Disney to Pull Movies From Netflix, Launch New Streaming Services

[switcher3365]

Some people mentioned that they wish they had a place to know what is available on whatever service.

I discovered that justwatch DOT com is a good resource for that. Just enter the show and it will show you were it is streamable via a subscription service as well as the cost of that product if you choose to purchase it via iTunes, Google Play, Amazon Digital Video, etc.

 

[garylapointe]

The problem with all of these streaming services is that if a series or season isn't offered on one that you're paying a dozen dollars a month for, you would theoretically need to jump to the other to get it.

I'm more for "streaming roulette".

Each month have a different streaming service (or two):

Netflix, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime, Starz, FullScreen, Epix.​

That could make it a lot more affordable still with a bunch of variety.

And if every time you sign up they give you a week trial (or two) you're stretching that even farther. (Edit) I just looked and a few services even give you 30 day trials!

 

[imwoblin]

Screw cable and the media providers greediness. I’ve had cable with all the trimmings for over 20 years, and I finally had enough 6 months ago. Got rid of everything except I alternate between Showtime & Netflix monthly sub if I feel
like it. Hooked up a decent HDTV antenna, and I get 43 channels of glorious uncompressed 1080 or 720p 5.1
HDTV for FREE.
I’ll never go back....

 

[mmm1345]

Disney has to protect it's own ecosystem. Don't be mad, try to understand. This way they Disney will be able to provide you with a lot more better experience with their products.

Life is so much better with dozens of walled gardens instead of one big one with dedicated arrangment sections who are connected to one another.

Well Netflix brought this one on themselves, they are not streaming platform they are production company and as such they want to push their own product by using someone else's to hook up users. That's exactly going with music streaming app crap and their exclusives. There should be law in place where you strictly have to choose are you a stage or you are a content for the stage. You can't be both as we have seen in cable example where cable content providers also own fiber infrastructure. But guess what happens in energy market like natural gas and the pipelines? Providers of the natural gas cannot own the pipeline. Wow what a revolutionary thinking.

the last time I had Xfinity I could not find a d*mn thing that I wanted to watch. The concept of TV channels belongs with the dinosaurs, and Comcrap is simply too dense to get it. I'll get my content from iTunes, and the occasional download.

Why are you even wasting our time commenting then? Bully for you, you are a hipster and better than us mere mortals who do like cable tv.
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Screw cable and the media providers greediness. I’ve had cable with all the trimmings for over 20 years, and I finally had enough 6 months ago. Got rid of everything except I alternate between Showtime & Netflix monthly sub if I feel
like it. Hooked up a decent HDTV antenna, and I get 43 channels of glorious uncompressed 1080 or 720p 5.1
HDTV for FREE.
I’ll never go back....

Why do Chord Cutters feel a need to tell the world that you are a Chord Cutter? And do it with such anger and vitriol? Guess what most of us don't care that you cut the chord.

 

[Rigby]

They're becoming irrelevant with Sling\DirecTVnow\Hulu Live, etc...

Well, not in this household. I'll never go back to "live" TV with the crappy commercials, so things like Sling or DirecTV Now don't really interest me.

A bigger problem is that it's getting difficult to understand among the true subscription services (Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu ad-free, HBO Now etc.) who gets what content. On the other hand, don't forget that you can cancel and re-subscribe these services on a monthly basis. I often put my subscriptions on hold from time to time when I'm mostly watching stuff on another service.

 

[oneshotpro]

Honestly, can't tell you a single Disney movie or show worth watching in years.

 

[frankgrimes]

Pirating movies, series is becoming more attractive again

Good thing Disney hasn't produced anything worth watching in years.
Netflix has my favorite shows so I'm still happy

 

[jdillings]

The most strategically sound move Disney has made in years. Now they just need to fix the BAMTech apps, which are complete garbage (I'm looking at you, HBO Go).

I agree. Putting their A-list movies on a competitor's service made no sense to me. It reminded me of when Borders outsourced their online book-selling to Amazon. You don't send your customers to a competitor.

 

[mmm1345]

If this trend continues we'll see a future where Netflix only offers Netflix produced content, Hulu only Hulu produced content and Amazon only Amazon produced content while all the major movie studies like Disney, Sony, Warner, Paramount, Universal and so on will have their own streaming services.

For some people it's going to be more expensive than their rent at some point with all these subscription services.

It's a cycle. It's the future, but give it 5 or 10 years after that when all of these individual services crash and burn they'll be begging for an all in one service that has the cash to pay an insane amount for licensing deals.
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I agree. Putting their A-list movies on a competitor's service made no sense to me. It reminded me of when Borders outsourced their online book-selling to Amazon. You don't send your customers to a competitor.

