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Title: TV Help (with a strong helping of WRESTLEMANIA)
Post by: de_la_Nae on 30 Mar 2014, 21:49

So....it turns out I know very little of how television service works.

I don't have any.

Do you think I could...that I could just buy Wrestlemania? Like go to AT&T or Comcast or someone and be like "listen I want it for this *ONE THING*, what can we work out?"

Title: Re: TV Help (with a strong helping of WRESTLEMANIA)
Post by: Loki on 30 Mar 2014, 23:44

You are in the US, right?

Title: Re: TV Help (with a strong helping of WRESTLEMANIA)
Post by: Thrillho on 31 Mar 2014, 02:16

You could subscribe to the network for one month and then cancel it after Mania. But Mania is the first show they're running on it so that might be risky business, given that it's their biggest show of the year. I'm not sure I trust their servers to hold out.

Title: Re: TV Help (with a strong helping of WRESTLEMANIA)
Post by: Method of Madness on 31 Mar 2014, 05:43

You actually can't, a six month commitment is required. However you can just buy it for $10, which I was a little annoyed since I found that out after subscribing for six months but I'll probably watch some old PPVs to make it worth it.

Title: Re: TV Help (with a strong helping of WRESTLEMANIA)
Post by: cesium133 on 31 Mar 2014, 05:45

I'm surprised that in this day and age they wouldn't do an online subscription service rather than relying only on PPV.

Title: Re: TV Help (with a strong helping of WRESTLEMANIA)
Post by: Thrillho on 31 Mar 2014, 05:54

It's been rumoured for years and taken them this long to do it. They used to have online streaming of the PPV in the US for a while, and even over here, but that stopped, I suspect so that they could eventually build interest for the network.

Title: Re: TV Help (with a strong helping of WRESTLEMANIA)
Post by: Method of Madness on 31 Mar 2014, 07:05

Quote from: cesium133 on 31 Mar 2014, 05:45

I'm surprised that in this day and age they wouldn't do an online subscription service rather than relying only on PPV.

They do have an online subscription service, that's what the WWE Network is.

Title: Re: TV Help (with a strong helping of WRESTLEMANIA)
Post by: cesium133 on 31 Mar 2014, 07:17

Ah, okay. Then that would seem to be the solution to de_la_Nae's question, right?

Title: Re: TV Help (with a strong helping of WRESTLEMANIA)
Post by: Thrillho on 31 Mar 2014, 07:35

Not if she only wants to watch the one thing, once, given the minimum six month subscription.

Title: Re: TV Help (with a strong helping of WRESTLEMANIA)
Post by: cesium133 on 31 Mar 2014, 07:37

Oh. Okay, I think I see where I got confused. I thought Method of Madness was saying that the cable company would require a six-month subscription (which I think most usually do).

Title: Re: TV Help (with a strong helping of WRESTLEMANIA)
Post by: Method of Madness on 31 Mar 2014, 09:29

Yeah, but I saw an option for only buying Wrestlemania for $10.

Title: Re: TV Help (with a strong helping of WRESTLEMANIA)
Post by: GarandMarine on 31 Mar 2014, 09:47

Go to a bar where they're gonna be showing Wrestlemania?

Title: Re: TV Help (with a strong helping of WRESTLEMANIA)
Post by: de_la_Nae on 31 Mar 2014, 14:32

Thanks folks.

And hell no; the point was to host a RASSLIN' party.

Title: Re: TV Help (with a strong helping of WRESTLEMANIA)
Post by: Method of Madness on 31 Mar 2014, 15:15

Find a friend who subscribed and have them sign into your computer/PS3/Roku/possum?