CBS All Access is a terrible streaming service, and I wish it ill

Re:CBS All Access is a terrible streaming service, and I wis... by altano on Thursday January 11, 2018 @12:22AM (#16121562)

I wish everyone would just stop with this. I haven’t had a single problem with the service and neither have my friends, so unless you have reason to think these technical issues are widespread, who cares.

Discovery is an excellent show and well worth $6/mo to watch. If that’s not true for you, don’t pay it and watch the show later via some other medium.

The app isn’t even the worst streaming app: HBO Now has a significantly worse UI and in typical HBO fashion has 1.5 minute commercials at the beginning of EPISODES of TV (and lots of other awful UI issues).

CBS All Access was a bad idea but at the end of the day there isn’t anything to complain about: either the service is worth it or it isn’t. The only reason you see stuff like this article is that Star Trek fans are a bunch of whiners. A woman at the SF Star Trek convention was complaining that she couldn’t afford the service and felt excluded. While she was at a Star Trek Convention.

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Re:CBS All Access is a terrible streaming service, and I wis... by brennebeck on Thursday January 11, 2018 @12:26AM (#16121582)

No paid subscription service should include and force commercials. Period.

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Re:CBS All Access is a terrible streaming service, and I wis... by altano on Thursday January 11, 2018 @12:27AM (#16121594)

“Should” in the sense that it’s a bad business model? I agree but CBS isn’t forcing commercials: I pay $10/mo to get no commercials.

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Re:CBS All Access is a terrible streaming service, and I wis... by hrasyid on Thursday January 11, 2018 @02:39AM (#16122100)

>> unless you have reason to think these technical issues are widespread

I don't know how widespread it is, but I don't think it's that rare either. From personal experience, once in a while my "let's relax and watch [a show that I like]" plan turned into "arghh why is the damn thing not working"

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Re:CBS All Access is a terrible streaming service, and I wis... by clintonb on Thursday January 11, 2018 @01:21AM (#16121795)

HBO lets you skip the commercials. Also, they occur before the show, not during.

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Re:CBS All Access is a terrible streaming service, and I wis... by acchow on Thursday January 11, 2018 @05:04AM (#16122648)

> Discovery is an excellent show

But we agree the writing is comically bad, right?

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