WWE Announcement |OT| Tonight's the night....
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Hasenfeffer
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Pretty dope I must say. Every few years I try to get back into wrestling for a month or two then come to my senses that it's still fucking awful. All the bonus original produced shit seems interesting, but classic PPV's and eventually classic shows of Raw and Nitro are going to be worth it. Finally I can watch all the Aldon Montoya 5-star matches!
Video highlights are up, Michael Bay dig is hilarious. and the stark difference in charisma between Austin and Cena's segments is startling.
http://www.wwe.com/videos/playlists/wwe-network-announcement-highlights
http://www.wwe.com/videos/playlists/wwe-network-announcement-highlights
Bluekaveli
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We'd all be dead right now had that happened.
Will we have access to the old WWF Live Wire, Confidential, Shotgun Saturday, Sunday Night Heat, Jakked/Metal, TNT, Prime Time, Black Saturday, Superstars of Wrestling, The Main Event, Prime Time, and All Stars?
digita1alchemy
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I'm in once I can watch old WCW Nitros. That's coming at some point, right?
billy beane
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Every WCW PPV? Please, take my money WWE.
BoboBrazil
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With this deal WWE will most likely put much less focus on the ppvs. It will become like another episode of Monday Night Raw(they already are for the most part). They don't have to make monthly events feel special if they won't be making any money off of them. This is a bad long term gamble if it doesn't pay off, because after getting all the ppvs free noone is going to go back to paying $60 for one. They are going to need 1 million+ subscribers to break even.
Dental Plan
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What's the first thing you are going to watch?
For me it's going to be Wrestlemania 3.
For me it's going to be Wrestlemania 3.
Mr. Luchador
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Worldwide release?
Nope, places like Canada and UK have to wait untill the end of 2014 or early 2015.
Mr. Luchador
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Dammit.
Not what I wanted to hear.
Soon enough I guess.
Not what I wanted to hear.
Soon enough I guess.
Nameless
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I share some of these concerns, but it would be incredibly stupid to shift focus away from one of the service's primary selling points. Quality PPVs will keep subscribers and attract new ones.
bone_and_sinew
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Ooh great question. Probably Wrestlemania 15
I suppose they will add shows over time, so to not put everything online all at once and appear the content remains stagnant every month.
BoboBrazil
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They will have to rotate content in and out. This doesn't have the benefit of a service like Netflix where new movies are always coming out. Much less WWE content is being made so once all the old stuff is out there it's pretty much done.
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So it's $120 a year for all the content and PPVs? I'm in.
Professor Beef
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They already have the smark audience who will buy everything, not to mention the countless other fans with money to burn. They'll be fine.
Corran Horn
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Well they got my money.
bean breath
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infinityBCRT
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Oh man, that's great. That shit absolutely ruined stuff like the Wrestlemania DVD set.
Do you know if they've worked to resolve music licensing issues as well? I know at some point they were even dubbing over the nWo music in Wrestlemania X8 re-releases. Seems like they do have the rights for the nWo music again as it's in WWE 2K14.
General Patton
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Haven't watched wrestling since about 2004, but will buy into this wholeheartedly. As soon as it makes it's way to Australia, that is.
Great price and looks like it'll be a wonderful service.
Great price and looks like it'll be a wonderful service.
