Ramsey Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 1 minute ago, Wyld Samurai said: You guys don't sync your laptop or phones to your tvs? What do you think this is? The future!?!?! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirSmUgly Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 1 hour ago, Matt D said: It's nice that we live in such blessed times that people have so much readily available to watch that they can ignore a slew of great, never before seen, matches just because they'd rather not watch something on a computer screen. I mean, I work on a computer quite a bit, so I have eye strain issues that I don't have as much with television. I had NWA Classics On-Demand for awhile, and I would just hook up my laptop via HDMI to the TV, but I typically like to write as I watch, especially to write down thoughts on a match or dates or to do some no-look typing of another document that I need for my work while I watch. And to be honest, there is so much to watch that NWA On Demand falls in the pecking order simply based on inconvenience for me. In the last year, I watched a bunch of WCW, NWA, and old WWF shows on the Network and all the World of Sport on Youtube and Daily Motion, plus I got caught up with Lucha Underground - and all of these I was able to do on a TV screen that kept my laptop free. I'm going to be buying the Portland set from Goodhelmet in a few weeks, and I'll have that on DVD on top of the Network stuff that I still need to get caught up on. So, unfortunately, there's going to be something that I don't have time to watch, and with NWA On Demand being more inconvenient, that stuff will slip down the pecking order. Same with New Japan World. I wish that I could spend my life watching everything I wanted to watch, but I can't, so I have to make choices somehow, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 I was only half snarky with that statement. There's a lot to watch. I've never seen a Matt Riddle match. We all have to pick and choose a bit. I'm just irked by the pro-wrestling footage fuedalism going on in the thread? Or something. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technico Support Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 I have a small computer in my living room that is connected to one of my TV's HDMI inputs. I use a bluetooth keyboard/touchpad combo to control it and that's how I watch WWE Network and any other online stuff or legally downloaded content. It's a $300 - 400 expenditure that I don't regret. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirSmUgly Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 It's hard to get yourself out there with no TV app when WWE Network, Sling, YouTube, and Daily Motion are all out there with apps on multiple devices that play wrestling in some form. NWA Classics is doing important historical work, but they need to at the very least give some of the same options. I can watch SDL, for example, on my TV, laptop, or phone. If NWA Classics would give me just one of TV or phone along with the laptop option, that would probably get me to move on it again since the price is so low. I can watch any of those other things on my phone while I'm at the gym or on lunch, or on TV while I'm doing something else on my laptop. I don't think it's some sort of weird WWE loyalty thing so much as WWE makes it as convenient as possible for the viewer to use their product in multiple ways and in multiple places. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 It's pretty easy to watch Classics in your phone through their website. I watched the Lothario vs Gran Markus match that way in the car while waiting for my wife to get out of a store a few weeks ago. Was a much better experience than going into Hobby Lobby. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikoBaltimore Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 51 minutes ago, Smelly McUgly said: Same with New Japan World. That's long been the case, but as of a couple months ago they have Chromecast support. If it's just that you don't have time for it then that I get. But you should be able to watch it on TV and use your computer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 my card didn't even allow me to order New Japan. I don't disagree with you @Matt D, I had been thinking about looking into NWA on Demand but @sydneybrown is absolutely correct too. People DO need to sign up and watch stuff like 'Last Battle of Atlanta' or else WWE just isn't going to bother releasing the rest of these hidden/rare matches. They know exactly what's being watched and what isn't. I've seen people on other sites discussing ways to acquire the hidden collection WITHOUT giving WWE their money. Yeah, maybe times are rough for some. But holy shit, that is NOT the way to get WWE to release more stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goc Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 My thing about NWA On Demand is that no one is even seemingly taking advantage of the free week to try them out. I mean if you're worried about forgetting about it, you can cancel immediately after signing up and still get the full week without worrying about getting charged later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyld Samurai Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 My issue is I'm never wearing pants whenever I think about signing up for NWA On Demand... no pants means no wallet / CC. