We canceled Disney plus and never liked Hulu. I have all the Disney classic movies on iTunes and we do watch them often. IMO, Disney lost it’s way with 24x7 social messaging in your face. This is a perfect case study on how to destroy a brand.
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Disney+ and Hulu Merging Into Single App, Beta Coming in December
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Yeah I’ve already canceled Max, Discover+, and I currently get Disney+/Hulu/ESPN through Verizon free. I’m down to paying for Netflix 2 screens, and that’s it. $40/mo is the number I’ve said I’m unwilling to go beyond for streaming. If that leaves me ultimately with only getting 1-2 streaming services, fine. But I will not pay $50, $60, $70 per month for streaming services because they’ve all gotten greedy.
Because as it turns out, making content is really expensive, and keeping all their original content for themselves means losing out on additional revenue streams such as licensing them to other platforms.
Funny all the people that complain about pricing. We've never had so much content for so little money in history. Look at any of the big streamers content budgets and it's clear it was unsustainable as soon as ZIRP was over.
I hope everyone has a big backlog built up because prices are going up and there is going to be less content created.
I hope everyone has a big backlog built up because prices are going up and there is going to be less content created.
Well said however I beg to differ on grounds that Disney is not in the least interesting to me at this point. Their content is boring and flatulent. And thank gawd I had my kids last century - so we went to Disneyland with some discount tickets. One time pain inflicted and recovered from. The idea of $19.99/mo (or thereabouts) on a family screen addiction to their content now heaps upon a swelling burden of subscriptions. No thanks.
I don’t see any separate Hulu content in Disney+ (I’m in Belgium). There is a category “Star” though. Is that it?
Na, Hulu is not mentioned at all. i.e. Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K. is Hulu content in the U.S.. Same with Futurama.
Considering that I can cancel and move on a whim, it's no where near cable. We had DirecTV for years, and I don't think it was every under $100, all the way back into the mid 90s, plus you had to sign contracts.
My total monthly tv streaming bill for myself and the wife? $19.99. If you add music, $34.98
It already is and called Star and the best part is, that we do not have to pay extra for it. Star is getting all the Hulu Originals and much more. Only US Network shows (like from FOX) are not necessarily on Star right away since local tv networks probably have first look deals in place abroad
Just as long as we don't lose the vast collection of HIMS.com commercials. I don't know where I would be without my every-twenty-minutes dose of information about how to resolve my ED and hair loss problems.
You can pay extra not to see ads. The only time I see an ad these days is watching sports. It’s almost like a novelty to see an ad for me at this point. It’s an oh wow ads still exists moment.
Kind of an apples to oranges comparison. You're comparing a time when you had access to essentially every piece of "television" media produced to a time where you have actively rejected 90% of what is available to save money.
Good on you for having the self control and discipline to recognize that TV is not the most important thing in your life.
But streaming companies are not happy with people like you, and the more people like you that there are that refuse to pony up for all these subscriptions, the less fragmentation we will have.
The only way the consumer wins is by rejecting the movement.
but that's a really good show actually. (The Bear for those who missed the reference)
I have them straight. Everything I wrote is true. Gross revenue is NOT net income. Nor is it market share. Nor is it share price. You've created a false narrative, both of Disney's strength and it's political outlook. The Reedy Creek district run by Disney has been dissolved, and replaced by a DeSantis-handpicked board of directors. I don't see either reversing in the foreseeable future.
However, rather than defending them on a forum, perhaps you should invest your money in Disney. If you already did, you know how much you lost. If you haven't, why not take a chance that you're right and prove me wrong?
We had Hulu Live TV (the wife likes the old fashioned TV channel lineup) and at some point Hulu raised the price and threw in Disney+. Hulu Live buffered constantly, even in a hardwired console. And then they started piping in a ridiculous amount of HIV drug ads in the early evening. Don’t know what the hell was up with whatever algorithms pick ads for individual subscribers, but the whole thing was more than a little odd. I‘m not talking about an occasional ad, I mean showing one or more during every single commercial break across multiple live channels.
As for Disney+, we watched a few Star Wars related things and that’s about it. Our 11 year old was never into any of the Marvel crap and on the very rare occasions that he chose to use Disney+, he went for the NatGeo content.
I canceled the whole thing and haven’t missed it. Currently using YouTube TV for live TV. The UI is atrocious, but we don’t have any technical or content issues.
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