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Re:Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV by organsnyder on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @10:05PM (#21821395)
Funny. The Roku MLB.tv app blows every other platform out of the water.
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Re:Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV by exhilaration on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @12:14AM (#21822028)
MLB has a world-class engineering team [1] so that's not a surprise. You might even say they're in a different league than other content providers.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2015/8/4/9090897/mlb-bam-live-strea...

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Re:Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV by organsnyder on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @10:14AM (#21825634)
Ha. Their Roku app is the best non-live viewing experience I've ever experienced for any sporting event: during live games you can jump to specific innings/plays, change audio feeds between TV announcers, radio announcers, and stadium-only... really impressive.
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Re:Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV by taurath on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @12:51PM (#21827357)
MLBAM must have done that in house. I'm not saying its impossible to do a good Roku app, it definitely is, and frequently its going to be faster because the language is fairly single purpose. But a roku team tends to need its own explicit resources. I've heard of a lot of gnashing of teeth from colleagues walking up to it, though I haven't played with it yet myself.
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Re:Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV by pkamb on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @03:17PM (#21828955)
You think the Roku version of MLB is significantly better than, say, the Apple TV version of MLB? Why?
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Re:Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV by organsnyder on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @09:17PM (#21831499)
Never used the Apple TV version. But I have used the web and Android versions, and the Roku player blows them out of the water.
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Re:Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV by sjg007 on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @07:14PM (#21830856)
Better features.
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