Disney+ will be here in November. Thoughts?
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During a corporate presentation on Thursday, April 11th, Disney revealed new details of its much-anticipated streaming service, Disney+.
Disney+ will launch on November 12th, 2019 and so far has established partnerships to stream with Roku and PlayStation 4. There’ve also been rumors of future deals with Xbox One and Nintendo Switch as well. With a launch as momentous as this, it can be certain the company is looking to reach as many mediums as possible.
The service will cost $6.99 a month or $69.99 ($5.83 a month) if you pay for the year. This pricing strategy is definitely an intentional jab to Netflix, which costs almost twice as much, and raised its prices yet again this year.
In the long run, Disney’s streaming service could actually end up saving you some money. The execs stated that new films will arrive on the platform directly after their home release. In fact, Kevin Feige, President of Marvel Studios, shared that Captain Marvel and Avengers: Endgame will make their streaming debuts exclusively on the service.
Despite being a little late to the game, the entertainment behemoth has been amassing an entertainment arsenal that could really shake up the streaming industry. With Pixar, Star Wars, Marvel and the recently acquired 21st Century Fox under the hood, Disney may drive a significant chunk of the market to its service. This is especially true if it starts pulling Disney content from the likes of Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime Video.
But even if Disney continues to share its content with other services, the slated releases for the new platform are definite attention-grabbers. The list is long, but there are a few really worth noting.
Up first is Loki, a new Marvel Cinematic Universe TV show with the ever-charming Tom Hiddleston reprising his role as the God of Mischief. If you are a Monsters Inc. fan, Mike Wazowski and Sulley are also making a comeback with a new animated series called Monsters at Work. And if the force be with you, Jon Favreau presents us with The Mandalorian, an eight-episode Star Wars spin-off following the “travails of a lone gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy.”
With an ever-increasing amount of streaming services, it’ll be interesting to see which ones are actually worth your money.
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With all these streaming services available, it’s starting to become expensive, like cable.
I doubt I’ll subscribe. I don’t even have enough time to watch all the stuff I want on Netflix as it is. I’ll be bummed if they pull all the content from Netflix, but I think I’ll survive.
@RiotDemon I think in July when my comcast cable contract is up I will drop the TV portion and then pay only exorbitant internet cost. Between Disney, AP, and Netflix I will be fine with what time I have to watch tv. I am not very picky when it comes to shows and movies. I am going to try a HD antenna for at least 1 local I know I can get.
@mfladd @RiotDemon
What is AP?
@f00l @RiotDemon Amazon Prime, silly goose. I was being lazy.
@mfladd But can you get streaming of local TV on those things? Yesterday when tornadoes and golf ball sized hail were passing through I had a local station on to track it…and with the advanced warning prudently took my car across the street to the hospital free parking garage to avoid my car potentially looking like a golf ball. At the moment I have slow internet and the most basic cable as I can’t get antenna reception on the north side of the apt building (my antenna works on the other side but not worth moving across the hall as I look out on the back yard and not a parking lot and hospital traffic). And how fast does your internet need to be?
@Kidsandliz @mfladd
Try for a better antenna.
Streaming services that do local cost much more.
@f00l @Kidsandliz I am not sure about the antenna. I have never used one. But I have 1 local HD station in town so I am hoping that will come in fine for news purposes.
@f00l I had thought of that. Tried to get permission to put one on the roof. No dice. Not allowed to put one even outside my window. I guess I’ll have to research the best indoor antenna that picks up weak signals (part of the problem is that this is a cement building with lots of rebar which blocks signals and I am facing north, all the stations are 15+ miles away south of here). Thanks for the info on streaming services.
@mfladd When I lived were the signal wasn’t blocked, even though I was about 8 miles further away from stations than I am now, my antenna worked just fine for all the over the air broadcast stations. Hopefully you will have that kind of luck. Put it as high as you can in the house with as few things blocking it from the outside. Some antennas need positioned to point at where the signal is coming from. There is an online site I can’t seem to find at the moment that shows you where all your signals originate and if you put in your address suggest the miles needed on the antenna.
too many streaming services. It’s getting like cable.
