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UFC and WWE PPV matches on iTunes

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Not sure if you're an Apple guy, but I discovered tonight that UFC and WWE sell individual PPV matches in the Canadian iTunes store. These have been available in the US for a while, but now us Canucks can get in on the action. So instead of buying an entire DVD or BluRay, you can cherry-pick the best matches from PPVs for a few dollars. Sweet deal. I'm just downloading the two title matches from Elimination Chamber. Shame Amazon just shipped my Mania BluRay or I would have forgone the entire show to buy the top few matches individually for a third of the total price.

It's a neat idea, but $3.00 a match!?  I thought iTunes was supposed to be all about the $0.99 price point?   

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  1. jvc113May 18, 2012 at 9:16 AM

    videos have always been $1.99, and the HD video is $2.99.

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  2. MikeJenkinsonMay 18, 2012 at 9:36 AM

    Even music isn't always 99 cents anymore - it's mostly $1.29 per song.

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  3. Scott KeithMay 18, 2012 at 9:42 AM

    Yeah, but regular WWE matches are 2.99, and HD are even more expensive.  Must be a Canadian thing, but I just don't see the value there.  Perhaps I was spoiled by the Classics website where a flat rate got you as much as you could watch, I dunno.  

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  4. MikeJenkinsonMay 18, 2012 at 9:49 AM

    The value, for me at least, is that I can buy the two Elimination Chamber matches in HD for $7, stream them in HD to my HDTV from my iPhone using the Apple HDMI cable and not have to spend $25 from Amazon.ca on the Elimination Chamber DVD (and the BluRay isn't even out yet...). I get what I want, I spend less money.

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  5. bignasty96May 18, 2012 at 9:56 AM

    I know it's not HD (usually) but you can find just about any match you could ever want on YouTube.

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  6. MikeJenkinsonMay 18, 2012 at 10:00 AM

    Sure. But being a former content producer (newspaper guy), I expected people to pay for the content I provided, and so I don't pirate stuff.

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  7. KB WrestlingreviewsMay 18, 2012 at 10:04 AM

    TNA lets you rent their PPVs for 99 cents a week.  I'm thinking they're ahead of the WWE on this one.

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  8. Kyle WarneMay 18, 2012 at 11:44 AM

     I must admit, that is something TNA did right (it almost hurts to say it!)

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  9. jvc113May 18, 2012 at 2:54 PM

    Yeah, it's a Canadian thing. Theyre $1.99/2.99 for sd/hd versions. But it's just stuff off the already released DVDs. If they were really ahead, they'd be releasing more of the content that's not available anywhere else. Like, if you liked the Clash of the Campions retrospective, go to iTunes to find every match from every clash of the champions, and download extras at $2 a pop.

    Silly thing: the wm28 matches are out, and the Sheamus 0:18 title win costs as much as the 50:00 Hell in the Cell.

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