Astro7x

Wait... Rodney Mack was in the battle royale? Damn, they are right, I didn't notice him

http://home.comcast.net/~astro7x/ultimatex.wmv (6.7MB - 340 kb/s - 2:37) Just a 17 or so clip recap of the match... nothing fancy, just the big moments and spots.

Some people just do not get it... it's like the comments that people made when NWA-TNA had commercials during Raw in select areas, or a WWF PPV Promo aired during Nitro. Vince didn't let TNA advertise during Raw, they went through other people such as the local cable company buying local ad time on Spike TV. Same thing here, it is an advertising company that places randomized ads on the WWE.com site which is targeted at WWE's demographic. Though with that point aside... after going to the site myself, I have to believe that this images is faked. The ad looks like it is Google Adworks (or is it AdSense?) displaying the ad, and WWE.com does not use google for advertisement. Why would Googles ad system, which is text based without images, also randomize in flash animation? After refreshing the page several times, all I got were flash ads, including products like Trojan Condoms, Starsky and Hutch on DVD, and Anti-Drug website, Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, History Channel.com, Aliens vs. Predator, Collateral The Movie, and SummerSlam. It's faked... why would anyone even bother to fake this anyway?

Well, I know you guys were talking about the Flair Book Poll (whatever it was), but this is much better... Who do you think will win the WWE Championship Match at SummerSlam? JBL 1.51 % - 10765 Votes Undertaker 98.48 % - 699458 Votes Total Votes: 710223

Launch way more satellites? I sell this stuff on a daily basis, and watch the retailer chats they have. They are currently in the process of switching everything over to what they would call a new "8PSK" compression technology, compressing the HDTV signal down even smaller to fit more HD quality stations on the existing satellites. The reason you have the same channels in HD is because there are not many stations that are offering HD, not because they don't have the room for them. It's also not worth it at this point for Dish and DirecTV to be paying money to provied a ton of channels in HD when it's not that big of a market at this point. Providers like Voom are actually making their own HDTV stations: Monster HD (an all monster movie station), Animania (HD Cartoons), Etc. Out of the 36 HDTV channels Voom has, 21 of them are channels they themselves created. That leaves 15 channels which they carry which are currently boradcasted in HD. HBO East, HBO West, Cinemax East, Cinemax West, Showtime East, Showtime West, The Movie Channel HD, Starz East, Starz West, Encore HD, ESPN HD, Bravo HD, TNT HD, Discovery HD, Playboy HD (yeah, thats right... HD Porn!) Besides movie channels, not a whole bunch of regular channesl out there making HDTV Programming at this point. Throw in your broadcast locals though which you can get with an antenna, and it's looking a bit better. For Dish and DirecTV to launch even more satellites specificly for HDTV is laughable... to upgrade every single customer for HDTV would be a huge headache. If anything, special interesting programming such as internationals and spanish programming will be moved entirely off the main satellites and only require those customers to be upgraded, which would be far less than those that subscribe to american programming. Local channels are broadcasted through what they call spotbeam technology. It takes up less bandwidth is it only sends the signal for those channels out over a specific area. National channels from NY and LA are broadcasted nationwide for those cities that do no have local channels and need distant locals. But it would be impossible to view local channels from a city like Atlanta or Detroit on the west coast due to the way they are sent. So yeah... bandwidth is not an issue, trust me on this one.

Ch. 455, PPV Sports I would believe

Just checked my Program guide. Air dates are as follows Wednesday: 8pm, 10pm Sunday: 8pm, 10pm Tuesday: 9pm And for $35 getting $40-$50 worth of PPV, that's a pretty good deal

