Petey Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 They're uploading Saturday Night's Main Event as we speak! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 The screen caps for SNME are great so far: The Wedding for 2, everyone in costume for 3, JYD with the crown threatening heenan for 9, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSC Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 I'm guessing a lot of stuff will be popping up this week, as it looks like they're offering a free preview from now until the 14th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 FINALLY something I can get behind! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petey Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 I'm guessing a lot of stuff will be popping up this week, as it looks like they're offering a free preview from now until the 14th. Yep. SNME plus the Monday Night Wars preview tonight instead of the Raw post-game. Don't they have a conference quarterly coming up? That would explain things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSC Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 I'm guessing a lot of stuff will be popping up this week, as it looks like they're offering a free preview from now until the 14th. Yep. SNME plus the Monday Night Wars preview tonight instead of the Raw post-game. Don't they have a conference quarterly coming up? That would explain things. Wow - it's even a no credit-card required preview instead of the usual forget to cancel and be stuck with it at the end of the month variety (so many unused months following Hulu Plus previews...). For those who have seen the Monday Night Wars stuff on Classics, is it just the two episodes uploaded every week or is there any sort of documentary aspect to it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonteCarl Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 On Classics, it varied if I remember correctly. Some times they would just upload both shows individually with nothing extra, other times it would be one big 4 hour block with a short by Matt Striker intro before the beginning of each show. I'm thinking the Monday Night War show on The Network will be different, though, with possibly something like a 30 minute panel show discussing what happened on each show as the actual "Monday Night War" episode, but they will also put up the full eps in their entirety as VoD as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petey Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 Originally, Mitchell Cole would intro the show. It would be Nitro/Raw back-to-back (sometimes Raw would be first, others Nitro). It sucked for those of us who had a cable system which didn't allow for quick fast forwarding through stuff because if you watched one show but couldn't finish, it'd take you forever to get back to where you left off. Afterwards, Cole would then tease what was gonna happen next. It really wasn't all that much. Every once in a while they would break away from the show and have some interview with someone from a DVD release talking about a significant moment/match. Once both Nitro and Raw were two hours, they started putting the episodes up individually. They eventually stopped with Nitro around the spring or summer of 1998, probably because they got tired of editing out Benoit episodes on the three hour telecast. I expect The Network show to be different. At least, I'm hoping it's different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mco543 Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 Anyone know how to get the Network to run in full screen on 360? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 so if I missed the airing of the Monday Night War immediately after RAW tonight, I'm fucked basically, right? Because it's not on the VOD, or on a replay later in the week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerva Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 so if I missed the airing of the Monday Night War immediately after RAW tonight, I'm fucked basically, right? Because it's not on the VOD, or on a replay later in the week. if they are going to do the Monday Night War like they did Countdown and WM Rewind, they will treat last night's show as the "first" show and show it again when it officially debuts which I have no idea when that is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tromatagon Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Fuck. I wanted to see it. Was it good? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Z Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 Been watching some 1993 WCW recently, and damn glad that the Slam Jam songs are back on the PPV's. I really got into wrestling in 1995 when a few of them were still around (Sting, Johnny B. Badd, Steiners), and eventually bought the old CD sometime in 1998 or 1999 after going back and hearing them on old shows. Especially love Cactus's and of course Rude's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Coaster Posted July 15, 2014 Share Posted July 15, 2014 The apparent cancellation of the Raw post-show and the moving of the pre-show out of the arena and into the studio are the first real disappointments I've had in the network. The pre-show doesn't have the same atmosphere in a studio it did at the arena. Also, suddenly it looks like Alex Riley is looking off to the side when he talks to Byron Saxton instead of looking at him. Not sure if its the angle of their chairs or if he actually is looking at something, but it distracts me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
victor Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 If there are no Nitros, or other stuff added by September, there's no way I'm renewing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notoriusvig Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 I just noticed on the Saturday update for F4W.com, either Bryan or Dave mentioned that we won't see the whole lot of SNME episodes until September. How the hell is this acceptable? This service seems like a total joke. RAWs get put up at a snail's pace, we've got no WCW but Clashes and PPVs, and pretty much no Attitude Era crap for the people who like that, which seems to be a lot. How hard is it to upload these things faster? Screw the damn bullshit pre and post shows, screw Legends House, screw Mania Rewind, and start putting up shows, matches, and compilations now. Rant over Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 Digitizing stuff is a whole different department than the live stuff they do. If glassdoor.com is to be believed, they're working insane hours trying to get all the stuff up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 Why i never expect to see mid-south on the network. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 Did those 2" reels Bix had ever get converted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovchunky Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 Most (I would guess half) of this content has been up on their old WWE Classics web service, which discontinued a couple of years ago. Then again, I'm no technical wiz so there's probably more work involved than I could guess. I'm still satisfied with the amount of content. It would take me a year or two just to get through what is available right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mco543 Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 It was discontinued towards the end of last year. I'm not sure how much of it has been shown but I'd bet that a lot of the older footage like the full length Clashes, Saturday Night's Main Events, old ECW, and a lot of the PPVs never once saw the light of day on CoD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 I don't think the issue is a lack of content. It's just that the content isn't for everyone. See.. I love the SNME's and the Clash's..etc.. I love the ECW PPVs.. I hadn't seen all of these. It's kind of unrealistic to expect them to be putting up the lesser known territories right now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notoriusvig Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 I don't think the issue is a lack of content. It's just that the content isn't for everyone. See.. I love the SNME's and the Clash's..etc.. I love the ECW PPVs.. I hadn't seen all of these. It's kind of unrealistic to expect them to be putting up the lesser known territories right now. I'll give you that but at least finish the SNME job. They put up all the Clashes in one shot and how many were there of those, like 30+? SNME is only up to like 18 right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 Wasn't the deal there that they uploaded the first bunch to tease people who were doing the free trial and they'll do the rest once it's over? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petey Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 They were into 1998 with ECW Hardcore TV on Classics on Demand and into 1999 with the Raws. They were even into 1998 with the Nitros, but a lot of those had Benoit stuff removed after the events of 2007, so I could see why they can't just re-up the Nitros. Very surprised they don't have more ECW and Raw up though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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