@romey050500 It’s getting to the point where a good number of folks don’t get their media from cable companies anyway. Picking and choosing what they like instead of
dozenshundreds of channels that they don’t care can make a better experience.(Not necessarily cheaper, though.)
@narfcake
@narfcake The problem is that there is so much to pick and choose from whether or not with cable or other services, that this gets overwhelming too. I took the choice of not even bothering to educate myself about the choices as it was overwhelming. And I mostly only look at a couple of local TV stations anyway. I’ve only had cable for a total of not quite 3 years and only because I can’t, even with an antenna, get local programming. Only 12 mo of that time did I ever have anything other than basic cable. I do miss a couple of stations I watched when I could afford to have more than basic though (which is now the very cheapest internet/TV choice offered).
This reminds me of the pre-iTunes era of digital music – each record company wanted their own platform and standard.
Meanwhile, I still haven’t used any of my Amazon Prime videos benefits …
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@narfcake Seriously? It’s lacking, but they have had some good original series. Worth watching.
@mfladd I know. I originally signed up for Prime because of
Top GearThe Grand Tour too.@mfladd - I like The Tick, but an awful lot of their movie offerings are '60s-era Italian B films.
@aetris Agreed (and about The Tick). It is not my go to. But, since I will have prime anyway - I’ll take it. If I was paying just for that - not.
@aetris @mfladd I’m still stuck in the 90s when it comes to The Tick. Then again, I’ve met Townsend Coleman, who voiced The Tick, during the time too. Along with some of the other voice artists too.
@mfladd @narfcake I didn’t use Prime Video until we got a Fire TV as a gift. Now I’ve discovered it has every freaking episode of Stargate SG-1 & Stargate Atlantis (plus the corresponding movies and sequel but I haven’t seen them yet)!!. Also every season of The Closer which I adore (but really don’t know why…guess it reminds me of Columbo ).
Lots of others, plus it’s a good go-to when Spectrum takes a dump in our area. Just fire up the Fire and let 'em rip!
@mfladd @narfcake but, no, no Disney. I tend to tune out at that word, having lived in Orlando both before, during, and after the construction.
@llangley I’ve actually done work for Disney.
(I did have to sign NDAs, though, so no, I cannot divulge any of the projects I worked on.)
@llangley @narfcake
Can we ask what kind of work you performed either at Disney or at any other film/video production company?
@llangley Atlantis is currently unavailable and has been for the past couple of weeks. No telling when or if it will return.
Amazon doesn’t communicate too well on such matters.
I haven’t read enough about their content offering, but TBH, I disregarded any interest the moment I read “Disney”.
I am curious to see what Apple does with their service though.
We are in a flux of the industry. As @RiotDemon mentioned above ‘so many services, so little time’. The next couple years will be a Thunderdome for streaming services. Many providers enter, most will perish.
/giphy Thunderdome
@ruouttaurmind
Me too, but Disney is buying up so much other stuff now that this may start to matter, especially if they pull content from the competition.
I dislike the fragmentation that the streaming market has, but if one player had everything it would be just like cable TV and you’d be stuck paying exorbitant rates for a pile of crap you don’t watch. I guess I’d rather be nickel and dimed for stuff I don’t watch.
@djslack @ruouttaurmind
Yeah. Disney now owns the rights not only to the kiddie stuff (and don’t they own Miramax?); also, they have the Marvel universe, the Star Wars universe, Pixar, and now the entire Fox film/video catalog (-Fox news, still owned by the Murdocks), and what all else Disney owns, as @mfladd mentioned.
So, if Disney keeps the monthly price low, and I happened to get into a video binge mood, the Mouse could keep me busy with yet-to-watch content for a long time.
I think I’ll be in for a year. Then if I don’t renew I’ll sign up for a month whenever I want to watch a movie since it’ll be cheaper to sign up for a month of Disney+ then to rent the movie from one of the other services.
@Ignorant
I’m gonna try it. At least it is less cheaper than Netflix.
