I saw on Twitter Disney made some announcements about their up coming streaming service Disney+:
It launches November 12th 2029.
It will cost $6.99 a month or $69.99 per year. Honestly that sounds like a steal.
It will have all 30 seasons of The Simpsons.
This is on top of what we already know:
The live action Star Wars series The Madalorian
All MCU and Star Wars movies
All Disney movies
Probably tons of other stuff I am forgetting.
I want to hate them but that sounds like a good deal.
More details:
Three MCU series:
Wanda and the Vision
Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Loki
Another Star Wars series based on the guy from Rogue One
I assume this is also where Clone Wars and Rebels will end up. Any word on if they’re moving Resistance to this platform too?
2029?
Well at least they have ten years to get it right.
Oops 2019.
I hope they put all the old Disney tv shows and movies on it also …. and the classic cartoons …. hell even put on the Disney Saturday morning and afternoon shows …….that there statons used to run until Disney decided to me nick lite ……
There’ll be a Hawkeye and Kate Bishop series, too.
Lots of news today, but that low price point was the biggest.
If they can commit to keeping the price that low for at least two years, I will probably get on board. That is a great price for so much content.
I’m already sold. And from a business perspective they can keep the price that low forever. Disney+ will drive merchandise sales. A few dollars per household will be easy to eat when you’re moving lunchboxes and bedspreads.
Disney will ‘likely’ offer a discounted Disney+, ESPN+ and Hulu bundle.
We’ll see how that works - I don’t care about ESPN. If the bundle with ESPN is still less that Disney+ and Hulu separately, then I’ll roll my eyes and get it.
So Disney doesn’t want me to watch their movies anymore?
Good to know.
I read on the Muppet blog I follow that Disney + will have a show (tentatively) called “Cinema Relics: Iconic Art of the Movies” that will have episodes about iconic Disney-owned movies including The Muppet Movie and Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
So, looking forward to that. I might be persuaded to pay $70 for a year for Disney insider scoop stuff.
heh you want something that’s finally kill off cable and almost anything else is when warners makes their own Netflix service … they only have about 2 1/2 years left on their promise to spectrum ……
(when they sold time warner cable it was in the contract that they don’t make their own streaming service for 5 years)
hell they could make just TCM a Netflix type of service and make unbelievable bank ……
I have no idea what your post actually means.
Wow, that’s a great deal. I’ll sign up for sure.
Filmstruck (a streaming service with the TCM and Criterion libraries) was already a thing but it failed.
Song of the South confirmed?
Maybe but Criterion is giving a subscription service another go.
I think Netflix charges nine bucks per month for a single SD stream, more if you want multiple simultaneous streams or HD streaming. Has Disney made clear what you get for seven bucks a month?
Yeah, I think we’ll find that the real market value here isn’t classic movies but immensely popular films and IP that extends existing franchises.
Kids love to watch the same shows over and over again, so children’s programming can be a big driver for streaming services (and probably a reason why HBO bought the Sesame Street rights), so I think this will particularly appeal to parents of young kids.
And of course it promotes Disney movies, Disney theme parks, and so forth.