Based on what? Those price hikes may help "pay for" Netflix salaries, shareholder returns, etc. but can also help pay content creators. Netflix has been paying more and more to content creators for new content.
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Based on what? Those price hikes may help "pay for" Netflix salaries, shareholder returns, etc. but can also help pay content creators. Netflix has been paying more and more to content creators for new content.
annnnnnnd this, plus the $60 price hike, is why Disney gets no more money from this household
I've subscribed to Disney+ since it was first available in the UK.
It's a quality service, with quality software. Everyone in my family make good use of it, and I would say the volume of content added on a continual basis justifies the price increase.
Nearly everything increases in price due to inflation, and as is being ignored by many here, the people who create the content need to earn a living too.
I do think many people are seemingly too lazy to browse the catalogue to find something new (or new to them).
Some of the latest discoveries I've made on Disney+ include Nothing (a.k.a. Nada), English Teacher, Tell Me Lies, and War of the Worlds (the recent tv adaptation). I'm also catching up on The Americans, which is fantastic. This is not to mention regularly dipping into the beautiful animation (and related documentaries) Disney and Pixar have created, as well as all the Star Wars (The Acolyte!) and Marvel (Loki!, Agatha All Along!) content. So much cool stuff – just need more time to watch it all 😅
But I get it, it's easier to be proud to be a 🏴☠, or to say "Look at me, I'm cancelling… because I can't [be bothered] to find anything to watch!" 🙄
It's a quality service, with quality software. Everyone in my family make good use of it, and I would say the volume of content added on a continual basis justifies the price increase.
Nearly everything increases in price due to inflation, and as is being ignored by many here, the people who create the content need to earn a living too.
I do think many people are seemingly too lazy to browse the catalogue to find something new (or new to them).
Some of the latest discoveries I've made on Disney+ include Nothing (a.k.a. Nada), English Teacher, Tell Me Lies, and War of the Worlds (the recent tv adaptation). I'm also catching up on The Americans, which is fantastic. This is not to mention regularly dipping into the beautiful animation (and related documentaries) Disney and Pixar have created, as well as all the Star Wars (The Acolyte!) and Marvel (Loki!, Agatha All Along!) content. So much cool stuff – just need more time to watch it all 😅
But I get it, it's easier to be proud to be a 🏴☠, or to say "Look at me, I'm cancelling… because I can't [be bothered] to find anything to watch!" 🙄
I'm not brave enough to take the wrath of a toddler being told Bluey (D+) is out of the rotation for 6 months.
LOL and fair enough. Every individual or family can adjust the formula as their circumstances allow.
In our house we have Prime, just because, Hulu (no ads), Paramount (ad supported). Probably around Black Friday I will dump Paramount and get NetFlix again as we haven't had that in a while.
Easy work around, get yourself a VPN installed are your home, let your family and others connect to that VPN, voila, pasword sharing problem solved
Max is the only one that has held value for me and that is just because of four shows that I could watch 1000 more time and would still not be enough. Hulu lost me this month. Netflix lost me a year and a half ago. Disney only had me for the Simpsons, until I got a great deal at the local pawn shop for 23 of the seasons. Apple still gets $40 a month from me though probably will keep that for the foreseeable future.
You’re right and I apologize for the way I came across. That was rude. Maybe you can explain why you choose to place your extended family members in separate households on your family plan. It seems amazingly complicated to me to do it this way. Is it just so you get the streaming service for everybody for just $10 or whatever the deal is? Or are there other savings that they realize. Are they all paying you their portion every month, or are you simply paying everyone’s cellphone bill?
What? LOL! In what part of Europe do you not come back home for two weeks? That's not usual in Germany.
He is paying so people like you can pirate other peoples work and watch it for free. If nobody pays then there will be no great movies, no new series, no fresh new artists and music or fun little indie games, just established big name garbage that will sell for sure. I know first hand, I used to own an Amiga computer and I didn't pay for a single game back then, so when most developers stopped producing games because 99% of people didn't pay the whole platform crashed and died.
You mean $13/month for ad-free Hulu & D+, right?
$20/mo for ad-free Hulu & D+
- $7/mo AMEX bill credit ($84/year)
Or is there an even better deal out there I’m not aware of? 😃
Guess you've never heard of "Montage". It's pretty common in Germany for people to be gone a week or two at a time to "auf Montage sein".
Pirating has never been unpopular.
But now it's easier than ever with tools that automate building your own home media server library. And while streaming was popular for a bit (I even had Amazon Prime for a while, but dropped it when they raised the price YET AGAIN while the 2-day shipping turned into 7-day shipping and the shipping was the only reason I had it in the first place, and I realized that what I was paying for quick shipping without extra charges was actually being used for the streaming that I almost never watched because piracy is easier AND better) people are finally realizing that it's become a scam and dropping it.
