WHen will you watch Discovery? Will you get All Access?

[Morpheus 02]

I definitely plan on watching the pilot on CBS....but for the rest of the show... will the 1 week free access currently advertised on TrekBBS be available then? (I haven't clicked yet, but will soon)

If so, I might binge watch 3 or 4 episodes in a week. I sure don't have the budget now to do so. I might be an extra $1-$2 if it were an add on to Comcast.

I hate to endanger the show, but will it be worth the cost???

 

[Mudd]

Yes, I'll buy the service. No question.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

When iTunes gets it.

And they WILL get it.

 

[C.E. Evans]

When it comes out on home video or when reruns show up on a cable/local station.

 

[Ronald Held]

I aml still ruminating over the ad free cost.....

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I get Hulu and Amazon Prime, so if the reviews are good, I'll probably get the blu-ray's when/if they come out.

 

[DigificWriter]

I definitely plan on watching the pilot on CBS....but for the rest of the show... will the 1 week free access currently advertised on TrekBBS be available then? (I haven't clicked yet, but will soon)

If so, I might binge watch 3 or 4 episodes in a week. I sure don't have the budget now to do so. I might be an extra $1-$2 if it were an add on to Comcast.

I hate to endanger the show, but will it be worth the cost???

You can't afford $6 and change right now?

That's all you need to be able to afford All Access (yes, you have to deal with ads, but you also have to deal with ads on Hulu if you don't go for the more expensive option there).

 

[BillJ]

Yes, I'll buy the service. No question.

Same here. It's Star Trek.

 

[Balok's Decoy]

Definitely going to subscribe to CBSAA and watch it as it comes out. I mean, if it is really and truly terrible, I'll just cancel. But a new Star Trek show is worth $6/month to me.

 

[Tenacity]

After CBS cancels it, but then it's picked up by sci-fi channel.

 

[Mudd]

God, I spend more than that on coffee in a day.

Which, granted, is frightening.

 

[BillJ]

God, I spend more than that on coffee in a day.

Which, granted, is frightening.

I do think some folks have lost perspective where All-Access is concerned. Damn, six bucks a month is nothing compared to the amount of money I've spent on Star Trek over the years. I bought DVD sets when they first came out that were $100+ per season for each and every series. I still buy novels and comics and toys.

 

[sojourner]

I think the real issue is not the cost, but the perceived value when compared to all of the content other services have for nearly the same price. I can pay $9 for Netflix and get tons of new content or I can pay CBS $6 and get one show.

 

[Kemaiku]

Probably whenever it goes up for a fair price on iTunes, a lot of network stuff with 10-13 episodes is being released for ridiculous prices on launch now. £20+ for DVD and £30+ for bluray for half or less the amount of regular syndicated shows.

So maybe I'll find...other ways to watch it first then bother buying it a year or two later when it's actually at a proper price.

 

[Balok's Decoy]

I think the real issue is not the cost, but the perceived value when compared to all of the content other services have for nearly the same price. I can pay $9 for Netflix and get tons of new content or I can pay CBS $6 and get one show.

I get the perceived value argument, but I mean, I'm yapping away on a friggin Star Trek message board. One Trek show is worth $6 to me. Frankly they could be charging anything up to $12, and only then I'd start to think twice.

 

[BillJ]

I get the perceived value argument, but I mean, I'm yapping away on a friggin Star Trek message board. One Trek show is worth $6 to me. Frankly they could be charging anything up to $12, and only then I'd start to think twice.

I just paid $25 for Star Trek Beyond on UHD. For a two hour movie.

 

[BillJ]

So maybe I'll find...other ways to watch it first then bother buying it a year or two later when it's actually at a proper price.

The proper price is the price people are, as a group, willing to pay for it. I don't think it's cool to talk about other means of watching when plenty of people are going to pay for it to help keep it afloat from the get-go.

 

[m.lp.ql.m]

1- About 3 hours after it "airs," and
2- No.

 

[Balok's Decoy]

1- About 3 hours after it "airs," and
2- No.

Yeah I stopped torrenting once I realized that the corporations in charge really don't have anything to lose, because they can just cancel the show and move on to the next thing. It's the creators who suffer -- who are stifled when their creation is axed and no longer get to tell their stories because people would rather steal it. And, y'know, the artists get canned.

 

[Kemaiku]

The proper price is the price people are, as a group, willing to pay for it. I don't think it's cool to talk about other means of watching when plenty of people are going to pay for it to help keep it afloat from the get-go.

I can pay less for twice as much for any other show on most TV showing today. Why pay what is probably 3-4 times it's value when it comes out because a large number of other people are stupid enough to do so?

And thanks for assuming that going around to Sarah's house and pestering to watch it there when she hates scifi instead was a remark about me doing something illegal, I presumed you thought better of me than that.

But whatever, even the slightest interactions with Trek fans these days is enough to put me off the franchise and things like this anyway.