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Basticle posted:So is Velocity / Motor Trend paying them more than they expect to earn from actual App subscribers in the US? I guess? I could go dig up the numbers but the WEC survey that was taken last year/published this winter showed that the average age of WEC demographic in the US skewed *ahem* older and a bit more moneyed than other regions, so they probably thought this was a move that wouldn't harm things too much. Having a cable deal is one thing but allowing that to completely nuke your own streaming product in the U.S. is a horrible, horrible decision.
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Cable dying is great but it's a double edged sword. Streaming services per sport run by the sport are expensive as gently caress. Just add up all the season passes and you'll easily end up spending like $400 EXTRA instead of just a regular cable subscription easily.
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Jun 12, 2018 23:05
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Wirth1000 posted:Cable dying is great but it's a double edged sword. Maybe streaming services will start to bundle up and start selling streaming rights to broadcasters...
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Jun 12, 2018 23:07
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one of the PS Vue packages has velocity, if you wanna grab it for a month. It's a pretty good service if you don't want cable.
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Wirth1000 posted:Cable dying is great but it's a double edged sword. the cheapest i can get cable where i live is 110 dollars a month because they force it into bundles. wec season pass is ~40 dollars a year. i don't watch anywhere near enough sports, or anything else, that i think i'd come anywhere close to the 1300 dollars i'd be paying yearly for cable.
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Jun 12, 2018 23:13
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Wirth1000 posted:Cable dying is great but it's a double edged sword. It adds up if you watch like every single sport, maybe, but you're usually also paying to have no ads, no blackouts, and tons of extra content on demand.
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Jun 12, 2018 23:18
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Wirth1000 posted:Cable dying is great but it's a double edged sword. Cable in the U.S. to get ESPN and other sports channels is minimum $45-50 a month, and while that usually includes a login to get access to streaming platforms, I pay for DAZN (which is in Japan, Canada and Austria at the moment I think) which is ~$15 a month for live and streaming of soccer, baseball, motorsports, and plenty more. It doesn't have every sport I want, or every racing series, but it has F1 (and is why the new F1 OTT service isn't offered in Japan right now) and enough of what I do watch regularly. like wicka said, unless you want to build your own ESPN out of full streaming services, it comes out much cheaper.
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Jun 12, 2018 23:25
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I want to build my own ESPN out of full streaming services. W-w-w-wwelpppp
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Jun 12, 2018 23:28
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Eurosport Player is £40 for a year and they have WEC as well as a bunch of other racing stuff.
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Jun 12, 2018 23:30
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use illegal streams ya idjits
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Jun 12, 2018 23:40
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Spectrum just started offering ala carte cable where you pick any 10 channels for $21.99 a month. 3 or 4 years ago I dropped cable and just have internet otherwise I'd consider it.
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njsykora posted:Eurosport Player is £40 for a year and they have WEC as well as a bunch of other racing stuff. And you can just buy a month of it for a few bucks too. Works fine via VPN.
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Basticle posted:Spectrum just started offering ala carte cable where you pick any 10 channels for $21.99 a month. 3 or 4 years ago I dropped cable and just have internet otherwise I'd consider it. Christ I wish Xfinity would do this NBCSN NESN ESPN1&2 FS1-3 CBSSN Velocity Science
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Cygni posted:use illegal streams ya idjits
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Jun 13, 2018 00:53
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I pay $35/mo for directvnow and it has velocity/owns
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Cygni posted:use illegal streams ya idjits Nah. Support things that are good and well priced. The WEC season pass is $50, and includes two Le Mans, that’s perfectly fine.
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harperdc posted:Nah. Support things that are good and well priced. The WEC season pass is $50, and includes two Le Mans, that’s perfectly fine. uhh did you miss the part where le mans is region blocked in the united states  like, i want to support them, they just won't fuckin let me
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DEEP STATE PLOT posted:uhh did you miss the part where le mans is region blocked in the united states to be fair, i'm in the us and just bought it through vpn
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MazeOfTzeentch posted:to be fair, i'm in the us and just bought it through vpn And now to see if the VPN doesn't get sniffed out. Would really suck for you guys. I'll unfortunately miss good section of the race due to work. I'll probably sleep but have the race on.
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DEEP STATE PLOT posted:uhh did you miss the part where le mans is region blocked in the united states Forgot to add *if available in your market. I’m not that dense.
