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Comment by megaman22 | Hacker News Reader

That might be the death-knell for cable TV.

Not if you witnessed the mediocre quality. I've had no problem with streaming services but, so yahoo must have had issues with the 15m.

What were you watching on? I was just using my basic wifi and the streaming was unsurpassed.

To be fair, football is already the most cable-cutter friendly sport there is. I can watch every game except for MNF using just my antenna.

More cable-cutter friendly than Major League Baseball? On MLB.tv you can pick the home/away feed for almost any game at almost any time, plus view replays and highlights of any game going back to basically the first televised baseball game. And you can watch it on basically any device.

The only downside is the blackouts for home markets.

I forgot about baseball because I really, really don't like baseball.

Props though to MLB, I guess.

Every major North American league has a similar service (except the NFL), but the local blackouts make it a non-starter for the vast majority of the viewing audience.

Football is more cable-cutter friendly because local games are almost always put OTA, so it's a matter of setting up an antenna if you don't want to pony up for cable.

There are services that try to do an end-run around local blackouts, but that doesn't really apply here (since the goal is to have a 100% legal, approved means of watching the games live online).

actually with your antenna you are only getting 5-6 of the 15-16 games per week

Closer to 7 or 8. Which is about half of all games in a week, and I'm generally happy with the selection.

How much does that selection improve with basic cable but not a specialty package like Sunday Ticket?

And if your local team is playing on MNF, it is shown on a channel available through antenna.

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