NBA League Pass and ATV

I tried to watch the NYK-BOS game streaming from my iPad2, but I found the picture quality just bad.

When I watched the game directly on my computer the quality was pretty good at 3000kb/s.

Does anyone have expercience with a DVI-I to HDMI adapter to connect a TV to a computer. Will this work better then streaming via an iPad2?

Hey HiRez,

thx for the post - were/are you able to watch any of the games directly on your apple TV?

thx,

Yanai

were/are you able to watch any of the games directly on your apple TV?

Not yet, as I understand it, today (Monday 12/26) is the first day available to watch League Pass Because all the games were nationally televised yesterday, they were all blacked out of LP BB. We'll find out tonight.

So it's normal that apple tv isn't letting me log into my Broadband account? I keep getting a message saying caught exception while processing request...and then something about cannot store JavaScript object specified for key nsfg... I'm so lost please help! I just wanna enjoy some NBA tonight!

I signed up for the International League Pass because it has a free trial through January 9. However the lack of Apple TV support in the UK will likely stop me subscribing permanently once the free pass ends. Seriously, I want to watch the games on a big screen and Airplay is not exactly convenient because I can't do anything else on my device while it is playing.

Right there with you.

I can log in, but I can't view games on Apple TV.

On my laptop (windows based), I can log in, but it stops loading at 90%.

In short, I can't view games anywhere, at all. I'm pretty angry right now that the NBA just took my money for nothing.

OK, found out what I was doing wrong.

Had to choose my 5 teams here:

http://www.nba.com/leaguepass/schedule/

(there is a launch application button at the top right)

I wasn't launching the right app, but man it took a while to find this. This kind of stuff should be more obvious, NBA.

Now to hope this thing actually works.

So good news, it works and with NO OTHER DEVICE REQUIRED. Streams straight to ATV, as it should. The bad news is the quality is marginal (HD but soft and heavily compressed) and the stream has dropped out on me a few times.

Hey Everyone,

Just wanted to re-iterate that the first 2 weeks of League Pass are free on all domestic (US) cable providers, so if you're having issues with the streaming, just go to the actual NBA League Pass (full price) channel and you should be fine. This is only a short term solution but allows for you to watch games while they iron out the kinks.

To recap:

- The AppleTV app works but is marginal in quality (with no other advices needed, no airplay). I tried to watch and had regular buffering issues throughout.

- The GameTime app for iPad and iPhone seems great, but crashes regularly. On top of that, sending a signal from the iPhone or iPad to the AppleT via Airplay is dodgy in quality. Lots of thick pixelation and lots of buffering for me (on a quality connection).

- Seems like the best idea is just straight-up purchasing from your provider and picking the best of three options on a nightly basis depending on your circumstance (TV, Broadband, Mobile).

Hope that helps.

p.s. for Direct TV the NBA League Pass channels are right around 750 and up.

have you tried switching from one game to another? if so does it make you start the game from the beginning?

Same problem here, Atv making start games from the beginning. Anyone know if there is a way to quickly jump to live?

not only that but you cant even go back and watch the game after its over. so if you miss the game then you just missed it.

As soon as I started to scrub forward I went into buffer purgatory.

I've been going through the same thing. To top it off, the game seems to crash every other 5 minutes. Between the B.S. blackout regulations and the shoddy design of the actual app, I rate NBA League Pass for the ATV as two thumbs way down....

Very dissappointed Apple...

Yeah, it does not seem to bookmark your location in the stream and resets if you exit, that's horrible. Furthermore, the game stream is not even available until the second the ball is tipped off, there is no pregame material, and no countdown to know when the game will actually start, you have to keep refreshing the game list until it becomes available. There also appears to be no advanced navigation available. For example, in the MLB ATV app, if you press the down button once, you can shuttle back and forth, and there are segments marked for the start of each half inning you can quickly jump to. Press down again, and you get marked segments of significant events int the game, such as close plays, scoring plays, etc, which are even available as the game is live. The NBA app is very barebones by comparison, poorly thought out, and the stream quality and reliability are not good.