It's not like I need to watch more soccer games, but I have this incurable habit... And there is an MLS game every Friday evening that I would enjoy taking in after a crazy week at work. The bad news is that I do not speak Spanish. But I do understand the occasional little ads they pop up in English which say "Hey! You can listen to this in English using the SAP feature on your TV". Awesome. They even give an MLS link to help you turn on SAP: http://www.mlssoccer.com/sap. So, fool that I am, I follow the link and expect it to work. I am a DishTV customer with a Hopper and multiple Joeys. (If you are not a Dish TV customer, do not worry. We have not all moved to Australia). I turn on SAP and nothing happens. I did this multiple times all last year and never got it to work. Tried it last week and it still does not work and I get annoyed when I hear the English pitch telling me that it is supposed to work. I called Dish TV support and they tried updating my software etc., etc. but still does not work. Has anyone of you ever gotten this to work? On any service but especially Dish?
I watch tv through my Xbox with a digital tuner & it automatically gives me the English language commentary. Hope you get it worked out!
I can switch to SAP on my DirecTV Tivo and can listen to whoever these crappy announcers are in English. The English language track is definitely available from Unimas or channel 66 or wherever it's coming from. I'm using SAP on the DirecTV unit, not on my TV or any other device. It may be that DISH is stripping out the alternate audio. Here's a YouTube video which purports to show how to turn on SAP on a Dish receiver, but it may not be useful for you. Summary: if it doesn't work for you, it's probably a Dish issue, since it works fine for me on DirecTV.
I never got it to work on Dish either. But the UniMas stream is solid, and lets you choose the audio, so I just put the Quakes on my laptop. Or just watched it in Spanish, as the English-speaking announcer crews were laughably awful.
I have Dish and 2nd audio works on my 722 receiver. It didn't work on my older one before I replaced it. But you would think that Hopper would work if 722 does. There is one little trick. When you open up 2nd audio menu, you need to scroll all the way down to the bottom where is says 'alternate' and select that one. Not 'English' at the top of the list. Whoever decided to put 'Alternate' hidden at the bottom of the list should be fired!
Yeah. I've done that too but this Friday there was no audio at all on the stream. No idea why. But that only works watching in real-time. I like to DVR it and watch it a bit later to skip the inane commercials at halftime. WooHoo! I think that's it. I always chose "English". Odd that the support people at Dish TV did not tell me this. Let's see if it works! I did try it just now on a different telecast and the "alternate" seemed to work. Thanks !!
I know I'm in the minority, but even though I don't speak Spanish I nevertheless enjoy the Spanish-language telecasts.
Yes, it's better in Spanish. The SAP problem is a Dish Network problem. We watch over the air with a Dish manufactured digital to analog converter box. (We don't replace things until they don't work.) Setting the box audio to "alternate" changes nothing. In fact, until the last week or so, the audio for 66.1 didn't work at all on the normal setting, and I had to switch to "alternate" to hear the regular Spanish audio. Now this issue is strangely corrected after over a year of not working properly.
It might depend on the age of your Dish box. It sounds like you may have an older one. I know that because last year on the 722 box in the living room it did work, but on my old box in my bedroom it didn't. When I upgraded my bedroom to a 722 it now works. So it's a box issue.
Yeah, it took me awhile to figure it out. Really poor user interface. 'English' doesn't give you English, but 'Alternate' at the bottom of the list that is hidden and forces you to scroll down to see it, gives you English.
Indeed, while I speak spanish and have always enjoyed the Univision commentator cast that usually work these games, the english option so far has been unbearable, lol. Jorge Navarro Perez is always fun to listen to.