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Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netflix content

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Re: Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netflix content

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Post by Steeeve »

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…

Netflix's library is pretty weak at this point unless you really like their own productions. It's mostly lionsgate which any studio can add to their service for next to nothing.

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Post by pfranz »

djrogers wrote: post #466
cmrdporcupine wrote: post #232

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And the store content also come 6 months to a year or more after the original air time.

Not sure where you’re getting that idea - pretty much every TV show available on iTunes is available the day it airs or the day after.

That may be true for traditional TV. Game of Thrones is currently airing season 7. Unless you subscribe to HBO you can only get season 6. Season 5 of House of Cards was released in May and still only available through Netflix.

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Post by davedx »

zapt02 wrote: post #98
TheGRS wrote: post #92

Some kind of surprising comments in this thread. I think many people (obviously not everyone here judging by what I'm reading) would happily pay for a Disney-only service, maybe upwards of $20-$30 per month. Why? Its the mecca for family entertainment. They have Pixar, Disney Animation, Star Wars and Marvel, plus all of their Disney television content from years past. Its a quality brand people trust. Much different…

I agree with this. Most families in the western world would pay upwards of $30 to be able to show Disneys back catalog to their kids. Unlimited nostalgia. But I hope they don't pull a typical Disney and portion out their content by arbitrary restrictions. Families will pay either way regardless though.

Hi, family with 4 kids, very happy to see Vaiana come on Netflix the other week. No way in hell will we pay an extra subscription just to watch old Disney films. I want one streaming service and will pay more for more (I upgraded our Netflix to support more devices). I will not pay for multiple services like this.

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Post by davedx »

zapt02 wrote: post #202
electriclove wrote: post #148

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Upwords of $30/month? That is way too expensive!

I said western-world families. That amount is chump change to most of them, considering how expensive it is to raise a family. Nostalgia + keeping their kids busy = priceless.

Hahaha you'll find having a family in the west means you have a lot less money to blow on single content streaming services. :)

We have a dual income (both successful professionals) and we are careful with our money. We have to be with all those child related expenses.

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Post by WillPostForFood »

syshum wrote: post #364
WillPostForFood wrote: post #320

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Star Wars is already the movies, plus two animated series (Clone Wars and Rebels). You can look at the Marvel strategy to see where it could go, with multiple movies a year plus multiple tv/streaming series (Agents of Shield, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Legion, Defenders, Gifted, Inhumans, Punisher, Runaways). If all that Marvel content moves to Disney streaming, plus new Star Wars content, plus t…

Atleast 50% of the marvel content on your list are Netflix Owned Orginals, they can not pulled to Disney's new service. This would be Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Defenders, Punisher. It is highly unlikely Netflix would be stupid enough not to have those locked down. Agents of Shield I believe a ABC owned production, and would be governed under what ever terms Netflix and ABC have, Same with Inhuma…

Even if Netflix retains streaming rights to some of the existing episodes they co-produced, Disney owns the properties and future seasons will show up on Disney's streaming service.

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Post by wunderg »

dingo_bat wrote: post #417
samstave wrote: post #404

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Gee -- I wonder why the Qwest CEO went to prison... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio

Wtf they actually sent him to jail for refusing to give customer data to the NSA. No wonder we hardly see any resistance nowadays.

There is popcorntime.io

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Post by Larrikin »

scottLobster wrote: post #118
fullshark wrote: post #46

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I would pay $20 a month if it had every disney movie ever, and every new release after a certain time period. I imagine there are a lot of parents that would as well.

That's 12 blu-rays a year. Do your kids really watch THAT much Disney? You could buy every new Disney movie each year and have extra slots to fill out the backlog for that price, plus de-facto ownership of the data.

Kids handling Blu-Ray disk and constantly swapping them out would easily triple the blu-ray disk cost and also probably add on the cost of atleast one new blu-ray player a year.

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Post by ynezz »

px1999 wrote: post #363
perseusprime11 wrote: post #326

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You mean Netflix and Amazon Prime Video...

I probably described it poorly, but both of those services are $/month for access to a full catalog that Netflix/Amazon manages and curates. That's not really a marketplace, which would have individual vendors selling their own subscription bundles.

Officially there is no such service, but unofficially you can do a lot of stuff :-)

You pay $12 to Netflix and you can watch it officially on 4 devices, which means it's $3 for any of your 4 friends, but you can "oversell" it actually more if you've some friends in different timezones. Many services work this way just fine. Streamwarez(tm) is here for a long time already.

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