I guess I am lucky. I can simply choose not to subscribe to Disney +(agenda). Great living in the USA.
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Disney Raising Price of Disney+ Subscription to $10.99 and Launching $7.99 Ad-Supported Tier
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
I only get Disney+ for the new Kenobi series and cancelled it as soon as the show was over lol. Disney+ don't have the content to charge such prices, except for a good shows that shows up irregularly (such as Kenobi)
Disney? Marvel? Star Wars?
If Disney doesn't have enough content to warrant its price... does any streaming service?
🤔
That is old content, not new content.
For Marvel, I got Disney+ to watch Eternals movies and then cancelled it immediately afterwards for example, as the rest I have already seen.
And?
I thought people liked back-catalog stuff? Look at how many people watch Friends and Seinfeld from the 90's... old is great! 🤣
That's why people always slam new services because they don't have enough stuff.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Old content that you have already seen is not content. I'm not going to watch the same s-hit i have seen before.
Gotcha.
So what are you into these days?
Which service does provide the greatest value for you?
Currently it is summer so after work I am outside most of the time. But I will probably return to Netflix once I spend more time indoors as they usually have the most new shows to watch.
It's simple. Disney's stocks have plummeted and they are bleeding subscribers - this is the classic corporate playbook to keep shareholders happy.
I just can’t get on board with paying and seeing adverts. This type of strategy will push people to less legitimate methods of viewing.
It's funny.
When the service was first launched, it seemed like a compelling value proposition to have a steady diet of Marvel and Star Wars content.
Now, I am getting bummed out with the service precisely because I am being forced-fed a steady diet of Marvel and Star Wars content, with the caveat precisely that because Disney has to keep churning them out at breakneck speed, the casualty here is the actual quality of content.
Seriously, apart from Mandalorian, none of their original content has resonated with me. They are draggy (often feeling more like a paper-thin plot made to stretch out over 6 episodes), boring, and feels like more Easter eggs and references than actual story.
It's nice getting the Marvel movies (eventually) without having to actually go to a cinema, but then I watch them and it just makes me glad I didn't waste my time going to a cinema. I couldn't bring myself to finish watching Eternals in one sitting; had to break it up over 4 viewing sessions.
I paid for the 1-year plan which is set to expire next Feb. I don't see myself renewing it. May consider letting Netflix go as well, sticking with TV+ and Youtube premium.
May the people sticking with it continue to find value with the service. I honestly don't feel I am. 😕
When the service was first launched, it seemed like a compelling value proposition to have a steady diet of Marvel and Star Wars content.
Now, I am getting bummed out with the service precisely because I am being forced-fed a steady diet of Marvel and Star Wars content, with the caveat precisely that because Disney has to keep churning them out at breakneck speed, the casualty here is the actual quality of content.
Seriously, apart from Mandalorian, none of their original content has resonated with me. They are draggy (often feeling more like a paper-thin plot made to stretch out over 6 episodes), boring, and feels like more Easter eggs and references than actual story.
It's nice getting the Marvel movies (eventually) without having to actually go to a cinema, but then I watch them and it just makes me glad I didn't waste my time going to a cinema. I couldn't bring myself to finish watching Eternals in one sitting; had to break it up over 4 viewing sessions.
I paid for the 1-year plan which is set to expire next Feb. I don't see myself renewing it. May consider letting Netflix go as well, sticking with TV+ and Youtube premium.
May the people sticking with it continue to find value with the service. I honestly don't feel I am. 😕
Time for “summer cleaning” my subscriptions. Bye-bye Disney +, Hulu, ESPN+ and Netflix. Time to get more of my time back. I don’t think I will miss any of them. Even though I have the subscriptions I have been staying away and going for a walk with my family or reading a book. Entertainment is subjective, I don’t enjoy much of the new stuff Disney puts out.
The only reason I bother with them is it's included in my Verizon plan, I'll be curious if that changes or if Verizon switches me to the ad supported plan. If so I'll just sub them once or twice a year like I do with other streaming services, binge watch the 2 or 3 shows I like and cancel the sub the rest of the year. It's not like they have that much good content, just a few shows worth watching.
The good thing about all this is it has really broken me away from television, it's been an evolution. First with TIVO, that made me only watch exactly what I wanted and took out unscheduled programming and commercials. Then cutting off cable for only Netflix, then I only watched select movies here and there. Now with all the streaming pricing increases I barely even bother with watching television, same with my kids. We read a lot of books now, play games, etc. I just subbed for 1 month to Netflix to catch Stranger Things and Ozark, and reaffirmed my strategy with the amount of pure junk available versus what I would truly enjoy.
The good thing about all this is it has really broken me away from television, it's been an evolution. First with TIVO, that made me only watch exactly what I wanted and took out unscheduled programming and commercials. Then cutting off cable for only Netflix, then I only watched select movies here and there. Now with all the streaming pricing increases I barely even bother with watching television, same with my kids. We read a lot of books now, play games, etc. I just subbed for 1 month to Netflix to catch Stranger Things and Ozark, and reaffirmed my strategy with the amount of pure junk available versus what I would truly enjoy.
