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MLB.TV: The Heathrow T5 of Online Sports Offerings

Juan Carlos Perez writes on PC World:

Major League Baseball's MLB.TV online broadcasting service encountered serious technical difficulties for the second straight day on Tuesday, as affected paying subscribers fumed about missing games.

At around 7 p.m. Eastern Time, minutes prior to the start of Tuesday's first games, MLB disabled its Mosaic media player, the application that gives premium-level MLB.TV subscribers the advanced viewing features they pay for.

Mosaic remained unavailable for about three hours, but even after it became operational again, an undetermined number of subscribers still were unable to watch games due to technical problems affecting MLB.TV's log-in process.

MLB on Wednesday didn't immediately respond to a request for comment about the outstanding technical issues affecting MLB.TV, whose premium-level subscription costs either $19.95 per month or $119.95 per year. A lower-level subscription tier costs $14.95 per month or $89.95 per year.

posted by Fergie @ 4/02/2008 11:56:00 AM