"The most strategically sound move Disney has made in years?" So I guess the fact that almost every movie they release earns a billion dollars these days or the fact that they own the biggest studios in the world - Marvel, Lucas, Pixar and oh yeah DISNEY is just stupid, dumb, bad business, Theme Parks doing gang buster business. The only area where they need "help" is their TV Business. I wish I could be as bad as business as Disney is, or they had someone like you running their business.
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Pirating movies, series is becoming more attractive again

Good thing Disney hasn't produced anything worth watching in years.
Netflix has my favorite shows so I'm still happy

Marvel, Disney Pictures, Pixar, Lucasarts, Disney Animation, yeah you are right. They suck and haven't produced anything, ANYTHING worth watching in years.

 

[pika2000]

a la carte doesn't mean that providers can charge more than cable, at the very least should be same pricing scheme. Once everyone is a la carte only then prices should come down thanks to supply and demand.

A restaurant offers "meal bundles" and "a la carte" options. The latter is usually more expensive individually than the bundle.

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

It's a cycle. It's the future, but give it 5 or 10 years after that when all of these individual services crash and burn they'll be begging for an all in one service that has the cash to pay an insane amount for licensing deals.

Or we consumers will be begging for an all-in-one service so we can find something to watch without having to jump app-to-app or box-to-box. And we'll be whining about our broadband bills being as much as what broadband used to cost when it included cableTV too (because not even Netflix can work at the Netflix bargain without paying a broadband toll). And we'll be whining about the drop-off of new pilot shows that are not low-budget reality programming or similar. And on and on.

I bet the view of the cable/satt ripoff looks much different 5 or 10 years from now... when we are probably finding ourselves paying a lot more than what we used to pay... while having access to a lot less and/or still having to jump through a lot of hoops trying to find what we do want to watch. And I bet we won't be enjoying feeling like we are teaching a class to non-techie family & friends how to watch television in it's new incarnation.

How it was: Turn on and push a lone (channel) button to find something to watch.

How it is: Turn on and try to know which app will have what you have predetermined you want to watch. Don't know what you want to watch? Go to a website and start looking for things that are on now. Now magically know or use a website to help you figure out which app has the desired programming. Are you a subscriber to that app? On which STB does that app run? If different than the STB you are using now, change STB and TV inputs to the desired STB. And so on.

Now that "is" may be exaggerating some steps a bit (and "may" is the key word), but consider the TV watchers. Is there more techies like us that don't mind making a 1-step process a 12-step process to maybe save a few bucks or are there more grandmas & grandpas that will be lost at "OK which app has what you want to watch on it?"

 

[jdillings]

Some people mentioned that they wish they had a place to know what is available on whatever service.

I discovered that justwatch DOT com is a good resource for that. Just enter the show and it will show you were it is streamable via a subscription service as well as the cost of that product if you choose to purchase it via iTunes, Google Play, Amazon Digital Video, etc.

Yep, JustWatch is the best streaming guide.

 

[star_nerdy]

Aren't Apple and Disney linked anymore? Steve Jobs was a link between the two. Is that link gone?

When Jobs sold Pixar to Disney, he became the largest shareholder of Disney. That stock was passed down to his wife. I think it was about 7% of the company.

 

[jklps]

Well, not in this household. I'll never go back to "live" TV with the crappy commercials, so things like Sling or DirecTV Now don't really interest me.

A bigger problem is that it's getting difficult to understand among the true subscription services (Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu ad-free, HBO Now etc.) who gets what content. On the other hand, don't forget that you can cancel and re-subscribe these services on a monthly basis. I often put my subscriptions on hold from time to time when I'm mostly watching stuff on another service.

Most of the streaming services offer a dvr function, so you don't have to watch commercials. PS Vue already has it, Directv Now is rolling it out, Hulu Live I believe has some form of it..

 

[jdillings]

I'm more for "streaming roulette".

Each month have a different streaming service (or two):

Netflix, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime, Starz, FullScreen, Epix.​

That's what I do. I switch to a different service each month. I watch what I'm interested in on one service, cancel it and move on to the another service the next month. There's no need to subscribe to them all year long because you can cancel at any time. I also pay for them using discounted iTunes gift cards.

 

[chriscrowlee]

Well, not in this household. I'll never go back to "live" TV with the crappy commercials, so things like Sling or DirecTV Now don't really interest me.

A bigger problem is that it's getting difficult to understand among the true subscription services (Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu ad-free, HBO Now etc.) who gets what content. On the other hand, don't forget that you can cancel and re-subscribe these services on a monthly basis. I often put my subscriptions on hold from time to time when I'm mostly watching stuff on another service.

