Paramount+ with Showtime $11.99 price bump starts to hit viewers

That is funny how it says Apple is raising the price of the subscription from $9.99 to $11.99.  HAHAHA

Apple is doing no such thing.  Paramount+ is raising its own rates.

Paramount+ is user hostile — despite paying for ad-free, they insist on forcing you to watch two unskippable ads in the pre-roll. (promos for their own crap) Why on earth they don’t allow them to be skipped is beyond me, I’ve seen the same damn ads dozens of times

StrangeDays said:

Paramount+ is user hostile — despite paying for ad-free, they insist on forcing you to watch two unskippable ads in the pre-roll. (promos for their own crap) Why on earth they don’t allow them to be skipped is beyond me, I’ve seen the same damn ads dozens of times

I would dump Paramount (again) if they did that now.

Here are other horrible practices (not picking on Paramount here):

• Unskippable ads when you start playing a DVD that you paid for.
• DVDs which you bought that start you off by saying "accessing downloadable content". So you can't watch your own DVD without an internet connection? And you have to pay for their internet connection? Are they tracking your views?
• Anti-piracy warnings that you still have to watch even though you legally bought the media.
• Paying Google over $100/year for "commercial free youtube videos" then having to watch two minute promo ads included inside the video itself. And to add insult to injury, Google itself warns you that the video contains promotional material. So isn't that false advertising by Google?
• If I am watching a Blu-ray DVD on a Blu-ray device, why are do I sometimes need to see some promos touting "the magic of blu-ray?" Don't I already own the hardware?

P.S. At least when using the Apple TV app on macOS, it is possible for software to press the skip button on the recaps and previews. Thanks for giving me the idea to write that software. It should take five minutes to write that.

P.S. If Paramount wanted to make money, they could charge an extra $1/month to let users skip the ads. I would probably pay for that.

jbdragon said:

That is funny how it says Apple is raising the price of the subscription from $9.99 to $11.99.  HAHAHA
Apple is doing no such thing.  Paramount+ is raising its own rates.

I wonder how it's worded for those users who subscribe to Paramount+ directly through Paramount rather than through Apple TV.

To be fair, it is Apple that's collecting the fee for Paramount if you are paying through the Apple TV and/or Apple TV app. So I have no issue with that wording. I once subscribed to Paramount+ but only through the Apple TV app for the extra privacy it gave me. Privacy is worth $$$. Companies like Paramount are counting on the idea that consumers are stupid and don't care about privacy. Maybe most consumers are stupid. For now.

22july2013 said:

StrangeDays said:

Paramount+ is user hostile — despite paying for ad-free, they insist on forcing you to watch two unskippable ads in the pre-roll. (promos for their own crap) Why on earth they don’t allow them to be skipped is beyond me, I’ve seen the same damn ads dozens of times

I would dump Paramount (again) if they did that now.

Here are other horrible practices (not picking on Paramount here):

• Unskippable ads when you start playing a DVD that you paid for.
• DVDs which you bought that start you off by saying "accessing downloadable content". So you can't watch your own DVD without an internet connection? And you have to pay for their internet connection? Are they tracking your views?
• Anti-piracy warnings that you still have to watch even though you legally bought the media.
• Paying Google over $100/year for "commercial free youtube videos" then having to watch two minute promo ads included inside the video itself. And to add insult to injury, Google itself warns you that the video contains promotional material. So isn't that false advertising by Google?
• If I am watching a Blu-ray DVD on a Blu-ray device, why are do I sometimes need to see some promos touting "the magic of blu-ray?" Don't I already own the hardware?

P.S. At least when using the Apple TV app on macOS, it is possible for software to press the skip button on the recaps and previews. Thanks for giving me the idea to write that software. It should take five minutes to write that.

P.S. If Paramount wanted to make money, they could charge an extra $1/month to let users skip the ads. I would probably pay for that.

I already paid for the ad-free tier. Paying another hike on top of that to *really* not see ads is not acceptable.