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Disney+ and Hulu to Be Combined Into One App
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Hulu name is not international licensed for all the countries Disney + service operates in. It was only setup for USA and Japan. If Disney is already doing this with Star for the rest of the world that is the direction it will use. Xfinity (Comcast) was thinking of using Hulu's name, but then again why, because they already have content data locker under Xfinity.
I didn't say my personal opinion on the matter of those issues. And I didn't say inclusion was wrong.
All I need is YouTube Premium and I'm good. The cost on it has stayed the same for me for 5 years or so.
So long as you can still get Hulu as a seperate and lower cost option I do not really care. But if they force us to pay for a bundle, 50% of which has no interest, then I have a serious problem.
It looks as if these idiots are trying to drive us back to the old model where we pay a fee for a lot of irrelevant content. The whole point of streaming was supposed to be that we could pick what we wanted to watch and pay for that. But, as typical, these companies care not about customer requirements.
Disney+ just jacked up their costs by 30% or so and I cancelled as we do not watch much content and the cost just breached that physiological barrier of we will keep it just in case, now we will pay only if there its something we really want to watch. We did the same with Netflix which we canceled in January after being with them since the beginning. We kept it just in case there was something we wanted to watch, but we had all but stopped finding anything we wanted (We do not watch horror, fantasy, zombie, teenage movies/TV series which seems to be the current popular genres) and they keep deleting stuff pushing you to watch on their timeline again.
These content providers are pushing us back to the bad old days of cable just using the internet to deliver their overpriced content bundled in a way so as to make them the maximum profit, but at least you can choose when to watch this drivel. But it is still drivel.
It looks as if these idiots are trying to drive us back to the old model where we pay a fee for a lot of irrelevant content. The whole point of streaming was supposed to be that we could pick what we wanted to watch and pay for that. But, as typical, these companies care not about customer requirements.
Disney+ just jacked up their costs by 30% or so and I cancelled as we do not watch much content and the cost just breached that physiological barrier of we will keep it just in case, now we will pay only if there its something we really want to watch. We did the same with Netflix which we canceled in January after being with them since the beginning. We kept it just in case there was something we wanted to watch, but we had all but stopped finding anything we wanted (We do not watch horror, fantasy, zombie, teenage movies/TV series which seems to be the current popular genres) and they keep deleting stuff pushing you to watch on their timeline again.
These content providers are pushing us back to the bad old days of cable just using the internet to deliver their overpriced content bundled in a way so as to make them the maximum profit, but at least you can choose when to watch this drivel. But it is still drivel.
Hmm. Interesting. The Disney+ bundle is already a mess. I suspect this will make it worse. Hulu is part of it with ads. Getting Hulu ad-free is more. But if you have Verizon paying for your Disney+ bundle, you cannot upgrade to ad-free Hulu (or is it Hulu+ or since it doesn't have ads would that make it Hulu- 
too hard to keep track), for just the difference. I don't expect this to fix it.
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The trick to get Hulu is to get it for Black Friday. You can get an entire year for $.99 a month. 👍
raising prices needs to including not paying for ESPN+ as I have zero use for it and don't want it, oh who am I kidding back to cable we go where my prices go up because of services I don't use. time to dust off usenet downloading.
Well of course, theft is the solution to all your problems, right?
Back when Netflix was like $7.99, and it was pretty much the be-all-end all, and there was everything under the sun on it, I thought it was great. Now? With all these mergers, and all these fragmented services... it's just become too cumbersome and too expensive. The whole point of Netflix was to have one hub for everything, and at a reasonable price. But now, they've (streaming services) just become the new cable. I have little interest.
I bought a decent antenna and mounted it in my attic. Granted, I live near a major city, but I get something close to 70 channels of TV for free now. It's literally better than what cable offers. Yes, no DVR (although I could if I wanted to), and I have to use an app on my phone for a guide... but free.
If you have the means, you should give it a try. See what you think.
Wonder how long until VZW stops paying the whole thing or at all. So far they still pay the whole thing with the previous increases.
Then later they'll rebrand as Concast Infinity and Beyond. lol. But IDK, seems logical. I have the hulu, disney+ Bundle. So it sounds like combining that into one interface makes sense. ANd sounds like you'll be still free to only sub to one or the other if you don't want the bundle.
Same for VZW. And I wish they would get an add on already for LiveTV. Stupid to have to get the whole thing on a different email when I already have the D+HE+ promo.
@Realityck That's fine just rebrand. All the big streamers all cutting costs while trying to maintain brand integrity, e.g. HBOMax. I not totally thrilled the way Warners/Discovery are executing their content shuffle, generally, I think it's smart. There has been so much pressure to trade on established brands and pump out content that is not to par. FXX was some great, mature experimental content, but does it make sense for it to live under the D+ brand/service? Marvel and Star Wars are cutting back, it makes sense to me to offer diverse sibling content under a new umbrella service. Adding ESPN for live sports and news could also rejuvenate its brand which has been budget cutting for years now. Call the service whatever and pull in Hulu's original content, which is not much, and let each brand focus on what they do best. Let HBO be HBO, let Disney be Disney, and so on under a new brand. Maybe it could serve the international market too. Dunno.
This was inevitable. With Peacock, Paramount+ and now Max already serving as hubs for the other major broadcast conglomerates, Hulu seemed destined to become ABC/Fox's online distribution arm. Disney was stuck in that neither D+ nor Hulu likely presented them with the ideal brand under which to create a unified banner. A third, cross-divisional service provides them with a clean slate, where they can theoretically deposit not only Disney+ and ABC shows, but the 20th Century film library that they inherited from Fox. It's also a better long-term business model. For as much as people balk about media consolidation, having too many a la carte subscription services makes it challenging for consumers, who may question their respective values. Building a more complex ecosystem reduces the likelihood that consumers will abandon the platform, which results in fluctuating subscriber numbers, which has caused studios to pump the breaks on streaming content creation. Ultimately, these unified services will serve to simulate and supplant the broadcast model previously occupied by ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox and WB. Unlike terrestrial television, there will be fees associated, in term of internet costs and ongoing subscription costs. But the majority of households already had a similar setup though pay cable, and consumers will benefit from deeper libraries of content, all available on demand. It remains to be seen, however, how new players like Apple, Amazon and Netflix will fare without the benefit of major studios and legacy broadcast stations propping up their existing libraries.
Karma for them removing all their Disney and Fox movies from iTunes (and Amazon Prime store, Youtube movies, etc.) from various countries to force people into subscribing to Disney Plus and inflate their numbers. Which always gave me vaguely racist vibes... but I could be wrong.
Strangely they did put the new Avatar movie on sale on iTunes... I wonder if they'll reverse their stance.
Strangely they did put the new Avatar movie on sale on iTunes... I wonder if they'll reverse their stance.
Why do you equate Netflix as a new player, they already have content partnerships worldwide? It might nor be licensed forever in some examples, but its far more then Apple/Amazon produce. The amount of Asia content that Netflix has coming all the time is not going back to studios as an example. Some of if does move to Viki after some time. Disney is still considered a new player, at this time they seem to have new content but it's no where as much as several other VoD hosts.
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