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Topic Started: Jan 30 2013, 08:44 AM (7,348 Views)
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Yeah, I think that this WWE Network, assuming it is successful, will cause a drastic change in WWE's business model. Like I already said, I do expect to see a dip in PPV buyrates, but that'll make that up if they get enough subscribers to the WWE network. I think $10/month is a very fair price just for PPVs alone, so this could really cut into the illegal streaming channels.

I'm not sure how this will affect TV ratings since the current system is really messed up anyway. I mean, do they even take into account the people that DVR the show? But if I'm reading correct, the Raw and SD! shows (along with all others) will be added to the network immediately after they originally air. If that's the case, I will most likely just delete my DVR settings and watch directly from the Network. The only thing that would cause me to reconsider is if the fast forward feature isn't easy to use. I still want to fast forward through shows.

At this point, I am 99% sure I'll subscribe to the Network. Just the PPVs alone is worth it. This means I can go to work, avoid all the spoilers, come home and immediately watch PPVs on Monday mornings. That'll be great. And since this Network goes into place the night after Elimination Chamber, I could hopefully be able to watch the EC spoiler free.
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WWE officials announced during a conference call that they will be giving viewers a free one week trial on some platforms to sample the WWE Network. The primary platform mentioned for the trial was the WWE app. Vince McMahon noted later during the conference call that the one week trial would not be during a pay-per-view week.

Powell's POV: The network launches the day after Elimination Chamber, so he and WWE executive George Barrios may have had their wires crossed regarding the free trial. By the way, clever fans have been asking whether they can get away with not purchasing the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view live with the hope that it will be available the next day. WWE has not made that clear, but keep in mind that the network won't launch until after the following night's Raw, just over 24 hours after the pay-per-view has concluded.


Two things here:

First, the one week free trial would be great depending on where the free trial is offered. I am 99% sure I'll be purchasing the first 6 month subscription (and hope the price doesn't go up after the first 6 month commitment). So if the free trial is only offered on WWE App, then I probably will just skip it since I have no interest in trying to watching WWE programming on my phone. And since this apparently isn't on Wii U, if the free trial is on Playstation or Xbox then it does me no goo anyway.

Secondly, the portion I underlined. That is from the editor and isn't news, just his opinion/comments. I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding the WWE press release or he is. Because I'm sure I read the Network launches 9 AM monday morning, but Live content won't start until after Raw. So I'm thinking the Elimination Chamber PPV should be available on Monday morning. I guess WWE could make us wait a bit, but that'd kind of slow the momentum of the Network since the absolute biggest selling point is the PPVs for $10/month
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How does the WWE Network affects someone like Tara/Victoria?
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720P?!?!?!

1080P or bust.
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UFC President Dana White stated during a media luncheon that the WWE Network devalues the product and his company will not follow suit. "It's ridiculous," White said. "I hate to sound like I'm attacking the WWE or de-value what they did because Vince McMahon, say whatever you want and he's always smashing us and talking shit about us, but I will tell you this – I was watching WWE I was a little kid and Vince was the commentator in WWE.

"This guy has been kicking ass, breaking rules and doing things that people said he couldn’t do over and over and over again. Now I'm older I don't get the whole thing, it doesn't work for me, but what he's able to do, the ratings he's able to pull and the things he's done and when I look at his model and he's basically taking everything in and de-valued it. Saying everything we do is worth $10. That doesn't make sense to me.

"If he pulls in 2 million subscribers, he's crushing it. So it's a risky move, it's a crazy move, but Vince has been doing risky, crazy s—t since the beginning of time. If anybody can do it, maybe Vince can do it." Read the full story at FOXSports.com


If I'm reading this right, Dana is just saying that the $10 price tag is ridiculous, not the idea of launching a (online) network, correct? I think $10/month is ridiculously cheap as well, but this is really great for fans. And WWE is going to benefit a lot more than a $50/month price tag. I've read guesses that it would take 1 million subscribers for WWE to make the same profit they are making at $50-$70 PPVs. I think they'll have A LOT easier time attracting those 1 million subscribers at $10 than anything higher.

