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Disney+ Loses 700,000 Subscribers Following Price Increase
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These sorts of services often have huge drop off's in subscribers and then gain some and lose some depending on what is currently trending. There are so many subscription services now and I subscribe to NetFlix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime Video. They are not essential services and its very easy just to unsubscribe. We are in an era now where just about everything we buy is going up in price and not in inline with wage increases, so priorities have to be evaluated. I could quite easily live without any of them and just download the shows I fancy watching, so if the prices do go up to a ridiculous amount, I won't think twice.
In the UK we had over 600k people last year stop paying the TV license which is mandatory for anybody who watches any form of live television. A lot of people were quoted as suggesting they stopped paying because they only watch subscription services like these. The laws may change now to include subscriptions in these terms for the TV license so I'd imagine many of these subscriptions will also be dropped for hundreds of thousands over time. These companies and authorities need to move with the times and they seem reluctant to do so.
In the UK we had over 600k people last year stop paying the TV license which is mandatory for anybody who watches any form of live television. A lot of people were quoted as suggesting they stopped paying because they only watch subscription services like these. The laws may change now to include subscriptions in these terms for the TV license so I'd imagine many of these subscriptions will also be dropped for hundreds of thousands over time. These companies and authorities need to move with the times and they seem reluctant to do so.
Zero content worth watching. Only old stuff. New stuff amounts to zero. Documentaries are so stupid that they are unwatchable.
If I didn't have kids I'd have canceled in a heartbeat and then again, I will not subscribe eternally just because of Bluey.
If I didn't have kids I'd have canceled in a heartbeat and then again, I will not subscribe eternally just because of Bluey.
They’ll keep doing it until people starts unsubscribing.
In the Netherlands the cost of AppleTV rose 45% in 2024 🥴
The password sharing is incredibly unfair. I live alone and my brother lives in a household with children. Disney+ wants me to pay a ridiculous amount to add another household, even though I am on Disney+ Premium and pay annually.
Honestly, I have a few terrabytes of movies/shows I’ve saved up over the decades. There simply isn’t much new out there that’s worth watching or paying for.
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I unsubscribed after my £1.99 per month, for 3 months ,offer expired.
I only got it for the kids, and honestly, they hardly watch it (they prefer other channels/programmes).
I only got it for the kids, and honestly, they hardly watch it (they prefer other channels/programmes).
In this thread: Ew Disney is gross I would never taint myself with subscription
also: subscriptions are out of control!
Also: I’m too cool to pay for anything
The usual comments on these threads. Do we all just copy our old comments and paste them here?
also: subscriptions are out of control!
Also: I’m too cool to pay for anything
The usual comments on these threads. Do we all just copy our old comments and paste them here?
I sort of lucked out because my son was just never into the Marvel thing. We watched a few Star Wars items and on the rare occasion that he went into Disney+ on his own, he was looking at NatGeo stuff. Disney+ became our 2nd least used service (after the AppleTV+ trial we had at the time) in our home so I dropped it. No regrets, and haven’t seen anything that made me want to sign up again.
We have 0 streaming services active currently. I will pay for something briefly if we want to watch otherwise my bricked fire stick will do the trick.
Yes that. I refused to pay for any subscription streaming services a few months back.
I’m slowly unhooking myself from Apple Music as well.
Monthly recurring revenue for tech companies is monthly losses for me.
$150? 😲
That’s about what I pay for all my “subscriptions” combined (when excluding the necessary big three: rent, health insurance, transit). gym membership, home insurance, monthly bank account and card “subscription” fees, fibre internet, 3 mobile SIM cards with unlimited data, iTunes Match - that’s about $150. I don’t live in a cheap country.
Not necessarily.
The attrition in subscribers won’t all be immediately.
It's crazy that there are tiers where you pay to watch ads ...
People are finally learning that their complaints of high prices can only be fixed by not paying the high prices. Make these companies lose profits, it's the only way they learn because it's the only thing they care about.
