2017 All Access
 

When All Access was announced early this year, I was as excited as I've ever been. FINALLY, I was going to be able to watch Stock and SS from my couch. At its inception, I was a huge fan. The coverage was excellent and literally the next best thing to actually sitting in the stands. Every weekend, I was glued to the race.

Something happened around Indy. I don't know what, but since then, it's been nothing but webcams and shoddy service. The last two national events have been in my home division. Unfortunately, I couldn't make the races themselves due to work commitments. I figured I'd get my fix via All Access. I was wrong. We've had nothing but webcams, delays, and early cut-offs. I've now missed chunks of the first Friday session of Stock at the last two races because nobody bothered to turn the camera on.

Sad to say this, but I won't be renewing my subscription for next year until I see via other users that the service has improved.

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Ditto!!

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Iwill not be renewing either unless they get their stuff together!! This morning the camera crews were 16 minutes late getting started & I dont want to see just the back end of cars going down the track I want to see the wheelstands from the front!!!! They started off great like you say but INDY is where it all went south, biggest race of the year & we couldnt even watch class & I'm guessing NHRA doesnt care!!

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I will renew it is great way to enjoy the races ,the coverage will improve next year as this is a very huge learning curve for the employees that are doing the filming they were new to this and i have met them they are getting better at every track as there are new problems at each one. The cost is very cheap for one years of entertainment . I suspect cheaper than the Starbucks people buy each day .LOL:)

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I think they must be using a 5.00 webcam to film with, when I go fullscreen on my HDTV the picture is horrible

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I truly hope you are right Don!!!

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If you guys renew let me know how it goes. I may renew once that get going but the coverage starting midseason till now sucks compared to what we had initially. I heard they had gone way over budget and that's why the coverage was not as good the second half of the season.

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Over budget?? At $95 per customer I would think this is another cash cow for the Glendora gang!
I will not be renewing either until I have seen the coverage improve.

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Around $5.00 per race is nothing compared to any other entertainment ,Very inexpensive and worth it :)

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It use to be free on ESPN3.Just no audio,but if you were a member of NHRA you could get the audio cast.

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Don, the filming employees have nothing to do with quality, NHRA's half-*** use of sub-par internet video providers are to blame, just check out NHRA Div3 TV, or watch hundreds of other online broadcasts, All-Access sucks more often than not.

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The first 10 races or so was excellent, but as the season went on it for to the point I didn't even watch it anymore. I wouldn't consider it a cash cow either at $99 for the season when you consider that is about same price you can expect to pay for one PPV boxing event. When you consider sportsman racers are probably their only market and the cost of a filming crew, probably not a very high profit margin.

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I agree with you guys. Coverage has gone to crap! And the top end camera guy can't follow the cars to save his life. Do they hire kids during the sportsman coverage and get the real crew in when the pros come out? Very disappointed. I'll just go back and tell NHRA to hire me, I'll take care of it. 😊

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Rob, you have my vote!!!! Like most everyone I'm disappointed with the coverage... First couple of ads said "See every pass, for every class". Well that worked, until the first race that had qualifying on Thursday... No coverage... Then after enough people complaining, we got the audio cast.. We had that before.... I do agree that it's not the most expensive entertainment I have spent money on at $99 a year... I'm not sure about next year... Will wait and see....

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Indy was around the time they started laying everyone off, hence the reduced ND service. I was told that NHRA had a huge deficit to make up because they spent way too much money on the media outlets. For instance, they had budgeted (hoped) that 100k people would subscribe to all access, they got 10k. That's not a successful business model. I think that's why the all access coverage has gotten significantly weaker than it was in the beginning.

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I paid the $95 and just checked yesterday's archive to watch Stock and Super Stock and only see Top Alcohol on there. That is frustrating because Friday is the best day to watch. Also, kind of disappointed that there has been no mention of the 45th Annual PA Dutch Classic in the last 3 National Dragsters and safe to assume there won't be. Can PC Richard & Son just purchase NHRA already ;)

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Got my vote Rob! I love watching your stuff! Great view of the launch and scoreboard on every pair.

I think I got spoiled early in the year with how good it really was. There was room for improvement even then (ET/RT display, for example), but I loved it.

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It's not like they can't do it - Division #3 has had a YouTube channel for a few years that has been excellent, with the exception of the bandwidth/cellular problems at certain venues which could be fixed with the satellite up-link they're using for the network broadcasts.

I just don't understand why they (NHRA) decided to produce these broadcasts "in-house", if that is in fact what they did. There are a number of production companies, whose business expertise is this type of coverage, that were ready on day #1 to bring us a first-class product. I'd gladly sit through a few minutes of commercials every hour if it meant that I'd get to see more Sportsman coverage. I'm already paying my cable company for 200+ channels I NEVER watch, so a few bucks a month extra for programming I DO like would be awesome!

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Well, maybe it is just me and my computer, but ALL Access does not look very good today. Livestream, just does not get it. If they offer the service next year, is this what we can expect?

Gary Merrick
3522 Stock

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Looks really crappy today on my computer too.

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Not working at all for me right now!

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I'm all for just giving us audiocast and live timing like our membership dues were suppose to include. Decreasing the coverage to make up for lower than anticipated participation is a great way to lose the few All Access subscribers they had this year...sometimes you gotta shake your head "C'mon Man!"

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Same here. This thing is junk

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Mine is back on. Thank You Lord.