For anyone who hasn't watched them yet, it appears there are issues with several episodes of the original show in Season 1 and a couple in Season 2 on Paramount+. I've watched them on both Apple TV 4K and Amazon Fire Cube, but the issues persist. Most notably, during the episode "The Laughing in the Dark," there's a lot of frame drops (slow downs), stuttering, and IIRC, one point where it froze for a full second before proceeding.
Other episodes from season 1 have the frame drop issue sporadically, but it does impede playback. In Season 2, during "The Tale of Locker 22" there were a couple of weird VHS-like anomalies with horizontal lines on the screen that lasted just a half second or so, and I believe there was one part that skipped a couple seconds ahead.
Not sure what good it'll do, but I did send Paramount+ a support email notifying them of the issues in hopes they'll look into them. The problematic episodes play just fine on my DVDs (the Amazon MOD ones), so it's not an original source issue.
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