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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Jan 28, 2007 17:00:53 GMT -5
For some reason a while ago I can't find scrambled PPV's any more it makes me sad.
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Post by dorf on Jan 28, 2007 17:11:41 GMT -5
...so do I. It's all because of the digital TV stuff and "On Demand" deal.
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Cranjis McBasketball
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jan 28, 2007 17:11:58 GMT -5
I used to watch 'em all the time on the old C-Band dish....for free!!! Then you had to pay a $1 to get codes to get everything free.....then it they changed the codes too often for it to be worth it.....so I started watching them in Spanish.....then I had to actually pay for them, now I never see em.
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Post by seanwalsh on Jan 28, 2007 17:12:35 GMT -5
Yeah, those were the days. Then again, that's how I found out Owen died.
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Post by #Classic Hi-Definition X on Jan 28, 2007 17:12:50 GMT -5
I kinda miss them too. I saw a lot of PPVs from 2000 to 2004 this way.
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Post by Hiroshi Hase on Jan 28, 2007 17:15:28 GMT -5
I sorely miss them too, now I just either get a live free stream of a PPV that's not worth ordering like a Raw or SD only PPV (mostly Raw,IMO).
Or if it's really good and I don't feel like paying, I just go to a tape trader and get the event off of them.
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Post by Shy Guy on Jan 28, 2007 17:16:38 GMT -5
Then again, that's how I found out Owen died. same
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Cranjis McBasketball
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jan 28, 2007 17:18:29 GMT -5
I kinda miss them too. I saw a lot of PPVs from 2000 to 2004 this way. Really? I stopped getting 'em around WrestleMania 9, I believe was the last free, in English PPV I saw.....
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Hiroshi Hase
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Post by Hiroshi Hase on Jan 28, 2007 17:20:03 GMT -5
The last bootleg I got was the Wrestlemania 22 PPV, after that it just flaked out.
There was a guy in my area selling one a few months back, should've bought it damn.
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wwerules60
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Post by wwerules60 on Jan 28, 2007 17:23:19 GMT -5
I remember wondering who lifted the briefcase. But no one knew anyway
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Post by Dean-o on Jan 28, 2007 17:44:31 GMT -5
Once I found out about the wonderful way of "listening" to the PPV, with minimal picture, I ended up saving the fam a ton of money in the mid 90's. Those were the days...
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pezsoup
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Post by pezsoup on Jan 28, 2007 17:44:34 GMT -5
I miss scramblevision. You couldn't hardly see a thing but the sound was perfect so you knew what was going on. I discovered this in the late 80s.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2007 17:45:58 GMT -5
With scrambled wrestling in the WWE, you can imagine that there is good workrate in the match you're watching.
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Post by Big Hurt on Jan 28, 2007 17:47:33 GMT -5
With our cable box and our old TV, there used to be away to adjust the picture where I could watch the PPV in black and white with minimal jumping. Miss those days as well.
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Post by smokinvokoun on Jan 28, 2007 17:52:41 GMT -5
I once tryed to watch the 98 Royal Rumble and WCW Uncesoured 98 scrambled. So i remember when The Undertaker's casket was set on fire.
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Post by dirtydickraines on Jan 28, 2007 17:58:27 GMT -5
I love how we are using WWE PPV's as a code name for porn.
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Post by skskillz on Jan 28, 2007 18:06:16 GMT -5
My parents bought me WrestleMania VIII on PPV. After that, I wanted to order every WWF PPV, to which my parents said no. Then I found the magical world of scrambled porn wrestling PPV's, and from 1992-2003, that's how I watched them. It was like listening to the PPV on the radio. Of course, we ended up getting a cable box in 2003 and can't do that anymore.
Good times.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Jan 28, 2007 22:09:25 GMT -5
I love how we are using WWE PPV's as a code name for porn. Well since it was the WWE current section I figured talking about PPV's was better. Besides I've got a computer where the porn cup overflowith.
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Post by texaswhopper on Jan 28, 2007 22:17:47 GMT -5
The days of scrambled style movie channels are long over. I remember watching the scrambled WWF pay per views on channel 99. I can listen too you know. I didn't need clear sight. Cinemax started with a fuzz style scramble that didn't hurt too much but then they moved to the dreaded scramble that was all over the place. Sometimes you couldn't tell a boob from an elbow.
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Post by Voldemar H. "Brak" Guerta on Jan 28, 2007 22:22:54 GMT -5
I love how we are using WWE PPV's as a code name for porn. Scrambled porn is overrated. It was all about the "Free Preview Nights".
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