Also, I am still very cautiously leery about WWE's price. $10/month is great and I absolutely plan to buy on launch day. But I'm curious to find out if that's an introductory price and the price may go up within a year or something like that. If it stays at $10/month permanently, then I think WWE will have success here.
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Every PPV on the network.

http://www.wwe.com/inside/every-pay-per-view-on-wwe-network-26179147
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- We noted before that WWE began in-house testing for the WWE Network this past week. One person who has access to the Network said:

"It's literally the best thing ever. It's totally like Netflix, very easy to use. If porn wasn't free on the 'Net this would be the greatest thing on the 'Net ever."
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It sounds like it's going to be a great service and I look forward to using it. But I am very wary of the $10 price tag. I worry that this is going to be an introductory price to get people signed onto the network and then they'll jump the price up to $50 within a year. Of course, if that's the case I'd just cancel and continue streaming PPVs. But I'm willing to pay what I feel is a fair price for WWE PPVs. And the other stuff is cool too, but I'm mostly buying the PPV access and the old Raw/Nitro footage (assuming those archives are up as well).
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WWE issued a statement to KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh confirming that the 1999 Over The Edge pay-per-view will offer an edited form on WWE Network. "WWE Network will be airing the 1999 Over The Edge pay-per-view," reads the statement. "However, portions of the event will be edited out of respect for Owen Hart." Hart fell to his death during the event. Read more at Pittsburgh.cbslocal.com.


This is an understandable edit considering what happened at the PPV. I am somewhat surprised they are airing it at all.
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that PPV must be one of the most sought after ones on youtube. perhaps that factored into that decision.
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The WWE Hall of Fame ceremony will air on WWE Network on April 5. The announcement was made by Triple H during an interview with Michael Cole that was shown to the live crowd at the WWE Main Event taping in Ontario, California.

This is not going to entice buys, I don't think. HOF really isn't a big selling point. But it is nice for people that enjoy watching the full HOF presentation, that don't particularly care for the edited versions that air on TV, and don't want to wait for the WrestleMania DVD to release. :tu:
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The 2014 Elimination Chamber pay-per-view will not be available on the WWE Network when it launches. WWE told James Caldwell of PWTorch.com that Sunday's event will not be available on the network until 30 days after it airs.

This had better only be because Elimination Chamber airs right before the official launch day and WWE doesn't want people trying to avoid buying their last PPV and basically getting it for free a few hours later. This better not be a sign that all WWE PPVs be unavailable for 30 days. Because that really throws a "maybe I'll just wait..." into my plans. I work most Sunday nights. My plan was to go to work, avoid spoilers, come home, watch the PPVs on the WWE Network, and not really miss a thing. If this isn't how it's going to work then...idk. But, of course, WWE has repeatedly stated "starting with WrestleMania30" so that's the PPV that'll give us our answers. Of course, I'll have purchased the WWE Network by then! :-/

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Dish Network is not advertising the WWE Elimination Chamber pay-per-view event and it appears that they do not intend to offer the event to their subscribers. Dot Net reader J Kelly passed along quotes from a chat he had with a Dish Network employee. "Thank you for your patience," the Dish Network employee wrote. "Upon checking, Dish had some disagreement with the program." The employee also noted that they are trying to resolve the issue. No official statement has been made by WWE or Dish Network regarding the matter.

Powell's POV: DirecTV threatened to pull WWE pay-per-view events shortly after the WWE Network announcement was made in Las Vegas last month. However, DirecTV is advertising Elimination Chamber for Sunday. Dish Network has not publicly commented on the WWE Network, but this is likely a sign of the company's objection to it. Obviously, WWE would prefer to have the pay-per-views available on all platforms, but this could give Dish Network subscribers more incentive to order WWE Network when it launches a week from today.

The fact that neither company has addressed the matter publicly has me wondering if there is some possibility that whatever issues there are can be resolved before Sunday. After all, you would think that WWE would want to spread the word to Dish Network subscribers about other options such as the WWE online version of the pay-per-view or additional platforms such as Playstation and Xbox consoles. For that matter, one would also think that Dish Network would like to get their side of the story out there.

Well, this is certainly interesting. I wouldn't think that cable/satellite providers would have liked the WWE Network since it seems obvious that the PPV buyrate is fixing to drop. Why spend that much money on 1 PPV when you can get 6 (and a lot more) for the exact same price? It'll be interesting to see if WWE loses their PPV deals over this Network. I'm not even sure if they legally can, since don't the two sides have a contract?
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More than likely Cable companies won't renew WWE's PPV deal when the time comes I would think.

