No Sebring 12 Hours Coverage on Speed, Goodbye Lee Diffey, Calvin Fish, Dorsey Schroeder |
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No Sebring 12 Hours Coverage on Speed, Goodbye Lee Diffey, Calvin Fish, Dorsey Schroeder |
Vysoc |
Feb 27 2011, 07:09 AM
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Vysoc Group: Members Posts: 586 Joined: 27-August 09 From: Young Harris, Georgia Member No.: 10,737 Region Association: South East States |
It really did'nt dawn on me until I actually read an article in Auto World about what ALMS had done. They struck a deal with ABC, I assumed ESPN or ESPN2 would be covering a good portion of the race. They have decided that long duration coverage of races is "a thing of the past" and they will tape portions of the race and then build it into a 2 hour show to be shown at a later date.
I love to go to Sebring but when in 2008 we saw the undercover cops jumping out of cars to arrest underage drinking and all of the other stuff that we saw ...enough. I took a 2 year hiatus from the madness in Green Park and we had a great party in the garage with Speed Channel and enjoyed the telecast. It is now over unless you want to try the live feed on ESPN3.com on your computer...live streaming, how good can that be? My friend that goes to the races with me was diagnosed with stage 4 Lung Cancer at 50, we are now going to try and go up for a couple of hours on Saturday, but it is really going to be difficult. BUMMER. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/bs.gif) Vysoc |
naro914 |
Mar 18 2011, 03:34 PM
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Losing my mind... Group: Members Posts: 2,476 Joined: 26-May 06 From: Charlotte, NC Member No.: 6,073 Region Association: South East States |
For those of us that can't be there, this new telecast deal really sucks. Even if you ARE there with an RV or something, you probably won't be able to have the feed on your TV.
ESPN3 is not available for everyone. Your internet provider has to offer it as part of their package. I spend all of my day on my computer, the last thing I want to do is spend my enjoyment time sitting at my desk watching a race on a 15" monitor, while my 60" high def TV sits dark. I tried hooking up my laptop to my TV to stream to it. The quality is absolutely horrendous. Its so bad, you can't read the names scrolling across the top of the screen. and, it freezes up every 30 seconds or so to 'buffer'. Totally unwatchable. It's a real shame, ALMS is/was my favorite series. But now, i can't watch any of it (oh, wait, I can watch a 90 minute - including commercials - 'special' showing me the highlights on Sunday....gimme a break) |
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