Technology

Avast, ya scurvy dog! 'Tis time to set sail!

By 2030:

DISNEY BUYS RIGHTS TO OXYGEN ON PLANET EARTH, WILL BEGIN A $500/MONTH SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE CALLED DISNEY AIR, FOR ANY CUSTOMERS WHO WOULD LIKE TO LIVE ON.

Regulators: No. We'll happily bust your asses instead.

LoL

I don't actually expect much to change for the consumer end on this one. Comcast had already started moving their content over to Peacock.

Disney already owned 66% of Hulu, and has run Hulu for years.

They merged the engineering teams a few years ago. Honestly, separating Hulu from Disney right now would be way harder than turning them into one streaming service.

Not really applicable here. Comcast went their own way with Peacock. CBS went with Paramount+. No idea what FOX is doing since they sold off their production to Disney.

I understand this reference.

I have no issues paying for Spotify. Even with their recent rate increases, it's still a one-stop shop for pretty much all of my listening needs. That's worth paying for.

When it comes to visual media if there was an option that could give me what Spotify gives me I would gladly pay for the service.

From what I'm seeing the high seas are once again the only place that I can get everything I want in one place.

They already do in the UK. 👍

If you mean not raising prices from what Disney+hulu costs, they probably will combine them for that price (or the bundle with ESPN)

But no, not for the price of Disney+

Always is. Competition isn't profitable.

How so? They already had a majority stake in Hulu as part of the Fox acquisition. Originally Hulu was 30% Disney, 30% Fox, 30% Comcast, 10% private equity. Hulu purchased back that 10% stake before Disney purchased Fox.

When the Fox deal closed Disney owned 70% of the company, and it was announced that the earliest they could buy out Comcast's stake was 2023/2024. The writing has been on the wall ever since.

Don't they already basically have a monopoly? They can do anything they want, they own almost everything and are too big to fail.

Apple TV+ and Amazon Prime aren't going anywhere since their parent companies have infinite money to burn on streaming. For this reason alone I think these two services are more likely to survive in the long run than Disney+ or Netflix. There's also Max, which has some great content but I'm not as confident it'll still be around in 10 years.

Comcast has mostly moved over to using Peacock already, I think. Warner Bros is also separated with Max. And of course Amazon/MGM is doing their own thing as well.

Do they own Paramount as well? Why would the mouse kill the best modern derivative of Star Trek?

Throw in overseerr/jellyseerr, sonarr, radarr, jackett/prowlarr, and you're cookin' with gas!

For all the stuff Disney own, there sure is a lot of fuck all new on Disney+.

It shouldn't. They're both separate entities and remain so, they just bundled themselves to entice customers.

I dispise Comcast because anything dealing with customer service takes fucking hours. Once youve spent a good hour dicking around on chat, you will search the internet for a live operator number. This will also take an absurd amount of time while you get switched from accounts to tech support. Seriously can't stand it. Only game in town really, and they still suck.