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Disney+ and Hulu Ad-Free Pricing Going Up in October, Password Sharing Crackdown Coming
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At least D+ has only ad or no ad and not other tiers by res/streams. If NF is going to force someone to top tier to get 4K, then they should be able to use the four streams however they want
Had to look up what that is just now. No I haven’t but animation isn’t my thing. Mind you, all them ones in Love, Death & Robots (Netflix) were really something else. Loved that
Hahaha...with zero interest rates the streaming services spent enormous amounts of money creating content. The amount of content available for so little money is staggering today. People have been completely spoiled and with rising rates we're about to enter a new content desert for the foreseeable future.
Yes this is what makes it so ridiculous is the frequency and amount. $3 two years in a row!?
I'm also not an animation person, but Lower Decks is a fun show. The crossover episode with Strange New Worlds was also well done.
I always cancel the instant I sub so their isn't a recurring payment
I was hoping for an endless and unlimited archives from the vault. Stuff I grew up with. Why not have all the classic Disney shorts instead of just some of them? All the nature shows, Walt Disney Presents, etc.?
I don't want Star Wars or Marvel anymore. They thought churning out a "major" release every two weeks or something would be a good thing. Just dilutes talent and quality.
Not paying 14 bucks a month to watch Ken or Mary Stus with no character arcs.
I don't want Star Wars or Marvel anymore. They thought churning out a "major" release every two weeks or something would be a good thing. Just dilutes talent and quality.
Not paying 14 bucks a month to watch Ken or Mary Stus with no character arcs.
Would still rather pay a surcharge than have no option of card or the BS can't use the card under $X, especially when the amount is high for what you would buy. But even the surcharge thing I would probably never return since most don't do it
The last year I dumped Netflix, MAX, Disney+ and Peacock Premium. I have only kept Prime Movies (mostly because I use prime for shipping, but I do like the virtual equivalent of diving into the Walmart discount DVD barrel every once in awhile), AppleTV+ because it's effectively free with AppleOne and PBS which has pretty good content for $5/mo.
I'm not being a cheapskate. I just got tired of paying for services that stopped producing compelling content and started rearranging deckchairs to squeeze out more profits instead. If Netflix wants my money they are going to have to at least put up a third season of Mindhunter.
I'm not being a cheapskate. I just got tired of paying for services that stopped producing compelling content and started rearranging deckchairs to squeeze out more profits instead. If Netflix wants my money they are going to have to at least put up a third season of Mindhunter.
I cut the cord some ten years ago and never looked back
Yes it's still by far cheaper for a month at even the new pricing than it would be for two of use in a chain theater. We might go if it comes to one of the cheaper local ones. Concessions are absolutely ridiculous even compared to before. $9 for a small of stuff?!?! HARD PASS
South Park was right. Go watch Streaming Wars. It’s worth the free trial to Paramount+ to understand WHY.
You need Internet either way unless all you do is stream and no other stuff that needs Internet. The greatest benefit for us of no traditional cable is no equipment to deal with. We have BYOD for Internet for both modem and router, so if we want to end it or switch, we just just do it. No returning anything.
I think you're greatly overestimating how many people even care that much about the price increases or considering pirating content an alternative.
The worst are LiveTV. You could even get the good ones in the beginning for $30. Now it's like double-triple. The ones we liked most were PSVue which died and YTTV, but we cancelled them long ago due the the ridiculous price increases
Actually that’s a good idea!. Suspend for a month and cycle through services!. I think I might try it, let’s see how much of a pain if “cancel” and “re-register” every month. Perhaps a business opportunity for a service to do that for me? For 1 buck per month?
Once the quality of the Star Wars and Marvel TV shows got low we quit Disney. Prices going up everywhere...
You mean except the inflation hitting every market and every product in the world?
Other than that you mean....
Tell me you dont understand inflation without telling me you dont understand inflation.
Nah, personally I’m good. I never even clicked on anything else aside from “Marvel” section, but now I have watched them pretty much all and finishing up last few shows in the next month. Then see no reason having Disney+ anymore
That’s the thing, getting billed through Apple makes cancellation/ resubscribing, stupidly easy. Matter of fact you can just cancel immediately after the booking for the streaming service appears as being billed.
There are several factors. The “Give Every American $4000 Act of 2020” is a huge part. The rest is summarized in South Park Streaming Wars.