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Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Dec 1, 2014 0:51:47 GMT -6
New Japan will be announcing its new streaming service tonight at 1 a.m. Eastern time. The press conference is at a secret location and you can access it at njpwworld.com
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Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Dec 1, 2014 11:04:28 GMT -6
www.f4wonline.com/more/more-top-stories/102-japan/40125-new-japan-world-details-service-available-worldwide-similar-to-wwe-networkNew Japan Pro Wrestling launches their network, full details By Dave Meltzer The press conference is still going on but this is what we know: *The web site is njpwworld.com*The price is 999 yen per month. The conversion rate is favorable right now as that price is $8.40 in the U.S., $9.60 Canadian and 5.38 pounds. *There will be a full lineup of live events, basically every major show will air live. There are four shows in December, including late Saturday's tag team tournament finals. That show will be the only one not airing live, likely because they were still working with Niconico. It will air on an eight-hour tape delay but everything else is live. Niconico will still air that show live. There are five shows in January, including Wrestle Kingdom, the 1/5 Korakuen Hall show (Raw after WrestleMania show), and the two Fantastica Mania shows from Korakuen Hall, as well as a 1/30 show. *There will be a lot of archived content including what appear to be documentaries surrounding some of the legendary matches in New Japan history including Antonio Inoki vs. Willem Ruska, Inoki vs. Hulk Hogan, Tiger Mask vs Dynamite Kid, Keiji Muto vs. Nobuhiko Takada, as well as all of the major events as well as the G-1 Climax movie that playerd this year in movie theaters in Japan. *Takaaki Kidani said that New Japan is right now the No. 2 pro wrestling company in the world as a business, but No. 1 as far as wrestling goes, and their goal is to surpass WWE and be No. 1 as far as business. *They are taking a similar risk as WWE, in the sense they are undercutting the price of iPPVs, as the big shows have been 1800 yen, and the Tokyo Dome was last year around 3500 yen, looking to increase volume with the lower price. WWE was not successful in the same strategy. They also also apparently giving up Samurai! TV, as the shows that were formerly on Samurai! TV, like the Korakuen Hall shows, will now by on the service. *If you time your order, you would be able to watch the entire G-1 Climax series for $8.40 instead of $150 from two years ago and $110 this past year. When it comes to the U.S. market, they are undercutting themselves, but the U.S. is not their primary market. *Right now they are showing on the screen the Inoki & Sakaguchi vs. Karl Gotch & Lou Thesz match. *There are hundreds of matches historically, including everything of significance from the past three years, and some matches every year dating back to 1972. *The first year goal is 100,000 subscribers. s1029.photobucket.com/user/Simonlove69/media/new-japan-pro-wrestling-network_zps9062856f.jpg.html
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Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Dec 1, 2014 11:13:33 GMT -6
Following major announcements that New Japan Pro Wrestling would be on American television and pay-per-view, the company also has announcer their own over-the-top distribution network. The service, which is called New Japan World, will cost $8.50 USD and will feature all of the promotions live events beginning this month. WWE made a similar move with the WWE Network earlier this year by offering their Network for $9.99. Events featured will include Wrestle Kingdom and the G1 Climax Tourney.
Wrestling Observer believes the company is inching closer to ending it's relationship with their current television distributor Samurai! TV. At a press conference early Monday, the company announced that the Korakuen Hall shows, which previously aired on Samurai! will now air on their own service.
Takaaki Kidani expressed his desire to compete with the WWE, and said that currently New Japan is the number 2 company as it pertains to business, but number 1 in the ring. They now plan to pass WWE, and are making more moves into American homes. The company hopes to earn 100,000 subscribers for the first year.
As of now the entire site is in Japanese, with apparently no option for a translation. Some American fans have already ordered the service, however.