So they're offering a one week free trial when the Network launches, I wonder if it's on a first come first serve basis.
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I wonder if it is a 100% free trial or if their are limits. Would they limit the amount of content you could view? Would they only let you view certain things and then ask you to register to gain full access? I'm sure we are all familiar with these types of tricks that a lot of companies who offer "free trials" are guilty of. I'm not saying WWE is bad for possibly doing the same. It's good to give customers a sample and make them want more. Or maybe WWE is giving the full free experience and are going to be cool like that.
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You know what's missing? Their documentaries and "Best Of" videos.
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Are WWE Films and DVDs available on the WWE Network as well? I think I thought that I had once maybe read somewhere that WWE would possibly be streaming their WWE Films movies through the Network, maybe. I'm not sure if I actually read that or I only think I thought I read that. You know? But it would be great to be able to instantly stream the WWE videos I want. I can get most of them now on Netflix, but a lot of them are not instant streaming.
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WWE issued the following statement to Prowrestling.net concerning DISH network: "WWE is pleased that the majority of our cable and satellite Pay-Per-View distributors are giving our fans an option to purchase traditional Pay-Per-Views as we prepare to launch WWE Network on Monday, February 24. Unfortunately, DISH will not be doing so. We hope DISH will reconsider for this Sunday’s Elimination Chamber Pay-Per-View event and especially for WrestleMania 30."

Shore's Slant: Jason Powell and I were surprised today in the Member's exclusive Dot Net Weekly audio show that WWE had not addressed the DISH controversy. For those who may not have heard, DISH is refusing to carry WWE pay-per-views, purportedly because of the WWE Network.

DISH is dropping WWE PPVs? I'm sure this won't last long. I think there are enough wrestling fans that will call Dish and get them to continue offering WWE PPVs. But I'm sure it's alarming for WWE. If the WWE Network doesn't start off strong and they are losing business, how long will they go before dropping it? That's assuming it's not profitable, though. At $10/month, I think they have a good chance of being very profitable and showing that they don't need traditional PPV anymore.

At any rate, expect a lot of "Hey DISH Network subscribers" comments on Raw. Monday is launch day, after all.
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DISH Network issued a terse statement to Zap2It.com concerning their decision to drop the WWE Elimination Chamber PPV. The statement reads "WWE has chosen to launch a 24/7 online network, without its TV partners, that includes all of its pay-per-view events. As WWE enters the increasingly fragmented media world by themselves, DISH will continue to consider the value of WWE pay-per-view on an event by event basis.

"DISH continues to provide a variety of WWE programming, including 'WWE Raw' on USA, 'WWE Smackdown' on Syfy, 'WWE Main Event' on Ion and 'WWE Total Divas" on E!. At this time, WWE pay-per-view events are not available on DISH." You can read more at http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2014/02/dish-network-drops-wwe-pay-per-views-starting-with-elimination-chamber.html.

DISH hyping that they still show Raw, SmackDown, etc seems irrelevant. It's not like Dish could stop showing those shows unless they dropped those particular stations, which isn't going to happen.

Elimination Chamber isn't really a big money PPV. I'm sure some Dish Network customers will be upset, but not enough to really cause an issue. If the boycott is still going through WrestleMania, then I could see this becoming a bigger issue. But WWE will have a good sense on how popular their WWE Network is within the USA by then and will probably be more willing to either make a deal with Dish or stand strong against Dish. It's going to be interesting to follow.
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Companies like Dish are slowly using their power as the way people view media changes. Content creators now have ways to put out the content themselves and take all of the profits. The pendulum is changing to where Dish is going to need the content more than the content needs the platform.

They should make a deal because it's found money for them, but they don't want to send the message to more valuable PPV properties like the UFC and boxing that they'll accept you taking a chunk of their profits. Eventually they're going to be cut out entirely. Dish is just trying to slow the process.
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It's weird that I have to make a new account instead of just using my WWE Shop account.
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It is strange, isn't it? I have never purchased anything from WWE.com. I never even knew you could make an account for the site until I registered just recently. Since all my billing info is already on WWEShop, I would think they'd just use that. WWE being unnecessarily complicated here.
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WWE.com is down. Let's hope they are just doing final updates to launch the WWE Network and it's not a case of the site going down right as the launch is about to happen. That would be embarrassing.

