CBS will offer us a chance to PAY MORE for the series without commercials. At that point in time, folks like you and me and gonna have to make a decision.
My decision is already made. I will NOT subscribe to any option other than free with commercials or a single flat rate for everyone to avoid commercials.
I don't see the big issue, personally. People pay for satellite or cable TV and get commercials. For the prices those packages charge, why is it fine for one and not the other?
I don't subscribe to satellite or cable TV. Amazon Prime is my only subscription to anything, mostly for shipping so the content is a bonus. I don't waste heartbeats of my life on commercials; every 30 seconds of commercials is 30 fewer heartbeats of my allotment in life. If this philosophy results in missing Star Trek or anything I'd like to see, well, it's a worthy price; I'll probably find something more productive to do with my time than give it to another company in exchange for their profit. Commercials are like a reverse Portrait of Dorian Gray, sucking the life out of me to give to someone else.
I don't remember if we've ever tangled on opinion, but you're my favorite person right now.
I don't have Hulu, but I've heard that is an issue. I'm cableless, all my content is DVDs, Amazon, and Netflix. And an HD antenna for my TV for football season.
Very close to my situation: cableless, DVDs, and Amazon (no Netflix). Commercials are like cigarettes; every one brings you closer to death. What a waste of a lifetime.
That doesn't really answer the question. All these other services charge a premium, and have ads. This service charges a premium, and has ads.
Amazon prime doesn't have me watch commercials. When I purchase TV and movies from Amazon if they are not prime, they don't have commercials. Netflix doesn't have commercials. I don't do commercials. Now, you can say this "extra service" (which doesn't exist yet) is like having Amazon Prime AND still ending up buying TV and movies from them (paying twice, if you will). But it's not the same.
Right.
Cost. Cable is outlandishly expensive now, and other options exist that didn't exist before. People leaving, aren't leaving over commercials. Unless I watch something live, I never watch the commercials, I zip right past them.
The streaming subscription services are so fractured and ephemeral in their content due to contractual whack-a-mole that the cumulative costs to get what you want when you want it can approach or exceed cable. Yuck. I've said before that there needs to be a consolidation or a consortium analogous to the Blu-ray Disc Association for the purpose of creating a single account for the billing of a single rate which provides access to a bundle of cooperating services.
Also as above, I do not subscribe to commercials. As such, there is no opportunity for me to "leave," but the outcome is the same. I don't own a recorder like Tivo, so no zipping. I don't have to since I avoid the situation entirely. I do own a Roku which lets me stream on demand, but again, I don't watch or subscribe to anything with commercials. I buy prerecorded media.
