This week, WWEDVD.co.uk sent out an email notifying WWE DVD and Blu-ray buyers in the United Kingdom that they are now officially “under new management”.
Below is a snippet of the email received by customers:
Hello member of the WWE Universe,
We are contacting you as you are a highly valued customer of WWEDVD.co.uk (the official UK retailer for WWE DVDs and Blu-rays) and we wanted you to know of some changes we are making to the business.
What has changed?
WWE DVD is now under new operational management. We understand that there have been some issues as of late with our general customer service and order fulfilment. Our customers experience is of number one importance to us and so we just wanted to let you know that we have begun taking steps to rectify these issues.
How will it affect you?
You can expect to see faster delivery times from us as we are improving our fulfilment processes and a better and more personal customer service level. Don’t worry, we will still be supplying the same full catalogue for all the WWE DVD & Blu-ray titles you love!
Several eagle-eyed WDN readers spotted a familiar company name signed off in the notification – Gold Ant Entertainment – the company that rose from the ashes of the former UK WWE DVD licensee, Silver Vision, after they parted ways with WWE back in 2012.
To answer the main question we’ve been inundated with since the above announcement, no — there has NOT been a changeover of the WWE Home Video license in the United Kingdom as that remains with FremantleMedia and will do so for the foreseeable future.
Instead, “new management” refers only to the company operating the WWE DVD UK shop site which, since at least 2015, has been ran independently and not by FremantleMedia.
As such, fans can be assured that this news causes no disruption to WWE DVD buying in the UK. All of the latest titles are available through the usual avenues, primarily Amazon.co.uk.
The latest inductee announced for this year’s Hall of Fame is none other than Diamond Dallas Page – and his new WWE DVD is now just over 1 month from release!
“Diamond Dallas Page: Positively Living” is still not yet available to pre-order on Amazon.com (presumed to be an error since later titles are), however we’ve now received updated cover shots of the US version DVD and Blu-ray, which you can check out below.
In case you missed it, a documentary portion will be the main feature of the set and that’s slated to run for approximately 1 hour and 8 minutes, or 90 minutes if you’re including the additional documentary-like stories on top. With the match compilation extras that makes for a complete DVD runtime over 7 hours and a Blu-ray runtime around the 8 hours and 30 minute mark.
“The Best of RAW & SmackDown LIVE 2016” officially hit stores this week in the United Kingdom and just yesterday in the United States! It will follow to Australia next month.
On the subject of WWEShop, a “$5 Friday” DVD sale is expected to go live this week at this link.
With that, the next big release will be Royal Rumble 2017 on DVD and Blu-ray – this will be one of three different WWE Home Video releases available to fans in the United States in March!
The official trailer for Royal Rumble 2017 was unveiled today:
Speaking of trailers, sample 6 minutes of Kayfabe Commentaries’ new DVD released this week – “Back to the Territories: All Japan”, with special guest Stan Hansen!
RARE STUFF: Get a look at this big lot of 40+ WWE DVDs being auctioned off on eBay this week, with loads of WWF goodies like Survivor Series 2000, Royal Rumble 2001, and WrestleMania 17!
Whether the DVDs are manufactured by Silver Vision or Fremantle is I think neither here nor there, as the DVDs themselves seem the same as ever – it was the great customer service through the website that was the best thing about Silver Vision. Therefore, if some of the great Silver Vision staff are now going to be overseeing the WWEDVD.co.uk website, that basically IS like having Silver Vision back for me. Great news!
Wonder what Steve and the other Silvervision-guys are doing today?!
Great interview back in 2012..shame it came to an end some months later..
when Clearvision was announced as the company to license TNA dvd in UK and Europe, and they advertised that their goal was to re-release the whole back-catalogue, I jumped in the sky of joy..that would have meant the original 6 pre-Navarre produced sets would see the daylight again..and to presumed reasoanable prices too..
Unfortunately, that went down the drain.. As a collector of physical releases, I find joy in the places where I still can buy to own what I love watching, wheather its Freemantle, Golden Ant, Silvervision, amazon or ebay..cos, one day in the near future, the physicals problay will… Rest in Peace.
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@Asaf, if you are looking to buy WWE : RoadBlock 2016 {DVD}, get it cheaper on Amazon.co.uk
I don’t think anybody but Asaf is, lol. Surely that must be the worst selling PPV DVD ever.
It was a general inquiry
Interesting. I’m still blocked on their twitter page for saying three months are a long wait for a PPV in the Network era.
I don’t have a problem with neither Silvervision nor Fremantlemedia. They both have given me great service including earlier deluveries!
Whether the DVDs are manufactured by Silver Vision or Fremantle is I think neither here nor there, as the DVDs themselves seem the same as ever – it was the great customer service through the website that was the best thing about Silver Vision. Therefore, if some of the great Silver Vision staff are now going to be overseeing the WWEDVD.co.uk website, that basically IS like having Silver Vision back for me. Great news!
I certainly agree with you there, I always liked Silver Vision better than Fremantle Media but I don’t know where Golden Ant is coming from
Wonder what Steve and the other Silvervision-guys are doing today?!
Great interview back in 2012..shame it came to an end some months later..
when Clearvision was announced as the company to license TNA dvd in UK and Europe, and they advertised that their goal was to re-release the whole back-catalogue, I jumped in the sky of joy..that would have meant the original 6 pre-Navarre produced sets would see the daylight again..and to presumed reasoanable prices too..
Unfortunately, that went down the drain.. As a collector of physical releases, I find joy in the places where I still can buy to own what I love watching, wheather its Freemantle, Golden Ant, Silvervision, amazon or ebay..cos, one day in the near future, the physicals problay will… Rest in Peace.