No subscriptions until I can pay once for the content: went to cinema to watch the movie - got that movie in subscription. Or if there a movie from subscription on big screen - to be able to watch it in cinema paying only for the service. Until then all subscriptions are double(and more) dipping nonsense.
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Disney+ U.S. Price Increasing to $7.99/Month This Friday
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Our family has kids and we barely watch netflix or amazon prime but watch disney+ daily.
Netflix is going to collapse as they lose all the libraries from the studious and rely solely on their original stuff.
Amazon Prime is too confusing as they show you things to pay for next to things that are included and it becomes frustrating, especially if you use it on AppleTV and they won’t let you buy the thing on the screen because they don’t want to pay apple.
The app is awful, but not much worse than others.
Why not a playlist feature? You put on a disney short, then 6 minutes later you have to listen to the kids complain that it’s over, and you watch 3 minutes of foreign credits (why?).
The aristocats, 101 dalmations, the good dinosaur, winnie the pooh’s grand adventure, bluey, the search for the crystal mickey, the three mouseketeers...
yep. Over and over.
Signed up at the start of D+ at 140$ for 3 years! Knew a deal at the time when I saw it....has been more than worth it when the nieces and nephews visit!
Starting on Friday, March 26, Disney plans to raise the price of its subscription streaming service, Disney+. Currently priced at $6.99 per month in the U.S., the cost will be going up by $1 to $7.99 per month.
Those who want to lock in the $6.99 per month price point should sign up for a subscription before March 26. The yearly subscription price is also going up, increasing from $69.99 to $79.99.
The Disney+ bundle, which includes Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ will be increasing in price from $12.99 to $13.99 per month for the ad-supported version or $18.99 to $19.99 per month for the ad-free version.
Disney+ first announced the price increase back in December, and it comes following many successful TV show releases like "The Mandalorian," "WandaVision," and "Falcon and the Winter Soldier," along with movies like "Soul."
As of March, Disney+ has surpassed 100 million subscribers.
Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Disney+. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running.
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I paid the 140 for 3 years but honestly won't renew when it finishes. I watched the Mandalorian, a couple movies but mostly use it to watch old Simpsons episodes. Won't pay more to do that as there are alternate ways to get it all and not worth it.
Prices going up, which is exactly what the grounded people said on these forums when everyone decried that Disney was going to “force Netflix to lower their prices” and/or “run them out of business.”
Well it didn't take long for the price to go up? remember they have 200million customers at $7.99 = $19,1760,000,000 per year and the way customers are joining it wile soon $40billion a year no need for price increase this is just greed so when covid is over will they lose half there customer base?
Starting on Friday, March 26, Disney plans to raise the price of its subscription streaming service, Disney+. Currently priced at $6.99 per month in the U.S., the cost will be going up by $1 to $7.99 per month.
Those who want to lock in the $6.99 per month price point should sign up for a subscription before March 26. The yearly subscription price is also going up, increasing from $69.99 to $79.99.
The Disney+ bundle, which includes Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ will be increasing in price from $12.99 to $13.99 per month for the ad-supported version or $18.99 to $19.99 per month for the ad-free version.
Disney+ first announced the price increase back in December, and it comes following many successful TV show releases like "The Mandalorian," "WandaVision," and "Falcon and the Winter Soldier," along with movies like "Soul."
As of March, Disney+ has surpassed 100 million subscribers.
Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Disney+. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running.
Article Link: Disney+ U.S. Price Increasing to $7.99/Month This Friday
What are you talking about?
First, Disney and Pixar have been partners since the 80's when they developed CAPS which was first used in the Little Mermaid then a host of other Disney movies like B&TB, Aladdin, Lion King, etc. Then they made Toy Story together. Then Bug's Life. Then Toy Story 2 (which Disney insisted on being a theatrical release, not a straight to video movie originally planned by Pixar). Disney has had a hand in every Pixar movie since day one.
Second, there have been way more non-sequels than sequels. 15 Originals to 8 sequels. (4 more originals in the pipeline). But regardless of who "swallowed" who... do you really believe they weren't going to cash in on super popular franchises by making sequels? At least most of the sequels were as good if not better than the originals.
