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I'm not subscribing either way, so perhaps it's a moot point, but - has there been any reason given for them not to put up the older shows? That's their legacy. It's what would potentially drive new viewers and eyeballs to their product. I could easily see WWE fans of Bryan, Owens, Seth, Punk, etc. being curious enough to see where and how they started out.

 

Seems like there would have to be a legitimate roadblock there. Why else would they leave that much money on the table?

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I'm not subscribing either way, so perhaps it's a moot point, but - has there been any reason given for them not to put up the older shows? That's their legacy. It's what would potentially drive new viewers and eyeballs to their product. I could easily see WWE fans of Bryan, Owens, Seth, Punk, etc. being curious enough to see where and how they started out.

 

Seems like there would have to be a legitimate roadblock there. Why else would they leave that much money on the table?

 

It has to be that they are lazy and don't want to take the time and effort to convert the shows to the new format. Some of those old DVDs go for a lot of money on eBay so there's obviously a demand for it. I was trying to get old shows a few years ago and after weeks of dealing with eBay just said fuck it and did a torrent of everything. I was willing to give them hundreds of dollars and they have no interest in it.

 

If you get Chikaratopia, they have every show they've ever done on there. I don't see why it's so difficult.

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I think maybe they just don't want to edit out the entrance music or something along those lines.

 

Ripping DVD's and uploading the files isn't really that complex and shouldn't really take that long if you have a couple of people working on it together.

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I mean you can barely hear the music on those early shows because the audio was so shitty. But they let the DVDs go out of print a long time ago too. I think they just want to put the bear minimum in for the most profit.

Yeah, I think that’s about it. Chikara is a wrestling company. Sinclair isn’t.

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I mean you can barely hear the music on those early shows because the audio was so shitty. But they let the DVDs go out of print a long time ago too. I think they just want to put the bear minimum in for the most profit.

I honestly had no idea the DVDs were out of print. The audio on some of the entrances wasn't that bad near the mid to late 2000's when they had Danielson coming out to the Final Countdown and stuff, but then again, bad audio and Gabe Sapolsky run organizations usually have terrible audio -- past ROH, now EVOLVE.

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I saw somebody in another thread say that the company claims to have lost the older footage, but that's bullshit in an age where Metropolis gets re-released every few years with more added footage from nearly a century ago. Laziness is all it can be, because editing the audio to get rid of copyrighted music isn't that hard. I was able to do it with iMovie back in 2003 FFS!

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I saw somebody in another thread say that the company claims to have lost the older footage, but that's bullshit in an age where Metropolis gets re-released every few years with more added footage from nearly a century ago. Laziness is all it can be, because editing the audio to get rid of copyrighted music isn't that hard. I was able to do it with iMovie back in 2003 FFS!

That's also impossible. I was able to torrent 2002-2008 in a matter of hours. Even if they lost the footage, you can find it.

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I'm not subscribing either way, so perhaps it's a moot point, but - has there been any reason given for them not to put up the older shows? That's their legacy. It's what would potentially drive new viewers and eyeballs to their product. I could easily see WWE fans of Bryan, Owens, Seth, Punk, etc. being curious enough to see where and how they started out.

 

Seems like there would have to be a legitimate roadblock there. Why else would they leave that much money on the table?

 

 

WWE is doing a series about guys' former identities on the indies before they came to WWE. The first one I saw was about Seth Rollins and his Tyler Black days, which means WWE is doing a better job promoting ROH's history than ROH does.

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I'm not subscribing either way, so perhaps it's a moot point, but - has there been any reason given for them not to put up the older shows? That's their legacy. It's what would potentially drive new viewers and eyeballs to their product. I could easily see WWE fans of Bryan, Owens, Seth, Punk, etc. being curious enough to see where and how they started out.

Seems like there would have to be a legitimate roadblock there. Why else would they leave that much money on the table?

 

 

WWE is doing a series about guys' former identities on the indies before they came to WWE. The first one I saw was about Seth Rollins and his Tyler Black days, which means WWE is doing a better job promoting ROH's history than ROH does.

Sounds interesting.

 

What's that series called? Is it Network exclusive or what?

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It's really ridiculous that it takes a month for RoH TV to reflect any fallout from their big TV shows. I don't even remember what happened at Supercard of Honor by this point.

 

to be fair, that's because most of it was forgettable. The "workrate" company had arguably one of the worst top-to-bottom shows of Mania week.

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It's really ridiculous that it takes a month for RoH TV to reflect any fallout from their big TV shows. I don't even remember what happened at Supercard of Honor by this point.

 

Would it have been that hard to tape promos at Supercard of Honor that could have gone into the next week's show, even if the matches were from the prior taping?

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It's really ridiculous that it takes a month for RoH TV to reflect any fallout from their big TV shows. I don't even remember what happened at Supercard of Honor by this point.

 

to be fair, that's because most of it was forgettable. The "workrate" company had arguably one of the worst top-to-bottom shows of Mania week.

Everyone fell asleep so it was not documented.
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Not that it really matters, but ROH has uploaded old videos on social media -- today they uploaded one of the Embassay vs. Generation Next matches on Facebook. I'm sure they still have these videos around. Why they don't want to upload it to Honor Club will continue to be a mystery.

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Was at the Toronto show tonight..... it was ok. Smash Brothers vs Bucks was the best thing on it.

 

 

Checking this Toronto show out now. Can't believe how into the Knife Pervert Toronto was. Match with him and Martinez was surprisingly blah, given that they worked pretty well together last year.

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