Electronics Help Needed

[lcbj68c]

So, Dish Network stopped providing the MLB Extra Innings package and I had to do the MLBtv thing. Can somebody tell me how to get the video and audio signals from my computer to my television? What kind of outputs are needed and what kind of cords? Do I need a tv card like the old days? Or can I hook up straight from my monitor? Appreciate any and all advice in advance.

[nate82]

What kind of TV do you have?

 

What kind of video card do you have? Is it a factory video card or a card you installed after buying the PC?

 

Does your video card have a HDMI, VGA, DVI, or S-video input?

 

Otherwise do you have a Playstation 3? If you have a PS3 you can use MLB.TV on the PS3 now. I know with the PC to your TV that if you use VGA, DVI, or S-video input you won't get sound so you will have to hook up your sound card to your TV or entertainment system which may cause some lag between the sound and video. If you have HDMI then you would be able to use just that input for both sound and video I believe you may have to work on some settings for that though.

[logan82]

I used to record tv on my computer and used composite audio/video to get the signal to a tv. I have a tv tuner card on my computer. Basically used my tv as a computer monitor. The most important thing is what kind of inputs your tv has. I am sure this website is trying to sell their specific products but it may help.

[pitchleague]

this probably doesn't help you in this specific case, but yesterday my LG blu-ray player had an update installed that allowed one to link the blu-ray player to their MLB.tv account for instant streaming right to your television.

 

I'm not a subscriber (I have Extra Innings thru Directv) but it's an intriguing option for next year.

[1992casey]

Knowing what's on the back of your computer and what's on the back of your TV is the key.

 

I have a computer hooked up to my TV with a DVI to HDMI cable and a 3.5mm stereo cable. The computer happens to have a DVI output, but not HDMI. That makes the sound cable necessary.

 

A lot of computers still have VGA outputs, and a lot of TVs have VGA inputs. You'll still need a sound cable, and the picture won't be as crisp as DVI/HDMI.

 

If your TV is restricted to composite video, s-video, or component-video, you'll need to look into adapters.

[theavrock]

Lcbj -

This should be pretty easy on the video side of things. Audio is a little more tricky but still not difficult. It depends on what sort of computer it is and the video ports on it. Most computers will have some combination of multiple video ports (VGA, s-video, displayport, DVI, HDMI etc.) so maybe take a picture of the ports on your computer and TV or let us know model numbers and there is probably enough tech savvy people on here to get you pointed in the right direction.

I have a home theater PC set up where I play all of my movies through my computer off of 2 external 1 TB HD's and I can't tell you how many times I have changed around my set up so I have been where you're at.

[Diskono]

this probably doesn't help you in this specific case, but yesterday my LG blu-ray player had an update installed that allowed one to link the blu-ray player to their MLB.tv account for instant streaming right to your television.

Sweet, which model do you have? I'm not really interested in blu-ray, but I'd definitely pay for this.

[pitchleague]

uh, LG BD-570 I believe. It also has wi-fi capability and Netflix streaming among other stuff. Awesome player!

[Polish Falcons]

Does anyone know how many megabytes/gigabytes it takes to stream a mlb game on mlb audio? (at bat or whatever) ....Roughly....

 

I was thinking about getting the new iphone but the cost is per gigabyte now (2 GB for $25 and if you go over it is $10 per GB). I already know watching mlb.tv on this iphone would be out of the question for the most part. But if the audio takes up a ton of bandwith I will not be getting this, which will be lousy becuase I have another year on my contract but oh well.

[Diskono]

Audio only? I would guess 50-100mb at most, but I'm not sure what the quality is like. Could be more or less, depending.

[Polish Falcons]

Thanks. Yeah, audio only... If 50 - 100 MB is correct, that's not so bad.

 

As far as mlb.tv, my research tells me the video games could be up to 500 MB. That's too much with a 2 GB limit... I wish they kept the unlimited bandwidth.....

[nate82]

Thanks. Yeah, audio only... If 50 - 100 MB is correct, that's not so bad.

 

As far as mlb.tv, my research tells me the video games could be up to 500 MB. That's too much with a 2 GB limit... I wish they kept the unlimited bandwidth.....

If you had unlimited before the switch you get to keep the unlimited. This only effects new customers right now. So lets say that you have your current plan and it runs out whenever the contract ends you will still have unlimited bandwidth until your contract runs out. I have a 2-year contract with AT&T right now that includes unlimited internet use which will run until 2012. AT&T can't change it since it is a contract and I doubt AT&T is going to do something like that and get hit with a big class-action lawsuit.

 

Plus with all of the apps I run on my Iphone I don't even get anywhere close to 1 GB of usage a month and I use Sirius/XM radio along with Pandora on my Iphone. I am also getting e-mail's surfing the net and downloading apps and watching videos online. It is rather hard to get up to 2 GB of bandwidth unless you are using Skype a lot.

[Polish Falcons]

Unfortunately I don't have the unlimited data plan now. I just have a regular crappy samsung phone and was thinking to get my first iphone the iphone 4 very soon when I'm 1 year into my 2 year contract and eligible for the deals with two year extension of course.

 

I read specifically that streaming games from mlb.tv uses loads of data, several hundred megabytes per game. Other than that there isn't anything I would want the data for but that is unfortunate. I would be ok with the audio though.