FloSports experience?
 

Has anyone on this board had experience with FloSports? I'm prepared to purchase their FloRacing package in order to watch USAC races this year, but after reading several less-than-flattering reviews, I'm beginning to think it would be a bad idea. Would love to hear your own experiences.

Doug Boyle from Indianapolis Motor Speedway endorse them at PRI show. I would think the Indianapolis Motor Speedway would have checked them out. Hope it's what we're hoping for time will tell

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I purchased the year for USAC. If you stream a lot this is a heck of a deal price wise. Watched some mods from east bay last weekend. No problems thought it was good. Nothing like being there in person at the track though.

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I too purchased and watched some of the Modifides from Tampa. I thought the announcers were lacking and the camera shot sometimes did not show what the announcer was talking about.
I don't really care about any of their broadcasts except for USAC and I hope the announcer they have for the USAC races is comparable to the guy SpeedShift had. But for $150 it worth being able to see the races I can't make in person regardless the announcer.

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Isn't Sean Buckley gonna be involved in the USAC shows for FloSports? If so I wouldn't worry about the quality...

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Thanks for your input. It's not so much the quality of broadcast I'm concerned with, but several reviewers complained about problems getting what they had paid for, and a lack of response to their queries to FloSports. But it sounds like some of you have had a positive experience, so I may just have to bite the bullet and hope for the best. I would hope that USAC did a thorough vetting job before signing on with them. It's a terrific deal if all goes well.

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I ordered it as well and the first night they had some sound issues but they ironed that out in an hour and the picture was great. They have some issues on the Roku Box when you Fast Forward it freezes but you don't have any of those issues on the laptop. One thing I hope they improve that Speed Shift does is make it where you can watch it from the Beginning. Right now you only have the choice to jump in Live or watch it the next day. Hopefully as the season goes on everything improves. 150 for the year is a great price if you compare that with say WoO's Dirtvision which is about 400 bucks a year (40 a month for 10 months).

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Sean Buckley is involved in the video, don't know who's announcing but that part should be good.

I haven't read the contract thing yet but can you just purchase monthy and watch? Going to be at the only race in March.

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Don't confuse the message with the messenger. Flowsports is more or less like the cable company for your TV. They are taking a broadcast someone else more or less produces and making it available to you as a "channel". It's the content producers, like USAC... or the modified show you were watching that is the primary source of the nature, quality and style of the broadcast you are watching. I would expect USAC to have a nice production whereas if there's a guy with a crappy camera and crappy internet it's not going to look as good... due to no real fault Flowsports part.

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Originally Posted by Charles Nungester:
Sean Buckley is involved in the video, don't know who's announcing but that part should be good.

I haven't read the contract thing yet but can you just purchase monthy and watch? Going to be at the only race in March.

It's a 150 a year or 30 a month.

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From what I have been able to research on FLO tv is that the usac deal is being done by Loud Pedal with Sean doing the voicework on these races. If you go to Loud Pedal web site there is a statement for anyone to read they basically direct you to Flo Tv site. Hopefully the keep the Loud Pedal site running as there are several seasons of races for anyone to watch. As for the fee to watch these races congrats on keeping it reasonable we all know everyone when at the track always watches something different and with it being broadcast for us to watch at home only one place at a time will be on the screen to watch.

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It says 150 year or 12.50 a month, I'll do feb and go from there.

Loudpedal has archived almost all USAC races for the last several years. Even when Speedshift did the live PPV's or Mills.

Watched a few Loudpedal PPV's a couple years back and had some problems with buffer and or drop. Hope they got the goods now to do it. The video and or announcer were never a problem, in fact great

I think once in several dozen PPV's with speedshift I watched did I ever have a big problem and they went ahead and did the feature on Facebook due to the problem that night. As far as streaming and announcer, At least when Chet did it. It was always stellar.

Buck knows the racers, officials, the cam work, the tech and has a great announcing voice and play by play. He can find and train the people he needs. no doubt. Sounds like a great deal. Only a dozen or so USAC races I can make in person anyway so. This will ROCK!

We'll see with the Ocala races. :)

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Thats a ton of racing.

