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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One word:

[DougDot]

torrent

Re: One word:

[Khyber]

" people didn't watch it"

Which is why there are... 14 movies, 5-6 TV series, an animated series, at least a dozen games based on the franchise, etc.

Yup, Paramount/Desilu just said FUCK IT, WE'RE GOING TO DUMP MONEY DOWN THIS USELESS HOLE FOR NO GODDAMNED REASON!

In other words

[Snotnose]

CBS has finally figured out the eps will be on TPB within hours of first airing and they can't stop it.

Re:In other words

[tbannist]

Because they created their own steaming service, and they think they can compete with Netflix in the U.S. with one original show.

Not so much bypassing regional restrictions....

[aicrules]

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.

Re:Not so much bypassing regional restrictions....

[aicrules]

Oh I realize there are many ways around even paying for Netflix content or any content for that matter. But in this case, I am okay waiting for it. Partially because I don't really like how every company is creating its own streaming service now. I'm definitely not going to be paying $8 a month or whatever for random whatever streaming service for every show I want to watch. $8 ..well or $10 or whatever netflix is up to now, a month is what I'll pay. Not getting back into $50+ a month trap that cable got me into. And if all streaming services end up there or the amount of content on any one service amounts to paying $50+ a month for what I want access to, then I'm done with all of it!

Everyone but North America

[Rashkae]

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.

Re: Everyone but North America

[rworne]

A simple HDMI splitter also does the job along with an ElGato game capture device.

If you get the right kind of splitter on Amazon (B0089DSLMY), HDCP somehow gets lost along the way and you wind up with an unencrypted digital signal.

Re:Everyone but North America

[markdavis]

"Its also free to anyone in the US who can receive CBS OTA, and available to anyone with cable."

No it's not. That is the whole problem. CBS is putting it ONLY on their stupid, proprietary streaming. Which means it won't work on TiVo, won't work on our smart TV's, won't work on our Linux computers, etc.

I mean F-that! I paid almost $1000 for a top-end TiVo and freaking $100 a month for cable with 99% channels I don't ever watch, AND I pay for a Netflix subscription. And they want me to do WHAT???

They are just BEGGING everyone in the US to pirate the show.

Re: Everyone but North America

[Mr D from 63]

The only OTA broadcast will be the PILOT. They've already said that all the other episodes will be streaming only.

I see that now, you are right. That sucks.

Re:Everyone but North America

[unrtst]

It is not streaming only.
It will be streamed 1 day behind broadcast.
If you have CBS OTA (ex. via antenna), you can watch it there.
If you have CBS via a cable or sat provider, you can watch it there.
If you have CBS All Access (I'm not sure what all restrictions are there for that... I think you have to have an existing cable/sat account with it), you can stream from them in the US.
If you have Netflix and are not in the US or CA, you can stream it there.

IMO, I have no idea why they don't have all access open wide (paid for by lots of commercials), and license to netflix/others at the same time. I really hope that's what it comes to someday - the content producers making the content available for "free" + commercials, and the aggregates (netflix, amazon, etc) charging for content but providing a better experience. As it is, it looks like the content producers are also going to charge a fee, and also add commercials, and maybe add subscription requirements to some other service as well.

Why do us Canadians always get screwed?

[iCEBaLM]

"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.

Re:Why do us Canadians always get screwed?

[MightyMartian]

So, in other words, American studios are getting fucked over simply because they're not putting conditions like streaming into distribution contracts.

But yeah, it's like totally the viewer's fault if they don't want to buy an entire cable package to watch one fucking show.

Re: Why do us Canadians always get screwed?

[magarity]

Stargate SG1 seems a fair trade for this yet unseen new Trek show.

Re:Why do us Canadians always get screwed?

[present_arms]

justin bieber nuff said

Re:Why do us Canadians always get screwed?

[SuiteSisterMary]

Blame a) the Bell/Rogers/Shaw triumvirate, and b) Canadian Content laws.

Re:Why do us Canadians always get screwed?

[Scott Tracy]

The series is being simulcast with CBS on CTV here in Canada, then on Space (probably a day or two later). Then on-demand it will be CraveTV, Bell's subscription internet streaming service (how soon after they don't say). BTW, the show is being shot in Toronto, so in a way we are getting it WAY before anyone else. http://www.startrek.com/articl...

Re:Why do us Canadians always get screwed?

