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Disney+ Now Has More Than 100 Million Subscribers
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They are here in NZ...
Diehard 1,2 and with a Vengance and 8 seasons of homeland.
Disney+ Star Australia: Full list of movies and TV shows
The Disney+ streaming app is set for a huge expansion on 23 February with a new Star channel adding 605 movies and TV shows.www.finder.com
I apologize. Had no idea.
No worries. These subscription services are getting more and more complicated. Sometimes it is challenging to understand which service owns rights to what in different regions. For example Netflix shows Star Trek in Europe, ViaPlay owns the rights to UFC in Nordic countries etc. With Disney+ there is separate Hulu that is only in US(?), but outside the US we now have the Star.
Difficult to keep track of everything globally.100+ million an their wish list/syncing is still broken.. Has been from launch day.
but the content is good.... i guess.. But the pesky audio carried over from episode to episode overaps of 'The Simpsons' ** me off, so much i ended up disabling auto-play.
....Now i gotta just sit through the credits ..
but the content is good.... i guess.. But the pesky audio carried over from episode to episode overaps of 'The Simpsons' ** me off, so much i ended up disabling auto-play.
....Now i gotta just sit through the credits ..
Apple TV+ has pissed me off by not allowing me to cancel my free trial and keep the free trial until the end. I have a 1 year trial due to buying a M1 air and its pretty much like they are just banking on me forgetting to cancel. I wan to cancel and keep the trial and then they need to earn my business to keep it. I haven't bothered signing up for Disney+ yet and likely never will. Disney content is great but I am not paying for multiple services and for now Netflix has my business, and also amazon prime video but that is just a perk of a prime membership that I would have anyway
This will be an unpopular opinion but heyho;
I can’t speak for the US version of Disney+, maybe there’s more content on it but here in the UK it’s £7.99 a month which at the time of writing is just over $11.00USD though in fairness you can get it a bit cheaper if you pay annually.
Either way there’s nothing on it over here worth paying for, at least not a long term basis. There’s a couple of newer hit shows which if you were desperate to watch you could wait until all the episodes have ‘aired’ and pay for a single month.
Other than that it’s a bunch of old shows and movies that we’ve all seen a thousand times before. Even for the Disney classics you can pick up on iTunes cheap from time to time or rip a blu-ray from a bargain bin.
For you. For me, I watch more shows on TV+ than I have on Disney+. I already own all the Pixar films, so the only Disney+ shows I have watched are: The Mandolorian and WandaVision. On TV+ I have watched: Amazing Stories, For All Mankind, Mythic Quest, The Morning Show, Ted Lasso, See, and GhostWriter. I am interested in, but have not yet watched: Servant, Greyhound, Defending Jacob and Wolfwalkers.
Not sure that Disney+ will be worth the price I have paid (about $3 a month for 3 years), but we will see when the three years are over, as it is a sunk cost.
"Hey Siri, remind me on xx/xx/2021 to cancel my AppleTV+ subscription"
How many are paying subscribers and not just the "get a free year of Disney+ with a new smartphone" crowd?
I read that as they have not yet signed anything, but they might. I guess we will find out. 🙃
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So does every one else who owns any content. Disney+ is unlikely to kill anyone, except many be some tiny streaming player. None of these companies is going to kill anyone else (in that users do not say: “I want this Disney+ show, I better cancel my Netflix subscription). They will all live or die on their own, based on the value proposition they offer.
Yes people are clamouring for Steamboat Willy, Netflix, and their 200 million subscribers, are powerless to stop it
I don’t subscribe to either. So not for me. For everyone. There is no surprise Disney has this many subs so quickly.
I've been looking forward to Obi Wan since it was a feature film project. I saw Onward in theaters (right before COVID hit) and watched Soul on Disney+. I bailed on Wandavision by episode 3. I know it gets better but they lost millions of potential viewers. The B+W cutesy sitcom stuff was obnoxious and should have not gone beyond the title sequence.
Thanks for the link. I will start prepping for future viewing.
