The Chief Posted March 3, 2014 Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 actually, that's possible because they cut to Ric Flair in a limo introducing the mystery opponent. I sure as hell didn't buy the ppv at the time and only remember seeing it on nitro, and the cut didn't seem jarring Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Chief Posted March 3, 2014 Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 continuing to torture myself with late WCW. Watching Superbrawl 2000, Tank Abbott vs Big Al and "Get up Fuck face!" and "I can FUCKING kill you!" are not censored, for those who keep track of this :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted March 3, 2014 Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 Â The Royal Rumble 2014 is now available too! Wonder if the crowd sound was tweaked. Â Fast turn around! When is the DVD scheduled? Â Â Just finished watching, the sound doesn't seem to be tweaked at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerva Posted March 3, 2014 Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 Â was watching WCW Sin today (yeah, I know...) and the Sid leg break scene is completely cut out. But you can see the aftermath with him lying around with the broken leg. Â I may be wrong but from what I remember of that week, the actual footage of the leg break didn't air on the PPV, it aired on the night after, on WCW Monday Nitro. Â Â I thought the leg break was shown on the live broadcast because I know I have seen the break before but it was removed from the DVD (or in WCW case the VHS ) it wasn't on the Classics version of the show Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kayfabe1984 Posted March 3, 2014 Report Share Posted March 3, 2014   was watching WCW Sin today (yeah, I know...) and the Sid leg break scene is completely cut out. But you can see the aftermath with him lying around with the broken leg.  I may be wrong but from what I remember of that week, the actual footage of the leg break didn't air on the PPV, it aired on the night after, on WCW Monday Nitro.   I thought the leg break was shown on the live broadcast because I know I have seen the break before but it was removed from the DVD (or in WCW case the VHS ) it wasn't on the Classics version of the show   Noodles is correct, the leg break did not air on PPV. I just saw the show recently. It did air the next night on Nitro. Also, as far as I know, the show was never released on video. I believe the last WCW VHS release in the U.S. was either Fall Brawl 2000 or Halloween Havoc 2000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe Posted March 3, 2014 Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 Another glitch for Roku users is that RoyalRumble 2004 kicks you off the network . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyonthewall2983 Posted March 3, 2014 Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 Their ratings are a little screwy. They are showing the first episode of Smackdown! right now which was at the height of the company's sleaziness yet somehow earns a TV-PG rating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cm funk Posted March 3, 2014 Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 Yes, it's definitely some sort of Indian/South Asian based call center. They're also using some preschool level troubleshooting scripts as well. I guess that's probably fine for 95% of their calls, but since I already cleared my cache they seem stumped. Â I never bother with "tech support" because you know that 99% of the time it's outsourced. Going back to Microsoft in the 90's and almost every attempt at tech support I've had over the years it's generally been a huge waste of time. I had issues signing up for the network, and the same VOD problems everyone was having, but at no point did I consider calling "tech support" because I knew it would be a complete runaround. Going on the internet and places like here and DVDVR told me everything I needed to know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.S. Posted March 3, 2014 Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 If you signed up the first day, it looks like the six-month subscription ends on August 24th, which is kind of wonky, because the billing cycle is the 3rd of every month. So, it looks like the "free week" counts as part of the six-month package. Not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but definitely a bit weird. I can see some people feeling gypped that they aren't getting "all of August" if they choose not to renew. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cox Posted March 3, 2014 Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 Their ratings are a little screwy. They are showing the first episode of Smackdown! right now which was at the height of the company's sleaziness yet somehow earns a TV-PG rating. Was this episode particularly sleezy, though? If I recall correctly, UPN wanted a lot of the sleazier aspects of late 90's WWF cut out of Smackdown, so it might have legit earned a TV-PG rating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timbo Slice Posted March 3, 2014 Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 Cox is right. SmackDown! was a "toned down" show at first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted March 3, 2014 Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 It also had more viewers than RAW at the time, I think. That may have been later though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mookeighana Posted March 3, 2014 Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 Smackdown in FY2000 had 6.6 million viewers (4.7 weekly average out of 86 million households) and Raw had 6.7 million viewers (6.2 weekly average out of 78 million households). (source) Â I believe it was during the Eddie/Rey Custody of Dominic storyline on Smackdown when SM had more viewers than Raw but I could be mistaken. Obviously, when one is on cable and the other is on broadcast TV, that plays a major role. