How many here subscribe to Flo to watch DC United?

Discussion in 'D.C. United' started by golazo_usa, Mar 27, 2019.

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Did you subscribe to FloFC to watch DC United?

  1. Yes

    19.3%
  2. No

    80.7%
  1. golazo_usa

    golazo_usa Member

    Oct 2, 1999
    Just curious to gauge the amount of subscribers they have.While this is not a true sampling, it is good to see just how many from a subset of hard core fans have given in.
     
  2. PSURoss

    PSURoss Member+

    Sep 30, 2002
    DC Burbs
  3. UnitedBorn

    UnitedBorn Member+

    Dec 7, 2015
    301
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  4. Bootsy Collins

    Bootsy Collins Player of the Year

    Oct 18, 2004
    Capitol Hill
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  5. shawn12011

    shawn12011 Member+

    Jun 15, 2001
    Reisterstown, MD
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  6. Winoman

    Winoman Drinkin' Wine Spo-De-O-De!

    Jul 26, 2000
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  7. Q*bert Jones III

    Q*bert Jones III The People's Poet

    Feb 12, 2005
    Woodstock, NY
    Club:
    DC United
    #7 Q*bert Jones III, Mar 27, 2019
    Last edited: Mar 27, 2019
    Not me, although I'm out of market(so it wouldn't make sense in any case.)

    I think your numbers aren't going to be totally representative. This forum skews older and dumber than average. In the other thread, some idiot is raising his fist at the sky and complaining about HD, which has been the legally mandated broadcast minimum for over a decade.

    Having said that, I posted some back of the envelope calculations in the other thread that Flo would need 20,000 subscribers annually to break even. I'd be completely shocked if they got 2,000. The number could be closer to 200! So there's got to be something going on somewhere that we don't know about.
     
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  8. griffin1108

    griffin1108 BigSoccer Supporter

    Dec 5, 2003
    Virginia
    I resemble that remark.:) But I do subscribe -- although as an STH, there probably isn't much reason for me to do t hat.
     
  9. shawn12011

    shawn12011 Member+

    Jun 15, 2001
    Reisterstown, MD
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I resemble that remark. :D


    HD does not impress me.
     
  10. D C B 2 3

    D C B 2 3 Member+

    Nov 18, 2007
    VA
    Not me...I'm holding out. (For what I don't know, just holding out.)
     
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  11. fatbastard

    fatbastard Member+

    Aug 1, 2003
    Lincoln (ish), Va
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Have you ventured outside lately? We might be older, I'll give you that :D
    You should see the idiots he gets to argue with him ;)
    Especially since he's never made that actual argument and you're way over here letting it bug you. I officially declare him the winner.

    Now, can we all just get along and wait for the miracle of something really above-average coming from the Flo deal, since it advertises an enhanced experience and not just being able to watch a game in near-real-time. When such a thing happens or starts to happen regularly I am assuming all the younger smarter people will come in here or the two other not-tV threads and brag about what it is and those of us more skeptical can assess it and maybe change our minds.

    I guess we'll all learn with the upcoming April 6/13th games whether other options are still available or they've successfully cracked down on all the game-watching that's been going on in their geo-fenced yard without their service. Our next two games are actually being broadcast, one even on real honest non-subscription television :eek:
     
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  12. Abner Ravenwood

    Jul 21, 2004
    Last seen in Nepal
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I didn't - but I did end up subscribing to ESPN+.
     
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  13. Q*bert Jones III

    Q*bert Jones III The People's Poet

    Feb 12, 2005
    Woodstock, NY
    Club:
    DC United
    :thumbsdown::thumbsdown::thumbsdown:
     
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  14. fatbastard

    fatbastard Member+

    Aug 1, 2003
    Lincoln (ish), Va
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I think that time he was just trolling you - and that's still not the argument you said he made, but I guess it's close enough for a soccer bulletin board :)

    To me, sports (or anything live, really) track weirdly while watching them on HD, there's like an unnatural aspect to the movement of the picture - it's hard to describe but sometimes I notice that too much and have to stop watching for a while.
    I don't hate HD, I just don't think it makes sports all that much better, and sometimes does the opposite. Maybe that's just the cable systems I've watched HD sports on; bars and friends' houses - it's not mine, I have SD service.
     