Absolutely
These companies aren't dumb - they know full well about the "hack" of binge and un-subscribe for large chunks of time
As soon as they feel they can do it, the contracts will absolutely come
Many folks run a mix of content honestly
Plex now also has tons of FAST channels and also works with things like HD HomeRuns + antenna to run a local DVR from free OTA content
It's not all just "alternative" content
Piracy is just a better experience at this point:
1) no ads
2) best possible quality, up to/including uncompressed bluray (if you want it and it was released on bluray)
3) the content from all services in one app
4) other content you have no interest in isn't being pushed on you before you can get to what you actually want to watch
5) works when the internet goes down
6) access to content that doesn’t exist in any streaming service
I have subscriptions to AppleTV+ (because of Apple One), HBO Max (because of AT&T), and Prime (because prime), as well as access to friends Netflix and D+ accounts-- and I never use any of them. Everything is pirated, and I watch it in Infuse through my Plex server. Shows and movies are automatically downloaded as they're released using Sonarr/Radarr (which has a better GUI than any of the legit services), and they just appear on my TV with no effort from me. Blu Ray quality. No ads.
A $50 Pi connected to a large hard drive, running Sonarr/Radarr/qbitorrent/Plex server, is a vastly better experience than any/all of the streamers can provide-- even if you subscribed to all of them, all at once, at the most expensive tier.
1) no ads
2) best possible quality, up to/including uncompressed bluray (if you want it and it was released on bluray)
3) the content from all services in one app
4) other content you have no interest in isn't being pushed on you before you can get to what you actually want to watch
5) works when the internet goes down
6) access to content that doesn’t exist in any streaming service
I have subscriptions to AppleTV+ (because of Apple One), HBO Max (because of AT&T), and Prime (because prime), as well as access to friends Netflix and D+ accounts-- and I never use any of them. Everything is pirated, and I watch it in Infuse through my Plex server. Shows and movies are automatically downloaded as they're released using Sonarr/Radarr (which has a better GUI than any of the legit services), and they just appear on my TV with no effort from me. Blu Ray quality. No ads.
A $50 Pi connected to a large hard drive, running Sonarr/Radarr/qbitorrent/Plex server, is a vastly better experience than any/all of the streamers can provide-- even if you subscribed to all of them, all at once, at the most expensive tier.
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Are you on Infuse Pro? Worth lifetime buy?
Been thinking about it after testing Infuse a bit
Or you could take advantage of getting some of these streaming services for free from another provider.
For example, T-Mobile gives Netflix, Hulu and AppleTV for free.
I use VZW on a bare minimum shared plan with family and pay only $10/mo
I’m personally into cost minimization and not paying a huge bill for services that also “include others”
Just a different approach for me
Because, the consumers in the US don't understand the power they wield, and they keep paying these prices due to TV addiction and also many believe the price is worth it for the content. If people started cancelling in droves after these price increases, I can assure you the price would come down. It will never happen though. That is why the US now has over a trillion, yes trillion dollars in credit card debt. The chickens are going to come home to roost though.
I have several family members that are constantly living check to check despite making multiple six figures
So many Americans have absolutely no self-control or discipline on financial things, and with regard to these family members, they simply don’t understand that sometimes you need to say “no”, and don’t just always get everything you want at every turn no matter what the financial ramifications are.
It’s honestly painful to watch
They are just BEGGING to force people to torrent again. It's insane.
A) Adjust the salaries of the on screen talent
B) Focus less on CGI and create stories that are sincere
C) Pull out the stacks of unique, creative, and independent scripts rotting in a filing cabinet.
D) STOP REMAKING CLASSICS
E) STOP MAKING SEQUELS/PREQUELS TO CLASSICS.
A) Adjust the salaries of the on screen talent
B) Focus less on CGI and create stories that are sincere
C) Pull out the stacks of unique, creative, and independent scripts rotting in a filing cabinet.
D) STOP REMAKING CLASSICS
E) STOP MAKING SEQUELS/PREQUELS TO CLASSICS.