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I guess we all knew this was coming after Netflix did it.

They are losing subs already and they decided to raise prices. I don't know how this makes any sense.

Oh no, you mean I need to buy bigger hard drives with the money I’ll save from cancelling another subscription? What a shame.

Oh no! Whatever will I do if they raise their prices and crack down on sharing as I sit here with a VPN and a 50TB NAS...

Can't say it wasn't a good run and I actually enjoyed the era of streaming where content was easy to get to at a fair price but as is the circle of life, these companies will always inevitably become the greedy monsters they sought to replace.

Did y'all know a VPN can cost less than $3 a month? Skip the Starbucks and hoist the colors.

The price of things just keep getting higher and higher little by little, but my income isn’t anywhere near what it was before Covid.

And this is why we should've all cancelled Netflix when they began cracking down on password sharing. If we let them win, it'll become normalized across the entire industry, like what is happening here.

for the second time this year.

Yeah, that's what I was wondering - didn't they just do this? I cancelled my renewal when they raised it the first time and it doesn't close out until November. It was $80 a year when I first signed up - it's now more than double that!

For me, the content is not very compelling / worth $168 a year. Especially when it's evident that they're focusing more on cinema releases now than streaming shows. No love lost here.

These companies are still in the mode where they're pushing out mediocre content and trying to make their money back on nostalgia and merchandising and "background-content". They're in competition with each other to get - and maintain - as much /consumer/ attention as possible. I don't want to speak for everyone else but I think, as /audiences/, we just really want compelling stories that are well written and well acted. As consumers, we should all open our eyes a bit to what we're actually paying for and stop blinding re-subbing to stuff that's not really worth it.

You're a dumpster fire right now, Hollywood. Get your shit together.

As this becomes more common, will we see an increase of quality available on certain waters?

I'm buying a dvd player, fuck these greedy pieces of shit

The real trick is just subscribe for a month, watch everything you want, then cancel. No more concurrent subscriptions. All you need is one when you want. Not all year.

Damn this reminded me that I have a Disney subscription that I don’t use anymore lmao. Thanks greedy pig fuck.

I’m dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It’s the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they’re going to do something incredibly … stupid.”

Raising prices as writers and actors are on strike, meaning no new content. That should go well for them.

All this password sharing crackdown is fucking frustrating.

My MIL doesn’t watch a lot of TV. She doesn’t have any cable or streaming services. But she does watch my kids a lot, so we have my Disney, Netflix, and Paramount set up on her TV.

So, what? Get the kids tablets? I know they shouldn’t watch a lot of TV, and my MIL is a saint and keeps them wicked busy most the day. She needs to plop them down and chill for a minute, especially when their baby cousin is there too.

We've really come full circle back to ad-supported cable

People already bitch that Disney isn't worth the current price and they want to make it cost that much more?!

I think it's well worth the $80/yr annual sub, but I'm not sure how much higher I'd consider before just dropping it (and the article doesn't say what the annual price is raising to). It's basically only Star Wars & Marvel content (that I watch on it) and I believe they're cutting back on both, so, not giving a real good value proposition here for someone that's been subscribed since day one.

Combined with his comments on the strikes and he's making a compelling argument for cancellation.

More and more people will move back to torrenting and using their own media library manager like jellyfin

The studios are just going to keep doing this as using streaming services as a loss leader has failed them, so please, support the strike.

Billionaire warns peasants

Fuck this guy. I'm not so much concerned about this as I am the way he's cornholing his writers and actors. As for the price increase of Didn't-ney Plus, that's what DVDs are for, right?

Don't much care for that man's face.

"Additionally, Disney announced that starting September 6 subscribers in the US will have access to a new ad-free bundled subscription featuring the ad-free Disney+ and Hulu services for $19.99 a month" I already have had this for a while, it's interesting that this isn't going up... maybe I'm missing something? I think I might have ESPN+ in mine as well, but I don't use it, so didn't notice.