Let's just say I'm less convinced of it's massive success than you seem to be. It'll be 2 subscriptions to do what you can do with one sub now. I don't think people want to pay $10-15/month for each additional channel they watch, plus a subscription to one or more of Netflix/Hulu/Amazon Prime. If they move ESPN to a similar paid subscription service we're getting very near the point where it doesn't make sense to drop cable/satellite anymore.
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Piracy once streaming is as unaffordable as cable/satellite is.
I see this move as also one more smaller step towards the eventual production of a Star Wars TV series, which has been considered by Disney for a long time now. All along, if it were to happen, most had assumed the deal would be with Netflix. I highly doubt that is the case now if it ever even does come to fruition.
Maybe. But look at the music industry since digital streaming services became the primary distribution model. We haven't been priced out of that yet. I pay $10/month for all the music I could ever want on Spotify, so there's no reason to resort to piracy. Have they just not figured out how to ream the consumer on that side yet?
I do feel like in 5 years cord cutting won't really be any cheaper than cable is now, and I am a cord cutter.
Music is a little different as you are getting access to all music. In order to be like the TV/movie streaming, each studio would have to have its own streaming service for their bands.
As a parent of 3 kids under the age of 5, this Disney app sounds pretty intriguing. If I can get access to the Disney vault, Pixar, the MCU and Star Wars universe then this is an app that I could see being used quite frequently in my home. They stated that Frozen 2, Toy Story 4, and the live-action Lion King would be some of the first titles available. I've already purchased Moana, Rogue One, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 this year - I could get around 4 months of service with this new app for that price and have access to more content.
Right now my streaming strategy is Netflix year round and then I pick up sling for Cyclone Football and Bball and HBO for a couple months for GOT. That is the great part about streaming. You can pick up and drop services easily.
I love technology but I'd rather just pay the $100/month for Tivo and every single channel available on Mediacom on 3 TV's. I have one guide, I can set season passes, and I know that everything I want to watch, I can watch. I've got a Roku and have had other streaming devices and none of them are as smooth as just turning on the TV and watching what you want.
Tonight when I get home I'll want to watch the local news so I turn it to the local news on any TV in my house. If I'm a little late, it will be on my DVR on any location in my house.
Then I'll watch Big Brother on CBS, maybe Snowfall on FX, Mountain Men on History, etc.
During the week I'll watch Live PD on A&E, Life Below Zero on NG, Americas's test Kitchen on PBS, Game of Thrones on HBO, MotoGP on BEIN, House Hunters on HGTV ,and probably 10 other shows on various channels while surfing the guide.
Now how smooth would this go if I cut the cord?
Tonight when I get home I'll want to watch the local news so I turn it to the local news on any TV in my house. If I'm a little late, it will be on my DVR on any location in my house.
Then I'll watch Big Brother on CBS, maybe Snowfall on FX, Mountain Men on History, etc.
During the week I'll watch Live PD on A&E, Life Below Zero on NG, Americas's test Kitchen on PBS, Game of Thrones on HBO, MotoGP on BEIN, House Hunters on HGTV ,and probably 10 other shows on various channels while surfing the guide.
Now how smooth would this go if I cut the cord?
And spotify is similar to Netflix which tons of people pay for. Now imagine you have to subscribe to different music streaming for each record label who has musicians you want to listen to in addition to spotify, much less intriguing.
Not as easy since it would be in 2-3 different apps / streaming services to get to all the different content. But I can get most of those channels with an antenna and $35 - $50/mo in streaming subscriptions. A little PITA for saving $50 - $65/mo ($600 - $780/yr) is worth it in my opinion.
Anyone that goes into cord cutting looking to replicate the cable experience exactly will be greatly disappointed. It really is a paradigm shift in TV viewing.
Just makes it easier for me to avoid Disney and E$PN at all costs. Am I the only one that thinks Disney kids shows are utter garbage? I've got to say that all of the kids content on Public TV is far superior, and available in HD for free. Good enough that I would/should donate.
these threads are always fascinating.
someone doesn't have netflix and someone else dvr's local tv news. amazing.
someone doesn't have netflix and someone else dvr's local tv news. amazing.
To be honest, personally, I thought it would suck but it's been really easy. When I switched over, I forgot most of the shows I used to watch even existed. It's actually gotten me to watch less TV by cutting out the crap that I'd watch just to be watching something.
This is what has happened to me, and if the streaming services continue to split as they are, it will just happen to me even more. I'll watch a show if I see/hear someone discussing it, otherwise I don't care.
I don't channel surf anymore - either I look and find something I want to watch, or I don't watch anything at all and find something else to do. I watch less TV, but when I do watch something, I usually enjoy it. If I don't like it I just shut it off instead of flipping to some other crummy show.
THIS. People are shunning cable for streaming. Soon you'll have your DisneyNet bill, your HBONet bill, your ESPNNet bill, your FS1Net bill, your Amazon PrimeNet bill . . .
And then some genius will figure out a way to package all this into one convenient bundle.
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THIS. People are shunning cable for streaming. Soon you'll have your DisneyNet bill, your HBONet bill, your ESPNNet bill, your FS1Net bill, your Amazon PrimeNet bill . . .
And then some genius will figure out a way to package all this into one convenient bundle.
Yep. The writing's been on the wall for a while now. And can anyone really be surprised by that? Content providers aren't going to willingly give us revenue streams without a fight. Of course they'll try to squeeze out every penny they can from the consumer.
For years, people have been howling for ala carte television. Well, this is what it looks like.
THIS. People are shunning cable for streaming. Soon you'll have your DisneyNet bill, your HBONet bill, your ESPNNet bill, your FS1Net bill, your Amazon PrimeNet bill . . .
And then some genius will figure out a way to package all this into one convenient bundle.
It is funny when you look at it that way. Cord cutting is currently saving me quite a chunk of change, but I'm also cheating a bit as a family member has a login I can use to access most of the cable options. I was paying anywhere from $73 to $130 for DirecTV depending on what month it was. I'm currently only paying for Netflix and Hulu, and when sports fire up I'll probably latch onto a bundle service such as Sling or PS Vue. That will put me at around $55, which is still $20 less than my cheapest DirecTV bill. It isn't as easy, though.
Even as streaming gets more cumbersome with 1,001 individual options, my favorite two things are:
- I have control over what I do and don't get and can turn them on/off monthly
- I don't have to do the semi-annual song and dance with DirecTV to keep my bill at a reasonable level.
It drove me insane that in four years, I never once changed my DirecTV package, but my bill would change price three times a year, every year. If they had simply charged me $80/month, every month, I wouldn't have dumped them.
