USA distribution -CBS All Access discussion

[fireproof78]

Except there could be people who want to watch shows from Viacom, CBS and Showtime and think that a combined service would be cheaper then 3 different services, especially when every subsection of every entertainment company wants their own streaming service.

Since when do entertainment companies do things easily?

 

[Akiraprise]

I wonder how many subscribers are going to drop now that Star Trek is done for the season? I just cancelled mine.

 

[137th Gebirg]

How easy is that to do?

 

[Akiraprise]

Very easy. Just go to your subscriber information page. There's a Cancel Subscription link under your subscription and billing category. Click yes you are very sure you want to do it with a Why? question and it's gone. No offer of discounted billing this time to stay either.

 

[Q2UnME]

Very easy. Just go to your subscriber information page. There's a Cancel Subscription link under your subscription and billing category. Click yes you are very sure you want to do it with a Why? question and it's gone. No offer of discounted billing this time to stay either.

Actually, they offered me two additional months at 50% off (which I declined). I wonder if their subscription base is going to go back to pre-Discovery levels over the next few weeks? I know I signed up just for Discovery (After Trek was a fun 'bonus'), now that it's finished for the season, so am I.

Q2

 

[137th Gebirg]

Very easy. Just go to your subscriber information page. There's a Cancel Subscription link under your subscription and billing category. Click yes you are very sure you want to do it with a Why? question and it's gone. No offer of discounted billing this time to stay either.

That's a relief! I've lost count of the number of times I've had to cancel something or other, only to be required to waste more time by calling in the request (by being told I can't do it online) in order to talk to a "loyalty specialist" and be pestered about what it would take to stay.

 

[Spider]

Nothing beats scamming CBSAA like taking Amazon's free three day trial subscription, binging the episodes, then canceling it.

 

[Krandor]

Except there could be people who want to watch shows from Viacom, CBS and Showtime and think that a combined service would be cheaper then 3 different services, especially when every subsection of every entertainment company wants their own streaming service.

Sounds like the cable packages everybody hated.

 

[Krandor]

Nothing beats scamming CBSAA like taking Amazon's free three day trial subscription, binging the episodes, then canceling it.

You are so smart. why did nobody else thing of that?

 

[Spider]

You are so smart. why did nobody else thing of that?

Well, probably because no one is as smart, or as good looking as I am.

 

[Matthew Raymond]

Sounds like the cable packages everybody hated.

Except what people actually wanted was a la carte billing with one service, not three.

 

[JWPlatt]

I managed to watch the entire season for free. CBS All Access kept offering me a free extension when I tried to cancel.

 

[fireproof78]

I managed to watch the entire season for free. CBS All Access kept offering me a free extension when I tried to cancel.

Well, when it quits, let me know.

 

[CorporalClegg]

Nothing beats scamming CBSAA like taking Amazon's free three day trial subscription, binging the episodes, then canceling it.

That's [barely] a level above just grabbing it off TPB.

 

[Krandor]

Except what people actually wanted was a la carte billing with one service, not three.

Welll get that with things like amazon channels

 

[Matthew Raymond]

Welll get that with things like amazon channels

Is that through Amazon Prime, or do they still have their own apps you have to use?

 

[Krandor]

Is that through Amazon Prime, or do they still have their own apps you have to use?

It is through the amazon app. Don’t think prime is even needed. I know they have hbo go nd cbsaa on there.

 

[EnderAKH]

Is that through Amazon Prime, or do they still have their own apps you have to use?

Both. They have their own app, and they are part of Amazon's "Channels" program so you can get to their content through the Amazon Prime Video site and app.

 

[rhllot]

CBS needs to do another series of star trek to keep the audience, one located at the end of the 24th or early 25th century

 

[Akiraprise]

I still wonder if enough people subscribed to truly justify the cost of the series. Did they break even? We'll probably never know but I'm curious.