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timbo Slice Posted March 3, 2014 Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 That, plus the Eddie/Rey storyline was done on SD! due to the high Latino viewing population the show had at the time (and carried forward because of it). With the two top Latin stars in the company working a program together, it pulled in some major rankings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cm funk Posted March 3, 2014 Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 It was also on a basic cable network (UPN) that was in many more homes than USA. Network tv is still a big deal, but much bigger a decade ago. Personally depending on where I live and what the options are I always subscribe to the most basic of cable packages, and as long as I have PBS, CSPAN and local channels I'm happy. At the moment I'd have to upgrade several tiers just to get SyFy or Spike TV. I don't even get ESPN. I can get Main Event on ION or ROH on a CW or something if it's not pre-empted by high school sports Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Chief Posted March 3, 2014 Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 Watching some early ECW TV, is Wildman Sal Bellomo the same Salvatore Bellomo who wrestled preliminary matches in the WWF in the 80's? Doesn't look like the same guy at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyonthewall2983 Posted March 3, 2014 Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 Â Their ratings are a little screwy. They are showing the first episode of Smackdown! right now which was at the height of the company's sleaziness yet somehow earns a TV-PG rating. Was this episode particularly sleezy, though? If I recall correctly, UPN wanted a lot of the sleazier aspects of late 90's WWF cut out of Smackdown, so it might have legit earned a TV-PG rating. Â Â I heard Lawler's "puppies!" at least once, so I think it was. Too close for comfort for a TV-PG anyway. I can believe that WWF acquiesced to VIacom's request, but a toned down program feels at the height of sleaze when compared to today's product. I'm only bringing this up because I know that eventually some parent of a young WWE fan is going to come upon this stuff and be appalled, and bitch to the morality mob and brew up a shitstorm about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goc Posted March 3, 2014 Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 I think it's smart that they are going to do Main Event live until WrestleMania but I'm not sure that will get the traffic that even NXT Arrival did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blehschmidt Posted March 4, 2014 Report Share Posted March 4, 2014 Well, the WWE Network is now working on X-Box 360.....kinda....... Â The live stream looks good, although lagged a bit during the Raw pre-show, but my guess is that is due to site traffic. Â I briefly streamed an episode of World Class, and it looked fine. Â I attempted to stream King of the Ring 1993 and I got booted from the app. Â I logged back in and attempted to watch an episode of ECW Hardcore TV, and there are no episodes to be found. Â Then I headed over to the PPV section and came to the realization that there are only WWE shows listed. WCW and ECW PPV.....nope, not on there. Â So I clicked on Elimination Chamber 2013 to check it out, and it loaded nicely, so I decided to try moving to a later point in the show, and unfortunately it looks like the little dots at the beginning and end of every match that are available on some shows, are not on the X-Box. Â I understand totally that they just got it working, but it certainly looks like they still have some work to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wahoos Leg Posted March 4, 2014 Report Share Posted March 4, 2014 anyone else missing rumble 2014 and episodes 1, 5 and 6 of raw from 1993 on the roku? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.S. Posted March 4, 2014 Report Share Posted March 4, 2014 anyone else missing rumble 2014 and episodes 1, 5 and 6 of raw from 1993 on the roku? Â Haven't checked Raw, but I can confirm that Rumble '14 is missing from mine also. Â I don't understand how stuff like this even happens. Does WWE have to manually approve each event for each app? Â I hope this kind of crap gets permanently sorted out by the end of the week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
victory Posted March 4, 2014 Report Share Posted March 4, 2014 Watching some early ECW TV, is Wildman Sal Bellomo the same Salvatore Bellomo who wrestled preliminary matches in the WWF in the 80's? Doesn't look like the same guy at all. Yep same guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Log Posted March 4, 2014 Report Share Posted March 4, 2014 Any of you guys using Chromecast for the network? Just wondering if it's any good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slackermillionaire Posted March 4, 2014 Report Share Posted March 4, 2014 Â anyone else missing rumble 2014 and episodes 1, 5 and 6 of raw from 1993 on the roku? Â Haven't checked Raw, but I can confirm that Rumble '14 is missing from mine also. Â I don't understand how stuff like this even happens. Does WWE have to manually approve each event for each app? Â I hope this kind of crap gets permanently sorted out by the end of the week. Â Â Raw 1,5,6 are missing from the vault on the browser but if you search you can find 1 and 5. I have been unable to find 6, if anybody comes across could they share the link. Â I think Metlzer said Royal Rumble 14 would be up soon, they just have to wait a certain amount of time before posting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted March 4, 2014 Report Share Posted March 4, 2014 The thing keeps crashing my fairly new Asus tablet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.