[Luthair]

Its too much vertical integration, Bell & Rogers own the entire stack from rights to broadcast thus have a disincentive to make shows available.

Big ST fan here

[Ecuador]

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.

Re:Big ST fan here

[roger_that]

Yeah, the fan film guidelines will put a BIG dent in some of the best fan films out there. I have been watching Star Trek Continues, and they have very good TOS episodes, which will not be possible under the new guidelines (50-minute (or there-about) episodes). This will be a loss for the ST community.

Re:Big ST fan here

[AmiMoJo]

Star Trek Continues (fan work) is some of the best Trek ever made. Better than 95% of everything official, easily. I think they are worried that fans are doing a better job than they are.

No intention to subscribe for one show

[CAHutch]

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.

Re:No intention to subscribe for one show

[jellomizer]

Well we also had such flops like.
The Motion Picture,
The Search for Spock
The Final Frontier
Voyager
Generations
Insurrection
Nemesis
Enterprise

Trek has been in a steady decline for a while.
The problem is it was a show for the 1960's trying to reboot it for the new generation while keeping its nostalgic charm is getting harder and harder.

The successes in the list.
Wrath of Kahn - Allowed a nostalgic response to an existing story, added with the character development of an older Kirk trying to retire.
The Voyage Home - Wasn't a Star Trek movie, but a Romance Comedy with Star Trek Characters.
The Undiscovered country - once again playing on the older Kirk who was to retire.
First Contact - While popular at the time, I don't feel it will hold up. However that was more of an action flick than star trek.
For the shows.
TNG in essence ignored the TOS for most of the plots and created a show independant.
The same with DS9 very different.

Voyager and Enterprise failed because they tried to remake the TOS and TNG with different characters with a decade apart.

Re:No intention to subscribe for one show

[MightyMartian]

I actually enjoy The Motion Picture now. The problem is that if you watch TOS and then jump to TMP, it's pretty jarring. Still, it's an exposition-heavy film that seems more akin to 2001 than to TOS.

Wrath of Khan is obviously the best, but TMP isn't bad at all.

Re:No intention to subscribe for one show

[tbannist]

Both Voyager and Enterprise share one other thing in common, they were largely run by two Paramount executives Rick Berman and Brannon Braga. Not even Manny Coto's surprising good final season of Enterprise could pull the show out of the nosedive that Berman and Braga had put it into.

Personally Enterprise failed because it got everything wrong. Wrong tone, wrong characters, wrong plots, wrong settings, wrong acting, wrong characterization, wrong logic, wrong common sense.

My personal pet peeve is episodes that just didn't make any sense. For example, there was an episode where they could have transported a crewman and an alien up to the ship, but they couldn't change the temperature in the transporter room to match the temperature on the planet so the alien would have died from the temperature change? What they don't have thermal blankets they can use? WTF? So they decide to send a shuttle down instead, but it took them something like 20 hours to adjust the shuttle so they could put the heat up high enough on the shuttle (WTF?) and the pair on the planet nearly died from dehydration while they waited (WTF?). If the transporters were working, so why didn't they transport a bottle of water down? If they couldn't do that, why didn't they send a shuttle down early, drop off some bottles of water, some food, and a tent so they could arrange a shelter? Why risk the death of the crewman and alien by doing nothing whatsoever to help them while they were waiting for a stupidly long plot device? I know the answer is "narrative" but it should still make some god-damend sense. This was endemic to first few seasons, stupidly obvious plot holes that would leave anyone with a lick of sense wondering how such amazing huge incompetents ended up running a starship*.

Actually, according to the pilot episode we know why Archer was pilot, his dad designed the ship. And the rest of the crew was hand picked by Archer. Good old nepotism. Of course that begs the question of why anyone would ever do something so stupid as put the son of the designer in charge...

You INVADED us!

[Thud457]

Well, there is that whole burning down the White House thing...

Re:You INVADED us!

[iCEBaLM]

I keep trying to take credit as a Canadian for that, but all of my American friends always insist it was the British who did it. Sorry either way, it's looking much nicer these days.

Controlled burns?

[TiggertheMad]

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.

Re:Controlled burns?

[meerling]

All of Capitol Hill?

Re:CBS most access...

[rally2xs]

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.

CBS Fail.

[CrashNBrn]

You are choosing to NOT be on Netflix (US/Canada)|Hulu|Amazon|YouTube RED...hmmm yeah
Let's see how long that lasts.