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Re:Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netfl... by Fezzik on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @06:25PM (#14963518)
The size of Disney's catalogue may be underestimated by some. Having instant access to all their movies[1] and television shows[2] has quite a bit of value, and would consist of hundreds upon hundreds of blu-rays. I am not one who would sign up, but certainly if I had children I would much rather have streaming access to all of this than stacks of discs.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Walt_Disney_Pictures_f... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Disney_television_seri...

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Re:Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netfl... by wfunction on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @06:50PM (#14963719)
Are children into live-action Disney films? That seems to be the vast majority of their catalog, not animations.
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Re:Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netfl... by freehunter on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @08:52PM (#14964568)
Define "children". Do 10 year olds like Pirate of the Caribbean? Yes. Do 12 year olds like Hook? Also yes.
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Re:Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netfl... by nebabyte on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @06:44PM (#14974448)
I am assuming a catalog "filled" with live action Disney films would mostly have those one-off concept movies they created for their channel than pages upon pages of movies standing peer to Pirates of the Carribean.

Still interesting enough to kids but let's not pretend like it's not padding; those movies were often very formulaic, "relatable kid with a weird life or circumstances goes on a journey" - not really worth the price tag for a subscription.

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Re:Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netfl... by mahyarm on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @07:53PM (#14964181)
Bambi is still a good movie for the 5 year olds of today too.
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Re:Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netfl... by peter303 on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @08:22PM (#14964367)
I counted approximately 400 feature films excluding Lucas, Mavel.
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