Jan 31 - Feb 2
7:00 pm
East Bay WinterNationals | Crate Week
Feb 8
4:30 pm
USAC Midgets at Bubba Raceway Park
Feb 9
4:30 pm
Midgets at Bubba Raceway Park
Feb 14
4:30 pm
USAC Sprints at Bubba Raceway Park

Feb 14-16
7:00 pm
2019 East Bay WinterNationals | Sprints Week
Feb 15
4:30 pm
2019 USAC Sprints at Bubba Raceway Park
Feb 16
4:30 pm
2019 USAC Sprints at Bubba Raceway Park
Mar 9
5:30 pm
2019 USAC Midgets at Southern Illinois Center
Mar 30
4:30 pm
2019 USAC Sprints at Lawrenceburg Speedway
Apr 5
4:30 pm
2019 USAC Midgets at Kokomo Speedway
Apr 6
1:00 pm
2019 World RX of Abu Dhabi
Apr 6
4:30 pm
2019 USAC Midgets at Kokomo Speedway
Apr 12
4:30 pm
2019 USAC Sprints at Bloomington Speedway
Apr 13
4:30 pm
2019 USAC Sprints at Tri-State Speedway
Apr 14
4:30 pm
2019 USAC Silver Crown at Terre Haute Action Track
Apr 27

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Silver Crown at Toledo Speedway
Apr 27

6:30 pm
2019 Super DIRTcar Series | High Bank Holdup 100
Apr 28

1:00 pm
2019 World RX of Spain
May 7

6:30 pm
2019 Super DIRTcar Series | Ultimate Outlaw 100
May 10

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Sprints at Eldora Speedway
May 11

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Sprints at Eldora Speedway
May 12

1:00 pm
2019 World RX of Belgium
May 17

4:30 pm
2019 USOC Sprints and Midgets at Tri-City Speedway
May 18

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Sprints and Midgets at Federated Auto Parts Raceway at I-55
May 22

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Sprints at Terre Haute Action Track
May 23

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Silver Crown at Indiana State Fairgrounds
May 24

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Silver Crown at Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis
May 26

1:00 pm
2019 World RX of Great Britian
May 27

6:00 pm
2019 Super DIRTcar Series | Heroes Remembered 100
May 31

5:30 pm
2019 USAC Sprints at I-80 Speedway
Jun 1

5:30 pm
2019 USAC Sprints at Lakeside Speedway
Jun 4

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Midgets at Montpelier Motor Speedway
Jun 5

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Midgets at Gas City I-69 Speedway
Jun 6

5:30 pm
2019 USAC Midgets at Lincoln Park Speedway
Jun 7

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Midgets at Bloomington Speedway
Jun 8

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Midgets at Lawrenceburg Speedway
Jun 9

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Midgets at Kokomo Speedway
Jun 11

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Sprints at Grandview Speedway
Jun 12

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Sprints at Bridgeport Speedway
Jun 13

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Sprints at BAPS Motor Speedway
Jun 14

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Silver Crown at Williams Grove Speedway
Jun 15

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Sprints at Port Royal Speedway
Jun 16

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Sprints at Weedsport Speedway
Jun 25

6:00 pm
2019 Super DIRTcar Series | The BIG Show XI
Jun 28

5:30 pm
2019 USAC Silver Crown at Madison International Speedway
Jun 29

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Midgets at Route 66 Speedway
Jul 1

6:00 pm
2019 Super DIRTcar Series | Airborne Park Speedway
Jul 4

6:00 pm
2019 Super DIRTcar Series | Liberty 100
Jul 5

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Sprints at Knoxville Raceway
Jul 6

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Sprints at Knoxville Raceway
Jul 7

1:00 pm
2019 World RX of Sweden
Jul 9

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Midgets at Red Dirt Raceway
Jul 10

5:30 pm
2019 USAC Midgets at Solomon Valley Raceway
Jul 12

5:30 pm
2019 USAC Midgets at Jefferson County Speedway
Jul 13

5:30 pm
2019 USAC Midgets at Jefferson County Speedway
Jul 14

5:30 pm
2019 USAC Midgets at Sweet Springs Motorsports Complex
Jul 18

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Sprints at Gas City I-69 Speedway
Jul 18

6:00 pm
2019 Super DIRTcar Series | Battle of the Midway 100
Jul 19

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Sprints at Plymouth Speedway
Jul 20

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Sprints at Kokomo Speedway
Jul 21

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Sprints at Lawrenceburg Speedway
Jul 22

