They crossed the Rubicon a year ago.
These are the tools they have which they think they can take over the world with.
Good luck.
Meh?
Serious but, "you people" are quibbling over 6 bucks a month to watch their catalogue?
Netflix is superior, but it will hardly break the bank to have both?
Remember how much you used to spend a week at your local Blockbuster Video?
Its not the 1980s anymore, Blockbuster is long dead and times have changed. I have been spoiled by Netflix and I am not going back to the Blockbuster mindset.
The problem is, I don't want watch CBS' library, I don't like their shows generally. I want to watch this Star Trek show, but that only justifies me having this service for a month, after I am done with Star Trek, why should I keep it? I shouldn't have to support this show by giving money to service I would have no interest in otherwise, I not going to continue supporting this service, after I have watched Star Trek, because tying the second season into how people stick around after Star Trek is finished is not a fair proposition
For me to be a long term supporter of CBS All Access, they need a bigger library with no ads or just make this service free and keep the ads, I am not paying six bucks a month for something I will get one month's use out of, that gets them 6 bucks from period, no more, no less, they want my continued business, they have to radically restructure it and they have to do it right away.
I have a mixed bag of agree and disagree:
I sense that I would agree if I watched and compared the two. But again, if you want CBS All Access to be better, they need revenue to do it. Is it not better to encourage improvement? Competition is better for us in the long run.
Except CBS All Access has done little to actually make itself competitive with Netflix at this point and more income will not improve the structural problems with CBS All Access (ads and a tiny library). Seriously if they didn't want to put this on Netflix, why not put it on Hulu or something, most of the other networks put their stuff on Hulu, it really seems foolish for CBS to try to do this on their own, instead of just going to better Netflix competitor and selling your stuff there.
So many services fragment the market. The ability to find the content you want on any service is unreliable as exclusive contracts from studios shift from service to service. It's a well-known problem. That's why providers like Netflix or HBO are producing some of their own content. There needs to be a consortium of streaming services where consumers can sign up to have access to a bundle of providers rather than a bundle of channels. The consortium would split the revenues among the services.
Well that's not happening at the moment. I would love for this to happen, but its not the world we live in at the moment, so that doesn't really factor in to anything at the moment or make the CBS All Access service better now.
I'm not going to follow the link. Amazon comments and reviews are corrupt, laughable, or both. That's why I asked for reviews from respectable and responsible, and accountable sources.
Fair enough, but there some legitimate complaints in these user reviews, are you saying these user complaints have no merit? I don't think there is big conspiracy against CBS All Access, I think their service is not very good and people are complaining about it.
This has a hint of fascism, or at least extremely prone to confirmation bias. Are we all guilty of all crimes until accused and found innocent?
Fascism?! Towards what, a giant corporation's sub par streaming service. Big greedy companies like CBS that are trying to double dip are not victims of fascism, they are being called out by consumers for a greedy corporate overreach.
Again, if you want CBS All Access to be better, they need revenue to do it. Is it not better to encourage improvement?
Will giving them more money mean they will be willing to make deals with other media companies to get more content, like Netflix does? CBS All Access doesn't even the rights to most of the Big Bang theory because WB makes that show and WB just signed a deal with Netflix to show most of their stuff on Netflix, why couldn't CBS All Access make a deal with WB to get some of their content on their service? Because I don't think its an income problem, its a management problem, CBS All Access is not as well managed as other streaming sites are and more money will not fix that.
It's not really fair since I think Disney still owns ABC, thus giving CBS little chance with Disney no matter how good it becomes.
You are missing my point, if Disney can make money partnering with Netflix, why couldn't CBS do the same? This just seems like a greedy corporate overreach on CBS' part.
Also if CBS can't play nice with other media companies (like Netflix seems to do) it doesn't matter how much income they get, their library will always be inferior to Netflix's.
Amen, brother! Keep that rant going. In complete agreement here. If enough people get together to say the same thing, CBS will eventually be called "brilliant" when it claims all the credit for doing the right thing and "reinvent" their free service with commercials or a single flat rate to avoid them.
They should be doing that now, not 3 years from now.
Since you asked... By doing anything they can to improve their services and improve their revenues to reinvest to make it what you, the consumer, want them to be. The theme of this and other rhetorical questions seems to indicate that you want them to fail - not succeed. So again, wouldn't it be better to demand that they get better, and make solid suggestions about how to do that than simply tear them down?
You want a plan to make CBS All Access better? Fine, combine CBS All Access and the Show Time streaming site into one site, instead of expecting people to pay for two different services. Then have CBS make a deal with Viacom and put all the Viacom stuff on CBS All Access, now you have a wider variety of shows and some actually movies. Keep the 6 dollar price point, ditch the commercials. There you go, a service with a decent, well rounded library that is cheaper then Netflix, it wouldn't be as good, but the smaller price point makes up for it. But CBS will not do that, heck they could combine the Showtime and CBS streaming sites right now, but they seem to have no interest, because this is a cash grab, not an attempt at a quality streaming site.
I don't like CBS All Access, because I think it sets a bad precedent, with everyone and their brother trying to get into pay streaming service and trying to drive up people's cable prices, defeating the purpose for cord cutting in the first place.
This is what I like to see, thanks! This, given an accumulation of such articles and feedback, is the sort of pressure under which I'd like to see CBS put. Here are two quotes that really hit the mark and repeat what I've been saying in this and previous posts:
This may be the single, biggest problem not just for CBS All Access, but for all streaming services everywhere. The market is heavily fractured and some big players are eventually going to figure out how to build a consortium for their mutual benefit. CBS would be smart to be among them.
Yes! Yes! Yes! These have been my two biggest points. Some dunder-headed muckity-muck with a big ego, a suit-and-tie, and a thick-headed agenda at CBS needs to be made to read that repeatedly until he comes to his senses.
But talking about hypothetical doesn't affect anything on the ground now. There is no consortium, CBS rejecting putting its stuff on Hulu makes it seem like they have no interest with playing ball with other media companies, so I have no faith CBS will improve its streaming site in any real way in the near future.
An exactly reasonable concern. Now go demand that they do better instead of rooting for them to fail.
Demand what? Fixing obvious problems that should have been fixed at the planning stage for this site, I can't force CBS to abandon a streaming plan that is filled obvious flaws. They want my money on an ongoing, fix these problems, money wouldn't fix them, a better plan for streaming will. I just think its a shame this new show's fate is tied to a poor business plan.
