Will You Pay for Star Trek?

[Pindar]

I have been paying for it in some form all my adult life, I see no reason to change.

I got my first cable package as that was the only way to watch Voyager when it came out in the UK.

I paid for the VHS tapes, I bought the DVD's then I bought Blurays. I assume I will buy the direct optic/neural implants when they become available.

 

[Timewalker]

I don't want to think about how many times I've paid for THE WRATH OF KHAN: in the theater (multiple times), for the VHS tape, for the DVD, for the deluxe DVD . . . .

And that's not counting the novelization, soundtrack album, action figures, and Hallmark ornament . . . .

You didn't have to pay for copies of your own novels, did you?


To answer the OP: No. I will not pay for this, because for one thing, I can't. It's really rich how they're connecting this to the 50th anniversary, yet excluding everyone not in the U.S. from watching it.

And since I'm not impressed by that exclusion (did Doctor Who exclude everyone not in the U.K.? No.), I'm not inclined to get too excited about this.

If it turns up on Netflix some day, fine, I'll watch it once, to see if it's worth my time. If not, oh well.

 

[SPCTRE]

 

[DimesDan]

If it turns up on Netflix some day, fine, I'll watch it once, to see if it's worth my time. If not, oh well.

From what the press release says, it'll be launched concurrently (i.e. from day one) with the CBS thing and given CBS's relationship with Netflix, they'll no doubt have the international rights to show this.

 

[Takeru]

To answer the OP: No. I will not pay for this, because for one thing, I can't. It's really rich how they're connecting this to the 50th anniversary, yet excluding everyone not in the U.S. from watching it.

The show will be sold to other markets, we're just excluded from the CBS streaming service and that's not a big deal, we'd be excluded from it airing on a regular network as well, there's no real difference, it has always been like this.

(did Doctor Who exclude everyone not in the U.K.? No.)

Yes it did and does, the episodes are streamed on the BBC iplayer and everyone not in the UK is excluded from that. Everyone was also excluded when the show aired exclusively on BBC One before it was sold to other markets.

 

[ChristopherPike]

Voted No, because CBS All Access is only for the inhabitants of the planet Houston.

Given my track record, I'll definitely buy a physical media release when it happens, individual or season sets on Blu ray, which counts as paying for Star Trek.

I don't currently watch TV that way... but I can see myself subscribing to Netflix just for Series Six, if it looked like everything I'd hoped it would be.

 

[Joanna McCoy-Kirk]

No, because I probably don't have the bandwidth to successfully stream video. I might buy it on Blu-ray, however, if it ever came out in that format.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I will mortgage my house for star trek.

 

[ChristopherPike]

I'm not as pessimistic when it comes to putting a brand-new series on DVD or Blu ray. It's sure to happen, because there's always some kind of demand to own the most recent thing. And they put Enterprise on the format after all. It was ready straight from the shelf. So it's just remastering projects which are trickier to make the numbers crunch profitably. The revitalized interest from Star Trek 2017 will eventually help DS9 & VOY attain HD. By then, I imagine it probably will be streaming only.

 

[MacLeod]

I don't want to think about how many times I've paid for THE WRATH OF KHAN: in the theater (multiple times), for the VHS tape, for the DVD, for the deluxe DVD . . . .

And that's not counting the novelization, soundtrack album, action figures, and Hallmark ornament . . . .

You didn't have to pay for copies of your own novels, did you?


To answer the OP: No. I will not pay for this, because for one thing, I can't. It's really rich how they're connecting this to the 50th anniversary, yet excluding everyone not in the U.S. from watching it.

And since I'm not impressed by that exclusion (did Doctor Who exclude everyone not in the U.K.? No.), I'm not inclined to get too excited about this.

If it turns up on Netflix some day, fine, I'll watch it once, to see if it's worth my time. If not, oh well.

We as yet don't know what will happen in other markets, in terms of the UK they could sell the rights to someone like Sky/BBC/VM/streaming service or use CBS Action to air it. Either way in the UK we'll have to pay to see it.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I will pay...once it gets to iTunes. And it will.

 

[Relayer1]

I'm not in the US so the CBS service is not an option for me

Same here - no CBS service in the UK, so I'm hoping it'll be picked up by one of the channels on Virgin Media. I'll probably get Netflix back at some time (I got it for Daredevil, but apart from that didn't use it) so if they get it, that would be O.K.

 

[Campe]

If the pilot is good, yeah, I'll pay for it. If not? Then I probably won't.

 

[The Overlord]

Well depends on how we are defining "paying for it". I may buy a subscription for a month, watch the Star Trek season and then ditch the service after that. If paying for it means keeping the service indefinitely, then no, I will not do that. I like Star Trek, but I will not support a streaming service that I think is inferior and will never use besides Star Trek, for longer then I have to. I don't care how much Star Trek VHS tapes cost back in the 90s, it's not the 90s anymore, services like Netflix have changed the game. A good streaming service needs more then one show I like for me to keep it.

 

[ihno]

Not in the US, so I don't exactly have much of a choice.

Me too so there is no question what I say to CBS:

"I'll give you my six dollars when you pry them from my cold, dead hands"

 

[Scotchy]

I already pay to see it because I pay for the movies and Dish. Unless the reviews are horrible, I would pay, I suppose.

 

[RAMA]

Of course. We've always paid for Star Trek, even before cable when people bought color tvs to watch it.

 

[Rojixus]

Since I think every show on CBS is garbage, I will not be wasting my money.

 

[RAMA]

Well depends on how we are defining "paying for it". I may buy a subscription for a month, watch the Star Trek season and then ditch the service after that. If paying for it means keeping the service indefinitely, then no, I will not do that. I like Star Trek, but I will not support a streaming service that I think is inferior and will never use besides Star Trek, for longer then I have to. I don't care how much Star Trek VHS tapes cost back in the 90s, it's not the 90s anymore, services like Netflix have changed the game. A good streaming service needs more then one show I like for me to keep it.

When UPN came about, we didn't get either station because one was blacked out and one wasn't shown (back in those seeming dark ages) here despite being between the two largest broadcast areas in the country. I had to call the cable company(I had a friend record them for me on VHS from an area where they got the channel), and finally demand brought one of the stations to cable line up. Now if it's a simple as signing up to a service I already have on my smart tv or Roku, I'd feel pretty lucky.

 

[JoeCabby]

I basically do already. Most of what I watch on Netflix is Star Trek. Although, I'm in Canada and my options aren't really clear yet.