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My coverage was not good last night. It would buffer for at least the first lap of every heat race and buffered for the majority of the first half of the A. I tried both feeds and had issues with both. I was extremely dissapointed with what I saw. How was other people's coverage? I sent them an email last night after the race asking if I was the only one having issues but haven't heard back from them. Trying to figure out if I need to do something different for tonight. 

The quality isn't what it has been, for sure. Humming noises and a grainy picture ealry on, but seemed to get better. Same with the buffering.....didn't need to do much after a few times. But this isn't the quality they usually provide.

I gave up on the cushion 2 years ago...nothing but problems nearly every time.

I see things haven’t changed...how do they still operate??

Dirtvision seems pretty good. Minimal issues. 

I had the same problem but I though mine was because of the process I needed to take to view it on my TV. Apparently, LG smart Tv's do not support flash, so I had to download an app to the TV, and the same app to my phone to cast the feed. Not many issues in heats, at the start of each heat when there wer multiple cars in the frame, freeze for a few seconds then it would jump back in. Features were bad, once a lap it would freeze for both the B and A. I thought it was due to the cast deal I had to use from my phone, but apparently it was not. I am not getting it again tonight.

I have gotten 3 or 4 shows so far this year.  The first time they had an outage that affected a large number of customers and I emailed them.  They comped me another night of racing and that one went well as did another weekly show and last weekends All Star night.

Meanwhile I've got two nights of Dirtvision's $39 for 30 day deal so I'll be watching the Ironman the next two nights.  It didn't make sense to auto renew on Nationals week so I emailed them and canceled the renewal.  I'll probably subscribe again on August 17 for Grand Forks and that takes me through the northern swing including Gold Cup and winds up the 30 days with Placerville. 

The Nationals is such a big event that I'm not surprised they would have to beef up their capacity and there might be some buffering.  I'll keep an eye on the reports on here about broadcast quality and make a decision on next week later in the week.

Regardless of an occasiional bug we have the best access to racing we've ever had.  I know that's not much consolation if a person spends $229 on the eight day package and spends half that time watching that little circular buffering icon. 

Stan Meissner

You're not the only one. Lots of chatter on Twitter last night that it was bad. I listen (yeah I know not the same, but it's something) on the free KNIA/KRLS app

KNIA/KRLS haad trouble there station to. The anouncers on the track speekers said all you got to do is buy a ticket easy for them to say.

I've listened to KNIA all season long with no problems until the main event last night, during which the web site did nothing but buffer the entire time.  But then I have that problem during both the 360 and 410 Nationals every year.  I've not heard a main event from a single night of either event for at least the last three years due to the same buffering problem and it does no good to try to re-sign in either.  (My download speed is consistently in the 56 - 60 mb/sec. range.)