So now those who don't know what BitTorrent is can educate themselves, and join us in the world of FREE!
And always remember, piracy is not stealing because copying is not theft.
LOL - Yes. Not inside information, it's public. They're scum.
Bob Iger made $31.6 million as Disney’s CEO last year | CNN Business
Disney CEO Bob Iger raked in $31.6 million in compensation last year – a multi-million-dollar boost from his income the year before.
www.cnn.com
Or, if you want to get a VPN...
JUST PIRATE!
There's no need to pay these streaming scammers.
LOL - Yes. Not inside information, it's public. They're scum.
Bob Iger made $31.6 million as Disney’s CEO last year | CNN Business
Disney CEO Bob Iger raked in $31.6 million in compensation last year – a multi-million-dollar boost from his income the year before.
Yup, CEOs make bank, no doubt.
I very clearly asked another member to provide citation for their claim, all you did was jump in with another gross generalization and red emoji. You really don't contribute much besides angry faces and generalizations.
How about answering my question to you in post #45? If everyone follows you and pirates content, who pays the rank and file workers? You managed to give me a thumbs down but couldn't provide anything else of substance?
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Disney + recently moved me from the $139.99 a year plan to their $179.99 plan and are still pulling this garbage. Had to enter a pin on my Apple TV the other night. Greed will be their downfall as the quality of content is just not there.on top of that Amazon Prime price went up in Australia then they start pumping in ads and have the balls to ask for more menu to get tied of something I did not have in the first place. Really needs to be a crackdown as it is double dipping.
Sorry, but that's ridiculous.
Amiga died because nobody bought the HARDWARE. And why would they, Commode-door sold a lot of 64s because it was a $50 computer, but the hardware was garbage, constant problems with chips failing, power supplies failing, the 4th worst keyboard ever (after the TS-1000, Atari 400, and PCjr), so they weren't going to spend real money on a computer that had what was honestly an awful GUI once the Mac came out. If you didn't need a Video Toaster, you didn't buy an Amiga.
All these streaming services are crazy expensive now. They started off cheap to get you going. Yearly increases is the norm. Sometimes twice in a year. It's hilarious that they have paid tiers that also have ads? I wonder if they make more on that model then pure no ad model.
The problem for me is content. Netflix used to have some good content. But, now, their line up weak. All the original (or branded Netflix) has becoming bland. And, if something is decent, it's cancelled abruptly. Disney barely has anything new. After you plow through StarWars and Marvel, there is not much too watch. Even the kids shows and movies stale.
Maybe I just watched everything and ran out of stuff to watch. But, if they keep raising prices and want customer to keep forking over money monthly, they should add better/more content.
These services are basically overpriced channels at this point.
The problem for me is content. Netflix used to have some good content. But, now, their line up weak. All the original (or branded Netflix) has becoming bland. And, if something is decent, it's cancelled abruptly. Disney barely has anything new. After you plow through StarWars and Marvel, there is not much too watch. Even the kids shows and movies stale.
Maybe I just watched everything and ran out of stuff to watch. But, if they keep raising prices and want customer to keep forking over money monthly, they should add better/more content.
These services are basically overpriced channels at this point.
Do what I do. Switch on the subscription once or twice a year and watch what you want and cancel it afterwards.
Absolutely right. I have owned multiple Amiga machines. Great at the time. But, expensive and people were not buying them. Like you said, great video toaster. Content was an issue as well. I just don't think that was it's ultimate doom. Back then, there sea of pcs. Most people had not heard of Amiga.
Sorry, but that sounds like the same "But don't boycott {fast food place X} because it'll hurt the minimum wage workers, not the CEO" drivel that I hear so much.
So no, you get "nothing of substance" because I've already pointed out that the real problem with corporate content is not what the poor rank and file workers get, but the profits taken by the scum at the top.
You want to support actual people? Here, go buy this guy's film: https://atunsheifilms.vhx.tv/
It's actually good, he's an independent content creator, you're not supporting corporate garbage media, and while he's managed to make back 3x what he spent, it's still less than $100k.
And then pirate the Rat's garbage. Because all you're paying for is another bonus for the CxOs.
No they aren't. They are only expensive through the lens of sub'ing to them all at once.
Take Netflix, Hulu, Prime, HBO, etc., say they are $25 month. Even if there are only 2 people watching and they watch 5 hours a week, that is roughly 20 hours of content for a month or 1.25/hour of content. That assumes they are watching the same things, if they consumed separate content that would be 40 hours of content at $ .62/hour of content. Do you find either of those examples to be "expensive"???
I just looked up 2 tickets to see a movie locally, $12.50 a piece so $25 for 2 people to watch 2 hours of content of $12.50/hour.
Simple math. 1 or 2 services at a time bro.
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