My major windows to watch wrestling that fits into my life are when I'm on the exercise bike for maybe 4 hours a week and to watch old TV shows while at work. For the former, I have my laptop set up by the bike where I'm a captive audience and can maintain concentration on what I'm watching. For the latter, old memphis works great that way as do Superstars/Wrestling challenge/etc. I'm working through 84 memphis tv and 94 WWF tv at work that way. I haven't watched things with people regularly since college ten years ago but this works pretty well for me.

Apple TV, people. Stream it right to your TV.

 

An iPad is also great. Rip the DVDs to a hard drive, put them on your ipad and watch wrestling anytime, anywhere (sometimes even while watching wrestling on your TV).

 

I used to be an "I only watch DVDs on my TV" wrestling watcher but not any more. Wrestling looks great on my iPad or streamed to my TV through Apple TV.

I am incapable of watching youtube or anything on my computer. I simply can't do it without checking websites or posting on the forum or whatever. I have to be away from the desktop.

 

What I always do if there's something on there I want to watch is:

 

1. Use this site to download it: http://keepvid.com/

2. Stream it from my PC to my Sony Bluray player to watch on the big TV using a program called Serviio

 

For the podcast I use a pen and pad to take notes.

 

For things like 80s set watching or the Yearbooks, I have my laptop there. For All Japan, I actually took pen and pad notes first and then wrote them up but this too long and I prefer doing the sort of stream-of-consciousness half-arsed analysis you've all seen of mine -- I think it's more "honest".

 

For whatever reason though I get less of an urge to click on stuff when I'm watching on the tv with the laptop on the side.

 

On a side note: this is one of the reasons I hardly ever play PC games anymore. I have 100s of them, possibly even 1000s. I keep buying them too. Never play them. My hobby is reading about and buying games, and then not playing them. I think the urge to click about and check things: forum, email, facebook and so on is just too strong to sit down at the computer and play a game for hours on end.

I am incapable of watching youtube or anything on my computer. I simply can't do it without checking websites or posting on the forum or whatever. I have to be away from the desktop.

 

What I always do if there's something on there I want to watch is:

 

1. Use this site to download it: http://keepvid.com/

2. Stream it from my PC to my Sony Bluray player to watch on the big TV using a program called Serviio

 

For the podcast I use a pen and pad to take notes.

 

For things like 80s set watching or the Yearbooks, I have my laptop there. For All Japan, I actually took pen and pad notes first and then wrote them up but this too long and I prefer doing the sort of stream-of-consciousness half-arsed analysis you've all seen of mine -- I think it's more "honest".

 

For whatever reason though I get less of an urge to click on stuff when I'm watching on the tv with the laptop on the side.

 

On a side note: this is one of the reasons I hardly ever play PC games anymore. I have 100s of them, possibly even 1000s. I keep buying them too. Never play them. My hobby is reading about and buying games, and then not playing them. I think the urge to click about and check things: forum, email, facebook and so on is just too strong to sit down at the computer and play a game for hours on end.

Parv, you and I are the same in the gaming thing...I have 1000's of games to and a shit ton of old computer stuff I collect, but dont use and probably wont for a LONG time!!

 

Also, for wrestling on TV...I have one of my P4 Dual Core older machines hooked up in the man cave and run my PC to my TV using an older ATI AIW card...I put it on an older 36" CRT TV and when in full screen. be it YouTube online or all my stuff local on VLC Player, you cant tell the difference...plus all that video is at my fingertips so my lazy ass dont have to move late at night!!! With my son sleeping above me, that and headphones are a GREAT thing..

I have no idea why but I recently filled up an external with 30 years worth of WWF/E programming and I am thinking about watching WWF from season 1, which I guess would be 1982.

 

My only big gap in time right now is 2010 - 2011 and my PPVs/CCTVs/House shows end at 2007 for the most part.

 

And I guess I am missing the 104 weeks of televison in 1988 - 89 but Im getting it now... slowly.

 

Again I have no idea why since I could probably chime off the first 20 years worth of angles of the top of my head.

 

Maybe Ill make a thread about it like the death of WCW one. Except I will die before i finish.

