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I thought the Apple Broadcast was fine. Considering it was the very first week I expected there to be some bugs to work out, but they really just exceeded my expectations so much.

Going to look forward to catching the whip around show before heading to the game on Saturday, or maybe just watch the whip around show on replay, if that's an option.

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I think the growing pains with Apple TV were more mine than theirs. I had to dive deep into the settings to turn off the “show scores” feature both on my phone and my Apple TV but was happy it was just an easy fix for future games. I won’t be able to watch every game live. So I am glad that was a quick fix. The quality of the streams and camera quality of other games this past weekend were very good and it just looks much closer to the camera quality of euro broadcasts. Editing and switching cameras also seemed much better than previous seasons of Fox. No crazy long closeups or bizarre camera decisions in the multiple games I got to watch so far.

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I thought the Apple broadcast overall was much better than I expected. I thought there would be more growing pains but the picture was good. The commentary for the Sounders match was pretty average at best. Heath Pearce was noticeably silent when the play by play guy set him up not once but twice in a row to comment on the two tributes at the game, Anton Walkes and Grant Wahl. It's not hard to say something along the lines of 'it's a tragedy' but he just stayed silent when prompted. I just found it weirdly awkward. I see we will get a chance to see this team again this week. Maybe it was just first day jitters?

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Apple TV observations- Mostly great, and much better than previous MLS presentations. Commercials suck. If they could leave it out of their 360 show it would be a better watch. But the show was kinda fun, and had it's moments. Agree there are minor things that should and likely will get better- when to show a replay, engineering the audio and video of the broadcast, and when not to show advertising. But overall pretty good, with potential to be better.

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