TLDR:

Current ad free plans for Disney+ and Hulu are now raising $3 more on October 12. Both becoming $13.99 and $17.99.

  • mishimaenjoyer@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    streaming hit the wall the moment every corp wanted to make their own service to cut out netflix. the boom in streaming happend - at least in most parts of europe - because basically everything anyone wanted (even some hbo titles) had been on netflix for 10 eurobucks a month and now you have to sub at least three services for almost thrice the price each. and especially disney+ is complete trash if you’re not a marvel/star wars stockholm syndrome victim. now asking for even more in times of inflation and recession is a slap into the face of subscribers.

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      1 year ago

      now asking for even more in times of inflation and recession is a slap into the face of subscribers.

      But not raising prices is a slap in the face for executives and shareholders! How will the rich people’s yacht money economy possibly weather that storm?!

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      1 year ago

      People forget families have children who wants cartoons. Which makes it even worse because it’s hard to cut off services.

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        It’s funny how we managed to survive without streaming services. I distinctly remember teaching my kids how to rewind a vcr tape. They watched the same Barney episode about 400 times per day. Guess kids nowadays can’t handle that.

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          it’s funny how the “when we were kids, whe didn’t even had a tv at home and we were happy”-routine from our grandparents moved up to “we watched the same episode on vhs on repeat!” now millennials are getting older.

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            I mean at least my parents had rabbit ears… kinda cruel to force a kid to rewatch Barney when PBS has been accessible over the air to 95% of people for like the last few decades.

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                I just don’t understand why you would rewatch something 500 times when you get hot barney straight off the press back then… it was even super easy to watch barney later, you just pressed the red button and recorded over the tape.

                And if one even bothered to read the manual, you could usually preset recording times on most devices. Although shows also had this weird habit of being offset by ad hoc commercial inserts or unplanned interruptions. So it wasn’t super uncommon on most channels (PBS was actually a bit of an exception, due to lack of ads) to be off a few minutes from schedule.

                The 90s were neat.

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                  You know that shows only come on at scheduled times, and having a set of various tapes was the same as having an online subscription that’s being discussed in this thread. And yes, we taped shows for the kids to watch and add to their library. There’s a million things I can’t explain why a couple of kids aged 3 and 6 would do. Watching Barney over and over is just one of them.