What will run them out of business is all the studios pulling their content off Netflix and bringing it to their own platforms. Netflix saw the writing on the wall and decided to make their own stuff, but they don’t have generations of content like the studios do. They did have that, but not anymore...
Is that actual knowledge from the future? I ask as if so I would like to ask you some questions about baseball and who to bet I this year, lol.
We’ll see! Smart people I know have been predicting the downfall of Netflix for over a decade now, but somehow they’ve managed to change rapidly enough to keep up, but as you say competition is getting more and more fierce.
Aside: you have the best User ID I’ve seen in ages
You don't need a crystal ball to realise all Disney cares about is extracting as much money as it can from anything it owns or touches. Even if it means destroying franchises like Star Wars. Nothing is off limits so long as they keep selling tickets and stupid toys to accompany whatever garbage they churn out next.
Subscriptions are a license to print money. They know they can keep jacking up the price for the next few years and most subscribers will keep paying. I'd say 19.99 is the limit before a chunk of subscribers start to question it.
I was only curious as I was genuinely hoping you knew actual future stuff rather then thoughts on what probably would happen in the future.
Still a great deal but I don’t see these yearly price increases stopping. The goal of streaming services is to kill cable and use the cable infrastructure to deliver their content. They started off cheap and pandered to millennials like me with phrases like “cut the cord” to make me think I was a part of some revolution. Then the cable companies had to make up for revenue losses, and jacked up the price of home internet. And so here we are. At least we can watch TV on any device now with better UI/UX compared to a cable box, so it’s not all a loss. But yeah, at this point I’m down to only paying for Netflix and Disney+. Still haven’t paid for Apple TV+, not sure if I’ll keep it around. It’s getting better but I may convert to Apple One at some point.
Netflix's prices have risen $1/mo for the basic tier since the streaming service's introduction in like 2013, which doesn't even keep up with inflation. They've added more expensive premium options, but those haven't taken away from the basic one. Even if they increased it, so what, you can always cancel.
I still think that streaming TV services are going to become more expensive as more exclusivity deals are signed and the top few streaming services' grips weaken, but it'll never be like cable TV again with the insane $50-100/mo costs. There's more competition than there used to be, both in services and content creation, and the threat of piracy is always there to act as a price ceiling (which I find unfortunate).
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Well it's possible they'd make more money by not destroying franchises, and usually they don't. Disney has done well in the long-term by treating its own characters well. Why couldn't they have done the same with Star Wars instead of making movies that are seemingly intentionally bad? Maybe they really didn't want to do the lame strat of milking nostalgia forever like in Episode 7, so they tried to take the story in a new direction, and it didn't go well for whatever internal reason.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/30/six...sfilm-disney-has-recouped-its-investment.html shows some 2018 numbers that aren't all that impressive. They bought the franchise for $4B. Other investments have done better during that timeframe.
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Disney+ is a big third-party platform on Apple devices and is also a competitor to Apple's own streaming services. Plural cause they have multiple. And the original content on Apple TV+. I really only care about Apple for the Mac, but that's not all they're about.
I got my annual plan when they “cancelled” the untalented conspiracy theory woman who needs fifteen skin filters on IG. She wasn’t going to get any more work anyway. Her character has less personality than a storm trooper in season 2.
I’m no huge Disney fan, but I think it’s safe to say George Lucas was doing a fine job “destroying” Star Wars long before Disney got into the picture.
Source: Episode 1.... need I say more?
Yes, 1-3 were awful, but episodes 7-9 are all on Disney.
Rogue One was excellent to be fair.
Honestly, I think the problem with 7-9 was JJ Abrams, who has become famous for producing faux, cookie-cutter sci-fi. Sure, we could blame Disney for hiring him, but anyone would’ve been a gamble given the history. Hopefully the fresh blood on the next trilogy will give us something more fun!
14.3% increase. Inflation in USA is 1.4%. Someone at Disney needs a new calculator or steadier fingers?