fakeplastictrees Posted January 17, 2015 Report Share Posted January 17, 2015 WWE doing a podcast and broadcasting on The Network would be great, but it would have to be done by someone like Jericho, Christian, etc. You know? Someone with a personality. Michael Cole interviewing someone in WWE's pocket who is too worried about towing the company line just will not do. I still don't understand how WWE wants to be seen as entertainment and aside from the movie venture (which is failing hard) why they won't venture into music (and I don't mean Stephanie Music or whatever the WWE label is called), artist/athlete management, etc. This isn't the thread for this rant...so i will end it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jushin muta liger Posted January 17, 2015 Report Share Posted January 17, 2015 Roku Stick attached to an HDMI port on my television. Incredibly convenient and works great.I voted this also with the phone option. The Roku stick is the only reason I've kept the Network for this long. Roku has given me the best results since I've watched it through Xbox 360, laptop, iPad and iPhone. I usually watch the PPVs, some of documentary specials and NXT through the Roku on my TV and watch Main Event and Superstars on my iPhone. I think if they had a instructional video on their YouTube channel showing how to hook up any of the streaming devices to their TV, consumers might by the Network more. It's very easy to use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidebottom Posted January 17, 2015 Report Share Posted January 17, 2015 Xbox One, lovely interface, easy to use, responds to voice commands via Kinnect (Pause and play are the only ones I use). It does crash however every so often, say once every few hours. But thankfully now they have the auto resume feature added (finally!), it's not the end of the world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JazeUSA Posted January 17, 2015 Report Share Posted January 17, 2015 Roku 3 in my living room, roku 2 in my bedroom, all my kids watch it in there bedrooms thru there tablets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exposer Posted January 17, 2015 Report Share Posted January 17, 2015 Computer for me with the HDMI hookup to the big screen for the "special events" Same here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Evans Posted January 18, 2015 Report Share Posted January 18, 2015 PS3 and Desktop usually. Tried to use it on my tablet but it was too slow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted January 18, 2015 Report Share Posted January 18, 2015 Used the PS3 exclusively until I got my Roku streaming stick a few months ago and now that's the main source. I watch via PC at work when it's slow since somehow WWE.com has managed to elude the sometimes random content blocker my company uses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamthedoctor Posted January 18, 2015 Report Share Posted January 18, 2015 I picked the Don't subscribe and don't want it answer because to be fair I have all the PPVs and all the tv sets that are out there so there isnt anything virtually of interest to me. I know id be wasting my money just to subscribe to a channel of stuff I already have in my collection barring the quality of stuff whats out there is still decent not mind you as good as HD quality. They need to put in more original content that would interest me and stuff I havent seen to get me to subscribe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WingedEagle Posted January 18, 2015 Report Share Posted January 18, 2015 I wonder if the "don't subscribe because of lack of TV access" is getting no love on PWO because its a community of people who will seek out wrestling wherever they can get their hands on it and aren't going to be swayed by big screen vs. small screen. Which I find entirely possible. If you're WWE you have to hope more people become friendly to purchasing & viewing content in that manner as they become more comfortable with it because otherwise this thing is going to be facing a pretty strong headwind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamthedoctor Posted January 18, 2015 Report Share Posted January 18, 2015 I wonder if the "don't subscribe because of lack of TV access" is getting no love on PWO because its a community of people who will seek out wrestling wherever they can get their hands on it and aren't going to be swayed by big screen vs. small screen. Which I find entirely possible. If you're WWE you have to hope more people become friendly to purchasing & viewing content in that manner as they become more comfortable with it because otherwise this thing is going to be facing a pretty strong headwind. This is a interesting subject. From experience non internet fans who I speak to regulary said they would prefer it if the Network ended up being a sky channel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pantherwagner Posted January 18, 2015 Report Share Posted January 18, 2015 I wonder if the "don't subscribe because of lack of TV access" is getting no love on PWO because its a community of people who will seek out wrestling wherever they can get their hands on it and aren't going to be swayed by big screen vs. small screen. Which I find entirely possible. If you're WWE you have to hope more people become friendly to purchasing & viewing content in that manner as they become more comfortable with it because otherwise this thing is going to be facing a pretty strong headwind. This is spot on. This is a community of people that will watch grainy 70s Memphis films on youtube and 3rd generation copies of rare footage. We'll find a way to put it on TV as we are early technology adopters just to get our hands in more wrestling. This is also a place where some people don't have the network because there's no value for them unless they start releasing cool/rare content from their archives. We are in no way representative of the target customer for this service. I have a fair amount of friends who like wrestling but don't visit news sites regularly, never mind message boards, and most don't have the WWE Network because they don't have the equipment to put it on a real TV. Some know how to do it but they don't have a tablet, game console or a player and hooking up a computer via HDMI is a hassle they don't want to go through. Others didn't get it because all the DNS masking stuff was way over their head, they won't watch the events live, and they know they can stream them or get a download easily the next morning. And then there's the people who will never pay for anything however cheap it may be as long as it's there for free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.S. Posted January 18, 2015 Report Share Posted January 18, 2015 Totally disagree. I listen to podcasts daily and most people I know seem to also. Day to day, there is nothing there to make me tune into the network which is a big problem. Except, your original post had nothing to do with a podcast...or at least you weren't clear about it. I'd love more programming like what we got with Austin/Vince. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilTLL Posted January 18, 2015 Report Share Posted January 18, 2015 Totally disagree. I listen to podcasts daily and most people I know seem to also. Day to day, there is nothing there to make me tune into the network which is a big problem. Except, your original post had nothing to do with a podcast...or at least you weren't clear about it. I'd love more programming like what we got with Austin/Vince. I wonder how hard they begged Austin to make the SAS part of the Network after that, and how hard he laughed. More on topic, WWEN is available in the same viewing modes as Netflix pretty much, and even given WWE's demographic issues, there has to be some familiarity/overlap of subscribers. Certainly plenty of WWE fans own game consoles. I haven't kept up with the programming lately to see if they're still failing to advertise how easy it is to watch on TV, but it seems to me if that's a problem for them, it's their fault. For example, offering a free month of WWEN with the purchase of 2K15 and a guided (automatic?) installation of the app seems like a no-brainer. The geographic thing, I have no easy answers for--I can't blame anyone overseas for getting very frustrated and refusing to buy, especially if they have to jump through hoops and do it grey-market. It is pretty amusing to watch companies desperately try to put regional limitations on a product that moves across a gigantic global network. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
concrete1992 Posted January 18, 2015 Report Share Posted January 18, 2015 I watch on my computer, have a TV right next to it so I plug it in usually. I also watch through PS4 which is set up to my projector. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kayfabe1984 Posted January 19, 2015 Report Share Posted January 19, 2015 I watch mainly on the Roku 3 but also occasionally on the PS4. I've found the PS4 interface to be very user friendly and more like the actual online version, whereas the Roku version seems clunky compared to the PS4. I occasionally watch on my Kindle Fire as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowboy hats Posted January 19, 2015 Report Share Posted January 19, 2015 Current viewing: Mostly via the roku stuck in my living room. Have a Roku in the bedroom, but it's a smaller tv and no HD (only one HDMI port and I opted to use it for the cable box), so that only gets the occasional watch. Once in a while on the phone while doing dishes or shaving. Only recently got an ipad and watching the network through that while having football on the tv worked well. Had a 360 for the first few months of the network, but finally got rid of it when I got deals on the stick and a blu ray player Thanksgiving week. Seeing WWE give away that same stick to new subscribers only days later was pretty frustrating, but not much I could do about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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