Also, 2 hours before launch? My body is ready!! :jump:
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Either WWE is getting A LOT of traffic right now or they are really botching this Network launch. I've been trying to sign up for the network for over 20 minutes now. Pages are loading extremely slow. When they do load, they often don't load the full page and I have to refresh. Sometimes I get that "page isn't loading" page. I really hope this is a sign of a huge wave of traffic and not a sign that the Network is unreliable. I got as far as the "choose your billing method", but the page didn't even load fully so I couldn't continue. I'm disappointed because I wanted to say I was a "day one subscriber". I'm gonna give it an hour or two and try again, but I have to work tonight so I'll be needing to go to sleep soon. :(
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Just some notes on the WWE Network launch:

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- WWE released a video message from WWE CEO Vince McMahon regarding the launch of WWE Network. McMahon hyped the Network as "truly a television experience like none other." [LINK: McMahon's message HERE]

- WWE's website experienced system-side technical issues upon the Network launch. We've received reports of WWE's updated App crashing, customer service wait times attempting to complete the billing process, and WWE's website starting and stopping during the sign-up process.

- The "Terms of Service" for WWE's website was amended on Sunday (February 23) to include TOS for the Network. Included were a few interesting items:

* Registration and Payment for WWE Network: "All subscriptions to WWE Network are for a minimum of six months and select gift subscriptions are for twelve months. Accordingly, your subscription period begins on the date on which you make your first payment for your paid subscription to WWE Network and ends six months later. If you received a twelve month gift subscription, your subscription period begins on the date on which the subscription was purchased and ends twelve months later.

"If you sign up for a Trial Subscription and at the end of your Trial Subscription your subscription is converted into a paid subscription, your paid subscription will be treated as starting on the date on which your subscription was converted to a paid subscription."

* Automatic Renewal Policy: "If your subscription is set to automatically renew, then we will automatically renew your subscription for a six-month period on the date that your initial subscription expires. We will continue to automatically renew your subscription in six-month increments unless you cancel your subscription prior to the end of the applicable six-month period."

"If we discontinue or significantly alter the WWE Network service that you have purchased with automatic renewal, then we (i) will notify you by email, at the email address you provide to us during registration, (ii) may provide you with information about similar or new Services, and (iii) reserve the right to cancel the applicable service."

* Free Trials. "It is very important to understand that you will not receive a notice from us that your Trial Subscription has ended or that your paid subscription has begun. IF YOU DO NOT WANT YOUR TRIAL SUBSCRIPTION CONVERTED INTO A PAID SUBSCRIPTION, YOU MUST CANCEL YOUR SERVICE BEFORE THE END OF YOUR TRIAL SUBSCRIPTION BY CALLING (866) 308-5684 OR BY CANCELING IN THE BILLING INFORMATION SECTION OF YOUR WWE NETWORK ACCOUNT."

* Access to Services: Although your WWE Network subscription is accessible on a number of devices, your use is limited to one (1) WWE Network stream on one (1) device at any given time. IF YOU CIRCUMVENT OR ATTEMPT TO CIRCUMVENT ANY OF THE USE RESTRICTIONS IN THESE TERMS, YOUR SUBSCRIPTION WILL BE SUBJECT TO IMMEDIATE TERMINATION AND YOU MAY BE SUBJECT TO LEGAL ACTION. SHARING OF LOGIN INFORMATION, INCLUDING PASSWORDS, IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN."
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WWE is experiencing issues with the signup process for the WWE Network. The customer support team told Dot Net reader Chris McCann that heavy traffic has caused issues with the web version.

Of course, you know WWE is going to spin this and say that fans showed up in droves causing the service to experience issues. I have been trying off and on since launch to sign up, but I'm getting nowhere. This is a rough start for the Network, but not necessarily a bad sign. If WWE is getting more traffic than they anticipated, then that's a good thing for the Network.

I am curious to see what day one figures WWE gives out tonight on Raw. I think it would be a impossible for WWE to get 1 million subscribers on day 1, especially since it's only offered in the USA. But if they get 100,000 subscribers on day 1, that would be a successful launch, yeah?
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WWE thanked online visitors for their patience with the WWE Network signup process delays. "Please be patient if you're ordering WWE Network as we're experiencing extremely high demand," reads a statement on WWE.com. "Your order will be processed as soon as possible."
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I tried several multiple times for the past 3 hours. I did manage to get to the sign up page twice. I filled out the information and this was the message I got both times. I've got to work tonight, so it's time for me to go to sleep. Guess WWE doesn't really want my money today after all. :whatever:
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Yeah, I keep getting a "Video not available" error.
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Oh, you actually got to register?
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