artDDP Posted March 9, 2015 Report Posted March 9, 2015 A bit cheaper on stubhub, playa Yeah, I saw that lol. Quote
PhilTLL Posted March 9, 2015 Report Posted March 9, 2015 Full? With the Sherri speech? In all its rambling glory! Still a riotous, fascinating, weirdly touching classic. And to top it off, she punctuates it with variations on "You paid your money, you got your ticket, now shut up and listen to what we have to say!" They should play that clip between every inductee at every ceremony. On a somewhat related note, it's odd but not surprising that quite a few of the male workers in these fairly-recent HOF crowds are still around, but literally none of the women. Quote
flyonthewall2983 Posted March 10, 2015 Report Posted March 10, 2015 I just realized I haven't watched a whole lot of these. Booker T's speech and induction from Stevie Ray (feel stupid for saying this here, but I never would have guessed they were actual brothers) was cool to watch in the context of just having seen that 24/7 special. I'm on 2012 now, and JBL's induction of Ron Simmons was actually thrilling to watch. I wish I could say the same thing of his broadcasting. Quote
Johnny Sorrow Posted March 10, 2015 Report Posted March 10, 2015 I just upgraded to iPhone 6 and the network won't play anything on it. Anyone else have this going on? Quote
flyonthewall2983 Posted March 11, 2015 Report Posted March 11, 2015 Here's an odd one for you, I tried watching it on my Sony BDP-S5100, and next thing I knew all the video apps gone. Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, everything, gone. Quote
sek69 Posted March 11, 2015 Report Posted March 11, 2015 I know on my Roku streaming stick I wasn't getting any new content until I checked for an update to the system software, I guess it was blocking the app from updating until that was done. Quote
Johnny Sorrow Posted March 11, 2015 Report Posted March 11, 2015 I'm a dope. I wasn't logged in on my new phone. Quote
shoe Posted March 11, 2015 Report Posted March 11, 2015 I'm a dope. I wasn't logged in on my new phone. I was thinking that might be the problem when we were talking about it. I was like Johnny can't be that unsound with tech. Quote
sek69 Posted March 11, 2015 Report Posted March 11, 2015 Just noticed they skipped Raw #178 (9/30/96) on the recent batch of uploads. Looking at the results there doesn't seem to be any content related reasons why they would bypass it. Quote
goc Posted March 11, 2015 Report Posted March 11, 2015 There rarely seems to be any rhyme or reason to them skipping episodes in their weekly TV section. Do they not know how much that pisses off the completist portion of their audience? Especially when we know they HAVE the footage. Quote
El-P Posted March 11, 2015 Report Posted March 11, 2015 Seems like the Network is amazingly poorly put together. Uploading RAW episodes *in order* doesn't seem like a huge task. Quote
jushin muta liger Posted March 12, 2015 Report Posted March 12, 2015 I just realized I haven't watched a whole lot of these. Booker T's speech and induction from Stevie Ray (feel stupid for saying this here, but I never would have guessed they were actual brothers) was cool to watch in the context of just having seen that 24/7 special. I'm on 2012 now, and JBL's induction of Ron Simmons was actually thrilling to watch. I wish I could say the same thing of his broadcasting. I legit thought that Stevie Ray and Booker T were not brothers either until I saw the 24 show on Booker T. I almost wished they put out a DVD set of him. Doesn't have to be the monster 3 DVD set but filling up 2 DVDs of his Global, WCW and WWE stuff wouldn't be hard task. Quote
iamthedoctor Posted March 13, 2015 Report Posted March 13, 2015 Is Wrestlemania 1 & 2 edited? Reason I ask is the run time for Wrestlemania 1 is stated as 136 mins. Quote
Grimmas Posted March 13, 2015 Report Posted March 13, 2015 Is Wrestlemania 1 & 2 edited? Reason I ask is the run time for Wrestlemania 1 is stated as 136 mins. Watch it and find out? You can easily look up the results and see what is missing. Quote
PeteF3 Posted March 14, 2015 Report Posted March 14, 2015 136 minutes may well be right. 1 is not a long show at all. Quote
artDDP Posted March 14, 2015 Report Posted March 14, 2015 Every version I've seen has been around that time. I think all the matches are full but the stuff between has been clipped. That or the WWF wasn't thinking about three-hour broadcast cards back then? Quote
goc Posted March 14, 2015 Report Posted March 14, 2015 It makes sense that they would have had shorter cards in the closed circuit days before PPV since, if I'm not mistaken, a lot of closed circuit locations were theaters and people don't really expect to sit in the theater for more than 2 hours. Quote
Grimmas Posted March 14, 2015 Report Posted March 14, 2015 It makes sense that they would have had shorter cards in the closed circuit days before PPV since, if I'm not mistaken, a lot of closed circuit locations were theaters and people don't really expect to sit in the theater for more than 2 hours. They haven't seen a modern movie then, since almost nothing is under 2 hours nowadays! Quote
Strand Peanut Posted March 14, 2015 Report Posted March 14, 2015 It was probably just cheaper to keep it short. Plus it was new. And it was wrestling. American cinema go-ers had no problems sitting thru longer fare in the 70's and 80's. Quote
flyonthewall2983 Posted March 15, 2015 Report Posted March 15, 2015 Question for anyone who uses this via Apple TV, can you skip through chapters on the On Demand content? Quote
pantherwagner Posted March 15, 2015 Report Posted March 15, 2015 No chapters on Apple TV... I mostly watch from Sony Bravia due to that. Catching up today on Countdown as I hadn't watched the last three or four. Talking about International Superstars, they ask Vince McMahon where is parts unknown, and he says with a completely straight face "It's in between Venus and Uranus... maybe closer to Uranus". That made me laugh. Quote
Loss Posted March 16, 2015 Report Posted March 16, 2015 Yes and no. Use the down arrow and chapter lines will appear and you can use the side-to-side buttons on the remote to jump along as necessary. WWE's chapters aren't there, but standard Apple chapters are, so it's not perfect, but it's functional. Quote
Matt D Posted March 16, 2015 Report Posted March 16, 2015 No way will I have time to see all the HOFs before the end of March, so I hope they don't take them down once we hit April. Quote
sek69 Posted March 16, 2015 Report Posted March 16, 2015 I think the length of shows in the 80s was determined more by the capacity of VHS tape than anything else. Most of the JCP shows that went three hours got butchered to hell on home video, perhaps Vince was just thinking ahead since I'm sure that was a big revenue stream at the time. Quote
Ricky Jackson Posted March 16, 2015 Report Posted March 16, 2015 Mania I was basically a typical MSG card with celebrities added. That's how long MSG cards went. It's no more complex than that Quote
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