Looks at cable price for Wrestlemania

[Vice honcho room temperature]

59.99? I mean I know some places don't have high speed internet but this is NJ outside NYC. I can see the stadium from down the block? Who buys it on PPV anymore?

[Spider2024]

Apr 6, 2019 16:37:32 GMT -5 Vice honcho room temperature said:

Who buys it on PPV anymore?

That's what I've been wondering for the longest time. Maybe it's the 'bar and restaurant' option for places that want to air it for their patrons?

[Paul]

Apr 6, 2019 16:37:32 GMT -5 Vice honcho room temperature said:

59.99? I mean I know some places don't have high speed internet but this is NJ outside NYC. I can see the stadium from down the block? Who buys it on PPV anymore?

People who want to watch it on TV and not a phone or computer. Not everyone has that stuff or the internet speed to do it.

[Error]

It's a set price no matter where you are and I think this maybe $10 more than 28 which was the last I think I bought. I think WWE will get about $10-15 of that which is part of why the price is so high. This is for those that don't have the speeds needed to stream or understand it, bars and business that want to show pay a much higher price I'm sure.

[Malcolm]

Apr 6, 2019 17:14:41 GMT -5 Paul said:

Apr 6, 2019 16:37:32 GMT -5 Vice honcho room temperature said:

59.99? I mean I know some places don't have high speed internet but this is NJ outside NYC. I can see the stadium from down the block? Who buys it on PPV anymore?

People who want to watch it on TV and not a phone or computer. Not everyone has that stuff or the internet speed to do it.

Well, there are streaming players for TV.

Still, cable and satellite are some peoples' only options and some people don't even have THOSE options, believe it or not in this day and age.

Then there are some ISPs with strict data caps...

[schma]

Some places don't get the network or can only access it through expensive cable packages (like here in Canada) so it's possible this would be their one time a year splurge. There is also the lack of access to high speed internet, particularly in rural areas. I live in one of the most populated regions of my nation so it's easy to forget that not everyone here has internet capable of streaming anything decently but that has been a recurring problem for a fair portion of our population. Strangely enough I could probably go see it at my local cinema for far cheaper.

[Vice honcho room temperature]

I get that but who in nj or a place that has high speed internet paying 60?

[mrbananagrabber]

My wife was telling me earlier about a guy she knows who is buying it. She told him about the Network and he said he knew about it but couldn’t be bothered with the hassle of signing up for it.

So, those sorts of people as well.

[thecrusherwi]

Yeah I’m not sure. My and my wife’s parents both live in the sticks in rural Wisconsin and they each have internet fast enough to run the network and a device that would put the network on their TV.

But if people are buying it, they may as well keep offering it.

[Deleted]

Apr 6, 2019 18:59:06 GMT -5 mrbananagrabber said:

My wife was telling me earlier about a guy she knows who is buying it. She told him about the Network and he said he knew about it but couldn’t be bothered with the hassle of signing up for it.

So, those sorts of people as well.

I had a coworker back when it first launch who would do this. He claimed it was easier than remembering to cancel and them charging him for months.

I didn't want to point out that it'd take 6 more months before it would cost him more, during which he would have had access to backlog and 15 new ppvs, he seemed set in his ways.

[Deleted]

Apr 6, 2019 21:16:13 GMT -5 thecrusherwi said:

Yeah I’m not sure. My and my wife’s parents both live in the sticks in rural Wisconsin and they each have internet fast enough to run the network and a device that would put the network on their TV.

But if people are buying it, they may as well keep offering it.

yeah it would be stupid of them to cut out the option...I know some of the neighboring towns and the country area here in rural southern IL only has low speed DSL and the cable internet here provided in town (Mediacom) has a data cap so I could see how it would be an option for a group of people to get together and throw in to watch it

[WoodStoner1]

My reaction: JUST 59.99?

[JCBaggee]

Bars and restaurants don't pay the $60 fee, they have to pay a different fee. They're supposed to pay enough to account for everyone in the restaurant who could possibly be watching it (or at least this is how it was explained to me by a former restaurant manager when our bartender asked why we didn't order UFC events like other bars in town)

[J. Hova]

Bars, restaurants, essentially any commercial enterprise pays per seat in their establishment for any commercial PPV. It's not like 60/per seat, but you pay x per seat at a discounted rate.

The only people who should be paying for it at this point are people who don't have access to high speed internet. Hopefully at some point, we in the US will get to treating broadband as a utility rather than a luxury.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

$65 here in Canada. f*** that noise. It’s the Network all the way. It’s a channel on TV and off I go.