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CNBC:
Disney's new streaming service will be called Disney+ and launch in late 2019, CEO Bob Iger announced on the company's earnings call Thursday.
The company announced in August 2017 it would pull all its movies from Netflix in 2019, and start its own streaming offering for its past titles. Disney also purchased Fox for $71.3 billion in cash and stock, further bolstering its library.
The service will also feature new, original shows and movies, including original Marvel and Star Wars series. Marvel fan favorite character Loki, played by Tom Hiddleston, will get an original series on the Disney+ service. A prequel series to Star Wars movie "Rogue One" about the character Cassian Andor, portrayed by Diego Luna, will also call the service home.
Are these streaming services the second coming of Cable?
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Saturday November 10 2018, @03:10AM
I would argue that Google didn't add anything to the Facebook experience, so the "+" probably didn't make sense.
Disney, on the other hand, is all about the plus. Copyright extensions, for example; plus is the direction in which Disney wants them to go.
If that's a little too abstract, then just from TFS we have "Disney Plus a bunch of derivative drivel and derivatives of derivative drivel". The "plus" makes more sense in this case.
I don't see it as positive motion towards any sort of successful thing, though. The more drivel, derivative drivel, etc. that gets produced will eventually wake more and more people to the epiphany that "The Current TV Shows" are not "must-see" like the commercial said. There are more and more worse and worse ones, and even TV junkies can see the diminishing return on investment of time and eyeballs.
Or is that just my cynicism putting me out of touch again.