You can turn them off on an Apple TV - you have to go into the main Apple TV settings menus. I did this and don't see the scores anywhere on it. Now - the highlight videos that give away the score if you glance at the titles of the videos are another thing entirely. Have to scroll down to the bottom with your fingers covering your eyes. https://support.apple.com/guide/iph...ames may show the,turn off Show Sports Scores.
I’ve turned them off, that’s not the issue. It’s the dang “key play” videos that sit right on top of the replay. This week just stuck my arm on the screen until the game started to play. This seems dumb. At least I wasn’t spoiled!!! Almost! Five in July! And she just watches shows streaming and associates the TV with sports. So unless she’s using a finger on a screen she has no idea what the hell the remote even is. kids these days!!!
You have to employ or learn to use your soft eyes. Use your hard central vision to focus at the lower left corner of your apparatus. Then use your soft vision to search for the WATCH button. Your peripheral vision cannot read stuff. My beef is starting to be all these Saturday games. Can they distribute matches a bit during the week? I also don't know how wise it is for the league to allow only one match to be televised on other networks. I know Apple want to get their money back but unless you go for the Apple package in any which way.... there is now , less MLS soccer for the average joe. Just saying.
I just want them to cut the crowd noise amplification. Yesterday, Neil Barton was the color commentator and while it wasn't as bad as some of the previous broadcasts, it was still difficult to hear him at times.
Were you watching with TV speakers? I’ve only watched on either my AirPods or my dedicated surround system so for me, on the latter, the commentary was coming directly out of the center channel and the crowd noise left/right. I’m wondering if there’s some bad downmixing of surround to stereo.
I have been. So you might have pinpointed the problem. Thank you. I will do some testing to see if the issue goes away if I switch from the Samsung TV, I have been watching on, to an LG OLED, to see if the problem is TV based.
I’d definitely be interested to hear your feedback. It’s still an Apple problem as it seems lots of folks are experiencing it - unless in the unlikely event everyone is using a Samsung.
Good point. Some simple center channel attenuation is going to get me closer to the holy grail - no commentary.
Kind of a puff-piece but some interesting tidbits. Also of note rumors flying that subscriptions have only hit 40% of expectations. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/04/behind-the-scenes-of-mls-season-pass/
Watching Seattle/RSL to cleanse the palette of that Galaxy game. Cobi is doing color commentary and I have to say he’s much improved. I don’t know if he got additional media training or maybe the chemistry with with Joe is a little awkward.
Now see I was thinking if they could just cut the commentators audio a little and turn up the crowd noise a little it’s be perfect.
New augmented reality headset. It seemed pretty clear they wanted ownership of a sports franchise to be a showcase for their new headset on what can be done.
$3500 not including the zeiss lenses for people who need lenses. This will devolve in to a circular debate, but as a huge fan and huge and even bigger skeptic of AR/VR this is more intriguing than anything since Magic Leap which sort of fumbled out the gate and despite improvements never full recovered. As for the price … eh I’m old enough to remember people saying they wouldn’t pay $2500 for a toy (Mac) $400 for an MP3 player, $500 for a phone or $350 for a watch. Maybe it’ll flop, but I wouldn’t bet against it.
Thanks. I can't even begin to visualize why this would be attractive to me for watching games, but I still read books and newspapers in print, wear an analog wristwatch, never use ear buds or listen to music on anything but a car radio, watch games on TV rather than a phone or laptop unless there's no other alternative, and have never liked video games. I also post on something called a "Forum" as part of a "message board." I'm probably not the target demographic!
So this may not be for you, but think of a scenario where you have the Galaxy game on with a set of virtual interfaces. Maybe the game itself has no score or timing bug. Instead “above” the screen you have those elements. To the left of the screen maybe you have the scoreboard for other games going on. To the right maybe you have an interface element with stats from the game. Below that you have BigSoccer open to vent about a VAR call - and you can pull up the VAR feed yourself at anytime instead of waiting for the studio director to play it. Or imagine instead of VAR in 2 dimensions with lines on a screen you can actually generate a 3D map of an offside play using photogrammetry put it on the floor and walk around it. I’m sure clever people have far more interesting use cases than that. Again it’s not for everybody so that still might be a snooze fest for you.
Yes - FIFA 24 with the Apple Vision Pro. But imagine being able to watch a live game and look wherever you want on the field, rather than relying on the director and camera-person to be pointed in the right direction, etc.
That does sound appealing if I can avoid the smoke bombs from the supporters groups (my seats are way too close to what is now the visitor's supporters section), since being able to take in the whole field is the principal advantage of watching games for me. Reality, though, is that I think most of those features are more appealing to a video gamer who has grown up with the kind of sensory experience that is probably comforting to someone with a touch of ADHD, but feels like unnecessary distraction from the main action to me.