6:00 pm
2019 Super DIRTcar Series | Autodrome Drummond
Jul 23

6:00 pm
2019 Super DIRTcar Series | Autodrome Granby
Jul 24

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Sprints at Terre Haute Action Track
Jul 25

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Sprints at Lincoln Park Speedway
Jul 26

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Sprints at Bloomington, IN
Jul 27

5:30 pm
2019 USAC Sprints at Tri-State Speedway
Jul 28

6:30 pm
2019 Super DIRTcar Series | Hall of Fame 100
Jul 30

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Midgets at Grandview Speedway
Jul 31

10:00 am
2019 USAC Midgets at Action Track USA
Jul 31

6:00 pm
2019 Super DIRTcar Series | Eldora Dirt Derby
Aug 1

10:00 am
2019 USAC Pennsylvania Midget Week
Aug 2

10:00 am
2019 USAC Midgets at Linda's Speedway
Aug 3

10:00 am
2019 USAC Midgets at Lanco's Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway
Aug 4

1:00 pm
2019 World RX of Canada
Aug 10

10:00 am
2019 USAC Silver Crown at Salem Speedway Fueled by the Hoosier Lottery
Aug 17

10:00 am
2019 USAC Silver Crown at Illinois State Fairgrounds
Aug 18

6:00 pm
2019 Super DIRTcar Series | Utica-Rome Speedway
Aug 22

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Sprints at Kokomo Speedway
Aug 23

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Sprints at Kokomo Speedway
Aug 24

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Sprints at Kokomo Speedway
Aug 30

10:00 am
2019 USAC Sprints at Riverside International Speedway
Aug 31

10:00 am
2019 USAC Sprints at I-30 Speedway
Aug 31

6:00 pm
2019 Super DIRTcar Series | Mr DIRT Track USA
Sep 1

10:00 am
2019 USAC Silver Crown at DuQuoin State Fairgrounds
Sep 1

1:00 pm
2019 World RX of France
Sep 2

6:00 pm
2019 Super DIRTcar Series | Labor Day Double Play 100
Sep 4

10:00 am
2019 USAC Midgets at Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Sep 5

10:00 am
2019 USAC Midgets at Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Sep 6

6:00 pm
2019 Super DIRTcar Series | Autodrome Granby 2nd
Sep 7

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Silver Crown at Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis
Sep 13

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Sprints at Terre Haute Action Track
Sep 13

6:00 pm
2019 Super DIRTcar Series | Duel at the Demon 100
Sep 14

5:30 pm
2019 USAC Sprints at Tri-State Speedway
Sep 15

1:00 pm
2019 World RX of Latvia
Sep 26

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Sprints at Gas City I-69 Speedway
Sep 27

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Silver Crown - Sprints - Midgets at Eldora Speedway
Sep 27

6:00 pm
2019 Super DIRTcar Series | Utica Rome Speedway 2nd
Sep 28

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Silver Crown-Sprints-Midgets at Eldora Speedway
Sep 28

6:00 pm
2019 Super DIRTcar Series | Land of Legends Raceway
Oct 5

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Sprints at Lawrenceburg Speedway
Oct 9-13

6:00 pm
2019 Super DIRT Week XLVIII
Oct 11

4:30 pm
2019 USAC Sprints at Terre Haute Action Track
Oct 19

5:30 pm
2019 USAC Midgets at Tri-State Speedway
Nov 7

10:00 am
2019 USAC Sprints at Perris Auto Speedway
Nov 7-9

6:00 pm
2019 Super DIRTcar Finale at World of Outlaw Finals
Nov 8

10:00 am
2019 USAC Sprints at Perris Auto Speedway
Nov 9

10:00 am
2019 USAC Sprints at Perris Auto Speedway
Nov 15

10:00 am
2019 USAC Sprints at Arizona Speedway
Nov 16

10:00 am
2019 USAC Sprints at Arizona Speedway
Nov 20

10:00 am
2019 USAC Midgets at Placerville Speedway
Nov 21

10:00 am
2019 USAC Midgets at Placerville Speedway
Nov 23

10:00 am
2019 USAC Midgets at Bakersfield Speedway
Nov 28

10:00 am
2019 USAC Midgets at Ventura Raceway
Dec 1

1:00 pm
2019 World RX of South Africa

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On the flowsport website you can watch anything on any of the other sports genre's also. I bought the racing package and was able to watch some mma fights and bull riding.

