“Last year CBS CEO Les Moonves was bullish about his company’s talks with Apple about a possible game-changer in TV,” Brian Stelter reports for CNNMoney. “‘Apple TV is trying to change the universe a little bit,’ he said last May. ‘Apple is having conversations with everyone about doing their own streaming services,’ he said last October. ”
“But Moonves now says those talks have ceased, at least for the time being,” Stelter reports. “‘We had conversations awhile back, and we haven’t had recent conversations with them,’ Moonves told CNNMoney in an interview last week.”
Stelter reports, “When asked whether 2016 is the year that Apple will enter the marketplace with a streaming TV service, Moonves said, ‘You’ll have to ask Apple that. I don’t know that.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: You didn’t like this, you didn’t like that, so let’s see how you like this cold shoulder.
SEE ALSO:
CBS CEO Moonves says Apple puts live TV service ‘on hold’ – December 8, 2015
Fox’s James Murdoch, CBS’s Les Moonves hint at looming Apple Web TV service launch – November 5, 2015
CBS CEO Moonves says Apple TV content deal is likely – October 14, 2015
CBS CEO: We’re still in negotiations with Apple over new Internet TV service – May 27, 2015
Oh well. I’m at the point I am almost willing to drop cable without a replacement from Apple, and just enjoy the adventure of discovering alternate means of consuming content. I can already buy all the shows I want on iTunes directly anyway, plus we already have HBO. I’m not a sports fan. The only thing I would be missing is the “news”.
Get a cheap (anywhere from $6 to $30) HD antenna for your television and you can get news on all of the local channels for free. 😉 Netflix provides hours of entertainment for cheap too.
I’ve grown tired of netflix. I pull it up on my ATV, I search, but can’t find anything, so I go somewhere else. When I first got netflix I loved it. But now I can’t find anything.
I still love netflix.. So much stuff there if one is not looking only for the latest, newest movies….
in the area of documentaries, foreign movies, independents and older movies …..it awesome.
The problem is netflixes apps keep getting worse and worse for discovery.
Few years back they had so many catagories to navigate through… To a level of forign: japanies, or foreign: indian…..genre …etc ……And so many ways to branch off and surf their catalog.
Very easy to hone in on what one is looking for.
As time has gone by they have reduced their catagories and bundled them.
Now on the new apple tv their new app is the worst it has been …. Terrible, cumbersome discovery and navigation ……
Its not just me… My wife also hates the new app and how cumborsome discovery has become.
“Latest newest movies”?
I went on Netflix about a month ago, looking for movies with Tom Hanks. There were 4. None of the Godfather movies, and I think there was one move on there with Coppola.
Netflix may be for some people, my nephew watches cartoons on it, but it’s not for me. Seems like a waste of time and money to me.
Third party sites might help you find and discover shows you like. Third party sites have filters to weed out things you’re not interested in, or to help narrow things to a certain parameter. Netflix’ AppleTV interface blows. I get that they want to make a simple, idiot proof interface (Here’s a few shows you might be interested in, if not, oh well.), but some of us are smart enough to use filters and sorting options to try and narrow our browsing options down to what we actually want to see. Netflix AppleTV interface needs to start from scratch and reaaaaally needs a filter and sort mode. I only use the interface for a direct search when I know exactly what I’m looking for, and I use third party sites for browsing and discovering.
Check these sites out:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/provider/netflix
http://instantwatcher.com
Many thanx for the links !👍
I almost cancelled Netflix too, but recently found the series “Occupied”. This drama is a fictional story about energy, Norway and a soft invasion from Russia. it is very entertaining if you enjoy political intrigue. The acting is excellent.
I contacted Netflix to cancel because I couldn’t find anything, especially movies. (It was reported a while back that they did chose not to renew their contract with Epix signaling they would focus more on Netflix Studios productions.) The girl I spoke with was helpful in keeping me for a few more months maybe. Go to the Netflix site on a computer – not a mobile device which gets their mobile site and not the app. Netflix is the weirdest company with various portals that support different features. On my iPad, I might find a movie but I only have a link to play – not to add it to my list. The full site is a bit better. I’ve heard that the ATV4 Netflix app continues to play each episode in a series until you stop it or the season or series is done. On the ATV3, it will play 3 episodes without interaction and then it prompts you for input or stops playing.
Unfortunately, for some of us that live in rural areas, this is not a viable solution. In our area, there MAY be one channel available (I am glad for those who can have it – I have family in metro areas that enjoy OTA). The content owners are also the bandwidth providers (cable/fibre optic/satellite) and they have no reason to provide over-the-air services for free. I think the cable company used to have to provide a few channels over the air, pre-digital, but not since.
Ultimately, I would really love to get beyond having to record broadcasts of previously recorded materials. Having just internet where I live has been made so expensive that cutting the cord does not make sense for now, even if I gave up viewing all together (probably, the best choice, at the end of the day – reality is sweeter than fiction or virtual reality, though fiction is fun, from time to time).
Many local news shows also Livestream their coverage. Lots of ways to watch that, including Apple TV.
Or get a big-ass antenna for $120 (as I did) and pick up signals from multiple metropolises (as I do). I get 51 over-the-air channels for free. I only pay for Netflix ($8/month) and sporadic pay-per-view programs (e.g. “The Walking Dead”) on Amazon.
I cut the cable four years ago and have saved approximately $5000-$6000 now.
