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MLB At Bat iPhone On Sale Because You Have to Re-Buy It Every Season

The MLB's must-buy At Bat iPhone app for baseball fanatics, which delivers live game info, video, more stats than you can swing a stick and other goodness, is currently on sale for $2.99, two bucks off of its usual $5 pricetag. But it's more of a bait-and-switch than a steal, because the app will expire at the end of the season, so you'll have to re-buy it at the start of the 2009 season. Not too surprising coming from the MLB, who's notoriously ticky about their content. At Bat is still a great app, but buyer definitley beware. [TUAW]

6:20 PM on Tue Oct 7 2008
By matt buchanan
2,150 views, 20 comments

Latest by djkibblesnbits: @sublicon: Negative. ESPN.com's Gamecast doesn't have instant footage of top plays 5 minutes after they happen. The video footage itself more »

drm

Five Stores That Hosed Customers With DRM

Sure, it's easy to blithely state that DRM is annoying and sucks. But the fact is, it really can leave you holding vaporous media that you paid real money for, like when a vendor closes up shop or switches to new DRM. Last 100 rounds up five stores that have done just that: Major League Baseball (switched DRM, nuking any video bought pre-2006); Google (killed video store, and any vids you bought); Sony (ditched ATRAC and shut down Sony Connect); Virgin Digital (closed store, told customers to burn tracks to CDs and re-import as MP3); and most recently, Microsoft, which is shuttering MSN Music and its PlaysForSure (now officially worst DRM name ever) authentication servers in August. More »

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12:15 PM on Mon Apr 28 2008
By matt buchanan
8,359 views, 45 comments

Latest by MurdockChiron: Comment on Five Stores That Hosed Customers With DRM Another story of a digital store that hosed customers is that more »

major league b****es

MLB Calls Foul on Slingbox Placeshifting, Pitches the "L" Word

For being "America's favorite pastime," the MLB is apparently populated by a bunch of whiners. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Esq., the league's legal vultures have begun circling around Slingbox because of its ability to placeshift games. More »

7:00 PM on Wed May 30 2007
By Matt Buchanan
4,831 views, 29 comments

cellphones

Motorola, MLB Bring Wireless to Wrigley

Thanks to a partnership between Motorola and Major League Baseball, the dugouts of the Chicago Cubs' Wrigley Field will be going wireless. Motorola will supply its i580 clamshell cellphone for use in both the home and away dugouts. Now, managers will be able to call up the bullpen without having to get up up from the bench. Motorola will also pay the Cubs to keep them using their cellphone, because, as we all know, Motorola cellphones don't drop calls or anything. More »

3:26 PM on Tue Jun 13 2006
By Gizloco
138 views, 2 comments

Latest by greysky: thats what an overweight 60 something in a baseball uniform needs, not to have to get off his butt more »

home entertainment

Tuning Fork

The Old Ballgame

by Brian L. Clark More »