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Disney Raising Price of Disney+ Subscription to $10.99 and Launching $7.99 Ad-Supported Tier

orbital~debris said:
People who say this kind of thing make me think they must have extremely narrow tastes, or my taste must be quite broad.

My watchlist on Disney+ is long enough that it exceeds the amount that the list will show. I cannot keep up with the amount of back catalogue and brand new content available!
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As someone who hardly watches anything on Disney, I think it’s mostly the “type” of content your into. for example, I dont have Netflix. Personally I never found one thing on there I got value from. but I can’t go without Hulu, or paramount+. Both of those services have content always coming out that I love.

for me the only reason I have Disney plus is because of the Verizon Disney bundle, I get Hulu ad free for 6 dollars a month, and the rest of the bundle is included in my Verizon service. If not for that I wouldn’t have Disney plus.
 
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Wanted797 said:
Except those unskippable anti-piracy ads you have to sit through every time you watch.
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Pirates get the better experience because they don’t have to sit through those ads. I do the right thing by paying, but it feels like content providers are doing everything to push us to pirate. The streaming services that push the same ads for their other content again and again are just as bad.
 
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chewbaka said:
And people laugh at me for buying Blu-Ray… I have every Disney title I’ll ever want and won’t have to pay Disney for them again or watch any annoying ads to enjoy them.
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Except you don’t get new content when it comes out… and you can’t watch it except on your tv. I can watch on my phone… tv… tablet… computer… can download movies to my tablet for the kids on car trips. Blu-ray doesn’t work that seamlessly
 
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ratspg said:
My buddy had all his movies purchased on DVD, then when Blu-Ray came around repurchased each one of them to complete his Blu-Ray library. I'm not laughing at you, just curious if they will have some newer format and people will have to jump again.
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Blu-Ray is good enough. 4K streaming is as good as 1080p blue ray, that 4K streaming is so compressed.
 
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Greedy but not a surprise. I expect it to be over £100 a year eventually for yearly payments.
 
webkit said:
This shouldn't be a surprise. When demand goes up, it's not unusual to see prices then go up. If demand went down, it would not be unusual to see prices then go down.
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Digital service doesn't work like gas that can run low or unavailable due to demands. Gaining millions of subscribers already increased the profit without adding many employments. Everything else just scale up.
 
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kc9hzn said:
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.
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While it gave you DVD like features, (I liked having chapters) LaserDisc was still effectively analog video, but really good analog video, though they did have the option for including digital CD quality audio. With special players and special editions of discs they could offer Dolby 6.1 audio. But this was rare and often reserved for the Japanese market. I mostly used it for music concerts and big-budget movies because I had a rear-projection widescreen Panasonic tv and letterboxed VHS movies never worked right. I moved over to DVD when that came out.
 
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gund1234 said:
So basically we are back to cable TV ?
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Well... not exactly.

You can pick-n-choose which streaming services you want. You don't have to subscribe to every one. You could just get Disney+ and AppleTV+ for around $20/month and you'd have more than enough to watch. And then you can drop them and try different services in a few months. No contracts!

But with cable... they're gonna shove 125 channels down your throat whether you want them or not. And it'll be at least $50/month for that.

And add $15/month for a crappy DVR so you can record your shows and watch whenever you want.

Oh... and you can only watch those shows on one TV in your house... unless you rent another crappy box for another TV.

I find these comparisons to cable funny. Cable sucked, remember? 🤣

Cable is expensive... you get too many channels you don't want... and you have to rent terrible hardware boxes.

So no... I don't think streaming is comparable to cable TV.

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alexandr said:
Maybe I'm alone in this, but somehow paid subscriptions with ads make absolutely no sense to me. If I'm paying for something it better not have f—n ads.
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Agreed 100%. If there are ads, it'd better be free.

The only way these new models will die is if people simply don't buy them. Same if they continue to raise their prices over and over - cancel, or they will keep doing it.

They don't care if people complain all day. Only when enough people cancel will they change their pricing.

We have other options.

Enough is enough.
 
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If they had better new content might be worth it but their Star Wars and Marvel offerings have been pretty lame.

Netflix doesn’t look so bad now. They were just ahead of the curve.
 
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could see it coming a mile away! start cheap and then hike prices once people are hooked. no doubt Apple will do the same with TV+ at some point.

and lol the ad tier is paid? get outta here disney!

good thing there's not much on disney that interests me. i'll stick with Netflix.
 
ratspg said:
My buddy had all his movies purchased on DVD, then when Blu-Ray came around repurchased each one of them to complete his Blu-Ray library. I'm not laughing at you, just curious if they will have some newer format and people will have to jump again.
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At some point the upscaling or remaster would be more trouble than it’s worth. They can only go so far. New content tho I think maybe? But with streaming being so prevalent nowadays I’m feeling new format will hardly ever have time to gain global popularity like it once was a couple decades ago. (Remember HD-DVD war?)
 
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ratspg said:
My buddy had all his movies purchased on DVD, then when Blu-Ray came around repurchased each one of them to complete his Blu-Ray library. I'm not laughing at you, just curious if they will have some newer format and people will have to jump again.
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I'm also genuinely interested what the next format will be. I don't think higher resolution is enough to drive people any more -- most lay people I know can't tell the difference between 1080p and 4k as it is now.

Only thing I can think of us some kind of VR format where you can have full immersion, but at that point I wonder whether we're moving away from static content and towards something interactive (which would be a different beast altogether)
 
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sloheim said:
Between the NHL moving over to ESPN+, and Amex paying half my expense (Blue Cash card)... I'm coming out SO FAR AHEAD of where I was 2 years ago.
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That's right.. forgot Blue Card gives $7 per month as well.. mine is covered under the Platinum $240 digital entertainment credit ($20 mo)
 
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