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Star Trek Discovery fans???
Okay, this is a totally self-serving post. I am about to move into my very own purchased house (YAY!)in the coming weeks, and I am reviewing my choice of streaming tv. I currently have Hulu streaming plus on-demand tv for about $44 a month. It includes CBS on demand, but NOT the Star Trek series. That is their carrot to entice consumers to buy their All-Access service. Is it worth it? I resent their tactic but may like the product.

I am thinking of dropping back to the $12 on-demand-only option but then maybe add CBS All-access for $6 a month. I have roku, which already gives me free apps for ABC & NBC on-demand stuff.

I am soliciting opinions on the value or quality of that Star Trek series, and maybe also the whole CBS app. What do you all think? ?

P.S. I refuse to deal with Cox cable tv, because of years of experience with them playing bait and switch with the fees. Robber barons!

MikeInBatonRouge 8 Apr 30
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Totally not helpful to your inquiry, but save yourself some cash and skip that show entirely. It's awful!

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I have Amazon any my son pays for Netflix. The problem is, you'd be paying hundreds a month for all the services to see every show that looks interesting (such as the Star Trek series). However, these series will eventually appear on Amazon or Netflix once they're done soaking them for what they are worth on their own service and I can wait.

godef Level 7 May 1, 2018
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I pay 5.99 for it. The commercials are limited

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Oh to be a pirate, new Klingons sux BTW.

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It's a work in progress, but certainly quality tv. It's a shame to me that between the recent Star Trek movies and the new tv series they have trampled all over the ST mythology, which is what it, as entertainment, is. Borrowing this and taking and changing that. There have been too many cooks at the ST broth, but the damage is now done. The design and technology and story lines of the Discovery series just do not fit the pre-captain Kirk period, but as long as you can suspend disbelief it's ok I guess. I love good quality science fiction and will take whatever I can get. But to me the ST "universe" has been gutted and filleted by unrestrained meddling. Shame.

Purist. I loved the humor and concepts of the original, which I certainly watched as a kid, but the execution was clumsy and the budget way too cheep. So I think the later series were a big improvement, mostly. And if you can't suspend disbelief, you might as well not watch sci-fi. ?

@MikeInBatonRouge no, I don't think I'm a purist. Of course the production values will improve over time. But mythologies need to have an internal logic, a consistency within that imaginary place. The Star Wars people, despite being space opera rather than science fiction, have done a better job generally in reconciling their past, present and future story lines. In ST they just cut and slice anything they want from the past and tough if it doesn't fit. Captain Pike in the original series went off to live in a VR beings type planet as he was very disabled. But in a movie a while back he was killed by Khan who was a silly reinvention of the original played by Montalban. No sense. They've got tech in Discovery that just couldn't exist. No problem. No big wars with Klingtons in ST TOS but a run in or two only. In Discovery, huge wars almost destroy the Federation. On it goes. You end up going, ok whatever. But the attachment to the mythology is impaired. The movies haven't been that successful. This new series is doing ok but not a runaway success. People have said similar things about it. I stand by what I said. I fear ST will fizzle into its own contradictions and inconsistencies as loyalty dissipates. Too many cooks, as I said.

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We love Star Trek: Discovery! We have been on CBS: All Access since it started, and then Discovery came out, and OMG, we loved it! We pay $10.99 per month, for no commercials, but watch 10 other CBS shows regularly. We're old...

N7EIE Level 6 May 1, 2018

Ooh, which shows? Just curious. I can think of Stephen Colbert, James Corden(Late Show and Late Late Show), Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon,and 60 minutes.

Oooh, boy, a lot: CBS evening news, Late Show, Big Bang, Mom, Madam Secretary, Young Sheldon, Sherlock, Seal Team, Bull, CBS Sunday Morning, Salvation, Discovery, and some others...

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tv is for my visitors when/if I bored them, 10 mins of news daily, nothing to watch until nfl regular season and I endulge in season pass online to follow one single team.

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Congratulations on the home man. As far as STD is concerned. Starts off slow... so so slow. I almost stopped watching but it gets so much better..

I only have internet access because I steam everything online. No hulu, netflix, etc etc. So I don't think it's worth paying for the extra service as I can find anytbing I want to watch online. However I see the appeal. I don't watch many TV shows though. Never seen GOT or any of the hot new shows. Sci fi I will follow though.

You have watched STD (unfortunate abbreviation, btw) online without CBS streaming service? How?

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I have the Xfinity Triple Play package from comcast. It includes 220 cable channels with nothing on that I want to watch. On Demand service that I use for maybe a half dozen shows total. A landline .... don't know why .... And fairly decent internet access.

