Live Video Feeds with the Motorola Atrix

| Sunday, May 22, 2011
By Gareth Jale


It's not a big shocker that the Motorola ATRIX 4G is probably one of the most popular smart phones among sports fanatics. For starters, it has a large, brilliantly bright 4.0-inch capacitive touch screen, and Motorola has developed a wide range of accessories designed to protect it. You won't have any trouble finding that perfect case or screen protector. The ATRIX screen is ideal for watching great video quality. It has 16GB of RAM, a dual-core processor and a dedicated processing unit for 3D graphics. It also has 4G, which means that it's fast enough to stream HD video straight from the Internet to your device.

Now the question remains, where does this video stream from? Half the time, it comes directly from the source. For baseball enthusiasts, one of the most popular services is MLB.TV. After paying for this service, you receive all non-blacked out baseball games directly to the Motorola ATRIX through a customized application. This application ensures that no technical knowledge of the phone is required. Simply install the app, run it, enter your MLB.TV account information and then pick a game to watch. It really is that easy. NHL has also started to offer a similar streaming service through Yahoo's site.

Not all streamed sports require a paid subscription. Because the Motorola ATRIX has the capabilities to view traditional websites like a desktop browser, it can access a lot of popular online streaming sites. These free streaming services stream sports directly from the site. Just access the site and watch whatever video is being streamed. Another popular technique is torrent-based clients, and these have recently begun to make their way to Android. Not all streams are exactly legal so we don't entirely recommend it.

One of the easiest and least expensive ways to access legal streams online is via an online sportsbook. The sports book requires an account and most of these have security measures in place so people cannot simply bypass the system for free accounts. Many even limit you to those games you've place bets on. One problem with using a smart phone with the sports books is that most don't have dedicated apps. Because they stream through Adobe Flash, Atrix can easily access these Flash-based players.

Another popular form of sports streaming is the dedicated provider. Consider how many cable and satellite providers there are who deliver TV services to homes. If these services have the games that you want, then they are an extremely convenient and cost-effective way to access them. It's important to note that this an extremely new facet of the television industry, and many of these providers are having difficulty adding sports and popular channels to their lineup. So before you sign a monthly contract with a provider, make sure you know what you're getting out of it.




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