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Star Trek CBS Series To Be Streamed Internationally On Netflix (variety.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Netflix has announced that it has secured a deal to stream every episode of the new Star Trek TV series within 24 hours of its original network broadcast. However, neither the U.S. nor Canadian subscribers are included in the deal, which otherwise covers every territory that Netflix operates in worldwide. Stateside viewers will be able to stream the new show via CBS's own All Access digital subscription video-on-demand and live streaming service, with Canadian streaming provisions yet to be announced. The deal represents a potential major step forward in the company's determination to bypass regional licensing, and at one stroke eliminates the typical years of delay that occur when a U.S. program seeks foreign audiences.
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CBS has finally figured out the eps will be on TPB within hours of first airing and they can't stop it.
Not so much bypassing regional restrictions....as flipping them to the reverse of the usual. Good for Netflix and CBS coming up with a global release strategy that benefits both companies. But alas, as I'm in the U.S. I will have to wait till it comes out a year later on US Netflix. I will survive..somehow.
Stateside viewers will be able to stream the new show via CBS's own All Access digital subscription video-on-demand and live streaming service
That's a pretty credible attempt to unseat GoT as the most pirated TV show.
"with Canadian streaming provisions yet to be announced".
What did we ever do to you Americans to always get screwed on streaming services? No SlingTV, no HBO Now, no Showtime, no Hulu, no CBS All Access, hell, we never even got Pandora, Netflix library is reduced, and now nobody can be bothered to even let us watch Startrek.
Did we not say sorry enough to you guys for something? Sorry.
I'm not going to subscribe to multiple services because of an exclusive deal. Not going to offer it via Netflix that's fine, it simply means I won't be watching it or talking about it.
I am a big ST fan and while TNG is still my favorite I even like the reboot movies (yes they are not "Trek" in the traditional sense, but the actors & dialogue are good entertainment). So I was quite happy to hear about a new series... Then they published the fan film guidelines and suddenly it all turned sour for me. Sure, I always knew Paramount/CBS are doing it for the money, but performing what is analogous to kicking their fans in the face? And I was never a big fan of fan-made films, but I always took it for granted that they added value to ST not take away from it...
Nope, the way I feel right now I'll just re-watch my already paid-for TNG, TOS etc disks and hope someone else will make some decent non-ST sci-fi.
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I'm a lifelong Star Trek fan. I'm looking forward to a new series but I don't have high hopes for this new series to be any good. Jar Jar Abrams has ruined the movie franchise (for me) and I expect this new series to be equally bad. However, even if the series stays true to Star Trek and is a huge success, I have no intention of subscribing to CBSs streaming service just to watch one show. I expect I'll be able to find this series on any Torrent site as easily as any other TV show. I already subscribe to cable, Netflix and Amazon. The idea that I might have to subscribe separately to each network is ridiculous and I'm hoping that CBS All Access fails completely. If they made the episodes available on a service I already use or even for $2 an episode on iTunes like most other shows, I would pay to watch. When will the studios realize that creating barriers to viewing only pushes people to piracy.
Well, there is that whole burning down the White House thing...
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Canadian who recently switched form pirating to Netflix here. Guess I'll be making an exception for this. Bell or Rogers probably locked up the rights.
Well, there is that whole burning down the White House thing...
That isn't why we are upset, its the fact they forgot to burn down the the Senate building before they left.
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
Supposedly this isn't the Kelvin timeline (JJ Trek). However, it might as well be if CBS is going to continue to play these games.
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After already shelling out about $300 to my cable company for TV, many premium channels, internet access, and telephone service, I draw the line. Either they get it on my cable for no extra charge, or they can forget it. They don't have anything, nor will they, that I'm going send any additional $$$ anywhere for. This is getting ridiculous.
Nope, its not going to be on the air, only on internet for a price. OBTW, its still a "FU" for the price - I'm not paying.
You are choosing to NOT be on Netflix (US/Canada)|Hulu|Amazon|YouTube RED...hmmm yeah
Let's see how long that lasts.
Or, more likely, the first episode will be watched by hundreds of thousands of Canadians roughly 30 to 45 minutes after the premier on TV via Bittorrent.
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Yeah, ST was never the same since it started showing equality among the races! Curse you, you hippy bastard Roddenberry!
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Nihilism is not a color.
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Ah, I do feel sorry for you and your obsessive hatred of homosexuals. Well, look at it this way, you'll be dead in a few decades, and they won't bother you with their existence any more.
In the meantime, I recommend watching reruns of 1950s and 1960s television shows, you know, where people do the proper thing and have sex via two beds separated by three feet and no one ever has an attraction to someone of their gender. You're clearly too immature and reactionary to deal with the real world, so I recommend you sink further into your bigotry and fantasies.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
You mean, back when creating the next generation of mankind was considered to have social value?
When marriage was a mechanism by which society supported this valuable task?
Before the economic support of marriage became something people are simply entitled to?
Before the important role of wives and mothers was completely devalued, and treated as offering no more social value than a young man who takes it up the bum?
You know what? I think I will.
