CBS All Access and existing episodes
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They already are. WB is working on one, Disney is working on one, ESPN (yes part of disney) is moving to OTT. There was just a streaming services launched for reruns of only one show (though it did have 3 different series)
Well said.
Personally I don't think CBSAA is going to crash and burn. I do expect they will eventually merge it with showtime online because there isn't a great reason to keep them separae and I can only imagine they are right now due to some type of conttracts.
This! A streaming services library of originals is a rock rolling downhill. The library needs to keep growing larger and larger as time goes on to make it increasingly valuable to new subscribers.
If you are expiring your hugely expensive originals, what would the long-term business plan be? Always have one show on that has a sufficiently large and dedicated audience to pay for it one week at a time? And it better catch on fast, because you only have a brief window to make money on it before you retire it from the service! It just doesn't make sense. You can launch a service that way, but it is not sustainable indefinitely. CBSAA does not want to deal with this "why should I pay for only one show?!?" whining forever!
This reminds me of me when I was refusing to text. Or get on social media. "This is so much worse than the way we communicated before! I don't want it to catch on!"
I think your quest will be about as successful as mine were.
I'm age 54 (but have been working with computers since 1975 and professionally in the IT field since 1984). It appears you're starting to understand one of the faucets of getting older (and I don't mean my to my age, hell, just going from teens to twenties, or twenties to thirties, etc.)
In other words - you've finally met a technology trend you don't care for (expansion of the streaming service model) and would rather things not change because it was okay as it was before with just one or two services.
That's exactly what would happen. If CBSAA does crash and burn, bye-bye any new Star Trek for at least twenty years.
They might move it to showtime. That would be a viable option since cbs owns them.
Not really. ST: D will be sold to Cable outlets for syndication. because it was generally popular - Paramount will green light JJAbrams nuTrekIV. After that we'll get either:
nuTrek V
or if that film tanks, in 4-5 years, yet another small screen TV version of Star Trek; which again some fans will love/hate - and in all the consternation, bot nuTrek IV (the film) AND 'Star Trek: Discovery' will be accepted into the volumes of 'real' Star Trek; and elements of this new TV Trek will be compared to aspects from them and labeled 'NOT TREK' by a segment of fandom...
Or, if you don't get it by now: This type of thing has happened before, and will happen again; and i worn't be a 20 year wait.
The most recent news I've seen from trustworthy sources (e.g., CBS) last year was that they would maintain the most recent five episodes online. I would expect that to change the following year (a one-year lag on hosting a full season), or maybe longer if they want DVD/BD sales.
Probably not.
How can CBSAA crash and burn when the classic comedy Summer School is available for viewing, albeit with a paid subscription?
That makes no sense to do. They didn’t do this with good fight and won’t do it here.
You don’t make a show streaming only and then limit access to it with the paid subscription. That would be dumb and won’t happen.
The layout of the app kinda sucks. It isn't very intuitive. I've been watching DS9 along side Discovery,
if I get 10 or so episodes into a series there is no quick way to jump in where you left off. I can favorite the show but I still have to click on it and scroll over till I find the episode I left off of.
if I get 10 or so episodes into a series there is no quick way to jump in where you left off. I can favorite the show but I still have to click on it and scroll over till I find the episode I left off of.
^That must be a problem with the device being used to access, with (my) ROKU a 'resume playing episode' option is available.
I'm age 54 (but have been working with computers since 1975 and professionally in the IT field since 1984). It appears you're starting to understand one of the faucets of getting older (and I don't mean my to my age, hell, just going from teens to twenties, or twenties to thirties, etc.)
In other words - you've finally met a technology trend you don't care for (expansion of the streaming service model) and would rather things not change because it was okay as it was before with just one or two services.
I just turned 45 so that may be it but I don't think so. I tend to be an early adopter of new technology and services as a sci-fi enthusiast. I love streaming services and the value that they bring when you consider services like Netflix and Hulu... I'm just refuse to pay each entertainment outlet individually for media I want to consume... and then still have to suffer through commercials. I might as well go back to my cable subscription.
I suppose this is subjective, but it's always struck me as odd how Netflix is just leaps and bounds ahead of any other streaming service, in terms of the interface and app design. Scrolling through Netflix is almost as fun as actually watching something on Netflix, it's so easy to control moving around within an episode, it's highly intuitive, it almost never glitches. Compared to that, I think CBSAA is pretty shitty -- but about equally as shitty as Hulu, HBO Now, Amazon Prime, etc.
I just can never figure out why Netflix is the only one of these companies who can really master this side of it. All these other companies certainly have no shortage of resources! They should be able to catch up!
I also remain baffled that CBSAA has only the old SD versions of TNG.
Yeah for real,
amazon is close but still NF is miles ahead, exactly what my fingers and thumbs needed to navigate around. Even before they knew it.
Douglas Adams had a quote about this:
"Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things."
The theory is they don't want people subscribe for just one month to get all the episodes, then quit.
Network executives will do anything to ensure their profit, misguided or not. They certainly do dumb things. You have that right.
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