Are you not cutting off your nose to spite your face in passing over the Cinemax content that you're paying for because of the interface differences?
I understand how it works. I just don't understand the drive to pay for something twice because the streaming user experience is not exactly the same.
As I understand it, you should not be seeing Showtime inside of Paramount+ since you don't pay for Showtime as part of your P+ subscription but rather pay for it separately via DirecTV. Are you sure you're not just seeing a few sample Showtime episodes inside P+? If you really are getting the full thing there, you might want to double-check what you're paying for P+ to make sure that you're not paying for Showtime twice.
Then you do not understand how it works. No one is paying for anything twice. The HBO Max streaming is included with the HBO package from DIRECTV.
I agree I should not be getting the Showtime content in Paramount. I pay the yearly fee for Paramount+ which is $99. Here is what I see in Paramount+. I can watch everything on there that I can watch in the Showtime Anytime app except the linear channels.
Why would I pay for Cinemax when I get all of HBO Max with my MVPD subscription? Pray tell what "content" am I missing?
Are you worried about a price bump where you are forced to pay extra for Showtime to get Paramount+?
Perhaps I'm overestimating the overlap. What content does the Cinemax element of your subscription bring that you couldn't already see with just an HBO Max subscription?
b4pjoe indicates there's a clear benefit to those who subscribe to both (that Cinemax at $10.00 isn't substantially covered by HBO Max at $14.99).
I never said there was any benefit. Cinemax is included in the Premier package. I rarely watch it. I subscribe to the Premier package mainly because it includes HBO, Showtime, and Starz and when I decided I wanted those premium channels it was cheaper to subscribe to the Premier package than keeping the package I had at the time and subscribing individually to those 3 packages. It just so happens that Cinemax is included also in that package and I used to watch it more when it had original content on it which it no longer does or at least very little. As I said I rarely watch Cinemax these days.
For Premier I pay $191.99. Not $205. I have not checked lately how much I am saving currently but it was significantly more than your estimate. When HBO/Discovery+ merges into one service I will more than likely downgrade my package at that time.
As I noted on the ULTIMATE pricing amount, I was using the current "All Included" pricing. Presumably, the pricing structure associated with your account (which may or may not have changed recently due to your account issues) offers the same pricing differential (around $51) between ULTIMATE and PREMIERE.
For myself, that may represent roughly a 50% price increase so I am quite concerned given my value assessment of what Showtime adds.
If I were paying for the Premium channels individually I would not get Cinemax. When I subscribed to the Premier package Cinemax it was still its own thing. I can't just tell DirecTV to remove Cinemax from the package and lower my price. Like I said in the near future I will be re-evaluating.
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Harsh is intentionally lying about the content of my posts and should no longer be trusted to post anything taken seriously.
He quoted your post #66 where you never said any such thing. In post #62 he posted:
In typical Harsh fashion when someone proves him wrong he tries to transfer the blame on to others.
How did you not imply that if you have HBO Max, a Cinemax subscription is paying for content you were already entitled to?
Yeah, definitely appears that you're subscribed to P+ with Showtime, even if you're not paying for it. Guess it's a mistake on their part.
You are a liar because you claimed that I "insisted" that people were paying twice for the same content when I never even stated that people were paying twice (or double). Now you're back pedaling to "imply" but the reality is you post lies.