@Zelmira A fraction of the programming also though. Remember, Netflix has been playing this game for quite a while. It’s going to take Disney a few years to catch up.
@ruouttaurmind @Zelmira Lord knows Disney has had plenty of time to prepare for this. It will be interesting to see what they present on the roll out.
@nickybear
Re various streaming sources
I think I currently have Netflix. I ought to check. I ought to discontinue as have not watched in mucho months.
I have Amazon prime. I’ll keep that for the present. Variety of bennies. they’ll raise the price or change the bennies again at some point and I’ll re-think
Have in the past had
Sling
HBO
Hulu
Showtime?
Some others. I forget.
I didn’t watch, or barely watched, most of them.
(own GOT from Amazon video, have not got past watching 1st session yet. Tho I know many of the big events and directions, having read all the books and heard the ongoing TV gossip.)
I try to remember to discontinue these as soon as I’m not watching anymore.
I usually forget to discontent until it gets embarrassing.
What with the ongoing fragmentation of subscription content:
I think i might just subscribe a single source at a time in order to binge watch, just when I’m am completely committed to doing that.
And then quit.
It’s just too much to keep 14 services on all the time just in case I feel like checking them out.
Even tho they all have excellent content.
I don’t want cable or dish. I don’t want all these. For the same reason.
Just too many and too much.
And do I - does anyone - need all that video content?
It would be harder to take this “cut the streaming services off” attitude if I had kids pushing for unlimited everything.
Perhaps if I had kids around I would encourage them to read.
That always works! Right?
/giphy books
@f00l I will be discontinuing my Dish Network service effective 4/27. While the programming package to which I subscribe has about 200 channels, I only watch 4 networks. I don’t even explore what else might be on. Although no streaming service comes close to the features and convenience of Dish, it’s impossible to justify $52/mo. for 4 networks.
The original promise of the streaming movement was À la cart programming. Buy what you want, don’t pay for what you don’t. Somewhere along the way that vision derailed and now it’s an industry predominated by the exact type of programming which used to be delivered via cable or satellite, and in many cases, for a similar price. The only real difference is the lack of term commitments.
So… like my VMP subscription then?
@ruouttaurmind
One thing I noticed: purchasing video streaming services a la carte (directly from the provider, such as Showtime or CBS etc) is pretty damned expensive.
Too expensive, if it’s not HBO or similar.
@f00l $15/mo is pushing the boundary IMHO. Starz at $9/mo is a bit better if it’s movies you’re interested in. Although they have a couple decent offerings of original series, this is a relatively new venture for Starz compared to HBO. Also, Starz has an exclusive contract with Disney for distribution of Disney films. It will be interesting to see how that changes after Disney TV goes live.
@f00l
Interesting
@f00l Kids are different now. At least mine at 9 and 11. They RARELY watch tv. They watch youtube everything. If my son isn’t playing Fortnite, he is watching fortnite streamers.
@mfladd
Now what would the Duke of Sussex say to that?
Hmmmm.
@f00l
Only if you, and only you, know the password to enable the stuff. Actually I’d think if kids have interesting things to do and other kids to play with to do those interesting things with they’d choose to do that rather than sit passively. I know my kid preferred to be outside playing with neighborhood kids than watching videos or TV. On the other hand she preferred TV/videos, playing on the computer, etc. to doing homework.
Nope.
/giphy nope
But can I watch the adventures of the greatest Disney animated villain?
@Nate311 I bet you will!
I’ll probably sign up.
@therealjrn
I will prob subscribe now and then.
And go on “greater Disney media universe” binges.
/giphy “that’s all folks” Looney Toons
@f00l I have to say I will be subscribing, especially at that price point. Which of course will continue to creep up once they have people onboard. I am looking forward to it. Especially that it will right on my Roku!
Depends how much HDR/Dolby Vision content they have.
They pulled their content from Netflix – and plan to launch their own service ? Typical. While it’s cheap enough to justify the expense, I won’t subscribe to their greed. Not this time.