While all eyes are on the current baseball World Series (go Phils!), professional basketball kicked off a new season earlier this week. What’s a die-hard fan without Picture in Picture to do as our eyeballs compete to watch both sports? Even worse — what if you’re on the go when your favorite hoops team takes the court? NBA League Pass Mobile for iPhone and Android can assist in this case.
Liz Gannes at NewTeeVee takes an early look at this $39.99 season pass application and came away generally impressed. The software and subscription provides access to 40 games each week, although any local team events could be blacked out — the app cleverly uses your handset’s GPS to define “local.” You can see by the screen cap above that streaming over Wi-Fi looks great. Streaming over 3G however, was hit or miss during the NewTeeVee testing, which is semi-surprising — the application uses adaptive bitrate streaming, but of course you have to have some minimum throughput for even that to work. I like how there’s some DVR functionality in there — it’s always nice to replay that killer slam-dunk.
The new NBA League Mobile Pass is due to appear in the iTunes App Store and Android Market any time now, so with luck, you’ll have access before the next tip-off.

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