CBS's online episodes...

[Captain Mike]

Is it just me or is CBS getting stingy w/ showing their shows episodes online?...I have been trying to watch the last couple of shows that I have missed on the original airdate for the last 3 weeks and they are only showing that episode or mostly clips from the previous weeks. That really blows because I prefer watching them in order...

 

[Scout101]

yes, they are terrible about it. Pretty much the only major network that doesn't seem to participate on the cable company's "on demand" service as well. Kinda an odd line of reasoning, to not want people to catch up on your episodes once they've missed them. If they showed them on their terms, at least they'd get the commercials included. This way, they force people to download through other sources, and get nothing...

 

[Starbreaker]

CBS demolishes other networks when it comes to repeats, though.

 

[OmahaStar]

It would be nice if they would put their episodes on the cbs.com site, or participated in On Demand. Especially for their Sunday night programming. It's funny, they whine about how their Sunday night at 10 pm spot is the "kiss of death" yet they insist on letting NFL and other sports nonsense run anywhere from a few minutes to two hours beyond their time slot. It's no wonder their ratings suck, and people download the episodes instead.

If they were available on their website, or via On Demand, they could at least count those viewers in the ratings. As it is, nope. People either skip it entirely, or watch through alternative, uncounted, means. And CBS has no one to blame but themselves.

 

[Scout101]

i was gone for 2 weeks on my honeymoon, and the DVR couldn't handle everything i had so it overwrote a lot of the first week's stuff. CBS made it by far the most difficult to catch up, not sure why they think that's a positive. For everyone else, it was pretty easy to use on demand or other legit services to bring myself back to current, and ready to watch new stuff. For CBS, i had to work for it or go to less legal methods, and skipped a week worth of live broadcasts while I was catching up, which can't help their cause...

If someone misses an episode, don't they WANT them to catch up, rather than just quitting on a series because you missed serialized programming?

 

[Spot's Meow]

Yeah, it's really rather annoying. They do show repeats on the air during that week that I can record sometimes, but for the majority of their shows you have the new episode and that's it for the week, and you might see repeats during the holidays, but who wants to sit there looking through every week of repeats to find the one episode you missed? Plus you are then watching them out of order, which sucks. So really if you miss one episode, often there is no legal means of watching it anytime soon. That may have worked fine a couple decades ago when it was expected, but now people expect a little more.