I was able to watch the late games smoothly but I had to turn off ‘nextdef’ and reduce the quality to 3-4 bars.

They had similar troubles last year and it all got sorted out within a week or so. I only have to reduce quality when I watch four games at a time. Kind of makes sense since that eats up a ton of bandwidth. It’s probably not necessarily MLB’s fault, just not sure if many internet connections can handle four different HD streams at once.

Wade—welcome to the wonderful world of MLB’s asinine blackout rules.  Basically, if you are deemed to be in the “coverage area” of a team’s regional sports network, you cannot receive their games via the extra innings package or MLB.tv, even if they don’t actually, you know, broadcast in your area.  They could! One day! So don’t you dare use the competition!  It’s especially vexing given that the range of “territories” are outrageoulsy overbroad and often overlap.  I think Las Vegas is claimed by something like four or five teams, though none of them broadcast there, keeping LV residents from seeing games from any of them.

They’ve been talking about fixing this for years, but they never get around to it.

Wade -

I was had by the blackout restrictions as well.

http://fackyouk.blogspot.com/2009/04/blackout.html

You’d think the $110 would also cover the ad revenue they were losing by one person not watching the game on the regional network (in my case YES). Nevermind the fact that most people in their home market who have the package are trying to watch at work or somewhere else they don’t have access to a TV. Bogus.