As if this wasn’t inevitable. Buy the DVD’s or Blu-Rays on eBay or just straight up pirate it. Paramount doesn’t deserve our money if they pull shit like this. They haven’t deserved any money for a long ass time in my opinion.
Been wondering why First Contact would appear on HBO, but then didn’t have a way to watch it the last few times I was looking for something to watch on there.
I don’t mind paying for content, as long as prices are reasonable. Creators do deserve to be paid! I get all the shows on CTV-SciFi (cable) currently, as well as some on Pluto, but will slowly start adding to the DVD/BluRays as I see good prices. I already have DS9 & Voyager, plus season 1 of Prodigy.
I bought them more than a century ago. The DVDs start to fade, some of my DS9 DVDs are. I had to go to Paramount+ to resume watching. I wonder in which shape my Star Trek movie DVDs will be when I rewatch them.
Btw., the stream versions don’t have Dolby Surround. Is this the same for the movies. Yet another reason to have that DVDs.
Yet! I’m sure they’re kicking around the idea of buying a new law enabling them to break into your house, take pictures of you sleeping, and then steal your DVDs.
I was really annoyed, but I like star trek enough that I signed up for Paramount+. But when I went to watch it the app was terrible, and there were unskippable ads at the beginning of each episode. I cancelled and dusted off my sailing gear.
Yeah. Getting out of physical media now, as every streaming service is hitting peak enshittification, is such a wild choice for Best Buy to be making, it has to have been handed to them by people trying to keep people on streaming. Now is the time to be making a killing in physical media.
For me the joke is that there were any Star Trek fans who’d consider anything but torrenting (though I’ll admit ed2k is still not finally dead, and Fopnu is a usable filesharing tool, albeit proprietary).
The funny part is that I have legitimate accounts with Prime, Netflix, Paramount+, Apple and two others, but I still d/l and watch everything on Plex. (though I should probably admit that all the big names I get “free” via other services, like Prime, Tmo, etc).
The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates
It's so true though. I have been learning piano and the price for sheet music is outrageous. I was going to do the right thing and pay for it but everything is a subscription or a book. I'm not buying 10 other songs just for one I really want.
In seconds I had thousands of PDF's at my disposal. I have so much sheet music now I don't have enough ink to print it all out.
There’s a structural problem - it may be beneficial for companies as some coherent entities to provide such a service, but for individuals inside them, like various kinds of sales, management and so on, it’s not.
In every case where such an elusive thing as potential popularity of something conflicts with a less elusive thing like control they have in streaming services, the latter wins. Because what makes its makers rewarded on their job wins.
Does it really matter? You shouldn’t have to follow a tracker or be up to date on if a subscription service will have what you want. I don’t understand why the content can’t exist on multiple platforms at once.
There’s nothing nebulous about it. Paramount owns the rights. They yanked Trek from Netflix and prime to promote their own paid subscription. Now that they got everyone they were going to get, they sold the rights off to another platform that probably demanded exclusivity. Paramount figures they’ll keep the subs and get a big fat check. What’s really annoying is that they’re probably right. People are ridiculous, and will likely keep paramount+ and now go subscribe for another service.