Of course they do. They probably get money per subscriber though... kind of like HBO. HBO doesn't really care how many viewers Sopranos gets, just how many people are ordering HBO to watch Sopranos. Now that usually equals high ratings, but ratings is not a concern as they don't sell commercial time, and they are dealing strictly with subscription fees. Kind of how Nickelodeon Games & Sports has barely any commercials in it... it's in a higher package, so most of the money comes from their channel causing subscibers to get the more expensive package. HD takes up a lot of bandwith for cable and satellite companies. So few people would want to watch these shows (which aren't nearly the draws they used to be) like this that all it would do is cause the channel to not be carried by most providers. That said, I would like to eventually see PPVs go HD. It would give people incentive to order the show instead of wait for the DVD, and the 16:9 aspect ratio would be really helpful for the Royal Rumble (see more guys at once, or see the whole ring without having to zoom out real far) HD doesn't take up that much bandwidth, especially when providers like Dish Network have a ton of bandwidth ready to use fro HDTV when all the channels start rolling out with it. They have newer types of compression technology coming out which will maintain the same quality, but take up less bandwidth as well. The problem is that you can't just air one show in HDTV, everything has to be in HDTV on that station if you want to do that. It doesn't mean that you can't air old standard definition programing, as the aspect ratio is changed to the black bars on the left and right (or stretched out) for 4:3 programming. Your local stations currently air a Sandard Definition signal, and a High Definition signal. To air one show in HD, and still have standard definition subscribers view the channel, they would have to put out two channels. it might sound odd, but you can't just switch between an SD and HD broadcast on the same channel. As for the PPV stuff, it would be awesome to get HD Wrestling PPVs, but not even boxing events are in HD yet. It's just too expensive at the moment to do for a niche market. At this point there is not enough programming to make the average person run out and get an HDTV set, but the picture is MUCH better on true HD broadcasts. Not a lot of people realize that there are still shows that even though they are widescreen, are still in SD or run in a 480 Progressive Scan signal. NFL Network is only on Directv @ no extra charge......channel 212 At first the NFL Network was only on Directv...but has expanded to other outlets.... So is it on Direct TV or on cable too? You contradicted yourself here. Probably select cable markets, everywhere it's different... but nationwide on DirecTV For movies, documentaries and video postcard shows, quite a jump. For sitcoms and wrestling shows, it doesn't really provide so much. Though for sports in general, it is very good. Amazing picture quality.... I was watching the NBA Finals on HD, then switched to my SD Broadcase, huge difference. Sad part is that you are not going to find any wrestling on HD. Spike TV doesn't look anywhere near ready to start airing HD anytime soon.

I just searched my Dish Network PVR...no listing for it in the next 10 days. Joe Schmo 2 is after Raw anway anyway, funny elimination ------------ Jericho: No Alison, I don't know if this is possible, but if you could change one thing about your body or your face what would it be? Alison: Actually I am pretty happy with myself, I don't think I'd change anything Jericho: Well good, I'm glad you're happy with yourself because you can go look in the mirror, I'm sorry, you're eliminated. ------------

Correction, as I thought it was better the real way... Bobbi Sue: Hi Boys Hunter: Bobbi Sue it says here that you're a fire fighter Bobbi Sue: Yes Hunter: Explain to me in great detail what you'd do to put out my fire Bobbi Sue: Sweetheart, I don't think anybody could put out your fire Triple H Hunter: You're right, and neither could you, you're eliminated.

and the board is back from the dead, for me atleast. And I thought this is what the casting call was for? Not to be held on Raw

From the same guy who brought you those tons of Great American Bash pictures last PPV, me. http://home.comcast.net/~astro7x/vengeance.wmv Don't leach it please... I am trying to not whore it out so the bandwidth is not killed. It's just the finishes of the matches, about 4:30 in length, 11.5MB in size

I didn't know that it was possible to botch the move more than a 1:1 ratio

Eh, well you could be half right

Yeah, as said by someone else, VTR is basically the term used from video being played from a deck.

I told you already, Tuesday July 6th at 3pm Chicago Time

Don't know if anyone answered this, but Tuesday July 6th at 4pm EST... so probably 3pm chicago time. Edit: Comcast Sports Network (CCSN) is also airing it Saturday Night at Midnight EST. I have the Dish network Sports Multipack, so I just highlight Impact, press search, and it tells me when it's playing on every Fox Sports Net stations throughout the week. Very handy, and if it's preempted in my area, I can just watch it on a different Fox Sports Net channel.

From what I read, all the front shots you saw of Paul Bearer were taped earlier in the evening. They would show stuff happening on the big screen, but it would not be happening at the arena. The taped shots looks like two chambers. one with bearer in it, and another where the cement came in. The front shot at the end, and the shots from behind were live, with a stunt man as Paul Bearer. Then as soon as the PPV went off the air, their released the cell and got the guy out of there, and all the "quick drying cement" went flooding out.

So.... what happened with Jericho last week? I've heard nothing about it.

I am so tired of hearing of this... who cares, it's wrestling. It was funny as hell watching it on TV, I was entertained for sure.

Anyone want to see Great American Bash pictures? 56K WARNING!!!!! 184 images, and 8.70MB worth of images http://home.comcast.net/~astro7x/gab.html

Apparently Haas vs Reigns was added as well... I have yet to see match up screens for this match, or the Holly/Gunn matches though

He just took a retarded chair shot!

my god that was cruel, but so funny...

Bill Lumbergh was the play by play guy on "The Ocho" too... And I just realized that Christine Taylor played Melody on Hey Dude!