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Disney’s forthcoming streaming service will kill the Disney Vault
It looks like the Disney Vault is dead. For years, Disney relied on limited-time releases of its films on DVD and Blu-ray to encourage sales. The strategy worked. Consumers snapped up the titles to build out their home video collections. But in more recent years, DVDs have given way to streaming. For Disney, that’s an opportunity to resell its movie library all over again — this time, by way of subscription. At a shareholder meeting this week, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced the company’s forthcoming Disney+ streaming service would soon include the “entire Disney motion picture library.”
He clarified that this meant it would house the movies that were previously locked up in the Disney Vault, Polygon reported on Thursday, following the meeting.
[...]Iger additionally noted that new films would arrive on Disney+ within a year of their release to theaters, and that films Disney is releasing this year — like Captain Marvel — will be included on the service, as well.
Disney+ will launch later this year, Iger also confirmed. But no exact date has been announced.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Snow on Wednesday March 13 2019, @06:26PM (5 children)
We've got Netflix, Hulu, Crave, Disney+, Amazon Prime, YouTube Premium, and I'm sure there are more I can't think of.
How many subscriptions do they expect people to actually pay for?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 13 2019, @06:34PM
You forgot pornhub? How many? As many as you want. Why would you pay for shit you don't want? How about a nice cup of fuck-you-reading-library-book? Kids like to read books, you know.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday March 13 2019, @06:39PM (1 child)
This is exactly a problem I was worried about a few years ago.
With a RoKu, I only plug one device into the TV. The subscription services are "channels" on the RoKu.
But . . . there is this trend for new services to have their own 'stick'. A Linux stick with custom software in the form of an HDMI dongle with a USB hind end port for power supply.
Now how many HDMI ports does a modern TV have again?
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by Snow on Wednesday March 13 2019, @07:09PM
Yeah, that pissed me off about Amazon. They refused to work with my Chromecast, so I had to buy a firestick to watch The Grand Tour on my TV.
Granted, I like the firestick more than my Chromecast now.
(Score: 3, Informative) by anotherblackhat on Wednesday March 13 2019, @09:23PM
$250 a month.
I wish I were joking, but based on conversations with real network executives, they actually think most people will pay $250 a month for "premium" cable.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Mykl on Thursday March 14 2019, @01:20AM
I don't think this is worth wringing our hands too much over. The question you should be really asking is how many subscriptions at a time you are prepared to pay for. If there's a show that I want to watch on Hulu, I can cancel my Netflix subscription for a month and pick it up again the next month. Sure, it's a bit of a hassle, but there's no reason that you have to have all these services available simultaneously.