I like baseball. So much in fact that one year, I signed up for the, somewhat new, MLB.tv. It offered live online streaming video of all games, along with audio, and the graphic game tracker. After about an hour of doing a little searching and playing around, I realized that you could only watch out of market games, aka games taking place outside of your state. Not terribly useful to me.

While I didn’t know it then, I recently found a site, MyP2P.eu, that hosts liks to live streams of various sport games from around the world. Great if your sport isn’t hugely popular (skiing, tennis, DTM, etc) or you just don’t have a TV in front of you. Still trying to figure out exactly how the site works, but in essence, you find the game you’re looking for, pick one of the stream links (they list quality and necessary software), and watch. I tried a few of the Adobe Flash streams, which were crappy at best. A lot of the software was also not available for a Mac, and I didn’t feel like getting Windows up and running. Veetle seemed to work for me, though, to be honest, I’m a bit sketched out with installing something that doesn’t have a clear cut way of removing it, or at the very least, tell you what it’s installing.

Either way, I did install it and the quality was great. Full HD with stereo sound. Didn’t hog bandwidth or CPU resources either, even with a few things going at once. Stream opened up in my browser, just like a YouTube video or the like.

Update (08/27/11) – It appears as if the domain name has been taken offline (.eu web address no longer points to site), meaning the site can no longer be accessed. They have a twitter account set up with regular updates, but the info is pretty sparse as of right now. Been down for a few days, hopefully it’ll be back up in time for the F1 race this weekend though.

Update #2 (09/19/11) – The site has a new address: http://myp2p.bz. There were, as I understand it, some legal issues with the old domain address (.eu), and the change had to be made.

Just placed another order with Monoprice.com and have nothing but great things to say. Ordered a couple new cases for my iPhone, as well as some screen protectors, USB cables, and other small nick-nacks. Seeing the prices on the site though, always gets me a little upset. Perhaps the biggest money maker for any electronics store are the smallest things: cases, cables, little zips ties, mouse pads, etc. These items cost next to nothing to make, but because you need them, the stores know you’re willing to pay top dollar. Take for instance a phone screen protector; a small piece of flimsy and cheap plastic, such as the one they stick for free for packing on that watch you got from McDonalds with your last happy meal. Can’t be more then $0.10 to make, and yet, they charge you $20 for it.

Monoprice.com has been around for some time now, and is one of the few places I know of to go for reliable, quality, and cheap electronics. USB cables for under $1, screen protectors for $0.70, cases for $0.90, and thousands of other items. They aren’t defective or even low quality, they’re just not marked up. I’ve made a number of orders from them myself, and have recommended them to a few dozen people, who have all had nothing but good experiences. Shipping is dirty cheap ($2 sometimes) and orders, in my experience, have gone out the next day. Give them a try and let me know what you think.