Wow, the 2009 MLB.TV feeds have been very choppy. I'm trying to watch the Cubs v. Astros game and it plays for 5 seconds, and then stops for 15 seconds. Very bad.
My experiences so far have been a mixed bag. In SF, I had an extremely good feed of the World Baseball Classics. However, the games I've watched from my place in Vancouver have not been as good.
I've watched all Met and Yankee games from Friday through Monday, and not one game has been completely error free. The Yankee game today had such a poor connection, it would play for 10-15 seconds at most before a long pause of 10-20 seconds. Thankfully, I'm not a Yankee fan, so I just gave up after 5 minutes.
Today's Met game at Cincinnati was pretty good from the 1st inning until the bottom of the 6th. I lost complete connection during a key moment in the game when Sean Green relieved Santana. From that moment on, I was unable to get the HD feeds and the game's resolution was very poor, worse than the 400K feeds from last season. Throughout the game, it got stuck 5 or 6 times. It would pause for 3-6 seconds at a time.
The only game that provided a nearly perfect connection was Sunday night's Braves at Dodgers game, which was an ESPN broadcast. The picture quality was quite good and it was almost better than standard cable. It got stuck once or twice, which was almost tolerable, considering how choppy the rest of the games have been so far.
I'm hoping that MLB.TV gets this fixed soon. In previous seasons, they usually have one major hiccup or two to starts things off. But by May, most of the glitches were worked out.
