News The Disney+ (The New Streaming Service) Thread

[thribs]

The UK Disney is a free-for-all.

It’s just Disney Plus and Hulu combined.

 

[Aragorn]

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Looks like Harvey Keitel is joining Justin Bartha as returning characters.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Is Doctor Who coming to Disney plus?

https://scifi.radio/2022/07/22/bbc-in-talks-with-disney-to-stream-doctor-who-on-disney/

 

[The Nth Doctor]

To be clear, since some people (in general) don't bother to read the whole thing, it's just for replay. Not actual production.

 

[JD]

I wonder if they'd get the whole series, or just the new season. I still haven't seen anything past Jodi Whittaker's first season.

 

[fireproof78]

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Looks like Harvey Keitel is joining Justin Bartha as returning characters.

Oh hell yes!

 

[Mage]

I wonder if they'd get the whole series, or just the new season. I still haven't seen anything past Jodi Whittaker's first season.

Neither have I. I really enjoyed her Doctor, but the writing was just not for me anymore. But I always was a bit bummed afterwards I didn't keep going. Would be nice to pick it back up.

As for Disney+, has anyone heard anything about Orvell Season 3 for the Netherlands? We're not getting the weekly episode sadly enough

 

[JD]

Anybody else watched America The Beautiful? I'm about 4 or 5 episode in and it's been really good so far.

 

[Saul]

Is Doctor Who coming to Disney plus?

https://scifi.radio/2022/07/22/bbc-in-talks-with-disney-to-stream-doctor-who-on-disney/

I wonder if they'd get the whole series, or just the new season. I still haven't seen anything past Jodi Whittaker's first season.

Hopefully everything since 1963.

 

[StCoop]

Although still owned by the BBC, 'Doctor Who' is now being made by Sony through the Bad Wolf production company (who also made 'His Dark Materials' and 'A Discovery of Witches'). Since they don't have a streaming service of their own, selling those new episodes to a studio they have a relationship with, rather than to Warner's who have the earlier episodes from 2005 on, makes sense.

 

[EnderAKH]

So Britbox for 1963-2004, HBO Max for 2005-2022, then Disney+ for 2023 onward. Fantastic. You know, at this point i would pay $5-$8 for just a Doctor Who subscription that got me all the episodes, all the Big Finish, and digital issues of Doctor Who Magazine.

 

[Saul]

So Britbox for 1963-2004, HBO Max for 2005-2022, then Disney+ for 2023 onward. Fantastic. You know, at this point i would pay $5-$8 for just a Doctor Who subscription that got me all the episodes, all the Big Finish, and digital issues of Doctor Who Magazine.

Is there anywhere people without Britbox can watch 1963-2004?

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Is there anywhere people without Britbox can watch 1963-2004?

DVDs!

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Here in the US, Pluto TV streaming has a Doctor Who Classic channel, it's not on demand, you have to watch whatever they happen to be showing but it's free and nice for an occasional quick fix.

 

[kirk55555]

DVDs!

Unless you're in the US, where probably half the DVDs are so out of print you'd have to sell a kidney to afford them . For example, The War Games DVD currently goes for $195 on Amazon. A year or two ago a few DVDs got reprinted (on cheaper DVD-R's) of some OOP stories (like The Two Doctors and Battlefield), making them affordable again (although I'm convinced these DVDs aren't going to last as long as normal ones). But they didn't reprint every out of print story, not even some of the big ones (like the already mentioned War Games).

 

[fireproof78]

DVDs!

I do enjoy going to thrift stores and finding them. Entertainmart is getting more stock too.

 

[crookeddy]

Got this recruiter email today:

This platform will be the exclusive home of all our Disney’s content – this includes films from 21st Century Fox, Disney, Pixar, LucasFilm and Marvel, as well as all of Hulu’s content and their other brands. The target audience for this product is in the hundreds of millions and Disney+ is about to surpass 150M subscribers. They spent $33bn on new content for the platform and are launching into new EMEA locations.


The challenges of creating such a unique, and greenfield, streaming service are vast and the opportunity for engineers to build something on a truly global scale. Technically they work with TypeScript, React, Java, Scala, AWS and several others. Remote friendly but do have offices in SF, Santa Monica, Seattle, Orlando and New York.

Seems like the days of a cheap d+ are numbered, and they are moving to a single service with all the content currently in the bundle.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Unless you're in the US, where probably half the DVDs are so out of print you'd have to sell a kidney to afford them . For example, The War Games DVD currently goes for $195 on Amazon. A year or two ago a few DVDs got reprinted (on cheaper DVD-R's) of some OOP stories (like The Two Doctors and Battlefield), making them affordable again (although I'm convinced these DVDs aren't going to last as long as normal ones). But they didn't reprint every out of print story, not even some of the big ones (like the already mentioned War Games).

I do enjoy going to thrift stores and finding them. Entertainmart is getting more stock too.

Yeah, that's all true, unfortunately. Thankfully amassed my favorite serials on DVD as they were coming out. Far from a complete set which, sadly, means that'll probably never happen now. Alas.

 

[Orac]

There's a way you can see all the episodes for free and not just rent them from elites if you have a computer with an internet connection, but we're forbidden to discuss it. Know what I'm sayin?

 

[crookeddy]

There's a way you can see all the episodes for free and not just rent them from elites if you have a computer with an internet connection, but we're forbidden to discuss it. Know what I'm sayin?

And if everyone did this you'd have no content to be pirating, so yeah, thanks for the brilliant solution.