How wonder how long it will last before they go for a “3 months minimum”
I’m having some difficulty finding the annual plans, could you please point me to where you found that?
Both Disney+ and Netflix are hemorrhaging money, and the latter users, as well. I wonder how the other services are doing. Apple TV+ seems to be doing pretty well, between its now budget price point, shows gaining in popularity, its slow and steady pace of growth (instead of trying to capture millions of users right away and thousands of hours of content), and the Apple One bundle, and the fact that Apple can afford to invest in it for a pretty good length of time as it grows. Other than that, maybe Paramount+ and HBO Max are doing well? Peacock, it’s hard to say. I have to admit that I don’t watch anything on streaming these days, and Apple TV+ is the only one I subscribe to (as part of the Apple One bundle).This is more against making sVoD attractive to people on a budget, versus paying for addition media content for consumers looking for better content from a sVoD service. Both Disney and Netflix are trying to appeal to both types of subscribers.
Reference
Will Free Ad-Based Streaming Replace Broadcast TV?
Free Ad-Supported TV (FAST) has become the focus of streaming services and studios. More channels are being added to free linear “live TV” services like Pluto, Tubi, Xumo, PLEX, Roku Channel, and others. Established stream-on-demand services like Netflix, Disney+, and Warner Bros. Discovery are...www.soundandvision.com
During the pandemic, the number of streaming users and subscribers peaked as people looked for ways to stay entertained at home. But as the pandemic receded, people looked outside their homes to socialize, and churn was higher than ever when people dropped their subscriptions. Many opted for the classic, nostalgic programming available on the FAST linear live TV channels.
It could worsen as the economy causes users to tighten their belts and drop more subscriptions. Viewers subscribe to an average of five services and may look for ways to reduce their monthly fees. Netflix lost 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2022.
As user numbers drop, streaming companies have announced cutbacks in original programming, with fewer titles in the pipeline for the near future. It’s a catch-22, though. While they need to save money by producing less, they also need the originals to attract and maintain subscribers. The solution lies in bringing in more revenue.
Traditional streaming services like Netflix and Disney + are working out plans to raise more than a billion dollars each by appealing to users who don’t want to pay the rising subscription fees (the Netflix 4K rate is nearing $20 per month). Both companies will offer streaming with commercials. The revenue raised from ad sales will more than make up for the lower subscription fees. Commercial tolerant users view the content for less per month, and streaming services make money from both subscriptions and ads.
It’s not just Netflix and Disney+. The MoffetNathanson research firm projects that ad-supported tiers will also increase profits for Hulu, HBO Max, discovery+ (now Warner Bros. Discovery), and Peacock. In the future, these inexpensive subscription tiers could be the key to the success of streaming services.
As streaming services begin adopting a model that looks more like traditional broadcast TV, how will this affect linear broadcast TV channels? According to research firm Omdia, 2021 may be the last year linear TV is watched more than streaming and other video-on-demand content.
Ahh, thanks for highlighting this. It was a loss leader to … boost their theatrical numbers, which seem to be doing fine?
I noticed they just added Orville, there are so many properties I would not have associated with Disney
Disney+ feels like a desert. Sometimes you get a bottle of water for your monthly fees, and drink it greedily. Then Disney waits until you're almost dead, before they hand you another random water bottle. Goodbye Disney+
Welcome, there are ones of us, I swear, ones of us! (Instead of tens, or hundreds, or thousands, to explain and thus ruin the joke.)
I feel like I got out of TV about 17 years ago. I was in school at the time and was involved in a lot of extracurriculars and advanced classes, and, at first, I hadn’t noticed myself watching less and less TV. I eventually noticed but didn’t care. Then 2008 hit and the writers’ strike made TV even less interesting to me, plus I was still busy with school. Eventually, I found myself with all the free time in the world (as it took me a year to find work after school) but no desire to watch anything on TV or go out of my way to change my schedule to watch other stuff. I did flirt with streaming during this period, which I consider the golden age of Netflix streaming. Also, I explored Hulu, which I found to have a decent selection of anime at the time. I had fallen out of anime some by that point but still enjoyed it enough to subscribe to Hulu for it. But eventually, even streaming lost its appeal to me.
Every year in May, after the networks have published the fall schedules, I look at the fall schedule announcements and the new shows, then decide “nah”. Sometimes I even wonder how long I’ll care about that ritual for before I just give up on TV. It’s all rehashes of the same ideas, the latest entry in cash cow franchises or the stumbling reanimated corpses of ideas that were better the first time around before I was born. (Though, disconcertingly, they’re starting to reuse concepts from my life time now! And it’s not just “the time window is shifting as I age, so those shows are retro now”, the window between original release and reboot is shrinking! Down to about 15 years or so for the worst cases.)
