Disney+ Streaming

Owen DeLong owen at delong.com
Fri Nov 29 17:42:16 UTC 2019


This started under the Cable regime, People were complaining about having to buy channel bundles instead of simply choosing the channels they wanted to subscribe to.

Owen


> On Nov 28, 2019, at 11:33 , Ross Tajvar <ross at tajvar.io> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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