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you know axanar won its still happening. and that was not cbs it was paramount.
oh dont forgot the makers of that ran with the money kinda breaking the rules of any fan fiilm.
You are irrelevant
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Here's a tip. Gays can have children, and they can even raise them.
The rest is just fevered nonsense. Homosexuals at best represent 10% of the population, so they're not a threat to the future. You're just looking for reasons to support your hatred.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
That's OK, there are better sci-fi out there anyways to watch in the meantime:
* Battlestar Galactica (2004)
* Continuum
* Dark Matter
* Fringe
* Futurama
* Lost
* Red Dwarf
and at one stroke eliminates the typical years of delay that occur when a U.S. program seeks foreign audiences.
Weeks, and months, but seldom is it years, and, if it is, this is likely because the Networks here did not see a potential audience for it.
I can only speak for New Zealand, We receive a high amount of out programming the same week and the same day as the U.S/U.K (especially for the most popular shows).
If not that quick, many others are being played before the series has run its course in the U.S.
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Well now you're definitely an idiot for making an appeal to THAT particular authority.
You mean, back when creating the next generation of mankind was considered to have social value?
No, in the 1970's, there was neo-Malthusianism which worried about overpopulation. Creating too many of the next generation was a worry and all sorts of crazy people had crazy ideas about how to fix it. Except that there's no need. Educating women and developing the nation staves off the birth rates and all the developed nations without sizable immigration now actually have a worry about declining population.
When marriage was a mechanism by which society supported this valuable task?
That's still in effect. A lot of people still marry and have kids.
And the divorce rate shot up and peaked by the end of the 70's. So if you were trying to appeal to some sort of "death of marriage" vibe, you need to back BEFORE the release of the Star Trek TOS.
But go figure, treat women like they're people and you have more divorces.
Before the economic support of marriage became something people are simply entitled to?
Before the whatnow? People can still file jointly you shmuck.
Before the important role of wives and mothers was completely devalued,
Wow. What happened between you and your mum? Or was it something with your wife? How exactly has motherhood been devalued?
and treated as offering no more social value than a young man who takes it up the bum?
Lots of old guys take it up the bum too. But yes, gay couples should be treated the same as straight couples. How does that affect the worth of your wife at all? Did you read in a paper that some gay dudes were married and you looked over at your wife and declared that she was worthless now?
You know what? I think I will [rewatch the original Star Trek]
...You realize that it was, and IS, a raging hard-on for a liberal utopia. They had a russian, an Irishman, a jap, and a BLACK LADY on the bridge of a ship. Working together. What madness. It was a post-scarcity society, no more money. The Federation is an idealized United Nations. It was officially hands off towards pre-warp civilizations, ie, don't be colonial asshats to the natives. But OH NOES, gay people. That's just one step too far.
Insult me all you want. I'm not going to change, except inasmuch as I become more hostile from being instigated.
Self serving sophist.
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I don't know you any better than you know me, so, I don't know if you're an idiot.
But the fact that you're comfortable making assertions from a position of ignorance certainly implies it...
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Why are you people wasting mod points on a statement of personal intent, and treating it like something subject to debate?
Try just, expressing your own position.
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Ask for details instead of vague hate-mongering and I typically get two things: They run away like this coward, or they dive off the deep end of crazy.
"It's all the GAYS fault!"
"What's the gay's fault?"
*poof gone*
And very occasionally I get an insightful critic. I've come to accept that treating women like real people and equals is the cause for the raise in divorces. And this is a consequence of the sexual revolution and hippies and women's rights movement. A "casulty" would be an accurate description. And it's an acceptable one. It sucks, sure, but the alternative is to re-instate half the populace as second class citizens, which sucks MORE.
So far though, I'm really not seeing any negative consequence to treating gay people like people. It opens the way for the next even more fucked up group to get the limelight, but as long as it doesn't affect me, so what? And maybe we'll see rich dudes marrying each other not because they're gay or in love, but just for the legal purposes or tax benefits. We'll see.
>What did we ever do to you American
And they often do it to a larger extent. I have a lesbian friend who donates eggs four times a year. She has well over 19 biological children by now.
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An organisation who calls themselves geniusses yet spend their time in an organisation of self proclaimed geniusses.
Actual geniusses don't join MENSA - they are too busy trying to make the world a better place. They are in research laboratories painstakingly trying to unravel the mysteries of the universe, working on vaccines for deadly diseases, finding ways get more energy out of cleaner technologies, digging through miles of dirt to learn more about our ancient ancestors and their cousins and the history of life, coding meticulous synchronization algorithms to keep the many dishes of the world's largest radio telescopic interferometer moving correctly together and discovering new galaxies by the thousands.
What they are not doing - is joining an organisation so they can claim they are geniusses. I know quite a few proud MENSA members... they all have one thing in common, they are idiots who can't think their way out of a wet paper bag and they joined MENSA because rather than own their stupidity their insecurity demanded they find some way to pretend it wasn't there by getting a bunch of other equally insecure idiots together so they can all reassure each other of how smart they all are.
It's the participation trophy of intellectual pursuits.
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