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Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netflix content

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Post by djrogers »

tjohns wrote: post #352
taurath wrote: post #285

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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.

$30/month? Even with Disney's entire lineup, no way it's worth that much. Given that online movie rentals are ~$2, that's watching a full length movie every other day. There's a limit to how much TV you can watch. (And if your goal is to binge watch, it's competing with Netflix at $10/month -- which even with it's limited library is a great value.)

You’re stuck on movies, but Disney has many thousands of hours of TV co tent over hundreds of shows.

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Post by princeb »

ehsankia wrote: post #324
bendauphinee wrote: post #240

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I don't think it's about paying that high a cost, I think it's about having to chase it all over the place. I'd pay double or maybe triple for Netflix, as long as it meant I could get most or all of the streaming content I wanted in one place. This is one reason why Steam is so popular.

So then your issue isn't the cost, and if someone came with an app that would "merge" all service into a single app where you can stream for all of them from a single place, you'd be happy? I don't think that's what others are complaining about though. Price was definitely the issue of the top commenter as they mention 10$/month and 30$/year. But it makes no sense because back in the cable days, people paid 50-100$ i…

the economics of bundling is fairly straightforward.

you pay $80 a month for let's say 100 channels. most people think they are paying $0.80 per channel. the cable providers know you don't want around 90 of those channels, but they're giving them to you anyway. what consumers are actually paying is $70 for their most watched channel, $5 for their 2nd most watched channel, $3 for the 3rd, $2 for their 4th, and every other channel is given to them free by the cable provider.

if cable companies were to allow consumers to pick and choose, they'd more transparently charge it like this. you could pick just 5 channels you reduce all the crap that they're giving you, and you'd probably still pay the same amount.

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Post by BMorearty »

swsieber wrote: post #430
BMorearty wrote: post #301

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Netflix's streaming library size has become absurdly small for people like me who: - Want to stream movies (not TV) - Want general movies as opposed to Netflix content Earlier this year, Netflix' DVD division released their Top 10 most popular movie rentals. Only one of the 10 was available on Netflix streaming.

Well, the top 10 thing makes sense - why get the DVD if you can just stream. I think there's sampling bias there. I do however agree that their streaming movie collection is bad.

I should have clarified: there's no sampling bias. These are incredibly popular movies. Here are some movies not on Netflix streaming that I've wanted to watch this year: Gladiator. Star Wars IV. Shawshank Redemption. The Wizard of Oz. When Harry Met Sally. The Princess Bride. All Star Trek movies. Goodfellas. Lord of the Rings. Gone with the Wind. All Godfather movies. Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Airplane. American Graffiti. The Usual Suspects. All Jim Carrey movies except a bad one (the Grinch) and one I've never heard of (the Number 23). Toy Story. There's Something About Mary. All Austin Powers movies.

The last time I tried searching for a good movie to watch on Netflix streaming, I gave up after 10 minutes. I'd think of one movie after another after another. Nothing was there. All it could suggest was "related titles," as if that's what I would want.

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Post by Mathnerd314 »

mjevans wrote: post #124
px1999 wrote: post #86

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Long term, we'll probably wind up with a couple of major marketplaces that provide a UI that ties together content bundles that you've purchased from different distributors (who will actually serve up their catalogs). It's a bit depressing how similar that sounds to how cable networks work. Or platform specific app stores.

Long term, it'll be the DRM free copies that are preserved for future generations to enjoy the historical context of.

DVD's and Blu-Rays are pretty much archival quality, and the minimal copy protection is easily circumvented, at least for the next decade or two https://superuser.com/questions/251369/what-is-the-lifespan-...

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Post by supercoder »

int_19h wrote: post #345
ehsankia wrote: post #324

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So then your issue isn't the cost, and if someone came with an app that would "merge" all service into a single app where you can stream for all of them from a single place, you'd be happy? I don't think that's what others are complaining about though. Price was definitely the issue of the top commenter as they mention 10$/month and 30$/year. But it makes no sense because back in the cable days, people paid 50-100$ i…

The issue is that it's still a damn bundle. Except now it's several. What I want is to pay for access to the things that I want, which happen to be spread across more and more bundles the way things are going. What they want is for me to only consume things from their bundle, to ensure that I'm a permanent customer.

Just use iTunes then to rent TVs and movies ?

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Post by ncallaway »

codazoda wrote: post #70
Anatidae wrote: post #30

If 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…

We asked for a la carte TV pricing. I think this is what it looks like. I'll probably pay for a few channels and forget the rest.

It's not quite a la carte. We've gone from 1 provider, with bundles to N providers. I don't mind paying for each content provider. What I personally mind is the content being spread across a bunch of different sites.

I don't want to have an HBO account, and a Disney account, and a Hulu account, and a Netflix account, and an Amazon account, etc etc. I wish they'd play nicely and let one provider bill me, and take care of restricting my access to their HBO portion of their library unless I pay an addition $X/month.

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Post by pfranz »

cgriswald wrote: post #388
pfranz wrote: post #261

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Has anyone had luck with canistream.it? I've never once had success with it and tried at least half a dozen times over months. Just now I did a search for "all the presidents men." Top hit was "All The King's Men" but the right movie did show up second. It says "Not available for streaming, rental, or purchase. Click below to set reminders." So I hopped around and did a few quick searches: streaming on Netflix (i thi…

https://gowatchit.com/watch/movies/all-the-presidents-men-44... Click "Watch the Movie" and it will show you several ways you can watch it (including all you've listed above and more).

canistream.it seems to have better SEO because I've never heard of gowatchit.com and I swear I've googled some variant of "where movies are streaming" multiple times.

Roku and AppleTV seem to do a decent job of aggregating this information, but that UI isn't always handy and I'm usually more flexible about my viewing options than just those devices.

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