OK I finally have confirmation that we will be filming Freddy & Co. against Tigres tonight in the Dallas Cup final. The game will not be broadcast on FSW due to sponsorship stuff that I will explain later. The video will be available on www.dallascup.com and will be $25 for the VHS and $40 for the DVD. It will be a 2-disc set and I believe it is the first available video of Freddy Adu in action. The quality will be great and it will be a great buy.
Haha, it's hard to say no but unfortunately we need to sell as many copies as possible to make us feel better about not being able to broadcast live on FSW.
Can you give more specifics as to what is on the two discs? Is it just the one game? I ask because an entire game fits on one DVD. Are there highlights from the other US U17 and U16 games? Random Dallas Cup highlights? Curiously yours - and interested nonetheless -
Re: Re: Dallas Cup Final Video Because people with DVD players have more money, and VHS owners usually don't.
Re: Re: Dallas Cup Final Video then explain to me why dvd's are always more expenside than the vhs versions of anything? ahh, stogey23 already did...never mind, what a waste of a post.
Re: Re: Re: Dallas Cup Final Video I usually find that DVDs are cheaper if there is a DVD and VHS version of the same movie.
Re: Re: Re: Dallas Cup Final Video Absolutely. Most of us are trailer trash: Elvis on velvet, a killer Marlboro habit, Bud in the fridge, and a satellite dish pointed in the wrong direction. I read that unless you get an upscale DVD player, audio CDs can sound real tinny. True or no?
Re: Re: Re: Re: Dallas Cup Final Video That's not a satellite dish, it's your dog's water bowl. By the way, your dog is still on the roof!
Don't ask me why the DVD's cost more. I'm just the messanger. I do know from watching a previous game that the DVD has everything organized so if you just want to see a Freddy highlight then click on a Freddy highlight. Plus you are paying for better quality and things like that.
I don't want to pay to see the US lose to Tigres. Any chance of throwing the entire set of US games on a dvd? That will convince me to spend some money.
You can also order the game between the US and CD Guadalajara if you don't want to see the Tigres matchup. It was a very entertaining match even though they did lose. The US came very close to winning it.
Here's your update: I just talked to the guy in charge of the project and he said that we have sold 20 copies so far of the video. He also said that there have been about 600-700 hits on the site since this weekend and the overseas users have had a difficult time trying to order their copies. All good signs so far.
Just the game. The Final has play-by-play. I forget the guy's name who did it but I think he does pbp for the dallas indoor team. If you want to see Freddy highlights you can use the menu to skip ahead to see what you want. It's worth it.
Just the final or does it also have the game against Newcastle? If it's just one game, why two discs?
$30 is pretty much my price limit on these types of things and I don't deal in VHS anymore so count me out. It took me *months* to cough up the $30 for the "Our Way" DVD - to me $30 is still high... I kept looking for six months on eBay to no avail and finally broke down this week... As for the DVD vs VHS - why is one more expensive - question, remember when CDs first came out, CDs were more expensive than tapes or albums. Newer technology is more expensive - at least initially... The only justification I could have thought of for the $40 price is that they didn't feel they were going to sell many. Fine, charge a higher fee for those that want it. But when they charge $25 for the VHS version, obviously there are other forces at work (as someone else mentioned, "people are willing to pay more for a DVD" being what i think the driving force is).
20 copies? Doesn't sound like enough to me to come close to breaking even. Do they have a target number they need to sell to have it be considered a success?
Well 20 copies in only a couple of days is pretty good for a tournament that .00000001% of the world's population has ever heard of. I'll talk to the guy and see if we can get a sale going and drop a few bucks.
I certainly don't mean to sound like I'm kvetching here about price. To me, though, the $30 limit is self-imposed. I don't know if there is a DVD of one soccer game worth $40 to me - even the ManU Real game. Now if it was both games of the Real/ManU, hmmmm....