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rzombie1988 Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 18 hours ago, Infinit said: Whoa....so they have the early 90s WCW Omni shows?? Like Liger/Pillman from the Christmas 91 show??? Color me excited. WCW at least had the footage as they aired clips from Omni house shows often, so there's a chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 Well, They taped most of the title changes they did in the Omni, so there's stuff that I'd love to come out, like the Steiners/Arn&Bobby cage match title change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 Is the Flair/Sting '91 title change out there in full? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mad cow Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 The Canadian version of the network sucks. Last I checked it was still a cable channel and not an on demand service. No way in hell I'm paying to be spoon fed whatever programing they want to shove down the viewers throats. I want to view it the same way American viewers can. I did however watch The Last Battle of Atlanta yesterday. It was great. Everything a cage match should be. I am curious though if this was a recent find for them in the library of reels or if they knew they had it when they did the write up on the match years ago on their website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 You do have to order it through a cable company (they fucking own everything up here—ridiculous middlemen shit), but you can access the library on mobile and PC. No PS4 app unless you want to bypass the sum'bitches at Rogers/Shaw/Telus/wherever and use a VPN to sign up for the yankee doodle version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabe Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 4 hours ago, Niners Fan in CT said: Is the Flair/Sting '91 title change out there in full? Nope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoKnowsWrestling Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 Chromecast is coming to WWE Network too according to an email or website update in Aug or so that might help some Canadians with the cable issue. Easier to use their PC and mobile options. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 Unless you also have the webcast extension on your browser, which will let you do any video to the Chromecast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serious Darius Bagfelt Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 4 hours ago, mad cow said: The Canadian version of the network sucks. Last I checked it was still a cable channel and not an on demand service. No way in hell I'm paying to be spoon fed whatever programing they want to shove down the viewers throats. I want to view it the same way American viewers can. I did however watch The Last Battle of Atlanta yesterday. It was great. Everything a cage match should be. I am curious though if this was a recent find for them in the library of reels or if they knew they had it when they did the write up on the match years ago on their website. Begs to ask the question how much shit do they have, how much have they even looked at and how big is the staff going through everything. I am sure the WCW and maybe ECW stuff was catalogued but I am sure they inherited a whack of unlabeled tapes/reels etc that are still sitting there waiting to be sifted through Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Sweetser Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 Seriously, how good is the Hidden Gems collection? The Bret v. Austin match, shock of shocks, is REALLY fucking good, and Owen Hart's commentary is hilarious while still getting everyone over. Beautiful stuff. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyld Samurai Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 Wasn't the South Africa match on Superstars? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sydneybrown Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 1 hour ago, Serious Darius Bagfelt said: Begs to ask the question how much shit do they have, how much have they even looked at and how big is the staff going through everything. I am sure the WCW and maybe ECW stuff was catalogued but I am sure they inherited a whack of unlabeled tapes/reels etc that are still sitting there waiting to be sifted through The WWE library is supposedly at over 150,000 hours of content and less than a third of that has been digitized for the Network. So yeah, that leaves over 100,000 hours worth of various stuff that mostly hasn't seen the light of day since it was first broadcast. It would literally take over 12 straight years just to watch it all. If you think about it, if they just "happened" to find the Last Battle of Atlanta, that's practically some needle in a haystack shit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 And again, a massive, massive majority of their audience right now has probably never seen... what? 1991 WCW Saturday Night? Or they haven't seen it since it first aired. The Cost/Benefit isn't there for them to go overboard with things not yet digitized. The network isn't for us. There's no reason for it to be about us. It's much more important to them to shape how the current generations view wrestling history for years to come than to appease 1% of 1% of their potential audience, or something like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 If only there were a service out there for the old school rasslin fan! This is some March Madness level subtlety. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyld Samurai Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 I would think that the hey will eventually digitize everything just for the sake of preservation. They have barely scratched RAW from the 00's... that's insane. If you do a search for Jake Roberts nothing comes up... but look up Strike Force and you get a plethora of piñata's. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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