We recently signed up for YTTV's new sports package, a slimmed down lineup consisting of only channels that carry games. There's apparently no guide in that package, at least not that I can find, only the games available within the home screens. The more I thought about it, the more it made sense....I guess you're not supposed to be able to watch channels, per se.....you can only watch them when they're carrying a game.
So 2:30 Saturday got here and it was time to cut on the Texas game, so I load the app on the living room TV and.....it's in Spanish. Because it was giving me ESPN Deportes. Normally when a game airs on more than one channel, YTTV gives you the option of which channel to select when you click into it. But for this game, no such choice. All the other games I came across gave the options, but not the Texas game.
So we listened to the first quarter in Spanish which, amazingly, I do not understand very well even after two years of high school Spanish and living in and working in CenTX and south TX for years around a bunch of Spanish speakers. Wife was not amused. I admit it was annoying, both for the Spanish language broadcast and also for paying for something I was 95% sure wasn't working correctly.
I finally realized I could pull up the multi-view options with four different games on the screen simultaneously, and then click into the Texas game from there, which was the correct, regular English language ESPN. But that version wasn't recording, so I couldn't easily skip away from that game to check on others, or pause for breaks.
That was the only game that happened with on the weekend, but it was the first one we pulled up, and of course the one Mrs. DeT had anxiously been waiting for. Gonna need for that not to be a recurring thing. Grumpy.
