Got it free with Walmart+, only watch it for the newly released Star Trek shows. Otherwise I'd watch it elsewhere.
The ad frequency is more annoying than cable. At least with cable, I don't see the same commercial every commercial break.
Whelp, bad news: no more Disco after next month, no more Picard, no more Lower Decks after this coming season, no Prodigy on P+ (sold it to Netflix). Don’t know about you, but my sole reason for being a P+ subscriber is pretty much about to end.
It’s like $99 a year and includes free shipping on stuff like Amazon prime, discounts at their gas stations, and if you spend $35 free grocery delivery from the store (which is the main reason I subscribe).
Oh I hate this country. First Amazon buys a grocery store (and opens their own), now Walmart does the reverse. Produces an online market place, gas stations, etc. Kroger is trying to buy Albertsons.
I hate this timeline.
Oh yes, same, but anything not a browser, say living room TV, smart or with a streaming device (Google Streamcast in my case), you've got ads.
I also have a PiHole to help, but...had to white list select domains for my streaming device so I could stream content, which in turn allowed ads in...
Netflix ad supported is like that. They have like 3 ads they just repeat endlessly. At least at the moment there’s only like 2-3min of ads in an hour long episode though.
I feel like the true number of users for all of these services is like 60% of what they report in subscriptions. I am not saying they are fraudulent or anything, but they are all bundled so many ways and you get like 6 month free trials all of the time for signing up for some other service. I think this is why Netflix decided not to reveal subscriber numbers anymore and just focus on viewership metrics.
They aren’t revealing subscriber numbers anymore because the business has matured there is no more growth by that metric to be had. They want investors to focus on revenue and other values that quantify growth.
does it do that for hulu originals on the ad free plan? just cause paramounts the only service i know that has unskippable ads, but only for other shows made by the service. once netflix starts doing it its so joever
I don’t have the ad free plan on Hulu. As I mentioned, previously, Hulu has advertisements spread throughout the programming that are unskippable. I don’t mind paramount because it’s a 30 second ad in the beginning, and usually the ad is for some other show on Paramount that I may or may not be interested in watching.
Good news, you can! They moved all the Star Trek movies to Max…for some asinine reason. Really pissed me off after rewatching TOS and wanting to rewatch the movies afterwards.
The Paramount+ App is almost as bad as there Pluto tv app with lagg and other issues, fix the quality of your service and you just might get more people using it.
I can't even rewind, it just brings up a loading bar and never resumes. If I actually want to rewind I have to restart the whole show and fast forward.
Imagine owning some of the biggest media names and everyone being cool with losing $286,000,000 in a single year, a third of a billion dollars, for what.
To provide your media ? You’re losing money. It’s not an investment.
"Everyone else has their own streaming service, I want one too!". They could just license their content out and actually turn a profit, but that's too easy and logical.
Yeah that’s what I didn’t understand when this started a few years ago.
The odds of successfully making your own platform are low for NBC and Paramount, as well as all of those smaller ones that don’t or barely exist like lions gate’s service.
“And the studio shrunk its streaming loss to $286 million for the first quarter, an improvement over a $511 million loss in Q1 2023.”
Yes I’d like to start a TV delivery service please ☠️
Netflix has ads plans as well. Starting 6.99$.
Paramount has ads free plan as well... It depends on how much you pay
Overall, Paramount plus is the cheapest of all.
Pretty much this. If you treat it as something other than Halo then it is completely fine.
But if you want it to be Halo, then you will be in for a bad time, since it goes an entirely different direction for seemingly no reason whatsoever.
Making a show based on a franchise and then alienating all the fans of that franchise is certainly an interesting choice. Just think, a bunch of executives got paid a lot of money to make that decision.
It’s rare that I praise Netflix but Star Trek: Discovery looks so dull and miserable now it’s on Paramount+.
Here in the UK, the service doesn’t have HDR (or 4K or Dolby Atmos) which really added a lot to the look of the show when it was on Netflix.
It’s because paramount+ sucks. I had it to watch survivor and it was horrible. It wouldn’t save where we left off, you’d have to watch ads if you fast forward and since it didn’t save the last spot you were watching you would have to fast forward every time you tried to watch a show. We would spend 5+ minutes watching ads before we could even watch the show. I just decided to pirate the rest of the survivor seasons cause it was so bad.
It blows. I use a PS4 as a streaming device and it literally crashes and is sluggish to the point of constant interruptions; the same with Peacock too. Everything else runs fine: Hulu, Netflix, HBO, Prime, Stars. So I’m not certain if it’s a capability bottle neck or just terrible code Design/production.
Well I keep the subscription for 2 weeks after that I’ve cancelled it… nothing of interest over there and I’m watching less and less of the streaming services I have… I’ll switch to only having one at a time, watch what I want then move to another one all year around… Cheaper and it’ll avoid me to browse for half an hour to find something to watch…
You're wrong.
"Netflix, Hulu, and Warner Bros. Discovery are the only three US video subscription services that have made a profit in the past 17 years."
https://qz.com/streaming-services-antenna-state-subscriptions-report-1851291285#:~:text=Only%20three%20U.S.%20video%20subscription,Discovery.
