That doesn't do any good for those of us who don't get Bell in our region.
News CBS All Access Coming To Canada
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The CRTC recently said that the cable companies need to have a la carte packages. The providers all had to offer those plans, but I think it hasn't quite been as consumer friendly as the CRTC hoped.
The telecoms tapdanced around the $25 "skinny basic" requirement by putting the more appealing channels into bundles outside of the basic package, and charging $$$ extra for PVR rental, administrative fees, and every other damn thing they could think of.
I recently moved from one apartment to another in the same building (not by choice; there was a mold issue with the old place and when it was realized that it was too serious to fix while the place was inhabited, I was offered another suite with the same terms as my other lease).
Of course this necessitated getting the phone, cable, and internet set up in the new apartment, and I was told to bring all my old equipment. So I did... and they tried to charge me for it again. It took two months of phone calls and emails from me, and several emails from the leasing agent to the telecom to get this straightened out. It was a $75 charge I couldn't afford, shouldn't have been charged, and the only reason they let it go was because the tech forgot to get me to sign a particular piece of paper.
So now I'm paying for a basic landline and one extra channel (I added Bravo as a standalone, so I could watch The Handmaid's Tale).
Netflix just announced an increase in its fees, so I'm going to have to consider whether or not to subscribe to any other channel bundles or services. Since I don't know if next year's lease will have the same incentive (cable and internet paid), I need to be prepared to go without, if necessary.
So the Canadian version of CBS All Access launched today. As speculated earlier in this thread, Discovery will not be included, because Bell Media has exclusive rights in Canada.
Now, the article doesn't say how long the exclusive rights last. It almost seems to be implying that Discovery will never be available, but it's possible I'm just reading too much into it.
Canadians get limited version of new CBS streaming app
Now, the article doesn't say how long the exclusive rights last. It almost seems to be implying that Discovery will never be available, but it's possible I'm just reading too much into it.
Canadians get limited version of new CBS streaming app
No loss. Everything I've seen of DiscoTrek is garbage.
Elsewhere on the board, at least one poster was speculating that maybe it's a legal requirement that DSC air on broadcast TV in Canada (or at least on cable), because production is subsidized by the Canadian government. It sounds plausible enough, but can anyone confirm or deny that it's actually the case?
Actually it makes sense so people who don’t like sports don’t have to pay for sports.
So in other words, even though CBS All Access is now available in Canada, Disco will still continue to air on Space for the foreseeable future? Which means Canadians still don't need to pay a dime for the show?
*The Wormhole, smug Canadian proudly not paying a cent to legally watch Disco.*
*The Wormhole, smug Canadian proudly not paying a cent to legally watch Disco.*
Well technically you're paying for cable to watch it lmao
As Space is a channel I get anyway, I guess I should say not paying extra.
But it still isn’t on a channel that is available for free to everybody.
In all the cbsaa threads people never seem to seiarate the idea of “I don’t have to pay extra” from “its free”.
Well, from my perspective it's the same damn thing. I'm still spending money I would have been spending anyway, on a channel I've been getting for nearly twenty years now. As far as I'm concerned, Disco is free to me.
Free to you is not free though. People saying it is free implies free to everybody which it isn’t in any country.
It is in my head canon.
#retcon
Might have been me. The thing to keep in mind here is that Bell in Canada has a lot of clout. They have a lot of weight to do what's in their best interests. They also have their own streaming network with lots of content, which does complicate things. So from that standpoint, newcomer CBS-AA comes in, and it's not exactly in a good position to demand it. That's partly why I feel the situation likely won't change. As far as broadcasting it on TV , if we can judge it based on other similar production agreements, then I'd venture to say yes. It's very likely in the contract they signed when they made the deal between production partners and it's likely mandated by the government. And I'm guessing here, but it's also likely Bell negotiated ahead of production for the rights to air it.
That said, it doesn't exactly make CBS-AA all that enticing. I'm imagining they'd have to have a different exclusive lined up, maybe if it's even just one of CBS's shows not accessible to Canadians anywhere already. Otherwise, it's going to have a very tough time here.
Maybe if you didn't watch it with your eyes closed...
then why are you in this subforum
That's the only way I can tolerate the "Klingon" scenes... along with muting the sound.Maybe if you didn't watch it with your eyes closed...
Do you think that DiscoTrek is the only reason a Canadian viewer might be interested in this service? There is lots of other content I don't get to watch because it's geoblocked in Canada.
Besides, there's a bare chance the show might improve.
Maybe.
If they never have another "Klingon" on it and stop pretending it's in the same universe as TOS.
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