You won’t miss cable. If you don’t care about sports, it pretty much has nothing to offer.
There is no news. At least, no news worth watching. We threw our TV “out the window” 23 years ago. Never looked back. Good luck with your decision.
I’ve always been interested in the news, but these days I never watch the news on TV. Online sources allow me to only read the stories that interest me, to read them in the order that I want, to source those stories from multiple sources and to the depth that suits me.
TV news is far too dumbed down and is often slanted in some way. Online news reading allows you to get the stories from multiple places and multiple countries, which offers a much better understanding of the bigger picture.
Kate- Hulu has new clips. I was in the same boat, waiting for apple. i cut the cord two months ago, and have never been happier. I bought a $50 indoor antenna to get the local broadcast and discovered the picture is way better than with cable. Go for it! If the show is good enough, it will eventually make its way to netflix, itunes, hulu, anyway.
Get an over the air antenna and you’ll have all the local channels and news too
I suspect that many of us with Apple TVs aren’t at all missing the dated and tired model of broadcast television with its fixed time slots, ratings/popularity mindset, (precursor of Facebook’s ‘like’ mentality that killed many a great tv show), the constant advertising disrupts, and the hysteria generated by many of the network news programs. Apple TV is coming into its own now, but even before Apple TV 4, it was really hard to go back to broadcast TV, cable or over the air.
I still love netflix.. So much stuff there if one is not looking only for the latest, newest movies….
in the area of documentaries, foreign movies, independents and older movies …..it awesome.
The problem is netflixes apps keep getting worse and worse for discovery.
Few years back they had so many catagories to navigate through… To a level of forign: japanies, or foreign: indian…..genre …etc ……And so many ways to branch off and surf their catalog.
Very easy to hone in on what one is looking for.
As time has gone by they have reduced their catagories and bundled them.
Now on the new apple tv their new app is the worst it has been …. Terrible, cumbersome discovery and navigation ……
Its not just me… My wife also hates the new app and how cumborsome discovery has become.
We dropped cable last summer during a local move within town. With access to TV shows, movie rentals and Netflix, we don’t miss it. And hell, we got to watch Super Bowl 50 on our old 3rd generation Apple TV! (Thanks for the heads up on that one MDN.)
The need for cable will continue to diminish over time as Apple, painfully and slowly, puts more pieces in place. Eventually, the networks will feel compelled to deal with Apple. But apparently, it’s not going to happen right away.
CBS is also suing Star Trek fans over fan fiction.
With the way the’ve been acting, I wouldn’t be surprised if the fans called for a boycott of CBS.
If they’re profiting from it then I kind of agree with them protecting the creative rights. Otherwise let me just write the next Harry Potter book so I can make millions of dollars and retire off someone else’s idea and my own adaptation of it.
They are following the rules set down by the law. CBS (and Paramount) is just being greedy, and incredibly stupid.
Mainstream media becomes less essential every day.
Not sure exactly when the last time was I sat down and watched anything on NBC, ABC, CBS and I never watch Fox. Most of the cable channels are even worse and most have abandoned the programming they were launched to provide. The Weather Channel rarely has anything to do with weather, MTV stopped being about music a long time ago, the History Channel is bullshit, Discovery not much better, National Geographic was just sold to the Murdoch Empire of Bullshit.
The so-called news channels are full of talking heads gassing off on horse race bullshit rather than present voters with the policy proposals of the different candidates.
People are cutting the cord because they are not real happy with paying good money for a bunch of propaganda that is mostly irrelevant to anyone. The Trans-Pacific Partnership is in Congress right now and will effect 40% of the World’s GDP yet not a peep is heard on any of the “News” Channels. However they are happy to show you video of Chris Christie’s takedown of Marco Water Boy Rubio in the latest Republican “Debate”.
More and more, streaming online programming is becoming the go-to distribution without the filter of politically minded chain operators of radio stations (Salem Broadcasting , Citadel Broadcasting, Clear Channel come to mind). They have cancelled profitable Progressive formats in major cities and replaced them with content that made the ratings fall to almost zero. Why would a for-profit company abandon a profitable format for a losing format?
Apple does not need to buy Netflix. It needs to set up a streaming service in partnership with someone who knows how to do such things- unlike Eddie Cue. Apple has repeatedly shown us it is clueless as to internet services (Ping, Mobile Me, iTools, Beats One, Apple Music, .Mac, and iCloud). One remembers the total meltdown Steve Jobs had over Mobile Me:
“He asked the team what MobileMe was supposed to do. Someone answered, and Jobs said to that person (and everyone else), “So why the fuck doesn’t it do that?”
He continued, “You’ve tarnished Apple’s reputation … You should hate each other for having let each other down … Mossberg, our friend, is no longer writing good things about us.””
http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-mobileme-failure-2011-5
Some things never change.
Viewers don’t watch something because of the channel it is on; they watch channels because of the show that is on. It is the same, tired marketing plan: cable bundles crap channels with the ones people want, channels give you a bunch of crap programming with a couple of good series. The “revolution” is not Apple simply bundling channels like every other provider; it is allowing “a la carte” selection of programming: an “Apple Music” of television. Steve Jobs probably could have pulled it off will all the various networks, but I truly don’t believe anyone else can.
Is ye olde crappy BUNDLING this issue?
Is pricing this issue?
Potential customer want to know.
We’d gladly annoy CBS Corporation, as appropriate, into catching up with the future. 🕚