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News The Disney+ (The New Streaming Service) Thread
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what the fuck?
Where can I buy Loki Season 1 on 4K? It's not coming up on Amazon.
Seriously though; people should learn how to make a copy of anything they care about on streaming. Even a big external HDD is not that expensive these days.
D+ Marvel series aren't available on disc.
That was my point. No use telling people to buy physical when they don't exist.
Yeah, that's a good point. These days I only collect the Star Trek series, so those have still been coming out. I didn't know that about the Disney stuff, I figured everything still had a multi-media release.
Well that's just double dumb now that I know that.
Perhaps they plan to do an add-on "archive" service they can charge extra for. Because it can't be costing them money to keep their own shows on the main service, can it?
I think that's the point highlighted by the writer's strike. It's costing them residuals and they're making a point in showing they can simply remove their own content and voila, no more residuals.
Disney is nefarious.
Not if their metrics say no one is subscribing to watch those programs, or keeping their subscriptions to watch those programs. And if they aren't spurring new subscriptions or making people keep subscriptions then no, removing them won't affect subscription numbers and they'll either shop the programs to other services/networks/physical media for new revenue streams or vault them and write them off on their taxes (which I don't think Disney would do, but
) for new revenue streams. Same as WBD is doing. Servers aren't free. Residuals may not be much but aren't nothing. And selling the show to another service is worth more than keeping them on their current service when nobody is paying to watch them.
In the words of another WBD character:
WBD isn't a monster. It's just ahead of the curve. And now the other services, seeing it worked for them, are following the path they laid.
Ok, well, that paraphrased quote isn't entirely accurate. WBD most definitely is a monster. As are the rest of the companies. This fucking sucks and betrays the whole ideals behind streaming services. But as long as shareholder profit and growth are the single driving purpose, this is what we get.
I gather that the shows they're pulling are the ones that are least effective at drawing in subscribers and don't make much difference to their profits.
They don't care. The current generation of executives cares only about making themselves richer and achieving endless "growth" on the stock market. They don't see a business as a service they provide to others, they see it as a way to take everything they can for themselves.
It's costing them pennies in residuals per show. This is not about saving money. If they really cared about saving money, they would've settled already, because they've already lost more money from the strike than they'd have to spend if they gave the writers everything they asked for.
Besides, residuals aren't "extra" payment, they're installments of what the writers are contractually entitled to for the original work. They shouldn't be optional.
Do not encourage piracy. No further discussion on this matter will be allowed.
Hmm.
They figure that they're paying out more in license fees to stream and whatever residuals for something their metrics show not enough eyeballs are actually watching. They Disney pay a fee to someone whether a subscriber clicks or not; so they cull stuff not getting enough views.
Recording a programme while you're watching it is not piracy. Or are you claiming that everyone who used a VCR to record a show off network television was a pirate too?
The Supreme Court said that was perfectly kosher.
With very explicit exceptions (like Netflix allowing users to download episodes of their Original programming), you're not allowed to record streaming programming to your own devices.
That's the end of this derail, full stop. Warnings will follow.
Is there a better topic to be directed to for content recording discussion? Because I would like to know if it would be considered 'legal' to home record an episode of Game of Thrones from HBO's cable channel, but would be considered 'illegal' to do the exact same thing with that same episode from HBO Max.
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