Directv MLB EI Free Preview
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With Sports Pack you do get all the RSNs, but you do not get the Professional MLB games from outside your area. They are blacked out.
Well that's retarded. What the hell's the point of subscribing to RSN's if you don't get the games? Oh well.
Damn, I thought I had a loophole for a minute.
Some couldn't care less about Professional Sports, but many do care about High School and College Sports. There are different games on different RSNs.
Well that's retarded. What the hell's the point of subscribing to RSN's if you don't get the games? Oh well.
Damn, I thought I had a loophole for a minute.
That is why most people don't subscribe to them.
If they aren't showing a game on your local RSN, lets say the Pirates aren't on TV one day, home or away, will they blackout the game in Pittsburgh on MLB EI?
The renewal rate is $179 (4x$44.75) for customers that had it last year.
The early-bird rate for new subscribers is $189 (4x$47.25) until 4/12.
The non promo rate (full price after 4/12) is $209 (4x$52.25)
So if you want MLB EI, do it before the free preview ends.
Unfortunately, yes.
MLB rules are that you cannot watch an out-of-market broadcast for your local team, period. Even if your local market team isn't broadcasting. The team/RSN still own the rights to that broadcast, so you get blackout.
This bugged me for a while, but never enough to consult customer service: When subscribing to the Sports Package, Fox En Espanol would show up on my DVR and HD receiver just fine, but on my regular no frills boxes it would be missing from the EPG and would state "not subscribed" or another similar message when manually typing in the channel number.
I have never been a subscriber, but am strongly considering it. Remember there are usually games on from 1 in the afternoon to 1 in the morning. And, the season runs for 9 months. Plus, four people going to one major league game easily costs $140. If you have HD and Direct there are game feeds from both teams, some with both broadcasting in HD (watch batting team's RSN if you are a neutral observer) plus the snazzy HD Game mix which makes it easy to flip between the action and keeping an eye on all developments. Plus, it's not just on one set, the games are on all boxes. Double plus (real reason), you can feel like Marty from Back to the Future II having 8 things to watch at once.
Still working for me on DirecTV, only games going 731, 740, 738 and 748 and 721 mix channel.
