If you are interested in this offer and have an American Express card, check for an offer to add to your card.
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.
Get Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN Unlimited for $29.99/Month for Your First Year
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Yeah no, thanks.
They tried to “upgrade” me to this last month after I cancelled D+, didn’t catch it until I was looking at my CC statement. Don’t watch D+, don’t watch ESPN, zero interest in this nonsense. Was able to get a credit and restored back to Hulu no ads @ $18/month which is all my household is interested in. Not sure what is going on at Disney but this weirdness plus dropping the Hulu brand completely has my eyebrow raised.
They tried to “upgrade” me to this last month after I cancelled D+, didn’t catch it until I was looking at my CC statement. Don’t watch D+, don’t watch ESPN, zero interest in this nonsense. Was able to get a credit and restored back to Hulu no ads @ $18/month which is all my household is interested in. Not sure what is going on at Disney but this weirdness plus dropping the Hulu brand completely has my eyebrow raised.
UK TV Licence fee @ £174.50 annual = £14.60 / monthly = US$19.75 delivers 3 main BBC channels without ads plus access to many more from others with ads.
At last, something less expensive on this side of the pond! And, dare I suggest, better quality overall
#justsaying
Amazon Prime/Netflix/AppleTV etc also available if you don't get out much ...
At last, something less expensive on this side of the pond! And, dare I suggest, better quality overall
#justsaying
Amazon Prime/Netflix/AppleTV etc also available if you don't get out much ...
If only that one Cable service offered everything in those other packages. If people are buying overlapping services well it's their money. On Internet I agree I pay Xfinity $80 a month for unlimited mobile, iPhone and Apple Watch lines, on Verizon and 1 Gig down internet. Stand alone they aren't deals but their packages are. TV hard no from them.
We used to pay $100/mo to watch cable...and those had ads. All of the channels on your cable box - USA Network, ESPN on cable, SyFy Channel, AMC, Bravo, etc. - all of them had ads. The only ones that didn't have ads were HBO/Showtime/etc, and those were an additional $15-$20/mo ontop of your cable bill.
Disingenuous phrasing. We simply paid $100-200 a year for cable. There was no ad-free option.
See, this is all about comparisons. At a price point people expect to not have to see ads. So the anger isn't $29.99 for the bundle, it's $29.99 for the bundle with ads.
We had no option to NOT have ads. With these streaming services we DO have the option. That's where the issue comes from.
They also announced an ESPN Unlimited+Fox One bundle for $40/month coming in October. I’m hoping for an ESPN Unlimited+Fox One+Hulu+Disney bundle to save even more.
I get what you are saying but at the same time things that were acceptable decades ago are no longer acceptable. Times have changed.
In a nutshell today if one is paying for content, it is no longer acceptable to have ads, the exception to this is live events which I get and understand or if one wants a cheaper price that includes ads.
If this was Disney+ (no ads), Hulu (no ads), and ESPN Unlimited for $29.99 per month for your first year, THEN I’ll subscribe.
Otherwise, it’s overpriced still at $38.99 JUST FOR first year.
I want ESPN Unlimited+Fox One (minus FOX News and Fox Nation junk)+Hulu (no ads)+Disney (no ads)+HBO Max (no ads) bundle, THEN I’ll seriously consider subscribing. That would be a massive money saving bundle everyone wants.
I think the Hulu app itself will be going away in 2026.
The messaging on this by ESPN has been an absolutely jumbled mess. So much misinformation going around (even from the Hulu bundle website itself) about costs and what is included. These are the result of that messaging blunder:
ESPN Unlimited is above and beyond ESPN Select/ESPN+ and includes access to all ESPN channels regardless of whether a streaming provider offers it with their subscription, as well as additional NFL games/content and all WWE PLE's beginning 9/20/25, with more content still to be announced. This will be a long row to hoe but anyone commenting on how they don't like sports really don't have to worry about what sports fans will be clamoring to pay to potentially "unbundle" themselves from streaming providers like Sling TV and cable that they were keeping around because they couldn't get ESPN and it's family of channels without it.
None of the previously existing bundles will include ESPN Unlimited. Anyone previously with ESPN+ will be disappointed. ESPN+ legacy subscribers are receiving the newly renamed "ESPN Select" service.
ESPN Unlimited is above and beyond ESPN Select/ESPN+ and includes access to all ESPN channels regardless of whether a streaming provider offers it with their subscription, as well as additional NFL games/content and all WWE PLE's beginning 9/20/25, with more content still to be announced. This will be a long row to hoe but anyone commenting on how they don't like sports really don't have to worry about what sports fans will be clamoring to pay to potentially "unbundle" themselves from streaming providers like Sling TV and cable that they were keeping around because they couldn't get ESPN and it's family of channels without it.
Perhaps
All we need to do now is go full swing back to blu-ray's, and we're done. Disney stopped selling all tangible media here in Australia some time ago, so that speaks volumes to their intentions, I believe.
50+ channels, though, on cable and not just 3. ESPN is terrible. The apps are designed to not let you filter out the sports you have no interest in...during hockey season, we have to navigate through all sorts of screens just to get to hockey content. I don't care about soccer, football, or any of the other crap. Why do they force it on me?
