MLB updates At Bat 2009 for iPhone, gives live streaming to MLB.TV users

The condensed game videos are awesome! Other than shazam this has to be my favorite app. I just hope they don't raise the cost again next year. It was a little disappointing they dropped from two free live games to one. I would like to see an option to purchase games a la cart but that's asking a lot.

It also appears that they have disabled TV-out in their application as well. I used to be able to watch the games by hooking my iPhone up to my TV via the component cable, but now I can't get anything.

What possible reason would they have for disabling that? I can still hook my mac up to the TV to watch the games, but it's a lot more convenient to drop my iPhone in my universal dock and go.

I love this game, I love having the Yankees at my home in Red Sox nation and I love this app. But it was skanky of MLB to entice purchases by offering 2-3 games a day, and then cutting it back to 1 to accommodate another class of customer. This app is a short term license; at the end of the season, it's over. For the 2010 season, you will have to buy a new app.

MLB should honor the agreement they made with all customers who purchased a license prior to 7/21 and let us have the games that were part of the price we paid.

I purchased this application the day it was released and was so disappointed that it didn't offer archived feeds of the radio broadcasts. I live in Japan, and listening to games live in the middle of the night just isn't feasible.

Archived radio is already available through the desktop GameDay subscription, so I hope MLB decides to add the archived radio to the IPhone app next season.

HOW do I, as a paying subscriber to MLB.tv, get all of the games on the app for streaming? I am currently only getting the one freebie that everyone else is getting. Anybody?

I really don't see how anyone can complain. MLB.tv was set up to be able to LISTEN to every home and away game for the entire frickin' year for $10!!!!! Then, they added the free 1-2 games to watch. That was a bonus. You still get at least one freebie game every day.

I can (sort of) understand if you were already subscribed to watch online, you should be able to get the mobile version, but I can also see the developers side. If you offered every game in HD for $70 a year, plus $10 more to include mobile watching, I don't think that's such a terrible offer. MLB has really done something right here.

As someone who's already a subscriber to the mlb.tv premium package, and has already bought the iPhone app, this is an awesome (and obvious) addition to the app. Otherwise, I can see how some of you cheapskates might be miffed. Oh well.

So, they're now only offering one video stream per day, down from "up to two"?? Bummer.

But still, MLB.com At Bat is probably the best app in the store.

Tim...that literally must have shown up on my iPhone after I read your post because you're absolutely right--it's there now. I didn't mind the way they used to do it--at least you knew where the games were at the start. Plus, us redheaded stepchildren aren't good enough to know what games are going to be free in advance I guess...gee, why don't you wait until the first pitch to let us know? :-

Just to vent a bit further, I can't believe what a bait and switch job this has turned into. They touted this at WWDC and made everyone think that they were going to follow through with this until the end of the season. At least give us this until next year--THEN you can drop the bomb with the new 2010 version. To pull this mid season is an insult--I won't be buying this again next year...it's back to the free version for me.

You left out the fact in your article that if you don't subscribe to MLB.tv for $15/month you're out of luck for watching ANY streaming games on the iPhone app.

I could have wiped myself with my $10 and gotten more value with the same amount of pain.