The total bill this month is $220. I think I'm getting soaked. Decide for yourself. Oh! And no, I can't watch ST Discovery either.

Wow! That's a bill! I ditched Cox for far less offense. But, I still have to have internet. The only choices where I am are Cox or at&t. Neither is trustworthy. I have absolutely no brand loyalty. The details change every year. I feel the need to keep comparing options every so often. That is the only hope we have to make these money-grubbing huge corporations prove their value to compete for our business. I wish there was such a thing as home-grown wifi.

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I haven't had cable or satellite for over two years. I do have CBS on demand which is what I watch Star Trek on.

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First, congrats on your home purchase. I bought a house myself last October. =]

So I am a HUGE ST and Sci-Fi fan but I absolutely despise CBS for using this method of marketing. It's as bad as Don King "pioneering" PPV for boxing. What an effing rip! With that said, I think CBS has the balls to do it because they know they have a great product. I'm sorry, I refuse to pay for it in that manner. I may buy the series on Blu-Ray if/when it is released. And BTW, ALL cable companies and telecoms play that game with your service. There is no escape from the colluding collective. 😉

No escape? You may be right, but I still like to resist the worst offenders. That is what I love about the Roku streaming stick. I initially had an Amazon fire stick, which I thought was great but had certain set apps. It finally overheated and died. So out of curiosity, I tried Roku. So glad I did. It not only has an array of loaded apps, but makes it easy to search a huge catalog of other apps and load them. A fair portion are free to use. That is how I discovered both ABC and NBC have totally free news apps and apps for their other feature series. Alas, CBS is so propriatary, they want to SELL everything. But ...Star Trek! (Insert Whiny tone) lol

Think about it. Amazon has its own Prime that competes with Netflix and Sony and HULU programming, that it obviously would like to promote. Roku the first smart devise on the market, does not have any of its own movie or tv programming to promote, so producers of programming content are going to be less likely to block them as a competitve rival. There is a LOT available on Roku!

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Geeze Mike... i don't know how you can play any other game but theirs. They got it all sowed up.

"Theirs?" Whose? CBS? HULU?

@MikeInBatonRouge cox... att&t... dish...all those ass holes. After awhile them screwing us is accepted. I pay a small fortune for the bundle. Internet goes out all the time. You pay for technology big-time. Every kid has a phone and or a computer or both. I use to wear a pager. That was big in 91. We can't win...

@BucketlistBob now I understand you, and YES! I can't fully escape, but the only part I feel the need to submit to from those big companies is the internet. Most of the tv programming is becoming more available piecemeal through various sources. It is not as convenient as bundling, but it is a whole lot cheaper. Roku even offers apps like Channel Pear, that allows you to stream any four of a variety of channels for free, including things like CNN, hgtv, msnbc, bravo, history, Discover, animal planet, and on and on. Some buffering, but usable, and free!! PBS Reuters News, and various apps for home and garden, automotiveshows, music videos, etc. Add HULU on demand for only $12 a month, commercial free, and is pretty wide array of tv for little money.

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No help I am afraid. We don't stream, hey this is Oz, our National Broadband Network consists in my case of well over a mile of corroded copper cable not much thicker than a hair. I would do better to put a tin can at each end and yell. However, when we moved into this place we had themed weekends. First one was Firefly, the series, then the movie Serenity. We have so many years of collected tapes and DVS that we have now digitized. Hard drives full of them, thousands of hours. All legal as we are permitted to make a copy to play and store the original which we did purchase legally. The plan eventually is to build a server to connect the whole house as in appliances, security, but also wifi access to our videos.As I said, doesn't help directly with your dilemma, I just don't like the idea of subscriptions. Unless they are free.

When I retire in 15 or so years, I already think I want to move to some beautiful scenic backcountry in the States, since I won't have to worry about commutes to work any more. The one BIIIIG consideration, though, is that it must have high speed internet available. Now that I have used it, I realize it is key to feeling connected no matter where I live. Fortunately, projections are that high speed internet will be significantly expanded and strengthened by then. What you described sounds like the rugged wilderness, indeed. (I am so spoiled. lol)

@MikeInBatonRouge I am jealous. It is so bad here we run our own internet servers to play most online games.

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It's the only Trek thing I haven't watched. Maybe one day.

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I really enjoyed the series, but I stopped watching it after the free trial becuse the streaming service was so bad. I figured I'd wait until they decide to put it on another platform.Also there is nothing else on CBS I would pay to watch.

Thanks for your observation. I wonder if the app has worked out most of those initial glitches. Before I got Hulu live streaming tv service, I had Play Station Vue. Before that, I had Sling TV when it was brand new. It had plenty of glitches and not many channels, and almost no dvr functionality. Well it has gotten much better since then.

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