FremantleMedia’s new website for WWE DVD and Blu-ray buyers in the United Kingdom and Europe (wwedvd.co.uk) is still on schedule to launch early January 2013, at which stage pre-orders can be placed for their new releases.
They will be kicking things off with a giveaway of 25 DVD and 25 Blu-ray Night of Champions 2012 inlays, signed by CM Punk. To enter the competition all you need to do is place a pre-order for the Night of Champions DVD or Blu-ray on the new website.
We have had it confirmed that FremantleMedia are working on producing a range of up to 80 back catalogue titles to be available to purchase from February 2013. Two of which will be WrestleMania 28 and Royal Rumble 2012, with the full list of titles announced soon.
The new shop site will feature a 3D pack view for all new releases, showing off the front and back artwork. Moving forward, FremantleMedia will work closely with WWEDVDNews.com on cover artwork reveals and other related announcements.
The DVDs will be Region 2 & 5 encoded, and Blu-rays Region B & C.
Listed below are the catalogue numbers for all of the forthcoming Q1 releases (format will be FHE (Fremantle Home Entertainment), B or D (for Blu-ray or DVD) and then a number).
FHEDWWE001 NIGHT OF CHAMPIONS 2012 (DVD)
FHEBWWE001 NIGHT OF CHAMPIONS 2012 (BD)
FHEDWWE002 HELL IN A CELL 2012 (DVD)
FHEBWWE002 HELL IN A CELL 2012 (BD)
FHEDWWE003 TOP 100 RAW MOMENTS (3 DISC DVD)
FHEBWWE003 TOP 100 RAW MOMENTS (DOUBLE BD)
FHEDWWE005 LIVE IN THE UK – NOVEMBER 2012 (DBL DVD)
FHEDWWE004 THE ATTITUDE ERA (3 DISC DVD)
FHEBWWE004 THE ATTITUDE ERA (DOUBLE BD)
FHEDWWE006 BEST PPV MATCHES 2012 (3 DISC DVD)
FHEBWWE006 BEST PPV MATCHES 2012 (DOUBLE BD)
FHEDWWE007 SURVIVOR SERIES 2012 (DVD)
FHEBWWE007 SURVIVOR SERIES 2012 (BD)
FHEDWWE008 TLC 2012 (DVD)
FHEBWWE008 TLC 2012 (BD)
Night of Champions 2012 Blu-ray Exclusives
RAW – 17th September 2012:
John Cena confronts Paul Heyman
Miz TV with Booker T.
WWE Tag Team Championship
Daniel Bryan & Kane vs. R-Truth & Kofi Kingston
John Cena & Sheamus vs. CM Punk & Alberto Del Rio
Smackdown – 21st September 2012: 
Edge returns to WWE
Hell in a Cell 2012 Blu-ray Exclusives
RAW – 29th October 2012:
CM Punk addresses the WWE Universe
Randy Orton vs. Wade Barrett
Vickie Guerrero accuses John Cena
Sheamus discusses his match at Hell In A Cell
Smackdown – 2nd November 2012:
Miz TV with Sheamus
Sheamus & Kofi Kingston vs. Big Show & The Miz
I still think Fremantle Media should’ve had their site ready for launch on the day they took over the contract.
Really hope they do Attitude Era Vol2 and just have matches/segments on it!!!
If you go on Sainsbury Entertainment they have Night of champions 2013 blu-ray for £12.99 and the Attitude Era blu-ray for £22.99, there prices for wwe dvd and blu-ray have been pretty much the same as silvervision, this gives me a indication that the prices on the freemantle website will be the same prices as silvervision did, it will be stupid marketing if they increased the prices in this day and age with the recession and that, if they want to attract new customers to the website or bring all those who shopped at silvervision to the new website they will have to do the prices as the same as before ie dvd/ blu ray ppv at £10.99/£11.99 and 3 disc dvd and 2 disc blu-rays at £17.99/£22.99,
They going to get off to a good start i reckon, i be pre-ordering night of champions to get the signed cm punk sleeve hopefully, it worth a punt,
I Just read on their website that one the wwe employees was happy they got the new deal with freemantle because they could use them to expand the home video and do other stuff, this means that silvervision couldnt do stuff like that so they choose not to continue, it wasnt wwe who did not want to continue with silvervision, it was just silvervision couldnt do the stuff wwe wanted to go with home videos.
A change is always good and i look forward to buying from freemantle.
Everyone is anticipating the pricing lets hope being a big company they don’t forget about the fans that would be commercial suicide. Things have to make financial sense but if Silver Vision can supply at the prices they did for new release even before they knew they had lost the license then Fremantle should do the same .. Having said that if you think about it wherever we buy the products Fremantle still get the money so maybe they not bothered … Lets see ..
I would add its good that they are being proactive interacting with the fans I have emailed the info@wwedvd.co.uk email a few times and received a reply really quickly even on a Sunday
Never buy wwe blu rays or DVDs from amazon because of the price! look around because Zavvi have
Night of champions Blu Ray @ £13.95
The Attitude Era Blu Ray @ 26.95
so a few quid saving just with a quick look around!
When i e-mailed FremantleMedia and asked when the site would go live i was told there hopeing for January 2nd 2013.
It’s good of them to go back and give European fans the Blu’s they have missed out on. Despite living in the US I am interested to see just how much they are gonna do in terms of “back catalogue” sets. I already have every Tagged Classic I needed, thus I have every WWE PPV thats commercially been released on DVD. I’m still hoping that there are some UK only stuff they re-release that I might be interested in getting.
Stoked for this, thanks for the update
Thanks for the info guys, much appreciated. Great news about the 80 ‘back order’ titles – I generally have most of what I want, but my collection is by no means complete and it saves me rushing. Now that the scratch logo issues have been resolved, it’d be nice if they made available Wrestlemanias XV-X8 on DVD again, but I’m assuming they won’t. Still, all sounds promising!
Will they release back catalogue titles on blu-ray? for example The eddie guerrero 2 disc set with added extras?
Unlikely. It’d be WWE making decisions like that I’d imagine. Titles from the back catalogue “as was” originally I take it as.
What will the prices be?
Amazon UK has the DVD version of Night of Champions at £16.50 and the Blu-Ray at £18.00.
The Attitude Era DVD is £26.95 and the Blu-Ray is £30.75.
As you can see, quite a sharp increase in price from silvervision.
take no notice of this guy, silvervision dvds and blu rays were always more expensive on amazon, we dont know the prices they will be charging through their own website as of yet. Until then, keep an open mind