Disney Streaming Service Will Be Priced 'Substantially Below' Netflix at Launch

[ArtOfWarfare]

Once CBS takes back their catalogue, 5 of those 7 shows you watch will be on CBSAA, and the balance will shift. Not to mention the original programming they are adding to compete in that space.

Hmmm... I didn't realize CBS owned all the older Star Trek series...
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Trek_corporate_history

Looks like it went from Paramount (1987) -> Viacom (1994) -> CBS (2009)

Well, that'll be interesting when they pull out of Netflix. Can I get all the films via CBS All Access? That's one thing that seems to be missing on Netflix - I can access all the shows but none of the movies.

 

[Mac 128]

Hmmm... I didn't realize CBS owned all the older Star Trek series...
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Trek_corporate_history

Looks like it went from Paramount (1987) -> Viacom (1994) -> CBS (2009)

Well, that'll be interesting when they pull out of Netflix. Can I get all the films via CBS All Access? That's one thing that seems to be missing on Netflix - I can access all the shows but none of the movies.

CBS doesn't own the film masters (even though they own the underlying copyrights). There's one film on CBSAA right now, but a lot of that depends on how CBS & Paramount license product to each other. Moreover, by the time this all goes down, CBS and Viacom may have merged and be one big happy company again. CBS doesn't offer many films on CBSAA at the moment, simply because they don't have them. However, Showtime obviously has a lot of licensed films which form the foundation of the network and can be bundled with CBSAA. At the moment Paramount seems to have licensed all of the movies exclusively to AMAZON, except the one on CBSAA. And that's the problem with these streaming services, they are seriously dependent on third party licensors for the catalogue offerings that the series were originally founded upon, and constantly change the offerings, such that if you want to watch a particular series, or have access to it, you never know if Netflix, Hulu and Amazon will lose those rights. I was in the middle of watching an episode of a series on Hulu, and when I went back to resume it a day later -- the episode literally still in my currently watching cue -- I was met with a message saying the episode was no longer available. No warning whatsoever. CBSAA, Disney, and other such services ensure that won't happen.