MacVolPlace: MLB runs on OS X. So why is MLB.TV Windows Media?
Well this is insanely ironic. MacVolPlace publishes a picture of some kind of operations center at Major League Baseball, showing them running lots of OS X machines with Apple 20″ Cinema Displays galore. Of course, MLB.TV runs like crap on the Mac since it depends on Windows Media. As of version 2.02 Flip4Mac will play the streams, but it doesn’t work yet on Mactels! Of course the real question is why MLB is using Windows Media in the first place, especially if they’re doing lots of work on Macs, presumably in QT. Ugh.
I got this via MacVolPlace, but it looks like a scan from a newspaper. They don’t give the original source. Click on the picture of a larger version.
BTW, Go (defending National League Champion) Astros!
Update: They’ve released a bloated, but cool stand-alone Universal Binary: MLB.TV Mosaic.
April 3rd, 2006 at 2:23 pm
That really doesn’t make any sense. Go Tribe!
September 27th, 2006 at 10:57 pm
[…] I formerly chided MLB.TV for their weak support for OS X. Well with the release of MLB.TV Mosaic for OS X, all is forgiven. This is awesome! The concept is really cool, this stand alone application allows you watch six game streams simultaneously! Furthermore, subjectively at least the video quality is much better than was was previously available through the browser-embedded Windows Media streams via Flip4Mac. It allows you to click on any of the six mini-views to enlarge a single game. Here are the Astros and Pirates tonight after the jump. […]
September 28th, 2006 at 8:41 pm
[…] I formerly chided MLB.TV for their weak support for OS X. Well with the release of MLB.TV Mosaic for OS X, all is forgiven. This is awesome! The concept is really cool, this Universal Binary stand alone application allows you watch six game streams simultaneously! Furthermore, subjectively at least the video quality is much better than was was previously available through the browser-embedded Windows Media streams via Flip4Mac. It allows you to click on any of the six mini-views to enlarge a single game. Here are the Astros and Pirates. […]
September 28th, 2006 at 9:24 pm
[…] I chided MLB.TV for their weak support for OS X. Well with the release of MLB.TV Mosaic for OS X, all is forgiven. This is awesome! The concept is really cool, this stand alone application allows you watch six game streams simultaneously! Furthermore, subjectively at least the video quality is much better than was was previously available through the browser-embedded Windows Media streams via Flip4Mac. It allows you to click on any of the six mini-views to enlarge a single game. […]