ROH to stop doing live IPPVs

[Stopspot]

Statement from Ring of Honor to PWinsider:

This past weekend at "Best in the World" in Baltimore, MD , Ring of Honor proved once again from top to bottom why our talent is truly the best in wrestling today. Unfortunately, there were some issues with the live iPPV stream that wound up distracting from the energy and action in ring. For this, we sincerely apologize to all fans that encountered problems.

Because of how much we value the support of our fans, and understand the imperfections of the live streaming technology, "Best in the World" will be the last iPPV stream that we will be broadcasting live. All future main event shows will now be offered as a Video On Demand, which will allow Ring of Honor to present a flawless show and truly depict the excellence of our product.

From now on, fans can watch ROH Wrestling on TV, VOD, or DVD, however there is still nothing like seeing Ring of Honor in person. We thank you for your continued support and are excited to be moving forward.

Ring of Honor Wrestling

Danielson Senhor Perfect GrammarNazi82

About damn time. Other indy companies should also look into this. I'm looking at you Gabe Sapolsky family.

 

[Crayo]

Wise decision. The only publicity I ever saw after most RoH's PPV's were negative responses to their consistent streaming problems. It's a different ball game when you're delivering a product people have paid for and don't deliver it to perfection. Though I'm thinking this creates less revenue, so they'll probably want to look into finding a fix for their streaming issues.

 

[Snowman1]

Brilliant decision, anything to take heat away from the company. Came away from this reading the reports that you're much better off stealing their content instead of buying their iPPV because the downloads looked a hell of a lot better than the streams. Obviously that should never be the case.

Don't see how the lack of a live feed will get you many fewer buyrates though. Yeah there might be spoilers but if you just offer the show after it ends even those won't be that big a deal *knock on wood*.

 

[GrammarNazi82]

hew: Awesome news. Glad they finally decided to take this step after having such consistent poor results with live streaming. Kudos to you, ROH.

 

[DK JAMES]

Damn that's awesome. Good for them.

 

[Senhor Perfect]

About fucking time! iPPV has been horrible from the start. Tape em like TNAs one night only PPVs and things will turn out a lot better. Also, totally disagree with sentence 1 of that story.

 

[Danielson]

I never had problems but I have one of the faster internet connections in the u.s. Not sure if that had something to do with it or not.

 

[Roray]

This isn't "Good" for them.

It's a smart move, but it's not a good one.

This will totally bring down sales, the excitement of watching an ROH iPPV, and overall is just a bad move. How do they expect to advance if they can't even get a good PPV broadcast going??

Hopefully in the future they could get a better deal/provider for the iPPVs going.

 

[Pop Tatari]

Its for the best at the end of the day.It was gaining way too much negative exposure and the its was stopping viewers from seeing memorable moments such as Jay Briscoes title win.