Its one thing to be only a sVoD, but thats not what Disney is. A number of sVoD sites are evolving to be media sources. Disney is already one, they create content strictly for their subscribers besides transcoding owned content to run on their leased servers which keeps increasing in capacity. Positivity you can look at the modest $3 a month hike as being reduced by ad supported subscribers.
Do you remember HD DVD?, I think they became obsolete the minute Blu- Ray discs came about.
Cheaper to by the DVD.
Disney today announced that it is increasing the cost of its ad-free Disney+ subscription by 38 percent, raising the price from $7.99 per month to $10.99 per month. This is the most significant price increase Disney has introduced since the 2019 launch of the service.
The price of the ad-free plan is increasing to $10.99 per month because Disney is also launching a new ad-supported tier that will be available for $7.99 per month. The price change and the new ad-supported streaming tier will go into effect on Thursday, December 8.
Disney will also increase the price of Hulu without ads by $2, so it will be $14.99 per month instead of $12.99, with that change being implemented on October 10. Hulu with ads will see a price increase too, going from $6.99 to $7.99 per month.
For current customers, the Disney+ bundle that includes Hulu and ESPN+ with ads will be $1 more expensive, going from $13.99 to $14.99. Disney will offer Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ with adds for $12.99, and a Disney+ and Hulu ad-supported bundle will be available for $9.99 per month. The current ad-free Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ plan will be priced at $19.99 per month.
Disney announced the pricing changes during its earnings announcement for the third fiscal quarter of 2022 [PDF] Disney+ gained a total of 14.4 million subscribers during the quarter, and the company now has more than 221 million subscribers across its streaming platforms.
Article Link: Disney Raising Price of Disney+ Subscription to $10.99 and Launching $7.99 Ad-Supported Tier
You do notice that Disney has started to port some R rated content to their service. The agreement with Comcast related to Hulu expiring by end off 2023, will mean a lot of the adult entertainment will be forth coming and the USA see the equivalent of Star portion of Disney Plus will appear. Recent adds are Deadpool, Deadpool 2 and, Logan. Earlier you had all the netflix Marvel content made available if you enabled the adult access. Disney had a very large portfolio of content they haven't shared.
While it still may be an expensive niche, Japan is broadcasting TV in 8K, and the 2020 (2021) Olympics were broadcast in 8K. - I think Xfinity also provided it to their customers through their app. It's "here" in the sense that it is technically a reality and there are products and services to support it. It's just not "here" in the sense that there is actually a viable market for it. But even HD and 4K were at this stage for many years before they saw wider market adoption.
I was about to say, Handbrake is free and hard drives are cheap.
Probably the one who had Disney+ for 3 years, at least if you’re not buying new releases at around $20 a pop. (At $20 a pop, that’s about 13 movies.) If you’re buying older Disney films at around $10 to $15, that’s about 17 to 25 movies. I’m hard pressed to think of 17 to 25 Disney movies I’d want to keep forever. 13 maybe, 25 no. (And that’s even counting recent Disney acquisitions like Marvel or LucasArts, though, granted, the MCU doesn’t really appeal to me, trying to get caught up with it would be like trying to watch every season of Gunsmoke or The Simpsons, it would get super tired super fast.)
Well I don't, as I'm not subscribed to it, but I believe you. Perhaps some Mickey and Minnie erotica is in the works?
)) /sOof, that actually is pretty rough. I’m gonna guess that the biggest albatross around their neck is ESPN+. I can’t really see Disney+ losing billions of dollars, unless they made a bunch of expensive original material only for it to completely fizzle.
A year or two ago, I would have agreed. Now I'm not so sure.
Xfinity doesn't provide 4K though an app, they required that Comcast customers use a 4K capable Xfinity X1 box to stream the Olympics in 4K HDR. Here is what NHK provides on their 8K satellite channel.
Fortunately for me HD-DVD vanished before I could justify investing in any gear to play it. - This is someone who has bought movies on oddball formats like Betamax, LaserDisc, DivX (worst idea ever) and UMD (Sony PSP)
DivX, now that’s a painful mistake. I’ve always been a little curious about LaserDisc (but alas, it’s like reel to reel, I’d be interested except for the fact that they’re so expensive to get into and so bulky), and I understand they’re still the only way to get the original theatrical releases of the original Star Wars trilogy on optical disc? At least they were well into the Blu-Ray era, can’t say about the 4k UHD Blu-Ray era.
This is literally the same route as cable. It came out ad-free and was amazing and novel. Then over time the companies got greedy and put ads in and put prices up. We're heading back to the same point. It's ridiculous, they (money grubbing execs) can't help themselves.
That’s the beauty of streaming—it’s much cheaper if you only watch things once. Even then, one movie a month or one show every 2 months is all it takes to pay for itself. If you find yourself watching that much the math checks out. If not, it still only costs (now) $11 to watch any show or movie you want within a 1 month period. That’s bonkers value. I don’t even own a blue ray player—that’s a year of subscription alone. Also I can watch anywhere: plane, hotel, vacation with nary a disk binder in sight. And no dorky disk shelf either!
