With a subscription as expensive as AppleTV why do I still need to spend even more money to watch any of the good movies or shows? It doesn’t seem fair to make your subscribers pay so much so many times. Seems pointless to have a subscription just to pay more on top of that.
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There is no double charging. The Apple TV app hosts more content than just the Apple TV+ subscription catalog. The subscription is not for the app (the app itself is free), but for access to the Apple Originals a.k.a Apple TV+ catalog. Buying or renting movies or TV shows is separate from the subscription. One does not require the other. See Apple TV+ as an in-app subscription channel.
With the Apple TV app on your smart TV or third party streaming device, you can access:
Buy/rent prices are set by the supplying studios, and pretty much on par with every other content provider with buy/rent content. I.e. no honest reason to think of that as excessive, compared to anywhere else.
‘John Wayne Gacy: Devil in disguise’ (2021) is a mini series on Peacock, not Apple TV+, nor in the Apple iTunes Store (‘buy content’) for TV shows.
Users will need to subscribe to Peacock TV to see this.
Seems like some countries get content in Apple TV in UK original content for Apple TV is 5-6 films and 2 tv series that’s it rest are links to other services like Amazon prime and some links to pay to view content on those other platforms
Jaysclark wrote:
I watched the expanse on Disney+ which doesn’t charge extra
You're paying for Disney+ to watch content they provide. You can't watch non-Disney+ content for free ono Disney+.
Alex Sim wrote:
There is so little content anyway even if it was all free not worth £8.99 a month
Then don't subscribe. That seems easy enough.
That doesn’t answer my question at all. The only things I even want to watch on the app cost so much money on top of the already high price just to have the app. It’s not fair and seems like your subscribers are being double charged to watch anything worth watching. Including me. Not worth the money.
As an avid iOS user. The pricing model for Apple TV is the worse of its kind. There is no value for money in subscription to this. Will in the future advise all and anyone from being ripped off. Rather spend your hard earned dollar on Netflix or prime. Period.
If you have seen all the Apple TV+ shows and movies that you want to watch, then you can choose to not renew. New content gets added every month, so check back later for what has changed.
Apple Originals - Apple TV+ Press
List of Apple TV+ original programming (episodic/series) - Wikipedia
Alex Sim wrote:
There is so little content anyway even if it was all free not worth £8.99 a month
I have used Prime, Paramount+, Hulu and so far Apple TV+ offers far better quality content than any of those other services. I don't consider old TV shows found on those other apps a reason to pay more for a service just to claim they have more content.
You are given a free trial when you sign up to Apple TV+ for the first time to give you the opportunity to see if you like the content and if you don't, then just cancel and move on with your day. It's not that difficult and everyone is perfectly capable of deciding for themselves.
Regarding "Killers Of The Flower Moon", Apple TV+ now says "Coming To Apple TV+ January 12"
That’s not true at all. Never once has Netflix charged me for any of their content with a subscription. The options for Disney+ for buying or renting are only when said movies are still in theaters. Since most appletv productions don’t go to theater that makes it completely different from what other subscriptions do. Hulu and peacock offer far more than appletv. So I say again, it isn’t right that all the good new options from your company are making you pay extra for something that shouldn’t cost anything to subscribers. Maybe to the people wanting to rent without subscribing. I get that. But your subscription is too expensive and wants to charge more and more for the opportunity to view something that should be free with a subscription.
Maybe to someone who has a ton of money to blow or who doesn’t mind spending extra money on top of the money they already spent for a subscription. Answer me this; when you want to go to the theater, do they charge you a fee to enter the theater and then again to watch the movie? No. Because that’s a rip off. That’s exactly what this is. Buy out subscription just to have access then buy again to watch the movies you bought the subscription for. It’s absolutely stupid.
I just went through this last night. I had tagged half a dozen movies to watch, but when I went to watch them, none of them would play. When I click "HOW TO WATCH" it says you can buy, rent, or subscribe. I do subscribe, so what's the problem?
I subscribed to Apple TV because I wanted to finish watching the The Expanse. Like most of you I found out that post season 2, they're going to charge me $2.33 for each episode. In the 90's I was an enthusiastic Apple guy. Not any more. Apple's got a rotten core now.
This is complete BS. It is not OK to charge a lot of money for a subscription and then to charge huge sums in addition to that for your content. I know you are trying to justify this but it does not wash.
I am having the same problem after renewing my subscription. The message I received was that there was a problem withy pay method. I attempted to re-enter my pay method and received a message it was already in the system. Attempted to access Apple TV+ several times and received the message Buy Now. What is going with this service?
Why do I need to buy content when I already pay for the subscription
