How The Hell Did WCW Run INTERNET PPVS in 1998?

[Mook]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCW_Malice_at_The_Palace

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.A._Melee



Any of you nikkas know about this? How was this even possible in 1998 with 56k?

 

[trillclinton]

I remember they used to stream shyt via RealPlayer. I dont know if it was video tho, but I know for sure they streamed audio

 

[Sypress]

I was just reading about this
WWF had an iPPV as well in 96

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Event#Xperience

Id imagine the video quality was the same as those shytty clips they had on their site at the time

scramble vision looked better

 

[RammerJammer]

I was just reading about this
WWF had an iPPV as well in 96

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Event#Xperience

Id imagine the video quality was the same as those shytty clips they had on their site at the time

scramble vision looked better

The IWC asking for them 144p streams

 

[LurkNowitzki]

fukk around and miss half the match waiting for AOL to connect

 

[RammerJammer]

fukk around and miss half the match waiting for AOL to connect

Hearing this 14 times during the PPV

 

[Zero]

I remember they used to stream shyt via RealPlayer. I dont know if it was video tho, but I know for sure they streamed audio

That RealPlayer nostalgia


Taking all day to download the 19mb install file on dial up

Buffering

Hearing Ether for the first time on it (Older sister: Where'd you get that?! )



The good ol days

 

[Lord Scion]

That RealPlayer nostalgia


Taking all day to download the 19mb install file on dial up

Buffering

Hearing Ether for the first time on it (Older sister: Where'd you get that?! )



The good ol days

lmao.... that's exactly how my first time hearing Ether went. Was playing that horrible stream in Real Player then my older sis comes up to me like

 

[Ill Lou Malnati]

Lose your RealPlayer stream and get mad as fukk when your mom tries to make a phone call, brehs.

 

[Sypress]

Hearing this 14 times during the PPV

Getting a phone call during the PPV

 

[Sypress]

That RealPlayer nostalgia


Taking all day to download the 19mb install file on dial up

Buffering

Hearing Ether for the first time on it (Older sister: Where'd you get that?! )



The good ol days

spending all night downloading One Mic only to get the track with the damn dog barking in the background

 

[SirMo]

Buffering big time. It was mainly an audio stream over a k modem with a still image loading every 20 seconds or so where the video was so shyt.

 

[HipHopStan]

For the WCW Boston Brawl PPV in 98, you stared at blank screen, while listening to Tony Schiavone call the action.


The thing you were paying for was commentary on the event.

EDIT - They really loved that Sting/Hogan main event in the cage.

 

[Mook]

For the WCW Boston Brawl PPV in 98, you stared at blank screen, while listening to Tony Schiavone call the action.


The thing you were paying for was commentary on the event.

EDIT - They really loved that Sting/Hogan main event in the cage.

I used to listen to bootlegs of ppvs back in the day cause i couldnt afford it.

Tony and JR used to call it and you'd be like

Could you imagine trying to listen to cole and king and jbl? Id have to turn it off 5 minutes in out of sheer boredom.

 

[Heelish]

spending all night downloading One Mic only to get the track with the damn dog barking in the background

I can't unhear the dogs whenever I listen to that song to this day