$10 Netflix, $10 Hulu, $10(?) HBO, $10 Spotify, $10 Youtube Red and so on and so forth. So this will end up being worst and more costly than Cable.
Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netflix content
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#282A large part why Spotify, Netflix and Steam are so successful is because they are more convenient than piracy, and they have most of the content you would want. When you again have the choice to either check half a dozen services to see who has the show you want, or to go one-stop shopping at the pirate bay, guess what a lot of people will do.
Speaking of that, it's curious that there isn't a piracy version of Steam that integrates with tor, torrents and such. How bizarre and awesome (in the way stuxnet was awesome tech but not exactly well meant one) of a concept would that be? And the outcry of the triple A industry, wow. There is LaunchBox for emulators and DOSBox but that's it.. and it just downloads the metadata, not the emulators and ROMs themselves.
Each program is it's own special flower. A video format only has to cracked a few times and it applies to everyone, decodable to almost everyone.
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#283Earlier quoted context omitted.
> HBO doesn't feel like "extra" because it's always been an optional add-on that costs more. Disney Channel used to be a premium, ad-free channel.
And they didn't have enough subscribers to justify that model. I wonder what they think has changed. Maybe on demand Disney movies are valuable enough to enough parents to justify this?
I bet star wars changed this.
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#284Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem tends to be the pricing. The per-episode and seasonal purchase rates often seem higher than going and buying a DVD, probably due to the store taking a cut. The streaming services, or even cable TV, are much cheaper if you make a lot of use of them. The hope always seems to be to operate like a gym, where there are people paying but almost never showing up.
To me, a debate about pricing is totally separate from the arguments about the availability of options to buy content. You can 1) Buy individual episodes 2) Buy individual season 3) Buy individual channels (FX, HBO, with ESPN and Disney coming soon and more and more networks offering this option) 4) Buy bundles of content (cable, Netflix, Hulu, etc.) Availability windows also seem to be designed to match consumers de…
If they were separate arguments, then album sales wouldn't have dropped after iTunes started selling $0.99 a song. CD Singles have been around forever but everyone paid the extra couple dollars to get the rest of the album even though in many cases very little effort was made producing the rest of the album.
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#285If every studio thinks I'm going to pay them $10+ a month to stream their content, they are going to be very mistaken. I can't imagine that a lot of people want to spend the collective hundreds of dollars to sign up for all the streaming services. It's almost asking to drive people to torrents. Now, if Disney does something like $30/year or something really affordable - sure. I might do that on a whim. I guess it's a…
Disney Owns:
Marvel Disney Animation Pixar Touchstone Pictures ABC ESPN LucasArts
If they have a whole streaming platform with all the content from each of these, no way its $30/year, more like $30/month.
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#286People forget that Disney owns a lot of must-see content: For example, here is the list of top grossing movies of 2016 http://www.imdb.com/list/ls074920894/ Disney had the following films 1. Captain America: Civil War 2. Rogue One 3. Finding Dory 4. Zootopia 5. The Jungle Book 11. Doctor Strange 12. Moana 19. Alice Through the Looking Glass For 2017 so far ( http://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-records/domestic/all-…
I am not paying another $10 for another service. Enough is enough, I can live without Disney stuff. If I really "need it" I'll go to the library.
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#287I wish them luck keeping things running smoothly when a new Star Wars movie is released.
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#288Maybe when I am 60, 70 or 80 the film industry will get their shi* together and finally agree on a solution that has long been found in the music business. For a truly complete platform, I would FOR SURE pay more than the 10$ a month for Netflix. 20, maybe 30! But then I want it ALL. All films they have in storage. I mean, it is 2017 and there are a lot of films I can't find on Netflix, Amazon Prime or, when I am in…
The fact is that Disney is extremely savvy and knows how to produce content that sells with a nearly 100% success rate. They are simply a marketing and merchandising machine.
They use the vault the way diamond miners do- to restrict supply of extremely coveted goods so that they can charge premium prices for them. It's good business and it keeps things that are decades old in constant demand so they can charge higher prices for them.
Unfortunately for you and me that means that if we want access we have to pay more. While it may certainly be true that you don't place enough value on Disney products to pay a premium, there are lots of people who will and there are probably still going to be times that you want access to it and consider signing up. That's what they want- if they commoditized their content and you were able to get access to everything they own for $30 a month, that wouldn't serve their purposes at all. Companies like Netflix dream of having one franchise that's as successful as the countless ones that Disney has. Why on Earth would they just have a fire sale for all of their content when they can restrict supply and extract the most profit from it?
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#289I'm happy to pay Spotify a monthly fee. It is more than I ever spent on music before though (not a pirate, just didn't buy much music.) Same with netflix. I'll not be happy with paying monthly for n different channels to watch a film. I want to pay. But either one service with all I need like Spotify or paying for the stiff I actually watch.
Maybe you never used to spend more than $10/month on video, but most Americans have been spending an order of magnitude more than that.
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#290Earlier quoted context omitted.
Disney has a sprawling cable content network.
Exactly. That's why they HAD to make this move. The Disney channel is getting hurt badly by families cutting the cord. Disney streaming will be just as much about "The Mickey Mouse Club" as it is about big budget blockbusters. I have a 2 year old. I will be wherever the Disney content is, and they could charge me basically whatever price they want.
Why is Disney content so important to you, do you think watching a specific brand of movie/show is _that_ enriching to your child's life?
Disney's attitude to selling to children is toxic IMO. But perhaps if you fully inhale you actually do start to get happier by just buying the latest movie franchise tie-in toy, made of cheap plastic using exploited labour?