I would say DC excels at a lot more than Marvel right now. DC is killing it in comics right now, marvel not so much. Same with gaming and animated movies.
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General FYI, most (all?) of the DC animated Justice League movies are currently on Hulu. I'd highly recommend Flashpoint Paradox, Doom, Dark (very [peripherally a JL movie, has Constantine, Deadman, good stuff ...) and I really liked The New Frontier (alt story taking place in the 50s).
Actually I think what is happening is MBA weenies at Disney, DC, CW etc have built a case that it would be more profitable to run their own streaming service than licence to the likes of Netflix or Hulu. Hence Netflix has lept lnto original programining to protect its business because content providers will start removing their content from Netflix as the relevant agreements expire. Without new content Netflix dies.
Whether outfits like DC comics end up being more profitable than the current arrangements remains to be seen. I doubt it. And of course if it doesn’t, the MBA weenie won’t care as they would have already leveraged their ‘win’ into a better paid job elsewhere before it all went pear shaped. They will have achieved their goal.
$40 is still much better than regular cable for what you get in terms of quality plus no ads.
True, but it's should be noted that many people don't actually pay for all the services they have access to.
There's a large percentage of consumers who share / use passwords from friends, family, roommates, co workers, etc. That fact lessens the financial cost for a large amount of users.
Some of the services (like Amazon, DTVN, etc.) are included incentives with a service or plan someone may already be using (At&T, Amazon services). Others like YTTV give users 6 accounts for a single price.
Plus, as it's been mentioned, users can cancel & sign up at their convenience....When a new movie or series premieres, people can binge, then cancel. (And many of these services have promos / free trials)
Technically if you paid for each one of these digital services, yes the price can add up. However, realistically, plenty of folks have access to all of these & maybe are paying for only 1 or 2.
Depends on your situation I guess. I used to have DirecTV 4-5 years ago and was paying roughly $130-$140 a month and barely had stuff I wanted to watch. Now I have Multiple streaming services (Netflix/Hulu/NHL) with tons of stuff I actually want to watch as well as every game my sport team plays and it's half of what I was paying... and that includes my internet cost.
Why the hell pick sides for comics? Both DC, Marvel, along with other publishers produce some amazing content. This commercially generated war between DC and Marvel is a waste of everyone’s time.