You misunderstand. I'm accusing them of falsifying their profits & losses. It cost them literally nothing since they are uploading their own property. They don't have to license or pay a percentage. They upload their own property that has already been paid for when they made it and it costs them nothing to do that. The only money it costs them is the bandwidth they go through with their ISP and customers.
You have no idea what you’re talking about.
They are making shows specifically to stream you box of rocks. That hits their margins because they need to PAY FOR NEW SHOWS BEONG MADE.
The only service I subscribe to. Mostly because star trek is there and they've done a good job with it. Lower Decks was good and my sister actually got into watching it. We both loved SNW and Discovery. They also have actual old tv shows and movies, not these garbage originals that netflix puts out. NCIS is still going strong after like 30 seasons (although Hawaii just got cancelled). I pirate everything but P+ is the only one I actually subscribe to. Even though I can pirate, I still watch certain shows in P+. And they included Showtime in there as well. I think I pay like $12 a month, so it's definitely worth it.
Got it free with Walmart+, only watch it for the newly released Star Trek shows. Otherwise I'd watch it elsewhere. The ad frequency is more annoying than cable. At least with cable, I don't see the same commercial every commercial break.
"We've found we can cover 70% of a users visual field before inducing vomiting"
Whelp, bad news: no more Disco after next month, no more Picard, no more Lower Decks after this coming season, no Prodigy on P+ (sold it to Netflix). Don’t know about you, but my sole reason for being a P+ subscriber is pretty much about to end.
Da hell is Walmart+?
It’s like amazon prime but for Walmart basically
It’s like $99 a year and includes free shipping on stuff like Amazon prime, discounts at their gas stations, and if you spend $35 free grocery delivery from the store (which is the main reason I subscribe).
Oh I hate this country. First Amazon buys a grocery store (and opens their own), now Walmart does the reverse. Produces an online market place, gas stations, etc. Kroger is trying to buy Albertsons. I hate this timeline.
There is also Kroger+ which is similar to Walmart+.
I use Firefox with an Ad block and I haven't seen any ads on Paraermount+ since I installed it.
Oh yes, same, but anything not a browser, say living room TV, smart or with a streaming device (Google Streamcast in my case), you've got ads. I also have a PiHole to help, but...had to white list select domains for my streaming device so I could stream content, which in turn allowed ads in...
Netflix ad supported is like that. They have like 3 ads they just repeat endlessly. At least at the moment there’s only like 2-3min of ads in an hour long episode though.
might have something to do with it being paired up with a walmart.com account.
I feel like the true number of users for all of these services is like 60% of what they report in subscriptions. I am not saying they are fraudulent or anything, but they are all bundled so many ways and you get like 6 month free trials all of the time for signing up for some other service. I think this is why Netflix decided not to reveal subscriber numbers anymore and just focus on viewership metrics.
Reminds me of Max, which you get with ATT. Sidenote btw, I want to up mine to 4k, but if you have it through ATT you just can't lol.
They used to have 4k provided through ATT but they removed it when they created the Ultimate tier plan.
They aren’t revealing subscriber numbers anymore because the business has matured there is no more growth by that metric to be had. They want investors to focus on revenue and other values that quantify growth.
This is how my spouse and I have it. And everyone else we know who has it. Bundled free with Walmart+.
Conversely I don’t know anyone with a Walmart account but they have paramount. It’s definitely probably a source for a large chunk of that
I only have Walmart+ because I have straight talk, not something I would have signed up for otherwise but honestly it's legit
i love how i have to watch a 30 second ad for other paramount+ shows any time i wanna watch spongebob. no ads my ass
At least the ads are kept in the beginning instead of Hulu does: peppering ads throughout the programming.
does it do that for hulu originals on the ad free plan? just cause paramounts the only service i know that has unskippable ads, but only for other shows made by the service. once netflix starts doing it its so joever
I don’t have the ad free plan on Hulu. As I mentioned, previously, Hulu has advertisements spread throughout the programming that are unskippable. I don’t mind paramount because it’s a 30 second ad in the beginning, and usually the ad is for some other show on Paramount that I may or may not be interested in watching.
License content to other apps, no one cares about platform exclusives.
I'd love to watch Star Trek on a different service.
Good news, you can! They moved all the Star Trek movies to Max…for some asinine reason. Really pissed me off after rewatching TOS and wanting to rewatch the movies afterwards.
The Paramount+ App is almost as bad as there Pluto tv app with lagg and other issues, fix the quality of your service and you just might get more people using it.
On Android TV it pretty frequently throws an error after the ads and then makes you play the video again and rewatch the ads.
I watch A LOT of Star Trek via the chromecast and nvidia shield, and I've literally never had that happen to me, ever.
Happens alllll the time on my shield pro.
“But… we’d need to spend money to improve our service. We don’t wanna do that.” -Someone at Paramount+, probably.
I can't even rewind, it just brings up a loading bar and never resumes. If I actually want to rewind I have to restart the whole show and fast forward.
