Disney+ Streaming

Thu Nov 28 19:33:32 UTC 2019

Well, not exactly. Each service is still a bunch of shows and movies
bundled together. If you only want to watch one show, you can't just buy
that, you have to buy the whole service.

Of course, there are services where you can buy individual movies and
episodes (Google Play comes to mind). But Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, etc.
don't operate that way.

-Ross

On Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 1:53 PM Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:

> While I agree about the likely outcome, I will point out that consumers
> have been
> begging for unbundling for years.
>
> This fragmentation of streaming services _IS_ the direct result of that
> request.
>
> It’s unbundled service, exactly what they have been asking for.
>
> Owen
>
>
> > On Nov 26, 2019, at 01:54 , Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On 12/Nov/19 22:36, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> I actually suspect streaming is going to decline (at least in
> >> comparison to where it could have grown to) if this streaming service
> >> fragmentation continues.
> >>
> >> I think people are going to reject the idea that they need to subscribe
> >> to a dozen streaming services at $10-$20/mo. each and will be driven
> >> back the good old "single source" (piracy) they used to use before 1
> >> (or perhaps 2) streaming services kept them happy enough to abandon
> >> piracy.
> >>
> >> The content providers are going to piss in their bed again due to
> >> greed.  Again.
> >
> > This!
> >
> > At the beginning of this year, I dumped Prime Video because while I
> > initially got it for "The Grand Tour", almost all the other content was
> > not available in Africa. Didn't see the point of shelling out over
> > US$100/year for just one show, especially since we already have Netflix
> > + a local linear pay TV service.
> >
> > I bought the wife a new iPhone 11 Pro earlier this month. This got us
> > 1-year's worth of free AppleTV+. Not a lot of content so far, but I hear
> > the same about Disney+. Granted 2 of the 3 shows on TV+ are not bad. But
> > it's free, so what the heck.
> >
> > I'm not keen on paying for more than one streaming service, if I'm
> > honest. There already isn't enough time in the world for regular life,
> > never mind watching one streaming service... now we have to deal with
> > more, each with their own price? Not sure how well the streaming
> > providers expect regular folk to take all of this fragmentation.
> >
> > As my daughter would say, "They can miss me with it :-)".
> >
> > Mark.
> >
>
>
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