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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2014 0:28:16 GMT -5
I wonder how many peg legs are going in storage when this launches.
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Post by deancubed on Jan 9, 2014 0:33:56 GMT -5
If I were them I'd be ringing up Stone Cold and/or Jericho and getting them to switch from doing a podcast to a nightly talk show. I bet Jericho would be awesome as a late night host. EDIT: In fact, why not just produce "But I'm Chris Jericho" Season 2 EDIT 2: In fact, why not get the rights to HBK's hunting show and air that? EDIT 3: In fact, why not put all WWE Films releases like The Call on there too?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2014 0:35:11 GMT -5
During a few of the videos showing the interface, they did have "For All Mankind - The Life & Career of Mick Foley" as a selection. So it seems like DVD documentaries will be added as well (Which means the ones currently on Netflix will probably be deleted by next month) They said during the presentation "all wwe home video releases will be present" Even Hard Knocks ?
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Post by Big Bad Brad on Jan 9, 2014 0:53:32 GMT -5
All I got to say is WWE and I actually enjoyed the press conference myself.
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Jan 9, 2014 1:06:56 GMT -5
I'm going to have to use my laptop with a chromecast, but I'm definitely going to order the Network. I am hoping the Network will become available for my Panasonic Blu-ray player as Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu Plus are.
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Post by Steveweiser on Jan 9, 2014 2:03:21 GMT -5
Expected that the UK would have to wait longer. I'm guessing once Sky sign their new deal, that's when it will be available. At least it should be the same content.
Hopefully it's something like £7.99 a month on a six month contract.
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Post by Chad1m on Jan 9, 2014 2:18:57 GMT -5
I don't know if this had been addressed yet, but this is an excerpt from the AP article about the Network.
"More than 1,500 hours of archived programming, that includes the WCW and ECW video libraries, will air uncut and uncensored, so references to the World Wrestling Federation, old logos, or matches involving former wrestler Chris Benoit or former announcer Jesse Ventura will no longer be scrubbed from history."
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Post by khali on Jan 9, 2014 2:42:58 GMT -5
If they need a million people to break even, they might be in trouble. Think about it. Just in US buy rates alone, Wrestlemania rarely, if ever, tops one million buys. That's true, but a lot of people could be enticed here (and many already are, judging by the reaction here) by looking at the numbers. $120 gets you everything for the year, apparently. That's PPVs, archives and new original stuff. Just buying the PPVs alone, $120 gets you, what, two of them? It could surprise a lot of people how many people sign up for this. You're right, there is a point there with how attractive it looks that it could draw a lot of people in. I'm just not quite sure that number could be a million. You have to wonder if they would have been better off at like $12 or $15, which is still a good deal but gives a little more breathing room on the number of people they need.
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Post by turkeysandwich on Jan 9, 2014 2:55:10 GMT -5
I don't know if this had been addressed yet, but this is an excerpt from the AP article about the Network. "More than 1,500 hours of archived programming, that includes the WCW and ECW video libraries, will air uncut and uncensored, so references to the World Wrestling Federation, old logos, or matches involving former wrestler Chris Benoit or former announcer Jesse Ventura will no longer be scrubbed from history." I realize it hasn't been much of a problem in recent years, but I actually happier to hear that Jesse's commentating will be included. While editing out Benoit can be annoying as far as the flow goes when watching an old broadcast, but it is 10 times more annoying when Gorilla, or Vince, or Schiavone are doing all the talking filled with minutes of silence where they edited Jesse out, it makes the whole thing unwatachable.
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Post by thelonewolf527 on Jan 9, 2014 4:52:14 GMT -5
I have to say I'm very annoyed that the Xbox One, which is supposed to be the console with all the apps, doesn't get support at launch considering it's the only console HD console I have hooked up to my tv (I can't do more than 1 at a time). Meaning I'd have to swap plugs everytime I wanted to watch the Network. I guess for the first few months I won't be using this for anything but pay-per-views.
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Post by audiencewatching on Jan 9, 2014 5:42:18 GMT -5
I'm unhappy its not coming to the UK at launch but I understand they probably need to test the waters and ensure their network can handle the load.
Can't wait to use it though.
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Post by GEOLINK on Jan 9, 2014 6:03:46 GMT -5
I don't know if this had been addressed yet, but this is an excerpt from the AP article about the Network. "More than 1,500 hours of archived programming, that includes the WCW and ECW video libraries, will air uncut and uncensored, so references to the World Wrestling Federation, old logos, or matches involving former wrestler Chris Benoit or former announcer Jesse Ventura will no longer be scrubbed from history." I still wanna find out if they're going to do the freeze frame for chair shots and b&w for blood crap still.
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Jan 9, 2014 6:14:16 GMT -5
I don't know if this had been addressed yet, but this is an excerpt from the AP article about the Network. "More than 1,500 hours of archived programming, that includes the WCW and ECW video libraries, will air uncut and uncensored, so references to the World Wrestling Federation, old logos, or matches involving former wrestler Chris Benoit or former announcer Jesse Ventura will no longer be scrubbed from history." I still wanna find out if they're going to do the freeze frame for chair shots and b&w for blood crap still. Considering what they said at the press conference itself, that's highly unlikely.
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Post by KobashiChop on Jan 9, 2014 6:28:30 GMT -5
This had better hurry the f*** up to the UK.
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Post by GEOLINK on Jan 9, 2014 6:33:16 GMT -5
WWE Network... great time to be an American.
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Post by 543Y2J on Jan 9, 2014 7:34:35 GMT -5
I wonder how often they will put up old episodes/other stuff from the vault, they have that much that they could easily put them in week by week. Like for example they put in March 2007 Raw and SD episodes one week, then put in April 2007 Raw and SD episodes the week after. Even with that process they won't get everything onto the network for ages due to how much archive episodes they have.
I hope they don't overhaul YT again though, there are currently tons of old episodes on it and if they don't have them on the network all at once that will be the only way to view some/most of them.
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Post by Steveweiser on Jan 9, 2014 7:47:59 GMT -5
This had better hurry the f*** up to the UK. I'm thinking late autumn/early winter, with the new Sky/whoever deal deciding when that will be.
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Post by Raskovnik on Jan 9, 2014 8:16:28 GMT -5
I'm definitely going to buy this, but not right away.
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Post by CM Dazz on Jan 9, 2014 8:20:22 GMT -5
I'm seriously considering this since WM is included now. I hook my laptop up to the TV every now & then, so I'm actually considering just picking up a cheap computer tower with HDMI outputs to have connected all the time if I go through with it.
Edit: I was in the shower & missed it, but apparently Fox Chicago had a story about the network on their morning news a little while ago. That's excellent news for WWE.
The best part though is I thought it might be a difficult sell to the wife. Nope...
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Post by crowwreak was WRONG on Jan 9, 2014 8:25:36 GMT -5
If I wasn't on a one year protest of not giving them any money after the atrocious non-ending to a certain PPV, and I had Fibre optic instead of AOHell 1Mb/s broadband, I'd consider this.
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