re: You can get a year of Paramount plus for 50% off.

The problem is just administration. I dont feel like having to manage 10 different Bill's each month, even if they are all only 5 dollars each.

The next big thing I can see is company's to manage it for you. I go to one site and checkbox the 10 streaming services I want and they give me one log in and one bill per month. I only deal with them.

Some streaming platforms have already been doing this like being able to bundle HBO Max with my YouTubeTV subscription, but I am waiting for a company to cover all streaming options from HBO Max to Funimation.

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Would be much better if we had a fifth of the new content, and everything was on Netflix, and they charged us $150 a month.

Or I guess we can stick to the current a la carte system where you can ignore the services that you don’t want

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I genuinely don’t understand the complaint about too many streaming services. We wanted a la cart and we got it and I love it.

Previously I had 3 options, Dish, Direct, and local cable (Grande, Spectrum, Cox, AT&T). No matter what I was paying $100+ a month for about 7 or 8 channels I regularly watched and maybe 4 or 5 I occasionally watched out of hundreds. There were plenty of nights that I could scroll every channel available and never find anything interesting.

Now I pay about $80/month (sling, prime, Netflix, D+/ESPN/Hulu, and HBOMAX) and I will never get through all my watchlists.

I hope I get this with 247Sports. We get CBS All Access.

Found this article with a list of new shows and movies they will be airing.

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Except for a few Westerns War movies, and Noir movies, Paramount's movie selection (on Wikipedia) isn't great until the mid-60's.


Some really good movies in the 40's and 50's. Just not as many as the 60's and beyond.

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Some really good movies in the 40's and 50's. Just not as many as the 60's and beyond.

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Paramount hit home runs almost every year from 1980 to 1997.

(Bear in mind that not all of these are Paramount "productions", but merely movies distributed by Paramount, but they still made money off of them.)

1980 - Airplane!
1981 - Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982 - An Officer And A Gentleman, The Wrath of Khan
1983 - Terms of Endearment, Flashdance, Trading Places
1984 - Temple of Doom, Beverly Hills Cop
1985 - Witness
1986 - Top Gun, Crocodile Dundee, Star Trek IV
1987 - Fatal Attraction, Beverly Hills Cop II
1988 - Coming to America
1989 - The Last Crusade
1990 - Ghost, The Hunt for Red October
1991 - The Addams Family
1992 - Wayne's World
1993 - The Firm
1994 - Forrest Gump
1995 - No movie in the Box Office Top Ten, but they did release Braveheart
1996 - Mission: Impossible
1997 - Titanic (co-production with 20th Century Fox)

The Indiana Jones movies are now owned by Disney, but I think Paramount retains distribution rights.

And then Paramount also has The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, and Apocalypse Now.

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Way, way too many streaming services.

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People complained for YEARS about how much cable charged for all those channels and why can't we just pick the channels we want.

Now you pretty much can. You can start and stop services anytime you want and people are still bitching

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The problem is just administration. I dont feel like having to manage 10 different Bill's each month, even if they are all only 5 dollars each.

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What's to manage? They all auto-renew

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So I'm now currently in the free 7 day trial and I have to say I'm pretty disappointed with the MTV/Nickelodeon/Comedy Central content. It's not so much that they don't have all their old shows since I expect several of them to be still tied up in other streaming deals but rather that many of the ones they do have are missing a shitload of episodes.

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So they cheaped out and got outbid by HBO for South Park, and their library of their own shows is incomplete...and their current Star Trek series suck in comparison to TOS/TNG/DS9? Yep, not subscribing.