r/movies • u/Vanderlyley • 28d ago

News Paramount Posts $286M Fourth Quarter Streaming Loss

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/paramount-fourth-quarter-streaming-1236148263/
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u/Chessh2036 28d ago

Paramount+ remains awful. The UI lacks things a 2025 streaming service should have.

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u/VampireOnHoyt 28d ago

I put up with it to watch Champions League soccer but just barely

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u/FLRugDealer 27d ago

Champions league, Europa league, conference league, English Championship, and serie A. For a football (soccer) fan it’s really good value tbh,

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u/Boneraventura 28d ago

Its exceptionally cheaper to pay mullvad vpn (5 euro/mo) and paramount+ (7 euro/mo) to watch ucl matches than the main streaming service (65 euro/mo) in sweden for ucl matches. 

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u/VerneUnderWater 28d ago

It works fine for me through Prime. But I only sub when it's 1.99.

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u/Jeffrey_C_Wheaties 28d ago

Yeah but fuck Amazon too

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u/Blastcheeze 28d ago

Seriously, I was three extra subs deep into my Prime sub when I cancelled it, and they still fed me commercials.

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u/TheEschatonSucks 27d ago

So many god damned commercials. I’m done with Amazon when my current subscription ends because of them, it’s insane. You pay a subscription… still commercials, so you pay the extra ‘no commercials’ fee… STILL FUCKING COMMERCIALS.

And prime sucks too, one day shipping used to mean one day, now it means 2-4 days and 2nd day now mean 7-10 days, but at least the price goes up consistently.

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u/VerneUnderWater 27d ago

True that, but I need it for shipping so it's basically just a free type of thing I use. And we are already drowned in corporate dystopia. Not much can be done at this point but to burn it down.

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u/Jeffrey_C_Wheaties 27d ago edited 27d ago

You need it for shipping. From Amazon. You don’t have to shop from Amazon…

Edit: You call me a dipshit then block me? Sorry you sell on Amazon. But fuck Amazon.

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u/VerneUnderWater 27d ago

I sell on Amazon dipshit.

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u/xaendar 28d ago

I unironically love prime's UI. Absolutely perfect and imdb integration is godlike. If only they consistently had content. Nothing I ever want to watch is on it and if it is, it's always just buy to stream or rent models.

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u/jessebona 28d ago

Am I the only one who doesn't like the Prime app? On my tv it's always so slow when it comes to input responses.

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u/xaendar 28d ago

Never had an issue with that but I don't use tv apps that much, just PS5 or the fire stick and web. Few times I used it I never had any issues with it though. Input response is fine but there are sometimes nothing happening when I search something and pops up a few seconds later.

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u/Jeffrey_C_Wheaties 27d ago

Yeah I was more referring to Amazon as a company as opposed to their UI

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u/BeBopBarr 28d ago

Same here on roku, no issues ever 🤷‍♀️

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u/makenzie71 27d ago

Amazon's UI is also trash.

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u/VerneUnderWater 27d ago

It's really not that bad lol.

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u/Mackem 27d ago

It lacks things a 2005 service should have. Won't track my watched history for some shows in the ps5 app. Absolute dog shit having to scroll through each episode and try to remember which one we got up to during the last show binge

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u/torino_nera 28d ago

I subscribe to it via Apple+ and it's good

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u/Runazeeri 27d ago

It's worse here all the P+ stuff is carried by a different streaming service that only gives 1080p.