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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: 2) by goodie on Thursday March 14 2019, @12:14AM
It would if it's setup like that but it might not. The thing is that what Disney might (will) do, and which others will eventually do as well, is offer tiered packages, much like cable channel packages (not for number of devices/quality but for content). It's just a matter of time. Whatever Netflix had going on originally was probably as good as it gets. In Canada, they increased their rates _again_ while their offerings have not changed (in fact my kids would like to talk to them about removing Ninjago in March...). It's sad, but that's the way I see it. Make a Disney cartoon package, a Disney movie package, and a Marvel package. Or something of the sort. They could even have a PPV service for stuff from The Vault: "Around Christmas time, pay $5.99 to see Disney Christmas classics. But hurry, they're gone after Dec. 31!"
All it takes is enough subscriptions under the good deal, make sure they drop other services, and then switch it up. As content is exclusively purchased, you're captive anyway. I know the crowd here would raise their middle fingers and cancel, but for the average population, the various streaming services are probably starting to cost as much if not more than their cable packages used to cost them...
I hope I'm wrong :)