Just playing it straight and don't mean to insult anyone. This is pretty long and I mean no disrespect.
Hero Cards took up 1.5 laps of a two lap qualifying session, Why not show these before qualifying ever takes place and in one of the down times. After hot-laps, Between heats and consi, Between consi and feature.
Blaring music over the announcer when they were pushing off for heat races, couldn't hear the announcer , Ozzie? give lineups, who was great, goofed a few times but knew it and tried to get it right with the names etc.
The flag-stand cam was whack all night, the flashing yellow light made it like it could never focus and quite honestly The announcer tells us were going green and halfway, For selling a DVD or future video that stuff is all fine but you really can't follow any racing with it. Sometimes these aux cams were left on for a couple laps where nobody could follow anything. Like I said for a video or DVD these cams catching action or a wreck from a different angle is great, For trying to watch a live race on a 13 second lap. TERRIBLE.
The Main Top of the grandstand cam went in and out from good quality to dark and sometimes very grainy in the feed, HOWEVER, We could follow and for the most part see who was battling whom and in what position cars were in. It seems like there is a dark spot at the track entering turn 3 and the cam seemed to have trouble finding focus and got dark only to recover half way down the front straight.
I don't think a streaming short track even will ever be a Nascar multi camera type deal, One you got 13 second laps and jumping cams only confuses the viewer vs a 2.5 mile track and four cams all following the same group of cars. It just doesn't work well.
People purchase to * WATCH THE RACE* and the way to watch a race is follow the top four or five cars. keep track of the racing between them. If someone is making great strides and passing a lot of cars from way back, we keep a eye on them but never lose the fact that a battle is raging for the lead or second while Racer X is coming from 14th to fourth.
I want to be able to purchase and watch the racing, the qualifying, the hot laps. That is all, Thats the entertainment and competition Im buying. The extras, gadgets, music, It really ISN'T a compliment. The racing is why people go to the track, Why people would buy the feeds.
The only add on to following the actual racing is the interviews before, between and after the racing, Those are great but there was a lot of problems with that last night. Keep trying
I got froze or booted about five times times, had some problems logging back on sometimes it was by normal log on and pretty quick, other times I had to used the secure login. Got froze four laps from the end and 40 seconds later got back on to see the last lap. Ok, I'll deal with it, Hope it improves with two nights to go.
I'll purchase tonight and tomorrow on this posting, that your working on it and want to make it better. I could for the most part see most of the racing going on last night. It wasn't a quality I would normally pay for though. Honestly, I seen a whole feature Iphone or Ipad video posted 20 minutes after the feature that was easier to follow and kept track of the top five the whole race, Sure, no closeups or showing the elbows working in the cars but it was good.
Chuck, respectably responding, I know all are good people and are trying. Im sure its as aggravating when having problems as it is for us to watch it or not when their happening, However, We have several options. I want to be able to purchase and watch USAC. Keep working on it. Thanks!
