CBS All Access is a terrible streaming service, and I wish it ill
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Re: CBS All Access is a terrible streaming service, and I wish it ill
#2Available overseas on Netflix? Guess I’ll reinstate the VPN.
Re: CBS All Access is a terrible streaming service, and I wish it ill
#3I don't understand why you would pay money to put up with this when it is incredibly easy to pirate. Given that it's available overseas on Netflix, a service I already pay for, pirating Star Trek is the moral equivalent of using a VPN to bypass region locking.
Re: CBS All Access is a terrible streaming service, and I wish it ill
#4Available overseas on Netflix? Guess I’ll reinstate the VPN.
I don't think Netflixs works with VPN IP that is out of country where the account holder resides. When using ExpressVPN with overseas ip location, I get "Whoops, something went wrong... You seem to be using an unblocker or proxy..."
Re: CBS All Access is a terrible streaming service, and I wish it ill
#5I wish everyone would just stop with this. I haven’t had a single problem with the service and neither have my friends, so unless you have reason to think these technical issues are widespread, who cares.
Discovery is an excellent show and well worth $6/mo to watch. If that’s not true for you, don’t pay it and watch the show later via some other medium.
The app isn’t even the worst streaming app: HBO Now has a significantly worse UI and in typical HBO fashion has 1.5 minute commercials at the beginning of EPISODES of TV (and lots of other awful UI issues).
CBS All Access was a bad idea but at the end of the day there isn’t anything to complain about: either the service is worth it or it isn’t. The only reason you see stuff like this article is that Star Trek fans are a bunch of whiners. A woman at the SF Star Trek convention was complaining that she couldn’t afford the service and felt excluded. While she was at a Star Trek Convention.
Re: CBS All Access is a terrible streaming service, and I wish it ill
#6I wish everyone would just stop with this. I haven’t had a single problem with the service and neither have my friends, so unless you have reason to think these technical issues are widespread, who cares. Discovery is an excellent show and well worth $6/mo to watch. If that’s not true for you, don’t pay it and watch the show later via some other medium. The app isn’t even the worst streaming app: HBO Now has a signif…
No paid subscription service should include and force commercials. Period.
Re: CBS All Access is a terrible streaming service, and I wish it ill
#7I wish everyone would just stop with this. I haven’t had a single problem with the service and neither have my friends, so unless you have reason to think these technical issues are widespread, who cares. Discovery is an excellent show and well worth $6/mo to watch. If that’s not true for you, don’t pay it and watch the show later via some other medium. The app isn’t even the worst streaming app: HBO Now has a signif…
No paid subscription service should include and force commercials. Period.
“Should” in the sense that it’s a bad business model? I agree but CBS isn’t forcing commercials: I pay $10/mo to get no commercials.
Re: CBS All Access is a terrible streaming service, and I wish it ill
#8I wish everyone would just stop with this. I haven’t had a single problem with the service and neither have my friends, so unless you have reason to think these technical issues are widespread, who cares. Discovery is an excellent show and well worth $6/mo to watch. If that’s not true for you, don’t pay it and watch the show later via some other medium. The app isn’t even the worst streaming app: HBO Now has a signif…
HBO lets you skip the commercials. Also, they occur before the show, not during.
Re: CBS All Access is a terrible streaming service, and I wish it ill
#9Available overseas on Netflix? Guess I’ll reinstate the VPN.
I don't think Netflixs works with VPN IP that is out of country where the account holder resides. When using ExpressVPN with overseas ip location, I get "Whoops, something went wrong... You seem to be using an unblocker or proxy..."
It works overseas, or at least it used to. My account has a billing address in the United States, where I live most of the year, but when I'm in Europe if I log into Netflix it works but only provides the titles available to Europe. The "Whoops" message is probably because it is detecting that your IP is on a block where a lot of VPS services reside (e.g., a known VPN or AWS).
Re: CBS All Access is a terrible streaming service, and I wish it ill
#10I wish everyone would just stop with this. I haven’t had a single problem with the service and neither have my friends, so unless you have reason to think these technical issues are widespread, who cares. Discovery is an excellent show and well worth $6/mo to watch. If that’s not true for you, don’t pay it and watch the show later via some other medium. The app isn’t even the worst streaming app: HBO Now has a signif…
>> unless you have reason to think these technical issues are widespread
I don't know how widespread it is, but I don't think it's that rare either. From personal experience, once in a while my "let's relax and watch [a show that I like]" plan turned into "arghh why is the damn thing not working"