Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Have I mentioned the 90 minute blackout?

I've spent so much time clicking, rebooting, and power cycling, I haven't had to time to write down my complaints. I should make better use of that "90" minutes that I'm waiting for the archive. Last night I spent over an hour trying to use the DVR function to get to the beginning of the game. I got the dreaded "DVR function is temporarily unavailable" error. I rebooted, cycled, restarted, and quit processes. I started clicking in the 6th inning. By the time the game ended I had only watched the first inning. After which I got that error again and again and again. As soon as the game was over, the DVR function is over. The mlbsupport on the forum said that you will be kicked out of the player if you touch any buttons after the game ends. Nice! So I'm screwed and I have to wait for the archive. THE NINETY MINUTES. I knew exactly when the game ended. I saw the bar on the player go from yellow to red. It was 6:43PST. At 8:43 a link to the archive appeared. It didn't work. "The game is temporarily unavailable." It didn't work for 30 minutes. Then it worked but the DVR function didn't work so I had to watch the first inning over. It quit once in the bottom half of the inning and reset to the start of the game. I was able to watch to the bottom of the second. Then the video never came back on but the sound kept going and a second soundtrack kicked on. I gave up and listened to WRKO.

This morning I tried again and had the same issue in the 2nd inning. I skipped to the 3rd inning and it played! I was so excited until I noticed that the sound was lagging a few seconds behind. It was annoying. The lag grew inning by inning. By the end, it was a full out behind the video. It was unwatchable.