Disney Plus to Raise Prices by $3 a Month as It Launches Tier with Ads

Re:Disney Plus to Raise Prices by $3 a Month as It Launches ... by IceMetalPunk on Thursday August 11, 2022 @12:03PM (#32427758)

ShowRSS + uTorrent has worked for me. I know, I know, "but illegal/the moneys". I watch like... 1 show on Netflix (2 now with Sandman), 1 show on the CW (soon to be 0, as it's the Flash), 1 show on HBO Max (Harley Quinn), etc. Paying for an entire service (or cable) just because I like one show they offer is ridiculous. The closest I'd come to doing it is Disney+ because of all the Marvel content, but even then I'm paying for access to a shit-ton of Disney content I couldn't care any less about. (I currently do pay for Netflix, mostly because I subbed to support their pickup of Lucifer and then decided to stay subbed until Umbrella Academy dies.)

Basically, what I'm saying is, as long as every company wants to withhold the content I like behind a paywall the size of tons of content I don't want, ShowRSS + uTorrent = the pirate's life for me. Yo-ho.

(Legitimately, if I was able to pay for just the individual shows I watch, I would pay for 100% of them. But no one offers that option, so... shrug )

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Re:Disney Plus to Raise Prices by $3 a Month as It Launches ... by bee_rider on Thursday August 11, 2022 @12:25PM (#32428083)

I never got into the whole piracy thing (despite growing up in it's heyday), but I haven't thought much about the ethics of it and certainly wouldn't judge people who do it.

Mostly the "cost" of staying up to date with best piracy practices doesn't seem worth it, to me.

I happen to know the price of hulu+disney+ is around $20 currently (because I just canceled my subscription, haha). I vaguely recall that is pretty close to the retail cost of a season of a show, around a decade ago, I think. So it seems like an OK deal in that context -- I watched way more than one season of a single show on the two services, per month (but like, I want to cut down on my passive content consumption anyway).

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Re:Disney Plus to Raise Prices by $3 a Month as It Launches ... by IceMetalPunk on Thursday August 11, 2022 @12:36PM (#32428270)

To access all the shows I watch, I would need: a cable package for the CW ($40) + a Disney+ subscription ($11 with this hike) + Netflix ($15) + HBO Max ($15) = $81/month for a handful of shows. That's the average cost of my entire power bill -- a necessary cost -- for entertainment. If they can charge $15 for access to everything on Netflix, surely they can charge much less for one or two shows that I actually want to watch (and of course, same with the other services).

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Re:Disney Plus to Raise Prices by $3 a Month as It Launches ... by bee_rider on Thursday August 11, 2022 @01:14PM (#32428857)

If you look at it that way, it does seem like a bit of a ripoff.

Personally I don't get super into particular shows -- so, on Netflix I suppose they have The Office (I'm not sure actually it is just an example), but on Hulu they have Mr Mayor... if focusing down to a couple streaming service means that I have to chance the specific "lighthearted, vaguely sarcastic but still comforting workplace comedy" in my lineup, I don't think this is a huge cost.

I dunno. Lots of companies seem to treat their streaming offerings as undifferentiated commodities, so why shouldn't we, right?

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Re:Disney Plus to Raise Prices by $3 a Month as It Launches ... by IceMetalPunk on Thursday August 11, 2022 @02:01PM (#32429526)

> I dunno. Lots of companies seem to treat their streaming offerings as undifferentiated commodities, so why shouldn't we, right?

Because the things I enjoy watching are highly differentiated? Shrug

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Re:Disney Plus to Raise Prices by $3 a Month as It Launches ... by boruto on Thursday August 11, 2022 @06:24PM (#32432559)

I have used the same magnet link searcher, same software (transmission / transmission-remote) for the past 10 years.

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