[nfbcs] MLB.com gameday audio

[Mike Freeman]

H. G. Wells might have an answer!

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wunder, Gary" <WunderG at health.missouri.edu>
To: "'NFBnet NFBCS Mailing List'" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 5:51 AM
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] MLB.com gameday audio


>A question for the science fiction baseball fans to ponder: Why can't you 
>fast-forward during a live feed?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf 
> Of Mike Freeman
> Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2010 6:31 PM
> To: NFBnet NFBCS Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] MLB.com gameday audio
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> Tracy:
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> If you're getting the game from the regular Media Center page, even though 
> you've logged in, you'll have to find and click on the "Log In" button 
> again to start the audio. If you select the game and click on the feed 
> *without* logging in first, that login frame will come up and when you 
> fill it out and submit it, the audio will begin.
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> Incidentally, with that page, if you're listening to an archived game, a 
> separate window will open with a fully-accessible Flash player but it 
> takes a log of processor power. But you can rewind, fast-forward and pause 
> the archived feed. Not so with the live stream.
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> If you select the "Accessible GameDay Audio" feed from the Media Center 
> page, http://mlb.mlb.com/mediacenter/, you will be in a simplified player 
> that (once you've logged in via that login frame ore equivalent) will 
> bring up a simplified player with links to decrease/increase volume and 
> play/pause the feed.
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> If, as I described in the beginning, you're working from the Media Center 
> page as I described at the start of this message, the player will have a 
> set of radio buttons that, when selected, shift you between the various 
> feeds of the game you selected.
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> HTH!
>
> Mike
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
> To: <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2010 1:29 PM
> Subject: [nfbcs] MLB.com gameday audio
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>> Am I the only person who finds MLB.com to be a major pain in the a--?
>> I bought my Audio subscription; I logged in; I selected the game I want,
>> which started about 2 hours ago, and it tells me "audio will be available
>> when the game starts".  Hello!!  The game has started!
>> I guess I'll have to call those jokers when I feel a little calmer.
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>> But why oh why is this such a miserable experience?  Do sighted guys have
>> this much trouble with it?  I'd bet real money not.
>> I even see a blurb on their website about how they're trying to make it a
>> better experience for their visually-impaired customers.  Well, for me, 
>> it
>> could hardly be a worse experience.
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>> What am I missing?
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>> I used to have trouble with Gameday Audio, but now I have a much more
>> up-to-date computer, and I thought that would solve the problem.  Wrong!
>> Grrrrr.
>> Tracy
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