CBS & RP to charge for Survivor Insider on the net

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Grooch

Thursday, October 11, 2001 - 11:38 am Click here to edit this post
CBS and RealNetworks Announce the Creation of SURVIVOR INSIDER, Bringing Hours of Exclusive, Unseen 'Survivor: Africa' Footage to the Internet
CBS and RealNetworks Offer Exclusive Content to Subscribers Following Each Episode of 'Survivor: Africa'

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Kstme

Thursday, October 11, 2001 - 11:48 am Click here to edit this post
anyone want to insert an "i" between R&P (realplayer)? Cha ching, cha ching!

Evita27

Thursday, October 11, 2001 - 11:02 pm Click here to edit this post
Gee....I guess I'll hold off on canceling my Goldpass subscription then. I've been forgetting about it since BB2 ended.

Goddess146

Thursday, October 11, 2001 - 11:21 pm Click here to edit this post
I wonder how many hours of The Front Of The Hut (FOTH) you will get with the Survivor Insider package.

Espen

Friday, October 12, 2001 - 04:51 am Click here to edit this post
Wow, seems like "letting" them give me three months free turned out to be a good deal! It is unfortunate that they are charging though, but at least in this case, they are simply adding more info (since some clips are still available for free) for a premium price. If that is all they had done with BB i wouldn't have objected then either..

I really think the Goldpass people should have told people this was coming, as it would have probably stopped more people from unsubscribing than will now resubscribe.. oh well, maybe it was another last minute deal..

Realtvfan

Friday, October 12, 2001 - 09:21 am Click here to edit this post
At first glance, the RP Goldpass feeds seems to only reinforce what was learned during the show. That, for the most part, the folks in the Sambura tribe seem somewhat better prepared than the folks at the Boran tribe for this situation. Even with the additional paid feed information, the overwhelming conclusion has to be that most of these folks did not watch SI or SII intently with the idea of learning from previous mistakes.

With a few exceptions, you can very quickly see the SIII US people and attach SII US and SI US personalities to them. There is not yet very much new in the idea of exploring significantly different personality types.

For example, SI US, SII US, SI UK, and now SIII US each have one military person (with the military personality as opposed to the media savvy type personality) as part of the group.

As we know from SI US, SII US, and SI UK, the military person is voted out first (2) or second (1) in the tribal democracy. If this happens again, it would be boring.

The tape (that CBS must have) showing who was bending the truth between Diane and Clarence was not included in the Real Player paid for feeds. That smacks of BBII US and the FOTH. When you pay for the feeds, it would be nice to get something in the form of a resolution with your payment. Not here. At least not yet.

I can say that, to me, Clarence made a better presentation of himself on the Real Player feeds than he did on the show. That may be a contributing factor as to why he only received a vote from Diane and Tom.

Goddess146

Friday, October 12, 2001 - 10:04 am Click here to edit this post
I looked at some of the free clips today. I saw nothing compelling in any of the ones I watched. What I would like to see is the stories behind the strategies and controversial events.

What I saw was two girls gabbing about nothing while building a fence and a bunch of people sitting around opening a can of fruit.

I tried to look at one or two others but keep geting rebufferings to the point where it was not wroth trying.

The free clips are not worth what I paid for them. I doubt if the paid clips will be any better. I did learn from the BB2 live feeds that any hope for improvement from the free stuff is futile.

Bracken

Friday, October 12, 2001 - 12:36 pm Click here to edit this post
I just cancelled my Goldpass early last week. I wasn't offered a free three month subscriptions when I cancelled either (boy, do I feel ripped off). When I opened the "free" clips, my AOL Media Player kicked in and worked just fine in viewing the clips. I agree with you Goddess, they were pretty worthless.

Based on the info provided by RealTvfan that additional information is not shown in the "insider" clips; I doubt they will be getting any money from me for this show. I think it may be too late to boycott the new revenue stream CBS has established. I'm just sorry I contributed to it in the first place by subscribing to BB2, although the 15/7 coverage provided was worth the $40 or so I paid.

It looks like CBS will only be providing an extra hour or so or clips per episode. Unless these clips are exceptional, the price of their insider plan is too high.

Lilliegirl

Friday, October 12, 2001 - 07:32 pm Click here to edit this post
Can someone please tell me where to go to get the 19.95 goldpass, all I see is the 9.95 a month.

Roe325

Saturday, October 13, 2001 - 11:10 am Click here to edit this post
it amazes me that CBS can call any of that garbage inside information! I like realtvfan wanted to see the bean caper, now that's inside info! I had no desire to see Diane talk for what seamed to be forever about a lion or something boring. it made front of the house in BB2 look interesting.

I don't want to hear them talk or interviews, I want to see action. Inside stuff they are promising. showing the beans would not have hurt the outcome or spoiled anything. ok, um just my opinion, if you haven't got it yet save you $, you are not missing a thing!