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A review of MLB.tv, MLB Mosaic, and MLB Extra Innings for the 2007 season (page 5 of 5) Mac OS X
MLB Mosaic requires version 10.4 (Tiger) of Mac OS X. This requirement is because MLB Mosaic uses Java 1.5, which is not available on previous versions of Mac OS. Mosaic spontaneously crashes more on the Mac than on Windows XP. However, it freezes up less on OS X than on Windows. Player tracker always requires me to hit update to recognize my players on the Mac. Until I hit update, it acts as if I haven't yet entered players to track, and it alerts me about everything that's happening in every ongoing baseball game.
Conclusions Despite the bugs in Mosaic and the occasional instability associated with streaming video over the internet, the baseball packages from MLB have really changed the way fans can watch baseball over the last few years. As a St. Louis Cardinals fan, who lives in Boston, I can watch as many Cardinals games as people living in St. Louis for only a $100 dollars a year or so. That might seem like a lot, but with 162 games in a season, it doesn't end up being very much money per game.
I personally like MLB Mosaic, which is available only in the premium internet package available from MLB. I like how it lets me watch my fantasy players during the commercials of Cardinal games or when the Cardinals aren't on. However, if I were to recommend one of these products to someone like my father, a less-than-tech-savvy baby-boomer, I'd say MLB Extra Innings is the way to go. Extra Innings is only slightly more expensive than the internet options, and watching games is no more complicated than watching any other station on your cable TV.
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