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TLDR:

Current ad free plans for Disney+ and Hulu are now raising $3 more on October 12. Both becoming $13.99 and $17.99.

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[–] [email protected] 128 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Yet another example of how the streaming model is a scam. Disney also wants to ban password sharing like Netflix did. The sooner you can get away from services like this the better. Instead of forking over a fortune for all these streaming sites, it makes way more sense to invest in owning the media you consume.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 year ago (16 children)

streaming hit the wall the moment every corp wanted to make their own service to cut out netflix. the boom in streaming happend - at least in most parts of europe - because basically everything anyone wanted (even some hbo titles) had been on netflix for 10 eurobucks a month and now you have to sub at least three services for almost thrice the price each. and especially disney+ is complete trash if you're not a marvel/star wars stockholm syndrome victim. now asking for even more in times of inflation and recession is a slap into the face of subscribers.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

now asking for even more in times of inflation and recession is a slap into the face of subscribers.

But not raising prices is a slap in the face for executives and shareholders! How will the ~~rich people's yacht money~~ economy possibly weather that storm?!

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Current streaming has messed up the popularity of legal cord cutting. There's no real difference in cable and streaming anymore.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The difference is that you need to subscribe to multiple services now to get everything you want, instead of just one.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That’s all very well, but in some regions like Australia, Disney has or has announced the end of DVD and Blu-ray sales, which sucks.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Last i saw, the physical media version of their recent shows came with a box and a code to get it online, not actual discs, so they're effectively getting out of the business of letting you own your media

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[–] [email protected] 115 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I love how after Netflix did this, all of the fucking idiots on Reddit were just like "LOL JUST USE ANOTHER STREAMING SERVICE," as if it wasn't obvious as shit that all of the rest of these companies would follow suit shortly.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

I thought the general consensus has been a return to good old fashioned pirating?

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Oh look, another one.

YouTube: premium is increasing

Spotify: we're increasing your sub

Bank: we're increasing your mortgage

Supermarket: we're increasing your food spend

Car insurance: we're increasing your premium

Household bills: we're increasing water, gas and electricity

Broadband: we're increasing your fees

Cellphone: your contract renewal is higher than last year

Salary: fuck you, peasant

Bank Of England: Just stop spending

Disney: Hi ...

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (9 children)

To be fair, Spotify might suck for artists, but for users it's a good value in my opinion, and the price was $9.99 for like 10 years. I don't begrudge them a small increase. In fact, I wish all the price increases we've seen lately would be so modest.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

A Spotify increase is only justified if the entire amount goes to artists.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

To be fair my fiber ISP recently got actual competition and lowered my price from 95/mo to 65/mo. So SOMETIMES the system works. When its not rigged.

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago (4 children)

If someone deserves to be pirated into oblivion it's Disney, for fucking up the copyright after making a fortune of public domain material.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At this point these services are asking us to pirate. We aren't getting our money from trees.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Yup, this + crackdown on password sharing made me cancel all of my 3 subscription plans and move back to pirating.

The reason for pirating for me isn't about getting stuff for free, it is about paying a reasonable total sum for the amount I use these streaming platforms.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Jellyfin did not raise their prices. So I'm not worried. 😏

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like they're removing 4K from the standard plan and moving it to the new premium plan. Fuck you Disney!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

There's a premium plan? Here in Australia, we still just have the one monthly plan, which they recently increased by $3 per month.

If they jump onto the "premium" plan bandwagon like the others, and move 4K to that, this will literally be the final streaming service for me to drop. I've already dropped all the others. Only reason I kept this is because the sheer volume of content for my wife and daughter makes the $14 worthwhile - I just don't have enough storage space (yet) to deliver all that via my Plex setup.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

Yaaar! There be no price increases on the seven seas, me hearties. Hoist the sails, raise the flag, no quarter given 🏴‍☠️

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

i love my magic hard drive

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I'm so close to deciding to sail the high seas again.

I've been a lifetime Plex pass subscriber for years now... Just need to get a VPN again, get back on Usenet or real-debrid, and maybe setup Sonarr and Radarr.

I'll almost certainly save money and have access to more content than I currently do.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

Every day i become more 🏴‍☠️

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Looks like I’m going to finally cut my subscriptions and move my family into using selfhosted sources that I supply from the high seas. This shit is ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's funny how every year these services get worse and worse and the prices keep going up. Netflix previously encouraging password sharing and then deciding it's not ok. Did the price drop? ofc not. Did they replace it with a better feature? No. At least getting better content? Fuck no. Repeat for literally any of them.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Profits are down. Cough up, plebs!

Disney is the one I'll shed in a heartbeat. Nothing ever seems to get added. People shit on Netflix, but at least I can go their for comfort food like Jaws or The Truman Show.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Those of you with kids that want to stream some quality content shouldn’t overlook PBS Kids. The app on Roku and Apple TV is decent quality. Lots of free commercial free shows, and you can live stream the PBS Kids channel.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (16 children)

I think it’s time to cancel my subscription and instead use the net. Usenet.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They’re losing subscribers and money so I guess it’s not surprising. I’m down to zero streaming services after cutting back this year. The last couple subscriptions I’ve gotten I immediately cancelled and binge watched for the month my subscription lasted. There was no need to extend the subscription after that. Most services you can exhaust the content in a month or two of heavy use.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I don't get why the "not surprising" way to react when you are losing subscribers is rising prices so more subscribers gtfo.

Come on, you are FUCKING DISNEY. Get everything up to 50's/60's for free and make some plan to have limited free streaming of this or that movie (call it "disney watching parties" or something like that, make it be available during a same slot of time, put some hashtags and let people give you free publicity) so you can attract customers.

Then offer everything else you got for money and you are set. For life. You are Disney, for fuck's sake.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Saw this coming when D+ started in 2019. Disappointed and not surprised.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How does this hurt my Kodi + Stremio + Real Debrid setup?

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