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[QUOTE=Charles Nungester;508236]It says 150 year or 12.50 a month, I'll do feb and go from there.

It's creative advertising....It's 12.50 a month if you pay for the full year. If not it's 29.95 for a month. Trust me I did some research before I put the 150 down.

Do any of you fine folks know if you can chromecast it to your tv? With speedshiftTV it was easily done. Thanks for any input

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Originally Posted by flagboy55:
Do any of you fine folks know if you can chromecast it to your tv? With speedshiftTV it was easily done. Thanks for any input

It comes up in my Roku for direct streaming, I always just HDMI Speedshift so I never tried it.

I also direct stream Lucasoiltv to my Roku.

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[quote=RockinRy;508250]

Originally Posted by Charles Nungester:
It says 150 year or 12.50 a month, I'll do feb and go from there.

It's creative advertising....It's 12.50 a month if you pay for the full year. If not it's 29.95 for a month. Trust me I did some research before I put the 150 down.

Thanks for that. Got a decision to make in the next week then.

As a loudpedal subscriber my account switched over without issue. Streamed a bit of the East Bay mods via browser on FireTV. Seemed to work without issue.
So from this early early experience of FloSports A-OK.
Hopefully the increase traffic for the USAC streams will not be a problem (buffering).
An app like Lucas oil racing TV for Amazon fire TV be great addition.

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Someone please enlighten me as to what exactly Roku, FireTV, etc., is. To date all we've ever done is stream, either through the PC or through my wife's iPhone.

We're not technophobe's but ya'll are tossing around a lot of terms we're not familiar with.

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Originally Posted by ISF:
Someone please enlighten me as to what exactly Roku, FireTV, etc., is. To date all we've ever done is stream, either through the PC or through my wife's iPhone.

We're not technophobe's but ya'll are tossing around a lot of terms we're not familiar with.

https://www.amazon.com/Roku-Premiere...&keywords=roku

Just plug it in, hook up the cable and search for the FloSports app.

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So, if Loudpedal is now directing you to Flosports TV, the monthly cost to watch USAC races has basically tripled from last year. Correct?

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It was a 100 a year to watch it next day on LoudPedal and its a 150 a year to watch it Live on FloSports.

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Originally Posted by RockinRy:
It was a 100 a year to watch it next day on LoudPedal and its a 150 a year to watch it Live on FloSports.

Live and on-demand.

I used Chromecast with Speedshift without to many problems. I talked to someone with Flo Sports when I signed up and they told me there might be some problems with using Cromecast and he was right, there was problems getting it to come on. I also had an Apple TV to try, and it works fine. Actually the Apple TV recognized the Flo Sports ap and it makes watching the programming easier and so far my internet speed of 5mg has not been an issue where it sometimes caused issues with speedshift coming through the cromecast.

Watching tonight from work(shhh)on my iPhone and I’m impressed with the video quality. No buffering whatsoever.

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Is there a app for fire stick? I can’t find it.

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You Tube Video
Hello everyone!

Hope you're all staying warm!

We are excited to bring the USAC National Series to FloRacing.com We have a great group of people involved in these new USAC LIVE broadcasts. USAC Media's Sean Buckley and Tim Truex are heavily involved in the production. Sean will be our LIVE play by play commentator and Georgia Henneberry is returning as our LIVE pit reporter.

We kick it all off next Friday (Feb 8) with the NOS Energy Drink USAC National Midgets from Bubba Raceway Park in Ocala, Florida.

How to Watch: Download the FloSports App for FREE on Roku and Apple TV (4th generation). While inside the FloSports app, search "FloRacing," sign up, subscribe, and watch it LIVE! You can also download the FloSports app on your iPhone. You can also watch on your home computer through the FloRacing.com website.

Please follow us @floracing on Twitter and Instagram. Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/FloRacing.tv/

Keep up to date on everything USAC on Twitter and Instagram @usacnation Find USAC on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/usacracing/ For more information visit http://usacracing.com/

We will see all of you next week in Florida!

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Originally Posted by Chief Wahoo:
Is there a app for fire stick? I can’t find it.

Sadly no.

But it streamed ok via using a browser and going though Floracing website and enlarging the media screen to full screen.

Not as direct as using an app but it works / streams ok for me here in the UK.

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