In my Reminders, I created a list called "Cancel these Subscriptions". Every time I add a new trial sub, I just add a reminder in the list for a few days before the renewal. That way I also have a list of all the trial subscriptions I currently have.
There were quite a lot before Disney+ officially launch, and after the first few months about canceling it when the pendemic ended. Which is specific to MR because it isn't on anywhere else as far as I am aware.
And lots of them just happen to be Apple Apologist too.
Given that there are quite a few people on here who feel as I do, that there is more of interest for them on Apple TV+ than on Disney+ your statement is clearly silly.
There should be no surprise, especially given how many got their discount deal. That will help them keep people for 3 years and hope that people develop enough of a taste for it to keep it once they have more than tripled their price (from about $3 to $10 or more).
Or it would be much lower as many people are happy to pay for half a subscription but not willing to pay twice or three times as much. How would their numbers be if they had not done the Verizon deal that includes it with mobile phone service or the 3 year service that offered it at $3 a month.
Counterfactuals are hard.
To be clear, I think they would no well no matter what, I just have no idea what would happen specifically with any of these changes.
There's going to be a huge drop off in Apple TV+ once folks have to pay:
9to5mac.com
A web poll but thousands of respondents and well over 50% will cancel once the free trial expires. Expect a few will accidentally pay as they have forgotten to cancel and no doubt there will be a lot of angry customers too.
Disney+ is great for me as there's always something for the kids and the ongoing Marvel shows are interesting.
The Apple TV+ content ... I could take it or leave it. It doesn't particularly entertain me or challenge me. It's forgettable stuff.
Poll: Do you plan to keep your Apple TV+ subscription after the free trial period? - 9to5Mac
Since Apple TV+ was launched, Apple has been offering a one-year free trial to customers who purchase a new device....
9to5mac.com
A web poll but thousands of respondents and well over 50% will cancel once the free trial expires. Expect a few will accidentally pay as they have forgotten to cancel and no doubt there will be a lot of angry customers too.
Disney+ is great for me as there's always something for the kids and the ongoing Marvel shows are interesting.
The Apple TV+ content ... I could take it or leave it. It doesn't particularly entertain me or challenge me. It's forgettable stuff.
Yes people are clamouring for Steamboat Willy, Netflix, and their 200 million subscribers, are powerless to stop it
Lets see Disney pull out Star Wars, Marvel, Fox, Pixar, Touchstone Pictures, ABC, National Geographic, 20th Picture, Search Light titles from Netflix. Will be lots of fun for the Netflix stock holders!
Yesterday:
NHL and Disney/ESPN+ announce a massive new 7 year deal to provide 25 national broadcast games a year, a large chunk of playoffs, and numerous other regional games
the deal is estimated to be 2 - 2.5billion.
NHL.tv the streaming service will stop, and ESPN+ online streaming will take over providing 1000's of real time streaming of live games via the ESPN streaming service.
NHL and Disney/ESPN+ announce a massive new 7 year deal to provide 25 national broadcast games a year, a large chunk of playoffs, and numerous other regional games
the deal is estimated to be 2 - 2.5billion.
NHL.tv the streaming service will stop, and ESPN+ online streaming will take over providing 1000's of real time streaming of live games via the ESPN streaming service.
There's going to be a huge drop off in Apple TV+ once folks have to pay:
Poll: Do you plan to keep your Apple TV+ subscription after the free trial period? - 9to5Mac
Since Apple TV+ was launched, Apple has been offering a one-year free trial to customers who purchase a new device....
A web poll but thousands of respondents and well over 50% will cancel once the free trial expires. Expect a few will accidentally pay as they have forgotten to cancel and no doubt there will be a lot of angry customers too.
Disney+ is great for me as there's always something for the kids and the ongoing Marvel shows are interesting.
The Apple TV+ content ... I could take it or leave it. It doesn't particularly entertain me or challenge me. It's forgettable stuff.
This is how I feel. there's good production value. there's nothing wrong with it.
but it's forgettable. I won't be renewing after my free trial. got a year with my iphone, but I probably couldn't justify the cost for how little I watch it. if there's a show that hits that I'm gung-ho to watch, i'll just sub for a month, binge and leave