chuckd21

That's six months away. They need money now.

rocket1312

This. By all accounts the network has been a huge failure, but they've made their choice. They purposely killed off their own ppv market, so it's the network or nothing at this point.

Ringmaster

Jus checked out the Cruiserweight episode of the Monday Night War series. Great episode though they didnt mention Ultimo Dragon whom I think had a huge part to play in the Cruiserweight division.

There was one forced commercial at the beginning of the episode and I never saw another one while I was on the network. It wasn't as bad as I though it was going to be.

GuessWho

Commercials before the program won't bother me. They're like trailers in a theater or on a DVD that we have learned to live with since we know our movie will be uninterrupted.

dvd-4-life

When are they going to add more content to the Vault?

AaronHernandez

Exactly 9 weeks from now in 9 hours and 9 minutes

TheBigDave

I just watched this. It's a shame they avoided anything related to Benoit. He was the biggest name in the Cruiserweight division. And probably the only Cruiserweight that made the transition to main events in WCW. They even gave him the World Title to try and keep him. And he still left for WWE. How do you leave that out? It's history, you can't just ignore it.

Navinabob

I just got around to watching the Ultimate Warrior special... Just lost it at the end. I had no idea it'd hit me that hard. Even my wife, who doesn't follow or care for wrestling, got caught up in it.

GuessWho

New pricing:

$9.99 per month.

Everybody is now month-to-month, like Netflix. Cancel anytime.
No more 6-month commitments.
No more higher price for month-to-month (was $12.99).

HN

If you were on the fence about trying the network, they are giving November for free for new subscribers:

http://www.wwe.com/wwenetwork/free-i...ontent=4485850

GuessWho

My WWE Network expired a month ago and I was able to sign up for the free November offer this morning.

It appears the offer is good for anybody not current, not just completely-new customers.

DaveNinja

If you're a regular subscriber, will they still charge you for Nov?

BrewCrew

I just signed up again for the free trial and watched this along with the other couple specials they had on Warrior and it was excellent. They should be showcasing stuff like this as I can't see them putting out something better than the Warrior special. Will check out the Monday Night War stuff next as that seems to have the potential to be good.

rocket1312

I think I could only make it through two episodes of "The Monday Night War." It's a quick and easy way to check out some of the highlights of the era, but WWE's revisionist history, especially when it concerns this particular subject, is nausea inducing to say the least.

dvd-4-life

They've added more ECW to the Vault.

stingermck

Yeah Ive watched all the episodes, and while it is a good production, history is written by the winners.

wmansir

Hey guys,

I'm looking to get a streaming device for my TV and WWE support is a must. Budget is less than $100 so I looking at either a Roku type device or blu-ray player. Do any devices stand out for being exceptionally good or particularly bad when it comes to WWE usage?

Quack

I haven't had any/many issues with it on my Apple TV.

jjcool

I've had real good luck with my Roku 3. I have watched a bunch of the archive stuff, as well as the original shows, and a few pay per views live on it, including the Survivor Series, and I think I have only had it drop back to the menu once. Click to get back onto the stream and it was fine. Beautiful HD picture, perfectly synced with the sound. Couldn't be happier.
However, I watch most of the pay per views at a friends house. He watches on his PS3. We have noticed a good amount of "repeats", where the picture pauses, and the audio loops back a second or two and repeats itself then the picture resumes. I have also noticed after the repeats that the picture is an SD picture. I think it is probably a bandwidth issue, but I do not know what kind of connection he is on.

Thumbs up for the Roku 3 from me. Plus the added bonus of all the other stuff the Roku can do.

wmansir

Roku 3 is the top contender now.

I ruled out the Apple TV because I'm completely out of the Apple ecosystem and don't really want to get dragged in. Same with Amazon to a lesser degree because I do have a lot of Amazon Apps and I believe they would work on the FireTV, but I'm not really interested in gaming. I like that the Roku is content agnostic.

My other serious contender is a sub-$100 blu-ray player, which basically means the Sony 3200 or 5200, since WWE doesn't appear to be on this years lower tier Samsung models. I only have 2 HDMI inputs on my TV so this would simplify things, plus those models are on sale this Friday for $50/60 bucks. Roku 3 is $85.

TheBigDave

I have both the Roku 3 and AppleTV. I'd say they're both equal in terms of WWE Network quality. I'd recommend the Roku 3 since it has many more options for streaming other wrestling content. Some indy promotions have Roku apps. And if anything new pops up, it'll be on the Roku first since Apple is so stringent on accepting new ATV apps.

If your primary interest is streaming, buy a Roku. Blu-ray players, game consoles and smart TVs have the streaming capability. But they don't do it very well. Whenever I hear someone having problems with streaming, they're almost always using a Blu-ray player, game console or TV. The Rokus do one thing and they do it better than any other device.

wmansir

I decided to go with the Amazon Fire TV after I found out it can sideload XBMC on to it. My biggest issue with the Roku was it's lack of local content support. I have a lot of media on my main PC and some of it is in older formats and I wasn't happy with the solutions I found for Roku devices.

GuessWho

Works fine on my Roku 1 so the Roku 3 must do it spectacularly.

shadokitty

Works great on my Roku 3. On a side note, without giving away the winners, I recently watched Survivor Series as I missed it live, and I have to say the final match was pure awesome.

jjcool

Agreed. Somewhat predictable, but still an enjoyable match. News of at least one of the surprises broke a day or two earlier, but it was still quite impressive and very cool to see.