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Post by heffer111 on Aug 27, 2007 12:03:12 GMT -5
The sound would usually come pretty clear, and the picture would be really bad, but every 5 seconds it would be clear kind of..... then PPV went digital and all was lost.
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Mr. Mediocre
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Post by Mr. Mediocre on Aug 27, 2007 12:04:17 GMT -5
I did for WCW pay-per-views. That's how I learned Hogan was the third man...through static.
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Post by MGH on Aug 27, 2007 12:05:06 GMT -5
I did in 98-99 until around Mania that year where I ordered all of them for 3 years. It was just ... fun. Clear as day commentary, and you could make the shapes out enough to see what's going on. It was just cool.
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Post by Black Hammer Rocks the AssWhip on Aug 27, 2007 12:08:45 GMT -5
Royal Rumble '98 when Kane burnt the casket with 'Taker inside.
Funny thing was, the night of Survivor Series '01...midway through the show, we got the show. I don't know if it was a problem with the service or what, but we got from the Hardyz/Dudleyz cage match on. Freakin' sweet.
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Dean-o
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Post by Dean-o on Aug 27, 2007 12:11:34 GMT -5
Thats what I did from, oh 1994 to 2000 or so. I only had basic cable at the time, so instead of getting the purchase screen I got the sound but a messed up picture. I loved it.
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Post by kwydjebo on Aug 27, 2007 12:12:50 GMT -5
AH yes, for those events I couldn't afford to order with friends.....I think I did that for the Bret Hart/Daveyboy match (Summerslam???) in the UK card....the one where the PPV commercials showed all the Hart family and acted like a family divided as if the loser was going to get killed or something. (Helen Hart (RIP) with her Linda McMahon Acting Prowess wailing about how the family was torn asunder)
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Post by akkountent on Aug 27, 2007 12:15:45 GMT -5
That would be me also. My parents had the big satellite when I was growing up and the PPV came in somewhat clearly - not snow, but the figures were wavey and different colors like it was more scrambled. Back then, the satellite providers actually gave you the first 10-15 minutes of the PPV for free; I remember watching pretty much the whole DiBiase/Razor opening match from Summerslam '93 before it scrambled at the end. Sometimes, if you timed it just right, you could flip off of the channel and then back on right at the exact moment the PPV was to go scrambled and you could get it for free - don't know how it worked, but it worked a few times. I remember receiving Bash at the Beach '95 (one of the worst PPV's in history, IMO) for free as well as Slamboree '96, I believe.
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Post by DeuceDominoMark on Aug 27, 2007 12:21:08 GMT -5
I did for WCW pay-per-views. That's how I learned Hogan was the third man...through static. LoL! Same here, I kinda was able to see the formation of the new World order!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2007 12:23:17 GMT -5
Yup, I watched a bunch of those In Your House PPVs that way.
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Post by The Peoples Elbow on Aug 27, 2007 12:48:24 GMT -5
I use to do that all the time, until I moved out and got my own place. Then, never again. Now I order RR and WM each year, and SS if it's good enough (which last night's wasn't, sadly).
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Aug 27, 2007 12:52:23 GMT -5
I would but I don't seem to get that any more... just a blue screen.
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Post by marvelocity on Aug 27, 2007 12:57:05 GMT -5
I used to watch all of them that way! Sadly, that's how I learned Owen Hart died.
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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Aug 27, 2007 13:01:04 GMT -5
I still remember "watching" Hogan vs. Warrior on the scrambled PPV channel.
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Ass Dan
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Post by Ass Dan on Aug 27, 2007 13:02:35 GMT -5
I figured out how to watch PPVs like that when I was 8. That stopped when they went digital.
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Post by rko on Aug 27, 2007 13:05:56 GMT -5
i pretty watched the whole of the attitude era like that, including raw cos of lack of sky sports, but then uncle ted gave us tnt for free and i was stuck with dubya c dubya from bout 99 till its death.
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Post by Hiroshi Hase on Aug 27, 2007 13:06:52 GMT -5
I did that for WCW Souled Out 2000 and Royal Rumble 2000, but the audio was clear so I stayed with it the whole way through. Ah good times indeed.
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Post by Paul Servo on Aug 27, 2007 13:12:13 GMT -5
Always did that. The PPV where Undertaker "died" leading into the Underfaker storyline was actually cooler through the scrambled picture. The commentary combined with what I thought was going on was cooler production values than they actually did
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Post by Arthur Digby Stamp on Aug 27, 2007 13:21:43 GMT -5
I did that for Starrcade 96.
And several other...more adult....programs.
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Post by willywonka666 on Aug 27, 2007 13:38:40 GMT -5
Tried that at my Uncle's for the Wrestlemania 2 replay, listened to a couple minutes of the George Steele/Randy Savage match
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Post by sexualvanilla on Aug 27, 2007 15:01:46 GMT -5
I hadn't thought about it in a long time but yea, I did way back in the day. Great times, even though it pissed my sister off since I'd use up our only television to watch scrambled wrestling
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