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Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Dec 1, 2014 11:43:30 GMT -6
Earlier today at a press conference held by New Japan Pro Wrestling and TV-Asahi, they announced the launch of their "New Japan World" streaming service at NJPWWorld.com, which is similar to the WWE Network. This service will cost 999 yen/per month in Japan and it converts to $8.40 a month in the US, $9.60/per month in Canada and 5.38 pounds for UK subscribers. With the launch of New Japan World, New Japan announced the line-up of shows that will be airing either live, or on tape-delay for December and January, which is as follows: * 12/7 World Tag League Finals (tape-delay) * 12/15 Road to Tokyo Dome (Live) * 12/19 Road to Tokyo Dome (Live) * 12/20 Road to Tokyo Dome (Live) * 1/3 show (Live) * 1/4 Wrestlekingdom 9 at the Tokyo Dome (Live) * 1/5 New Year's Dash II (Live) * 1/18 NJPW/CMLL Fantastica Mania (Live) * 1/19 NJPW/CMLL Fantastica Mania (Live) * 1/30 Road to New Beginning (Live) During the press conference, New Japan owner Takani Kidani said that New Japan is #1 in the world when it comes to wrestling, but #2 when it comes to business and their goal is to be #1. Their goal in their first year of service is to get 100,000 subscribers overall. Prior to the launch of New Japan World, iPPV prices were 1800 yen ($15.18) and Wrestlekingdom was priced at 3500 yen ($29.57), so New Japan is undercutting the price of their PPVs with the launch of this service. Also, most Koruaken Hall shows, which used to air live on Samurai TV, will now air live on New Japan World and on delay on Samurai TV. This weekend's iPPV will be on tape-delay of 8 hours on New Japan World due to prior committments with the NicoNico iPPV service. The NJPWWorld.com is currently in Japanese, but with New Japan's home website recently getting an English-language version to it, it would seem like an English-language version of New Japan World is in the works. New Japan World is also a channel on Roku, but it is said that people have tried getting it to work on game consoles and it has not worked, so it seems like Desktop, Laptop, Mac and Roku is the options to watch New Japan World at this time. Besides the live iPPVs airing on New Japan World, the following is part of their video-on-demand content: * All New Japan iPPVs from 2011-2014 * Past New Japan shows dating back to the 1980s * Historical New Japan matches dating back to 1973 * Best-of DVDs * Documentaries on New Japan stars To check out New Japan World and sign up for the service, go to www.njpwworld.com.
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Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Dec 1, 2014 12:06:16 GMT -6
New Japan Pro Wrestling held a live press conference this morning, announcing the unveiling of their own streaming service, “New Japan World,” which is basically their version of the WWE Network.
The cost of the service, which is available worldwide, is 999 yen per month, which comes out to around $8.40 per month in the United States, $9.60 in Canada and 5.38 in pounds.
Their network will carry all of their major shows, including the four or five big monthly shows that used to air on pay-per-view, the G-1 Tag League finals next weekend, and the big Tokyo Dome event, which in a sense undercuts Global Force Wrestling, who are offering the show via pay-per-view in America at a much higher rate (although on the NJPW Network service, it will only be in Japanese, not the Jim Ross commentary).
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Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Dec 1, 2014 16:13:13 GMT -6
frmo www.f4wonline.comRegarding English commentary on New Japan World, it was addressed last night and Takaaki Kidani said they were looking into doing so. Nothing on an English language web site, but New Japan already has an English language regular site so that could be coming. There was some talk about how the Muhammad Ali vs. Antonio Inoki match is not on the site, and that's generally considered the most important match in New Japan history. There are really a ton of major matches not up, particularly a lot of great Choshu's Army stuff from 1982-83. One thing that hit me watching the 80s stuff is just how much more of a fight feel there was to the matches, how they felt less pre-planned and just how much bigger the promotion was then. But there is a ton of great stuff including the Inoki vs Billy Robinson match from 1975, Inoki & Sakaguchi vs. Lou Thesz & Karl Gotch, Inoki vs. Hulk Hogan (more than one), Inoki & Bob Backlund vs. Hogan & Stan Hansen, Inoki vs. Bruiser Brody (at least two including a 60 minute draw with no commentary), Every January 4th Tokyo Dome match ever held, plus the New Japan vs. All Japan matches from the 1990 Dome show which never aired on television when they took place and also have no commentary. Every PPV from the last couple of years is up. The bar on the bottom blows away the WWE Network and the navigation is much better (if you use Google Chrome to translate). The audio and sound quality is amazing. Takaaki Kidani didn't give any numbers, but he said today how surprised he was at how many people outside Japan signed up. He said nothing about domestic numbers, but said outside Japan orders blew away expectations.
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Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Dec 2, 2014 21:10:43 GMT -6
New Japan has countered WWE Network with their own pay streaming service, "New Japan Pro Wrestling World," available worldwide starting Monday.
New Japan and TV Asahi announced the new service Monday in Tokyo. TV Asahi owns the vast majority of New Japan's tape library, which will be utilized for the New Japan World service and on AXS TV in the U.S. starting in January.
The announcement was made as part of the build-up to New Japan's "Wrestle Kingdom" Tokyo Dome Show on January 4, 2015, which will be included on the new service.
New Japan will also be releasing select live shows on the streaming service. The full schedule for December and January was announced HERE.
The registration/homepage for the new service is HERE at NJPWWorld.com.
At first blush, this is amazing content delivery. Going through the sign-up/registration process was easy with Google Translate and the price tag charged to a U.S. credit card is $8.49. This is a very good product if you want to follow along with New Japan or catch up on the product before the Tokyo Dome Show.
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