For me, its just like my game and vintage computer hobbies, its a collection on top of being something I enjoy watching..so I have to have a full year of shows if there is one good thing in that year...not sure why...but its the collector in me, and I always think if I dont have every show, I am missing something vital to an angle...even a quick promo on a show about a feud is something I want to see....Same with old games and old computers....

 

Plus, I love the fact that I can at any time think of a match I want to see or re-see and I can go hunt it down.....

 

I call it collecting...the wife calls it hoarding!

I have Youtube.

 

And the AWA 80s set. And a Dangerous Alliance set.

 

And Youtube.

Who wants to watch wrestling in a window on a laptop screen? Just viewing stuff on Youtube takes any of the fun away from me. If I ever put aside any time to watch anything, I want to lie back and watch it in proper quality on a proper television.

 

I prefer to watch wrestling on a computer screen versus a TV screen. I'm closer to my pc, I prefer chairs over sofa's and I can do other stuff on the PC at the same time.

 

I have over 3,500 DVD's but prefer just to get stuff from youtube and other sites now. I haven't even seen 1/10 of my collection.

PS3's are great, because you can watch youtube on them on your tv. Also, you can stream downloaded videos onto them.

Who do you think watches the most wrestling per week on PWO?

 

Is it Loss? Dylan? soup "the machine"? Kevin Ridge? PeteF3? Is it El-P or OJ?

 

There are a lot of contenders.

I can garantee you I watch the most bad wrestling per week around this place, if anything.

Good question, and I'm interested in knowing who the king is. Those guys you listed are painting with oils while the rest of us are using finger paints when it comes to watching wrestling.

 

Might throw shoe in that mix as well.

I get about 3 hours a day, plus current tv.

I always thought Dylan was a freak when it came to watching footage. I think he only needs a few hours sleep at night. Kris Z is another beast who has been a stud on the DVDvR 80's sets.

Dylan and Kris Z were the first 2 that came to mind for me also. They help me put together the ECW set, SMW set and AWA set all within a year. Plus, they stay up to date on current footage and overseas shit. Sick fucks.

I wouldn't be anywhere near the top--I just have the highest ratio of shit I watch to shit that I post about, because it's pretty much confined to Yearbooks and '80s sets.

If everyone posts their average weekly hours, I'll see if I can put together a top 20 "Sick Fuck" league.

 

Chad will say 5 hours, but I know that's a flagrant lie, it has to be more than that. So tell the truth

I'm not anywhere near a contender for this throne. Average about 8 hours a week I guess of actual watching.

 

But I go on tears for a week at a time every couple of months where I'm watching about 12 hours per day, taking down notes and times for comp stuff, then set the notes aside for when I'm ready to compile to disc.

 

Compiling footage I average about 30 hours per week - but that doesn't really count as watching since I'm just flying through the shit clipping it out.

I can garantee you I watch the most bad wrestling per week around this place, if anything.

You're going to need wrestling rehab after you're done

I'm insane when I get on a hot streak but it's only in pockets. Dylan and Kris Z come to mind for me as well for "Kings of footage" intake.

 

I know Dylan is totally fucked up. ANY freetime this guy has is devoted to watching wrestling. He's doing a "Top 500 Wrestlers of 2013" this year. Who the hell does that shit? Who's ever done that? What the hell is wrong with you Dylan? Over the summer, he would pop on my Facebook IM and tell me about the latest "Outlaw" Joe Gomez or Honky Tonk Man match. That is deeply disturbing.

Joe Gomez working Afa's promotion against Dan Maff is one of the great gifts of 2013.

 

I have no earthly idea how much I watch a week but it's a fuckload and only gonna get worse because at weeks end up jumping back into PR and Portland hopefully.

Hollinger at 20 hours a week sounds like a good barometer that i don't meet.

 

I'm honestly at around 8-10 hours a week probably. Some weeks more, some weeks less of course.

Looks like I've averaged about 13 hours a week or so since the 1997 Yearbook came out and I have no desire to watch more than that.

If everyone posts their average weekly hours,

 

"Mr. Crowtarsky... zero... point... zero."

 

 

John

jdw, do you have plans to start watching wrestling regularly again? If so, when and what?

My watching varies wildly based on my work schedule. Sometimes I'll watch an hour a day. Sometimes two. Sometimes I'll go a week and watch maybe one match