ROH Death Before Dishonor moved to YouTube after Brightcove outage

Ring of Honor’s Death Before Dishonor pay per view on Friday night was made available free on YouTube after streaming disruptions on HonorClub, company president Tony Khan said. Khan said the show was moved to ROH’s YouTube channel after the event’s streaming provider, Brightcove, experienced technical problems that prevented some subscribers from viewing the broadcast on HonorClub. He also offered a one month credit to all current HonorClub subscribers as compensation.

Khan wrote on social media that Brightcove had not provided a timeframe for repair and that he had put the event live on YouTube immediately. Ring of Honor had earlier posted that viewers using Chrome and Firefox browsers were encountering issues while those watching through Safari or the ROH app appeared to be unaffected. The company said Brightcove was working on a solution and apologized for the inconvenience.

The announcement came during the early portion of the main card, while the ROH Pure Championship match between Lee Moriarty and Xelhua was underway. ROH’s social posts and viewer reports described a disparity in picture quality between the HonorClub stream and the YouTube feed, and some fans urged the...