TNA Wrestling has announced today that their PPV’s will now be available online. The full press release is below:
Fans in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom can now access this Sunday’s “Genesis” pay-per-view LIVE online at www.TNAondemand.com for $34.95.
“TNA GENESIS” will stream live online only at www.TNAondemand.com, starting with the “GENESIS” pre-show at 7:30pm ET / 4:30pm PT. “GENESIS” will stream in its entirety. “TNA GENESIS” features the return of Olympic Gold Medalist Kurt Angle, “The Blueprint” Matt Morgan, Mr. Anderson, Jeff Hardy, Ric Flair, Immortal, Fortune, “The Whole F’N Show” Rob Van Dam and more!
Fans can also subscribed to www.TNAondemand.com for just $2.95 a month for an all-access subscription to the TNA archives, including archived pay-per-view events, monthly “Before The Bell” pay-per-view preview specials, “TNA iMPACT!” footage, DVD titles and much more.
Important: Please register at TNAondemand.com prior to the PPV this Sunday. We also recommend you clear your browser cache before visiting TNAondemand.com on Sunday to watch the PPV.
This is awesome news on TNA’s part. While it would be nice if the price point was lower I imagine due to their existing TV PPV contract offering a lower price on the internet would be prohibited.
While I’m cool with TNA Wrestling finally putting their pay-per-view events online for fans in the United States, I think that they’re missing the point in some respects. I have a beautiful, brand new 48″ flat screen television that shows high definition in any range available. I also have a high definition feed coming into my cable box so that if I ever order a pay-per-view event, I can watch the event in stunning clarity.
The reason that I don’t order TNA Wrestling pay-per-views is because I can’t justify an additional $35 each month on my cable bill for the three hour show. I just can’t do it.
So while I’m glad that I now have the option of watching the pay-per-views in standard definition on my 18″ laptop screen, I don’t see why I’d spend $35 for a sub-par product. Now, if the online pay-per-view feed was half price, then I think my budget might be able to allow that type of expense every now and again…
I totally agree. I think this is TNA getting it’s foot in the door of iPPV’s. From most accounts iNDemand takes upwards of 50% of teh PPV gross thus the large fee. From what I can tell if TNA is using a 3rd party they likely are only charging 5%. I know there were US clearance issues before with iNDemand. I wonder if they had to promise iNDemand a cut of the iPPV to get clearance?