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  15. shawn12011

    shawn12011 Member+

    Jun 15, 2001
    Reisterstown, MD
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I just moved about a month ago. At my new place I now have HD. I lived with SD for 22 years at my old place. I now have access to both SD and HD channels. Frankly my eyes see little if any discernible difference between my HD and SD channels. Certainly not enough difference for me to cry "woah is me, the game is not in HD!" I completely understand the difference in technology but if my eyes cannot tell the difference why should I care. The only real difference is the SD channels do not fill up my screen while the HD channels do. That is it. No trolling here just telling you my eyes can't see a difference.
     
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  16. Bootsy Collins

    Bootsy Collins Player of the Year

    Oct 18, 2004
    Capitol Hill
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    That's really interesting to me. I don't have the best near-field eyesight in the world -- I can't read the newspaper without reading glasses anymore -- and still, the difference between SD and HD (even at just 720p) looks significant to me.

    I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the apparent magnitudes of differences between SD and various HD formats vary from person to person, since I've already encountered similar sorts of things with sound: some people seem quite sensitive to heavy use of dynamic range compression in audio, while other people seem to not notice any difference when A/B'ing the same song with and without compression.

    For some reason, my reflex reaction is that visual data is different; but thinking about it, I guess there isn't any reason why it should be.
     
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  17. griffin1108

    griffin1108 BigSoccer Supporter

    Dec 5, 2003
    Virginia
    Like Bootsy, I notice a substantial difference with HD as well, even the 720p variety. I have two Vizio 55" TVs, one is about 4 years old, the other a year and a half -- neither was special when new. Even so, I find SD pictures unwatchable and will avoid them if at all possible. As others have said, YMMV. As for sound, I'm so fcuking old that I can barely hear, let alone notice differences in dynamic range.
     
  18. shawn12011

    shawn12011 Member+

    Jun 15, 2001
    Reisterstown, MD
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States

    I have three different pairs of glasses. One for driving, one for TV, one for reading.


    Yet I still play soccer without any glasses, lol.
     
  19. DangerMouse37

    DangerMouse37 Member+

    Jan 22, 2004
    WDC / Barra
    No Flo. No way.
     
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  20. GumbyG

    GumbyG Member+

    DC United
    Mar 22, 2007
    Chesapeake, VA
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I've got ESPN+. Flo made the fatal mistake of excluding me from their blackout zone. Now if only I could get Fox to exclude me from their blackout zone for non-paying customers, I'd be all set.
     
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  21. roadkit

    roadkit Greetings from the Fringe of Obscurity

    Jul 2, 2003
    Fornax Cluster
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    #21 roadkit, Mar 31, 2019
    Last edited: Mar 31, 2019
    If you are somehow watching HD on a SD television, you won't notice a difference.

    If you have an HD set and can't tell the difference, you really need to have your eyes checked.
     
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  22. MagpieFan

    MagpieFan Member+

    Apr 25, 2004
    Back in DC
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Crazy.

    Next thing you'll be expecting people to get new TVs just for color.
     
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  23. MattR

    MattR Member+

    Jun 14, 2003
    Reston
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I'm in the socio-economic class that allowed me to buy a little $15 VOIP gadget and 1G internet so I could stop paying $150 to FiOS for directTV, and I now have youtubeTV for $35 a month. I bought FLO so I could watch DC United. YoutubeTV doesn't have NewsChannel8, so I missed many of our fine away performances at the end of last season. Wait, there weren't any?

    I'll pay whatever they want. They know that. I'm hooked on a good DC team.
     
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  24. Dizi

    Dizi Member

    Feb 13, 2015
    Club:
    DC United
    currently have no cable & hadnt been following the flo controversy too carefully until season was about to start...my conclusion after a bit of research was to test espn+ even tho i live in the blackout zone

    after a few weeks i'm happy with the espn deal: i get to watch highlights and replays of dcu while having live access to every other team for pennies

    wish i could watch dc easily at home but i don't plan on subscribing to flo
     
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  25. stangspritzring

    stangspritzring Member+

    Apr 3, 2006
    NorMD
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    No plans on subscribing to Flo, and I'm one of those with the multihundredmegabits and the HDs and the streams...but still old.

    I have trust issues after hit or miss ESPN+ performance.
     
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