The WWE video library consists of all of WWE (going back to its days as CWC and the WWWF), ECW (both Extreme and Eastern Championship Wrestling), WCW, the AWA, GCW, MCW, OVW, WCCW, Stampede Wrestlng, all of Jim Crockett Promotions, Smokey Mountain Wrestling
Here's an outline of the non-WWE/WWF/WWWF/CWC content owned:
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American Wrestling Association (1957-1991)
Georgia Championship Wrestling (1944-1985)
Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) (1994-2001) and its predecessor
Eastern Championship Wrestling (1992-1994)
Memphis Championship Wrestling (2000-2001)
Ohio Valley Wrestling (1998-2008)
Deep South Wrestling (2005-2007)
Florida Championship Wrestling (2007-2012)
NXT Wrestling (2012–Present)
Smoky Mountain Wrestling (1992-1995)
Stampede Wrestling (1948-1989)
Ultimate Pro Wrestling (1998-2007)
Global Wrestling Federation (1991-1994)
World Championship Wrestling (WCW)(1988-2001)
Jim Crockett Promotions (1931-1988) which by the end included
Eastern States Championship Wrestling (1945-1973)
Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling (1973-1988)
Central States Wrestling (c. early 1950s-1986)
Championship Wrestling from Florida (1961-1987)
Championship Wrestling from Georgia (1984-1985)
NWA Tri-State/Mid-South Wrestling/UWF (1950s-1987)
World Class Championship Wrestling (1966-1988)
Maple Leaf Wrestling (1930-1995)I'll probably just find a good looking Raw somewhere around '96 and start from there.
British Monsoon
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The draw of the old stuff is having instant access to a wealth of content, not saying "hey, I want to watch that episode of Mid-South where Ted DiBiase turns face against Flair", only to discover it got rotated out a few weeks back.
Honestly, that'd affect my long-term subscription to this service. I want them to go all out crazy with the legacy stuff - give me whole TV seasons of WCCW/Mid-South/CWF, handicam versions of MSG house shows, etc.
This is genuinely a brilliant deal for the amount of content, especially considering it includes all PPVs. I'm surprised, I expected at the very, very least $15 per month. Well done WWE, seriously.
The news that the logo won't be blurred out all over the place is fantastic too, it probably wasn't a big deal for most but digital blurring or whatever it's called just looks horrible and annoys me anywhere it's used.
The news that the logo won't be blurred out all over the place is fantastic too, it probably wasn't a big deal for most but digital blurring or whatever it's called just looks horrible and annoys me anywhere it's used.
davepoobond
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Why would they have to? They're the content owners.
Did they even say they would?
The point is having access to the whole archive I would think and then the weekly shows being added after a couple days or whatever.
Also are they going to stop selling the ppv events completely or are they having it in both ppv and in the app?
I could see the music being edited if they don't have the licences, but I hope if the network is successful for them then they'll gradually negotiate licencing deals and reupload unedited versions of each show as they do.
Eh, I don't know that there's much they can do about that. If they don't have the rights anymore, they can't use it, unless they pay for it all over again, and I doubt they will.
You will be able to watch WM XXX live, and probably watch it as an encore from the next day. That's when the RAW/SD encores are happening I think, the day after.
The ease with which this will allow me to watch their programming is going to get my money. Sure, I can find a way to watch a PPV without spending $60 and try to catch Raw and SD when I can, but if I miss a few, I lose interest and don't bother to catch back up. That's how they lost me when MNF began this season and haven't won me back, but if it's as simply as Netflix to catch up that's amazing.
Hope they support my Samsung Smart tv. I have my consoles but it'll be easier for the family to use that way.
Hope they support my Samsung Smart tv. I have my consoles but it'll be easier for the family to use that way.
rocketskates
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Sunny and Sable.
I'm in.
I'm in.
PS4 support?
I have a US PSN account. Wonder if I can sign up to this when it hits the US.
I'm a very casual wrestling viewer these days, like usually just Wrestlemania and maybe 5 or 6 Raw's at most a year as and when, but I'd sign up for this like a shot. Mainly for the old stuff, but hey if the latest episodes are interesting (and it doesn't look bad at the minute) then bonus.
All future PPV's being included in this is just.. crazy really. I'm sure I paid about £18 just for Wrestlemania this year.
I have a US PSN account. Wonder if I can sign up to this when it hits the US.
I'm a very casual wrestling viewer these days, like usually just Wrestlemania and maybe 5 or 6 Raw's at most a year as and when, but I'd sign up for this like a shot. Mainly for the old stuff, but hey if the latest episodes are interesting (and it doesn't look bad at the minute) then bonus.
All future PPV's being included in this is just.. crazy really. I'm sure I paid about £18 just for Wrestlemania this year.
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