Star Trek Discovery

stickyfiddle

VimFuego said:

It doesn't seem a very sustainable business model, all these companies setting up their own competing streaming services, as you say most people will only subscribe to 2 or 3 and happily pirate anything else. No one really benefits, customer or seller.

Next step will be offering to bundle them into cheaper packages of multiple services, either via middlemen or even company more mergers. So back to cable, essentially. 

 

Headphones

stickyfiddle said:

fretmeister said:

No doubt when the Paramount streaming service does launch all Trek will be removed from all other platforms.

I have 3 streaming subs already. I am not paying for another one.

Yarrr! 

You from Brizzle then?

dazzajl

I read about this yesterday and it all feels like a very last minute money grab. It’s also made me feel like I’m the only person left who has no idea how shiver me timbervision works 

VimFuego

dazzajl said:

I read about this yesterday and it all feels like a very last minute money grab. It’s also made me feel like I’m the only person left who has no idea how shiver me timbervision works 

nope, I am also in that boat.

dazzajl

VimFuego said:

dazzajl said:

I read about this yesterday and it all feels like a very last minute money grab. It’s also made me feel like I’m the only person left who has no idea how shiver me timbervision works 

nope, I am also in that boat.

An oar each then. Perfect:)

darthed1981

It's not the end of the world, for these reasons...

1.  Paramount + won't be expensive, and you can subscribe for a month, catch up with Discovery then drop it.
2.  It won't be for long, there are fundamentally way too many streaming services, and if you look at it...

Netflix - first to market - will survive.
Amazon - are Amazon, I think they will be fine.
Disney - are Disney and have a very strong content library, will be fine.

HBOMax - Sky in the UK, obvious target for a buy-out.
Peacock - Sky in the UK, obvious target for a buy-out
Paramount + - heavily tied to Sky in the UK, obvious target for a buy-out.

Interesting thing is, Sky are investing heavily in partnerships with the new streaming services, or at least building on their older ones - maybe premiership football no longer being the draw it was has them worried?

fretmeister

What significant IP has Paramount got other than Trek?

Surely subs aren't going to be based on Crocodile Dundee!

RedRabbit

fretmeister said:

What significant IP has Paramount got other than Trek?

Surely subs aren't going to be based on Crocodile Dundee!

It'll probably be a huge disappointment but there'll be a lot of folk wanting to watch the Frasier reboot.

Rabs

MagicPigDetective

Well that is a proper bummer. All that time invested watching three series and they pull this stunt. Like hell am I paying up for another streamling  site.I l know a few who have found ways of streaming illegally, might have to investigate that now. 

thumpingrug

Have to agree that this is not how to treat customers.  We have 4 subscriptions running at the moment ( Sky, Netflix, Prime and Disney) and it gets silly to keep adding more.  The reality is that I will drop one - for a while then binge watch a series and move onto something else.  It ultimately will cost them subscribers, not make them more money.

hollywoodrox

I’ve got to finish voyager sometime, ive only got roughly to the bit where they are entering a part of the delta quadrant that Neelix hasn’t been to, I don’t even think 7 of 9 had appeared yet.I’ve got it on an old hard drive somewhere ready to watch when I get chance .

ive got to see enterprise yet ,I recall watching some when it came out but didn’t manage to keep caught up with it . Looks like I have some to look forward to. I never took to deep space 9 much apart from episodes where exciting stuff happened ,it could be a bit political . The free gift were always good fun though 

Rabs

Enterprise has the WORST theme music ever.....

hollywoodrox

Rabs said:

Enterprise has the WORST theme music ever.....

Hang about, I’m sure I liked enterprise theme ,isn’t it written by dianne Warren or something 
I remember it being quite epic

darthed1981

Rabs said:

Enterprise has the WORST theme music ever.....

it also has the Battle of Azati Prime (spoilers) at its best it was brilliant

Rabs

hollywoodrox said:

Rabs said:

Enterprise has the WORST theme music ever.....

Hang about, I’m sure I liked enterprise theme ,isn’t it written by dianne Warren or something 
I remember it being quite epic

Dont know who wrote it or anything..  I just know I found it painful to listen to each week. But each to their own and all that  To me it sounded like a really bad Bryan Adams song...  

stickyfiddle

I don’t actually if it’s leaving Netflix here in AbDab (Netflix has Disco and Picard is on Amazon) but I’ll be amazed if e get the option of Paramount+ at all - we don’t even have Disney+ yet, just OSN which is our local equivalent of Sky I guess.

I was an obsessive trek fan as a kid and I still consider myself a big fan, but if they think Disco is good enough to justify $10 a month from all but the most diehards for they’re having a laugh.

fretmeister

Rabs said:

Enterprise has the WORST theme music ever.....

I find your lack of faith of the heart disturbing!

english_bob

fretmeister said:

What significant IP has Paramount got other than Trek?

Surely subs aren't going to be based on Crocodile Dundee!

Mission Impossible is theirs, and makes a decent chunk of money every time it rolls around. Might be good for a return to TV in a spinoff.

Terminator? I think that one might be dead now.

Transformers? They're not good films, but they're profitable. I've heard occasional rumbles about a "Hasbro-verse" that ties in Transformers, G.I. Joe and a couple of other toy line tie-ins. Seems like a terrible idea to me...

I think they have a finger in the Indiana Jones pie- those films aren't on Disney+ with all the other Lucasfilm IP...

Either way, I'm not going to be subscribing to another streamer. I already pay for Netflix and Disney+ and I definitely won't miss Disco so much that I'll pay extra for it.

fretmeister

So.

Anyone seen the new episode yet?