and installed (over the winter).

I find it hard to believe that this ride is even allowed to be running with the restraints that exist at the moment, there are other rides that use the same type and they have been shut down across the country.

You got to believe that every ride has at least 2 types of restraint systems in place.

I wonder what and when we will hear from the Manufacturer ... and whatever governing bodies control these ...

Just think, this is a Major Amusement Park .... I would not have any problem getting on the Roller Coasters I have rode ...

Imagine what these County Fairs and others like them, I would not be caught Dead on one of them ... they get put up and tore down every other week, where is the safety for those rides ... No Thank You.

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Jimbo

Yesterday at 11:10 PM

Could B&M’s Patent on the “Clamshell” Ride Restraint Design Offer Clues as to What Happened on Goliath at Six Flags Over Georgia?

Incredibly sad news out of Six Flags Over Georgia as it’s being reported one man was killed after being ejected from Goliath, the B&M hyper coaster. Many news outlets have posted pictures of pe…

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navychop

Yesterday at 11:17 PM

Jimbo said:
I would not be caught Dead on one of them

Yet IF you were on one, you might be caught dead.

dishstaller

Today at 10:07 AM

Jimbo said:
Could B&M’s Patent on the “Clamshell” Ride Restraint Design Offer Clues as to What Happened on Goliath at Six Flags Over Georgia?

Incredibly sad news out of Six Flags Over Georgia as it’s being reported one man was killed after being ejected from Goliath, the B&M hyper coaster. Many news outlets have posted pictures of pe…

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Had no idea there were that many redundancies built into those restraints.

Jimbo

Today at 2:18 PM

dishstaller said:
Had no idea there were that many redundancies built into those restraints.

It makes sense, however, I would want more types of restraints, so if one doesn't work, the other does ... the restraints coming over the shoulder I would have expected ... with a Seat belt as last resort.

Fwiw, I inquired with what they use on Coasters at Cedar Point, various Coasters, different restraints according to what the car and track requires ...

NONE of the Coasters at CP use THAT particular system

I'm glad to see ...

dishstaller

Today at 3:00 PM

Jimbo said:
with a Seat belt as last resort.

According to the article, when you see a seat belt on a ride like this, it is basically used as a way of making sure the rider isn't too large/fat to safely ride the ride.

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OTHER Mini Multiswitch

I just received 6 receiver 2 port mini Multiswitch and it work great, no external power need it, and you can connect 6 receiver instead of 4 on most Mini Multiswitches... If anyone is interested in where they can get one PM me....

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Titanium

Today at 2:00 PM

Have you tested using external power? Over the years, have found unpowered polarity switching to be unreliable. Especially problematic when used with DiSEqC motors or switch stacking.

Houston Rockets

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No I have not. I just got it the other day and it is connected to six receivers working just fine. What I do is non power mini multi-switches work best with LNBF's and with LNB's

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TheRatPatrol

Last reply Today at 2:13 PM · posted in TV Shows

NCIS

Anyone else watch this show? Any guesses as to what was in the box Gibbs gave to Abby that was on her desk? It look liked it was glowing.

I also heard that someone was leaving the show at the end of this season. Any guesses as to who thats going to be?

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TheRatPatrol

Monday at 11:11 AM

Wait, Tony is the director now? Apologies, I stopped watching a while ago.

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Jimbo

Monday at 11:47 AM

TheRatPatrol said:
Wait, Tony is the director now? Apologies, I stopped watching a while ago.

Was Gibbs still there when you quit watching ?
If so, A Lot has happened ....

It's been pretty good all along , once you get use to Gibbs being gone.

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Jimbo

Monday at 11:41 PM