This is no longer about cord cutting. This is the future of home entertainment. Cable is going away and the dinosaurs will need to adjust.
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Netflix CEO Says Apple TV+ and Disney+ Will Create 'A Whole New World' of 'Tough Competition'
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“Tough competition” = a nice reality check for the company that likes to charge more and offer less.
Same here. I have AT&T gig fiber and it is pretty spectacular. That said, I experience occasional slowdowns but much less frequently than cable. As to why those occur, your guess is as good as mine, could be many factors. Usually, Speedtest.net reports 800+ down, 900+ up.
A bit more info on the DisneyMovieClub deal: it's 3 years of Disney+ for $170, a $40 savings over the regular yearly price. Not as good as the D23 deal but still good. This deal may be available elsewhere if you're not a DisneyMovieClub member.
Which is plenty damn fast. People keep asking me why I "needed" to go from 350/20 to 1000/1000 (or 940/940, whatever). Answer: I didn't. I upgraded because the speed is there and it is quite affordable. At some point, it became a matter of principle to upgrade, even if it meant completely changing how I watch TV (no more cable guide, no more channel surfing, etc.).
Until cable decides to retaliate.
Netflix, Disney, AppleTV+ and to some varying extent the future HBO Now and Google’s YTTV all depend on someone else’s pipe.
I’m not saying that it will never happen, but people have been making predictions about Big Cable retaliating for many years now, and it still hasn’t happened.
I got an email from Disney and the price is $169.99 for 3 years. This is pretty good price but as right now, I don’t think there is enough or worthwhile shows for me to sign up. The offer is good until Oct 11. There is just going to be too many streamings services and just practical to sign up for more than one.
So you have to spend more time combing through their auto-play nightmare of an app, probably.
how do? Netflix still has the most and widest variety of original content which personally is all I watch on it. Def some great shows. I have no interest in Apple TV plus unless I get it free with a purchase and Disney I only care about marvel on and somehow I think the shows won’t be edgy enough in there
Not necessarily. For the most part if you have internet you need cable/fiber. With a toehold in the home that gives them the flexibility to do things like "Oh, you subscribe to HBO GO, Hulu, Amazon Prime? We'll give you all of them at a 50% discount with no data caps". We'll have to see how the economics work out as they keep losing customers and have to adjust.
Good, at least he’s not lying to investors.
Disney will hurt them badly for sure and Apple has the potential to as well.
Disney is easily the scariest competitor because they have endless content.
Disney will hurt them badly for sure and Apple has the potential to as well.
Disney is easily the scariest competitor because they have endless content.
How? Disney is cheaper and has more and better content FOR MANY. No offense, but what you watch and think is good literally has zero relevance.
Evidence of popularity of Disney content....Disney, as an example, has released FIVE $1B+ movies just this year and still haven't released Star Wars and Frozen 2. That will make 7 in a year.
Netflix has a couple decent original content shows but most of the watched content on Netflix are licensed shows. Licensing is expensive, original content is expensive, and Netflix has a cash problem. They don’t have money and don’t make much money. I’d bet just Star Wars is worth more than the entire Netflix original content library.
Apple has $220B in cash and makes $60B in profit annually...they can buy anything.
Disney makes $15B annually in profit and already owns Marvel, Pixar, ESPN, Fox, Nat Geo, Star Wars, etc and has all their Disney content. They also control Hulu which will be a space for other content, perhaps geared more for adults.
Netflix makes about $1B in profit annually and has to raise capital in junk bond offerings as recently as April.
There will be more delivery methods of internet in the future. Cable is finished. They will survive as an ISP.
Not really interested in Disney+. Apple TV+ probably.
So far for original content, Netflix stills seems interesting, not only with their own but international content.
As for cable, I’ve been prepared to cut the cable for years now but my wife won’t let me. Maybe I’ll just switch to basic cable and add in the few channels she regularly watches, because I rarely watch these days.
So far for original content, Netflix stills seems interesting, not only with their own but international content.
As for cable, I’ve been prepared to cut the cable for years now but my wife won’t let me. Maybe I’ll just switch to basic cable and add in the few channels she regularly watches, because I rarely watch these days.
that was kind of my point but substitute wife and 2 kids. Even harder to please!
I would LOVE if they did. Or even new pricing tiers. Such as, I don't need 4 streams, but I do want 4K content. A two stream plan with UHD included would be nice.
Not really.
This isn't affecting the masses and is only happening with HoAs and management companies that get into exclusively contracts with one ISP to deliberately prevent competition with other ISPs.
The upside is that contract negotiated with the single ISP with usually decent for most, the downside is that the ISP expects a certain tier of service, and puts that in the contract.
A better example imo, would be how many ISPs still use data caps, but these caps were present prior to the rise of cord cutting, and many ISPs have a fee to get rid of the cap.