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Apple Launching Discounted $9.99 Per Month CBS All Access and Showtime Bundle for Apple TV+ Subscribers
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Servant, Home Before Dark, Defending Jacob, Mythic Quest, and For All Mankind. In that order.
Home Before Dark is like Stranger Things for whodunnits. I love the angle of a little girl solving a mystery which would stump adult viewers like myself.
Home Before Dark is vastly underrated. One of surprise in the service.
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so let me get this straight...... people are complaining that $14 a month for ATV+, Showtime, and CBS is "too much"????
seriously? You do realize the content cost millions to make, right?
seriously? You do realize the content cost millions to make, right?
They’re not happy until it’s free.
Apple+ TV is horribly executed, so they hope to leech some sales by bundling with other streaming services.
Point is... I don't think an ad-supported option is too much to ask.
I don't have enough time to watch all the new (and old) content by all the new content producers, so I'm especially not going to pay $10 to each of them to sample there stuff here and there. I get that CBS probably views their content as "top-shelf" and above the ad-supported model, but it seems to me that they'd gain more viewers if they just had a free option that gave viewers the ability to sample, and then if a viewer gets hooked on a show and don't want to see the ads, he/she can upgrade. It's not like CBS doesn't still make money from ads.
I know most of these platforms offer 1 week trials, but in my world, a week-long trial to sample the plethora of content they offer is kind of a joke.
It’s much more than just daytime and prime time shows, think Hulu, CBS has a good size catalogue. They have $5/ month limited Ad supported tier, most classic shows don’t have Ads. Stick with your rabbit ears
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For me the trick would be to use the new $9.99 subscription to watch CL games in the CBSAA app. If that doesn't work, I'm definitely less interested. I suppose it is possible, starting next CL season, for those games to be made available as a ATV channel. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Well, to be fair, it would cost millions of dollars to remake Mount Rushmore out of a pile of human poop, but that doesn’t mean I’d want to pay $14 a month for it.
Ya I don’t see why that wouldn’t work at this point. Assuming they don’t take away CBS app access for this bundle.
That would cost billions actually.
My post is really about the ridiculousness of people saying $14 for 3 channels filled with content is too expensive. Saying 'this is not for me' is different than saying it's too expensive.
That sucks! I just subscribed to the no-commercial (nearly) version of CBS All Access because AMEX offered a discount for 2-3 months to 7.99. So, at the reduced rate, I figured I'd watch the few (FEW) series on CBS that I find interesting. So far that's only Picard, Evil,...and that's it. I haven't watched the Twilight Zone, and I'm not sure it will be any good. I will probably watch at least 1-2 episodes before I cancel in another month. I just don't see enough new interesting content. And I'm not interested in any of the 17 versions of "NCIS" or "The Good 'x-Whatever'." I don't think you're missing much, I'd just subscribe to Crave!
I just watched the free first 2 episodes of Ted Lasso -- and even though I thought it would be horrendous(!) -- I enjoyed them. I will wait until the series is complete before I take my free one week trial and watch the rest. Right now there are only 2 episodes posted, and it looks like they're on a weekly release schedule. The only other show that interests me is Mythic Quest (or whatever it's called). At most I would subscribe for one month to watch these two shows once they're complete.
Strangers With Candy is on CBS All Access! One of the few shows in their Archive that I want to watch and I can't watch anywhere else. Though, the quality looks like DVD. Seriously, 480p.
I signed up yesterday for the bundle and I can verify that CL news, highlights and replays are definitely available via the CBS All Access "channel" via the TV app. That's great!
BUT! I can't watch the LIVE match that is going on? If I try to watch a live match it takes me to the CBS All Access app where I have to still subscribe. There is no live match to select for viewing in the CBS AA channel, not that I can find. That's not good.
You have to link your appleid and cbs account and use the CBS app to watch the live stuff.
Thanks! That wasn't obvious. I wound up streaming the game over one of the local Spanish channels.
Ya it took me a few days to figure it out too after a couple failed attempts to contact support. Eventually google helped me.