People keep harping on commercials. With a DVR, commercials are a thing of the past. I just watch a show 30 mins after it starts. I'll be talking about it tomorrow at work, and you'll be just able to watch it tomorrow night. LOL... kidding, but yeah, I just love the convenience of everything being there, and a smart DVR that records what I want to watch, records things it thinks I might want to watch, and has the entire cable company's on-demand library built in, all in one box.

 

[X--X]

When Jobs sold Pixar to Disney, he became the largest shareholder of Disney. That stock was passed down to his wife. I think it was about 7% of the company.

She and the Jobs family sold 50% of their Disney stake a few months ago.

 

[Rigby]

Most of the streaming services offer a dvr function, so you don't have to watch commercials. PS Vue already has it, Directv Now is rolling it out, Hulu Live I believe has some form of it..

Once you get used to a completely ad-free experience, having to skip commercials every few minutes is almost as annoying and backward as having to sit through them. And I don't want to "program" a "DVR" for a cloud service. That's just stupid. They have the content on their servers anyway, it should just be available on demand. These "DVR" functions only exist because of outdated licensing restrictions.

 

[HiRez]

Can't wait until I can sign up for 26 different services at $10/mo. each so I can finally drop cable, that's going to be great.

 

[EdT]

Apple to announce Disney purchase in 10, 9, 8,...

Wouldn't be cheap, and it would probably run into monopoly issues, but it would definitely get rid of Apple's content problem.

 

[X--X]

Good thing Disney hasn't produced anything worth watching in years.

Well considering Disney has BY FAR the most gigantic movie releases every year making BILLIONS of dollars (Avengers, Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean, Captain America, Frozen......), it seems your analyses is not quite right.

There is literally no movie studio bigger than Disney.

 

[shaunymac]

With unbundling, a number of things happen. First, you have less subscribers. This means that each channel has to increase their rates. ESPN can't afford to charge just $20 a month because now they have far less subscribers. So they have to increase their price in order to make the same amount.

The sad second thing is that you put a lot of channels out of business. Within your typical subscription bundle, there are plenty of channels you might not watch but some others do. With a bundled service, everyone helps pay for those. Maybe you even really enjoy one of the small channels. But now that they aren't bundled, they aren't going to make enough to survive. Say goodbye to channels like FX and others that don't have the huge viewership of the big 10 to keep them in business.

There are goods and bads to bundled TV subscriptions. But most don't understand the goods, only believing they'll be able to pay less than what cable companies charge now for even greater choice. That simply isn't true. Enjoy having subscriptions to Netflix, HBO Go, and a dozen others if you want the same choices you use to enjoy.

I feel like oh are talking about healthcare in the US!

My short opinion is as follows:
Give people the choice. If prices rise, people will pay or they will seek other avenunes for entertainment wether that's antennas, pirating or maybe evening spending time with other people!

As far as the small companies going under, I get your point but this day in age it is so much easier to make content and become relevant for a "smaller show". Example, something like Fail Army on your tube. It boggles my mind something like Americas Funniest Home Video can survive especially when you consider you have to sit through commercials and laugh tracks.

I feel Disney should do what they are good at, create content just like Pixar, and let someone like Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, etc. battle for the rights.

 

[Thunderhawks]

Aren't Apple and Disney linked anymore? Steve Jobs was a link between the two. Is that link gone?

Yes, Steve is gone!

 

[magicman32]

This doesn't move the needle much at all for me. Disney content, movie-wise, isn't my thing. Nor do I watch any "big" network shows.

So far the NWO is working out quite fine for me. The content I want and an on-demand service or 2 at a roughly 45 dollar savings per month.

Some keep talking about eventually longing for the old days re: cable bundles while ignoring what's going on with big cable and studios/content providers. They may well themselves be longing for the days when they had the cash cow of cable bundles, before consumers got fed up and the pardadigm changed. They can want to make more money all they want in this shifting landscape.

They won't.

No one wants/needs to be paying for every service available. They're in transition too. Scrambling, seeing what sticks and cutting losses and trying to hold as much profit as they can. Because the golden days at this point are gone.

Contrary to popular belief, they do not hold absolute power. Consumers do have some say in all this and what works and doesn't. Not just "kisssing the ring" and taking what they shove down our throats.

Time will, in fact, tell. But at this point, I couldn't be happier.

 

[WarHeadz]

a la carte doesn't mean that providers can charge more than cable, at the very least should be same pricing scheme. Once everyone is a la carte only then prices should come down thanks to supply and demand.

Lol. That ray of hope that you have is ADORABLE.
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Most Disney content is sugar coated witchcraft. Good riddance.

uhhhh.....what?!?!