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Is now really the time to be doing this? I guess they are hoping people will be desperate for stuff they haven’t already watched when the programming dries up from the strikes.

Also, almost $20 a month for Hulu? Get real.

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[-] adolf@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago

Looks like it's time to sail the high seas. Ahoy mates

[-] TubeTalkerX@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

That’s my secret Captain, I never stopped sailing…

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I just fired up Tdarr and already squeezed 2TB out of my movies and I'm only half way through. TV shows should net me the same if not more. Lots of room without even buying new storage.

[-] willy_wallace@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago

Disney+ ain't worth $10 a month, much less $14. Guess I'm going to be saving some money when I cancel. What these streaming companies don't understand it that we have lots of them because they're cheap. If you raise the prices of all of them then we'll just choose one of two and they're all going to be less profitable.

[-] Airport_Bar@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Yea for sure, however if they went from a user paying from $5 into $10, and then later $10 to now $20, now they just need 1 user for the price of many.

Also, despite a short-term wave of rage-drops from their service, they know they’ll eventually get a new wave of users later on who never knew anything different and the cycle continues.

Of course they do this incrementally so they don’t lose out too much of their base, but all of the services are going up. It’s going to continue to happen and probably quicker than some people realize. It’s happening everywhere

[-] EcksrayYangkeyZooloo@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

A lot of companies are trying to boil the frog. This frog has noticed.

[-] Zana@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Netflix is doing well after all their price increases, password sharing crackdowns, and canceling all of their shows.

[-] JamesStallion@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Netflix? Oh, you mean my DS9 player!

[-] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 19 points 1 year ago

It could backfire when they themselves run out of new content. Charging a premium for older content seems like a poor business decision.

[-] Billy_Gnosis@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I guess when you keep putting out garbage movies that are losing hundreds of millions of dollars, you need to make it up somewhere

[-] freamon@endlesstalk.org 4 points 1 year ago

For that money, Disney should be like Carmy's restaurant: I should have Disney executives loitering in my back garden, ready to overhear my random mutterings about what I'd like to see on telly, and then go back and do everything in their power to make it happen.

[-] akd@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Idk The Bear is very good. Might be worth it.

[-] desmondjones@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Maybe for a month, then cancel… but also 🏴‍☠️

[-] explodes@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

This is why they're starting to release episodes for shows one at a time, slowly.

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