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CBS All Access Coming to Apple TV Channels on July 29

imola.zhp said:
The good thing is you can pick up the service and then drop it. So pay for it for a few months while your show(s) are out and then drop it until the following year. This is what we have done with CBS for the past few years, only subscribing during the summer. I also wait for a decent Raise(dot)com sale and pick up streaming gift cards at a discount, usually 15-20% off. We currently keep Netflix and Hulu year round so when I see a good deal, I just pick one up and add it to the account balance.
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Yes, in all this streaming defragmentation the possibility to stop and resume a subscription is something valuable and I really hope it will last. Honestly it seems strange to me that these companies are allowing it at all. Shh, don't tell the people out there...
 
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malexandria22 said:
I'm not convinced Disney+ will really be worth buying until 2021 then you'll at least have a few new shows to watch. They are trickling stuff out at a snails pace. Mandalorian this fall. Next fall Winter Soldier and that's it so far and I already own all the Disney and Marvel movies. But, I'll probably just get the yrly plan and call it a day. :)
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Falcon and Winter Soldier is this fall. I'm all in for Mandalorian alone at that price. My lunch today cost more than the monthly fee.
 
ikramerica said:
Forced commercials. Yay.
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CBS told me on Twitter last night that only the commercial free $9.99 option will be available, so no forced commercials.
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Caliber26 said:
How is this any different or better than installing the CBS app on my tv and subscribing directly thru CBS?

I feel like there’s a benefit to this but I’m not understanding what that is.
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The benefit is that you can share with up to 6 family members on your Apple Family Sharing group, and because CBS's app is terrible.

The con is that your subscription is only viewable via Apple's TV app, ala CBS All Access on Amazon Channels.
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Marco Klobas said:
The "benefit" is that everything is managed inside one app (Apple TV app) and the subscription goes through Apple taking the money from you Apple ID account's credit or card.

I've read that it's possible to share access to Apple TV Channels with up to six family members and that it's possible to download shows for offline viewing.

The price actually is the same and if CBS app offers downloading then even the offered features are the same.
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I've had my CBS All Access subscription go through Apple for years so that's nothing new. You're correct on the rest though.
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ipedro said:
It’s already in my Channels.

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It's been available in Canada since last month.
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Ar40 said:
Weird - I don't have it in my feed yet. I do have "History Vault" which is new.

As an aside, I've been wondering how Apple chooses the order of the channels from left to right - is it by popularity? How much the company pays to have it highlighted? Apple's own discretion? Do the other companies make agreements about positioning before allowing their service to join?

For a while HBO was the first channel, with Showtime, Starz, and Cinemax following, so I assumed it was graded based on popularity (or possibly price), but now Epix has inexplicably moved to the first position behind HBO, despite it being cheaper, and less popular than HBO.
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Is "History Vault" new? I could have sworn it was there before, but simply changed the logo.

As for Epix, they currently have one month free for a limited time on Apple TV Channels while they promote the new show "Pennyworth", the first episode of which is currently free on the TV app. That's why Apple is promoting it heavier.
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burgman said:
Does Apple add a fee for the “benefit”?
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Currently, none of the  Channels are more expensive than their stand-alone counterparts or from Amazon or Roku.
 
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heov said:
I prefer the old model of having separate apps for each service, and having the OS parse/recommend. Ala Roku.
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Roku has Channels as well. ;)
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Marco Klobas said:
If it's like Amazon Prime Channels (very likely) the price offered is the same: $ 5.99/month for Limited Commercials or $9.99/month for Commercial Free. The same prices as stand alone CBS app.
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CBS said on Twitter last night that only the $9.99 Commercial Free version will be offered at this time.

They've since deleted all their tweets about Monday's launch. LOL!
 
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I have a mix of ATv and Roku, with Amazon Prime any subscribed channels are only available through Prime, not Apps. If Apple goes the same way, it will be useless for me.
 
burgman said:
I have a mix of ATv and Roku, with Amazon Prime any subscribed channels are only available through Prime, not Apps. If Apple goes the same way, it will be useless for me.
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It’ll be useless to you.

It works the same way as Amazon Channels and Roku Channels.
 
$10/mo for one network. That's a deal? Ten or more channels and I might as well stick with DTV and get 200+ channels for the same price (even though I don't watch most of them, but that's the point).

Of course, Apple takes their 30%, so it really should be $7/mo.??
 
dmylrea said:
$10/mo for one network. That's a deal? Ten or more channels and I might as well stick with DTV and get 200+ channels for the same price (even though I don't watch most of them, but that's the point).

Of course, Apple takes their 30%, so it really should be $7/mo.??
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Nobody said it was a deal, but that's what they charge.

I don't have ten or more streaming services, but I save a ton of money compared to my friends on satellite/cable, what few are left of them.

CBS All Access from CBS direct is $5.99 for ad version, and $9.99 for ad-free version. Same as on Amazon Channels. Supposedly, the $9.99 ad-free version will be the only thing offered on Apple Channels at this time.
 
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dmylrea said:
$10/mo for one network. That's a deal? Ten or more channels and I might as well stick with DTV and get 200+ channels for the same price (even though I don't watch most of them, but that's the point).

Of course, Apple takes their 30%, so it really should be $7/mo.??
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Considering these services charge the same on all the platforms, by your "logic" it should actually be MORE on iOS/TVOS, but it's the same price.
 
Black Belt said:
Way overpriced for the lack of content. Should be 10 cents a month.
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As with all streaming content providers, the question is whether the content is worth the price *to you*. Personally, I'd pay twice what CBS All Access costs for Star Trek Discovery alone. You obviously wouldn't, and that's fine. But that simply means I will subscribe and you probably won't.
 
Alan Gordon said:
It may explain why CBS All Access deleted their tweets.

Personally, I’m hoping the person on Twitter was wrong and there will be a $5.99 option as well.
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That's currently the CBS subscription I have as well. But I can't see a way they'd be able to reconcile the commercials with Apple's functionality that allows you to download episodes for offline watching. I suspect that's why there won't be a $5.99 option.

I wonder how/if current CBS All-Access subscribers will be "converted" into a CBS Apple channels subscription.
 
EricNau said:
That's currently the CBS subscription I have as well. But I can't see a way they'd be able to reconcile the commercials with Apple's functionality that allows you to download episodes for offline watching. I suspect that's why there won't be a $5.99 option.
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I would argue it's less of a technical issue, and more that CBS wouldn't want their secondary selling point for their higher tier service to be rendered moot.

Apple could also easily (I assume) give a $5.99 option, and put up a prompt prior to subscribing that the $5.99 tier does not allow downloads if it was a technical issue.

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I wonder how/if current CBS All-Access subscribers will be "converted" into a CBS Apple channels subscription.
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I don't see that happening. For one thing, there are people like us who have the $5.99 option, and want access to CBS All Access through the CBSAA app.

If anything changes, I would think the more likely scenario is that the ability to subscribe to CBS All Access service through Apple outside of Apple TV Channels will go away, and current subscribers will be grandfathered in.
 
7/30 here and still not showing up for me. I might consider All Access for the Trek content. Not sure if I would subscribe or not, but I will say that Apple's Channels is kind of confounding for the same reason I don't really use Amazon Prime video. When I open the danged TV app it looks like more of an advertisement for what I have to spend more money on than what I can actually watch. Is there a way to segregate one's accessible and owned content from the sales pitch?
 
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