Quasi OT - Disney breaking from Netflix
This will impact many on here as Disney has announced they will start their own streaming service in 2019. Why this is quasi off topic is because they will be moving ESPN to also have it's own subscription service in early 2018. This signals the death throes of the cable TV subscription. The last holdout was sports and that's now moving on. The real question is will BTN also move away from making you carry a useless cable package or will they break off and allow you to subscribe individually.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/disney-to-pull-movies-from-net…
For what its worth...
I'm about to switch from DirecTV to SlingTV and get an over the air antenna so I can watch any football on ABC.
From what you all say its not a bad way to go, but I will miss NFL Sunday Ticket. The sooner the streaming services get all NFL games the better!
They may have improved in the last year so don't treat it as gospel on their current state, but for me I will not go back.
August 10th, 2017 at 1:47 AM ^
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August 11th, 2017 at 12:26 PM ^
He's done better than you. Buying the worst asset and trying to turn it into something is smart business. The guy is worth $22Bn, Yeah I think he knows what he's doing.
I broke the news to my kids, who weren't too distraught being that they are slowly growing out of that phase where DIsney films provide more than passing entertainment, but if this means they'll finally put up Police Academy 2 in place of all those films, I can live with it.
We have a fair number of the Disney movies on DVD as it is.
August 9th, 2017 at 11:05 PM ^
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August 10th, 2017 at 7:42 AM ^
ESPN just said they continue to lose record numbers of subscribers.
August 10th, 2017 at 11:41 AM ^
Yeah, this will sure help shore up those numbers.
August 10th, 2017 at 1:58 AM ^
I get the feeling all the major networks will want to start breaking away and get their own streaming service. If you want to watch this, you'll have to get that. If you want to watch that, you'll have to get this. Once you add up the total it'll be like cable all over again. This might even be cables way of trying to screw over the people who are trying to cut the cord. And to that, I say I welcome the pirates. Arrrrrrgh, Matey!
August 10th, 2017 at 8:24 AM ^
Only way this works is if Disney/ESPN goes with original content. Netflix wouldn't be the beast it is without OITNB or House of Cards. I almost went with the cord cutting, but in reality these companies are just pushing everyone back to Cable.
August 10th, 2017 at 10:12 AM ^
They already have original content. That's essentially everything they produce. Netflix is the one relying on boatloads of non-original content. Yes, they've done a great job with some shows, but look at any list of the best stuff available on Netflix and you will see a good chunk that were produced for some other network (or movies produced by hollywood studios).
The Disney announcement is exactly why Netflix (and Amazon and Hulu and....) has been spending boatloads of money trying to develop their own content. As soon as the networks accept that the current bundled cable tv packages are dead, they'll pull all their stuff off of the independent streaming services. When that happens, the streaming services have to have enough independent content to compete.
August 10th, 2017 at 8:24 AM ^
Only way this works is if Disney/ESPN goes with original content. Netflix wouldn't be the beast it is without OITNB or House of Cards. I almost went with the cord cutting, but in reality these companies are just pushing everyone back to Cable.
August 10th, 2017 at 9:10 AM ^
August 10th, 2017 at 11:35 AM ^
It better be pretty cheap or they can go **** themselves.
August 10th, 2017 at 12:41 PM ^
and as soon as the cable goes down, my bill for internet service will be $120
August 10th, 2017 at 3:17 PM ^
I'm using YouTube TV and love it so far. Unlimited cloud storage with shows saving for up to 9 months. Stream on 3 devices concurrently (PSVue is the only one that allows more at one time), Take your shows with you and watch them anywhere (Except internationally), comes with YouTube Red (No commercials and original content on YouTube). This is available in the Detroit area.
That's my plug for a streaming service.
I think many of you are correct that individual networks will want to setup indiviual services to cash in. The problem is that those networks will have to provide the vaule to the cost. My mom loves to watch NCIS, but that's the only thing on CBS that she watches. you're not going to get someone to sign up for a subscription service to just pay for one show. What I see is for a true ala carte provider to pop up. Who knows maybe it's netflix. Certain stations have certain associated costs per month likely with a minimum time you have to pay for it. So something like this:
CBS - $5
NBC - $5
Hallmark - $10
BTN - $10
etc...
Prices would likely be dramatically less than that. If that happens, you would see more niche channels get bought up by bigger providers and bundled together for the same price to drive the userbase for each provider up. This is what people truely want. These stripped down streaming services like YoutubeTV, Sling, Directv Now etc... Are fine, but they really are just taking the core channels that people want and bundling them and selling them off.