MLB.com is the official site of
Major League Baseball and is overseen by
Major League Baseball Advanced Media, L.P. (a subsidiary of MLB). MLB.com is a source of baseball-related information, including baseball news, statistics, and sports columns. MLB.com is also a commercial site, providing online streaming video and streaming audio broadcasts of all Major League Baseball games to paying subscribers, as well as "gameday", a near-live streaming box score of baseball games for free. In addition, MLB.com sells official baseball merchandise, allows users to buy tickets to baseball games, runs
fantasy baseball leagues (both free and paid), and runs auctions of baseball memorabilia.
MLB.com also contains the full, unabridged, official rules of the game.
MLB.tv
MLB.tv is a subscription service which allows users to view games live,
streamed through an
internet browser (or MLB.tv Mosaic, see below),
Apple TV or
PlayStation 3 console or
Apple TV. Currently, MLB.tv offers video in qualities of 400K, 800K and 1.2MB. Currently, only
Windows,
Mac and
PlayStation 3 officially support
HD-quality streams, but
Linux users may manually run the video package to receive HD-quality streams. MLB.tv also offers gameday audio, which allows users to listen to games, without blackout restrictions. Some games provide commentary in Spanish, and games may have up to four audio streams (one for the home team, one for the away, and...
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