Comments on: Boxee comes to Windows, inks MLB deal

Boxee announces a variety of updates that include support for Windows users and thousands of live Major League Baseball games.

[monkeyfun14]

"Users will be able to pause and rewind a live game. But in order for them to access those games, they will need to sign up for the MLB.tv Premium service, which costs $89.95 per year or $19.95 per month."

Never understood how sports associations believe their services are worth so much money.

[aradic]

So....you are saying they should stream 7 months worth of live baseball, in high definition, 10-15 games a day + all the other content available on their web site for free?

Have you checked the price of admission for say, two tickets for a single baseball game lately?

[monkeyfun14]

No but at $90 a year it seems a bit much.

[LucidGoldfish]

They should also offer a lower package for just local games... i.e. you pick the team. 90 dollars a year is a bit much, but I understand the pricing with all the games being offered on demand. I would never pay that, considering I would never watch that much baseball, but a tiered package for less money, that I would pay for. I do have to give MLB props though. I have been screaming about this for a couple of years now. All cable channels should be offering such packages ie. the scifi channel, HBO, CNN, all of them. Pair up with boxee, and offer their channel for like 2 to 4 dollars a month... commercial free, bump up the price. That has to be more than what they are already getting from the cable companies. They will in time be offering this, it is just a matter of when their stuffy board members realize that they are behind the times, and cable is dead ...which could take years. I give it no more than five.

[zorrillaj]

They just announced something like that but just with the Yankees and their YES network. I guess this is just for those people who want to ditch cable altogether and prefer to get their local games on a computer instead of TV. Doesn't make much sense to me since they are usually covered in the lowest package of cable at least here in Boston.

[zipityzap]

You don't need Windows Media Center to bring Boxee to your TV. Boxee is a replacement for the ill-executed WMC. All you need is an affordable cable.