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Not a great start for Ginetta. #5 stopped at the Forest Esses with an electrical gremlin on its out lap.
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harperdc posted:Forgot to add *if available in your market. I’m not that dense. considering the entire conversation was centered around finding alternative ways to watch the 24 hours of le mans since wec blocked the stream in the united states, i'd argue that you may in fact be that dense.
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Quali is live and it took less than 10 minutes for a Porsche to bin it.
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Is the 919 showcar doing any laps here this week?
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Jun 13, 2018 21:27
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Car 8 just had a BUNCH of laps deleted for excessive fuel usage
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Basticle posted:Is the 919 showcar doing any laps here this week? That would be more than a little tasteless. “Hey guys, sorry we took our ball and went home, leaving only one factory P1 team, but do you mind if we showboat a bit before the race we’re not racing in?”
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Jun 13, 2018 23:10
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That felt like a messy qualifying.
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drgitlin posted:That would be more than a little tasteless. “Hey guys, sorry we took our ball and went home, leaving only one factory P1 team, but do you mind if we showboat a bit before the race we’re not racing in?” How is that any different from the world tour theyr'e doing? Its not like they could do a run at Le Sarthe any other week of the year.
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Basticle posted:How is that any different from the world tour theyr'e doing? Its not like they could do a run at Le Sarthe any other week of the year. They’re not showing up at other WEC events, so I have no idea what you’re talking about.
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the ACO owns the track and is surely still pouting about how they ruined their own top class (again), so i doubt they would be interested in letting that happen
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Plus the last thing they want is someone going around the track in 3:05 or god forbid a sub-three minute lap. They tried to cap laptimes to 3:30 not so long ago, although that worked badly 
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drgitlin posted:Plus the last thing they want is someone going around the track in 3:05 or god forbid a sub-three minute lap. They tried to cap laptimes to 3:30 not so long ago, although that worked badly What do you mean, none of the GTE Pros has gotten even close to 3:30 yet! ...oh that was the target for LMP1? Ah. Uh. Huh. About that.
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As we know (or don't, probably) Le Mans will be live on the Velocity network in the U.S. this year. Turns out that later this year, the network will get rebranded to the Motor Trend Network. When I found this out I hopped over to the Motor Trend On Demand website and discovered something quite nice: Live Also, it seems as if Velocity/Motor Trend Network is aiming to be Speedvision 2.0. Before Motor Trend tookover the streaming website, Torque.tv at the time, they specifically stated this was their aim. So if you're wondering why Velocity has the rights to Le Mans, this is why.
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WindyMan posted:As we know (or don't, probably) Le Mans will be live on the Velocity network in the U.S. this year. Turns out that later this year, the network will get rebranded to the Motor Trend Network. When I found this out I hopped over to the Motor Trend On Demand website and discovered something quite nice: Have they finally added WEC replays to the site? Because they hadn’t last time I looked. 
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My friend told me last night that his dad calls him all the time saying "you gotta turn on Velocity, they're doing [something silly car related]" so they are apparently nailing it with their target demographic.
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I'm still laughing pretty hard that the 2018/2019 WEC rulebook basically guarantees Toyota a win every race weekend unless they gently caress up horribly and bin it, or their cars spontaneously combust. "All competitors and manufacturers that deliberately provided misinformation, tried to influence the EoT [Equivolence of Technology] process, or whose level of performance is higher than the expected result may be sanctioned with a penalty before, during, or after a race." Basically means that they expect the hybrid prototype to be much faster and if any of the conventional prototypes are closer than a certain interval per lap slower than hybrid, they will be penalized in-race with a stop and hold penalty, and/or penalty laps will be assessed at the end of the race.
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orange juche posted:I'm still laughing pretty hard that the 2018/2019 WEC rulebook basically guarantees Toyota a win every race weekend unless they gently caress up horribly and bin it, or their cars spontaneously combust. Again, this isn't entirely WEC's fault. Porsche withdrew from WEC after the period in which the ACO could unilaterally change the rules, meaning Toyota had a veto on what rules could and could not be changed and how much they could be changed by. That they changed at all staggers me, and suggests Toyota might actually be in this for more than just the super season.
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The race for the overall is won, if Toyota are reliable. Toyota have only run 2 trouble free cars at Le Mans, out of the 13 they've brought. There's still a race to be had here.
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