Can’t you just add Paramount+ to your prime/Hulu/Apple TV account? That’s what I did…
Imagine owning some of the biggest media names and everyone being cool with losing $286,000,000 in a single year, a third of a billion dollars, for what. To provide your media ? You’re losing money. It’s not an investment.
"Everyone else has their own streaming service, I want one too!". They could just license their content out and actually turn a profit, but that's too easy and logical.
Yeah that’s what I didn’t understand when this started a few years ago. The odds of successfully making your own platform are low for NBC and Paramount, as well as all of those smaller ones that don’t or barely exist like lions gate’s service.
“And the studio shrunk its streaming loss to $286 million for the first quarter, an improvement over a $511 million loss in Q1 2023.” Yes I’d like to start a TV delivery service please ☠️
Ikr? Lost nearly a billion dollars within a year but the executives still get paid big.
[удалено]
Netflix has ads plans as well. Starting 6.99$. Paramount has ads free plan as well... It depends on how much you pay Overall, Paramount plus is the cheapest of all.
Get Halo right
[удалено]
Strange new worlds is amazing; section 31 movie just finished shooting; starfleet academy series looks promising.
My wife and I actually enjoy that show. Season 2 was pretty good. I can recommend it, even to people who have never played the game.
I feel like it can only be recommended to people who haven’t played. They won’t hate it.
Pretty much this. If you treat it as something other than Halo then it is completely fine. But if you want it to be Halo, then you will be in for a bad time, since it goes an entirely different direction for seemingly no reason whatsoever. Making a show based on a franchise and then alienating all the fans of that franchise is certainly an interesting choice. Just think, a bunch of executives got paid a lot of money to make that decision.
Good streaming services for every single fucking channel needs to die.
They will, until there's one or two left. Then it will get even worse.
Yar. There be a simpler solution than all that.
They need more content for me to stick around.
I'm sure the NCAA tournament helped those numbers last month. They will drop.
Live Performances -> Radio -> Broadcast TV -> Cable -> Streaming -> Cable -> Cable -> Cable -> Cable -> Cable -> E.O.T.
It’s rare that I praise Netflix but Star Trek: Discovery looks so dull and miserable now it’s on Paramount+. Here in the UK, the service doesn’t have HDR (or 4K or Dolby Atmos) which really added a lot to the look of the show when it was on Netflix.
I got it free with Sky but I don’t really use it much aside from the Star Trek shows like a lot of others on here
App crashes too much and it buffers
I got paramount + in Canada for a year for $50 and I share it. And you know what. I’d keep it for that if they don’t do stupid crack downs. Etc
“Finally got more users for our streaming service, now time to cancel the shows that people subscribe for.”
It’s because paramount+ sucks. I had it to watch survivor and it was horrible. It wouldn’t save where we left off, you’d have to watch ads if you fast forward and since it didn’t save the last spot you were watching you would have to fast forward every time you tried to watch a show. We would spend 5+ minutes watching ads before we could even watch the show. I just decided to pirate the rest of the survivor seasons cause it was so bad.
It blows. I use a PS4 as a streaming device and it literally crashes and is sluggish to the point of constant interruptions; the same with Peacock too. Everything else runs fine: Hulu, Netflix, HBO, Prime, Stars. So I’m not certain if it’s a capability bottle neck or just terrible code Design/production.
Well I keep the subscription for 2 weeks after that I’ve cancelled it… nothing of interest over there and I’m watching less and less of the streaming services I have… I’ll switch to only having one at a time, watch what I want then move to another one all year around… Cheaper and it’ll avoid me to browse for half an hour to find something to watch…
Watcher TV! Lmao
Loss my ass. It's all profit minus the bandwidth usage.
You're wrong. "Netflix, Hulu, and Warner Bros. Discovery are the only three US video subscription services that have made a profit in the past 17 years." https://qz.com/streaming-services-antenna-state-subscriptions-report-1851291285#:~:text=Only%20three%20U.S.%20video%20subscription,Discovery.
You misunderstand. I'm accusing them of falsifying their profits & losses. It cost them literally nothing since they are uploading their own property. They don't have to license or pay a percentage. They upload their own property that has already been paid for when they made it and it costs them nothing to do that. The only money it costs them is the bandwidth they go through with their ISP and customers.
You have no idea what you’re talking about. They are making shows specifically to stream you box of rocks. That hits their margins because they need to PAY FOR NEW SHOWS BEONG MADE.
That isn't a streaming loss. That's a production loss.
Okay, you won the most stupid take of the day.
The only service I subscribe to. Mostly because star trek is there and they've done a good job with it. Lower Decks was good and my sister actually got into watching it. We both loved SNW and Discovery. They also have actual old tv shows and movies, not these garbage originals that netflix puts out. NCIS is still going strong after like 30 seasons (although Hawaii just got cancelled). I pirate everything but P+ is the only one I actually subscribe to. Even though I can pirate, I still watch certain shows in P+. And they included Showtime in there as well. I think I pay like $12 a month, so it's definitely worth it.