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What happens when Disney's new online streaming service kills Netflix,CBS All Access, etc?

Jayson1

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Anybody else wonder how this will forever change the landscape of tv, starting in 2019 I think. Is everyone going to be okay were you have to pay 10 dollars or so for each streaming service instead of just a few were you can have more options? I kind of predicted this would happen when Netflix got big and surprised it has taken so long for it to start happening.

For me I can see myself paying for HBO.Showtime,Disney,FX,ESPN,AMC and the MLB Baseball package and that is it. I figure I could rotate Netflix and Hulu in and out during a year as well and maybe do that with the other shows as well. In theory you don't really need HBO all year. Just get it for 3 or 4 months and binge watch the shows on HBO GO during that month. Plus I have Amazon Prime so I can rent stuff or buy it as well. Basically you can set a tv budget and simply rotate the networks in away that it always fits with your budget, yet still be able to watch everything you want to watch.

Jason
 
We have far fewer streaming services here in Germany. Netflix, Amazon Prime and Sky, anything else is minor niche. And I'm only paying for Netflix, as Sky doesn't interest me, and Amazon is a bit too sneaky for my tastes.

I'd never pay for a Disney streaming service. Even if they had all the Marvel and Lucasfilm stuff exclusively. Basically, I already haven't got the time to watch everything that interests me. Sure, I enjoy the Marvel, SW and Indiana Jones stuff, but I'd get over it. And, yeah, when it really comes down to it, I'd rather buy a BR or DVD of that stuff. pay them once and have it over with, than having to pay them every month.
 
I have Amazon because it's only $50 for me. (Yay for them thinking I'm a student!) That's mainly because of 'free' shipping as I watch a lot of TV.... in other ways.

But people wanted to be able to pick and choose what channels to pay for, now they can.

But honestly if I didn't watch the shows through other means than I'd just pay $10 a season for House of Cards vs $10 a month.
 
Disney streaming won't kill netflix, period. Disney is big, but even they don't have the variety and there are a bunch of licensed things they don't own and they almost certainly won't be getting other companies products on their service. really, I think Disney will have bigger problems keeping a streaming service going then other people will competing with it, and I say that as someone who finds the idea of a disney streaming service interesting.
 
The ones that people want will do well. When there's too many and people don't want some, the useless ones will drop away. (And then that content will end up somewhere else.) No biggie.
 
Paying for seven streaming services at $10 each is still cheaper than cable and satellite (in my area). I can't see needing that many services anyway, since some are surely to overlap. I use Netflix, Vudu (Walmart), and Amazon Prime ($100 a year is $8 and change a month), so Disney would have to offer every movie in existence for $2 a month to kill off the rest.
 
Rotating services is a good idea, so I'm sure they'll find a way to kabash it. Stop and start fees and what not.

Trouble with giving up live TV and only using streaming is most channels I watch only have one or two shows I watch. They are all collectively worth paying for but not individually worth paying for. I have to imagine there will end up being consolidation, all these services buying each other or working together on package deals, because people won't pay a monthly fee for ten different services.
 
I think in the next decade or so the streaming wars will settle themselves, and then we all can celebrate our freedom from cable while paying the cable company $200 a month for the internet speeds we need to pay even more money to subscribe to our favorite streaming aggregator.
 
kirk55555 said:
Disney streaming won't kill netflix, period. Disney is big, but even they don't have the variety and there are a bunch of licensed things they don't own and they almost certainly won't be getting other companies products on their service. really, I think Disney will have bigger problems keeping a streaming service going then other people will competing with it, and I say that as someone who finds the idea of a disney streaming service interesting.
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So, would Disney have issue with carrying, say, NBC programs, or the other way round? I mean, if NBC could make more money letting Disney run their shows on Disney Streaming™, why would they balk?

I really think it would come down to money. Everything does.
 
Disney isn't going to kill Netflix. Many more millions of people will still have Netflix and not Disney. I certainly have no interest in it. I'm not a huge fan of watching animated movies movies over and over again and I tend to buy the Marvel stuff on Blu-ray anyway.
 
Netflix Canada has just increased its monthly fee. I pay for that, plus Bravo (single channel). This year's basic cable TV is part of my rent so I'm not paying extra for it.

The problem is... there's not a lot I want to watch. I had to go completely without TV for several years (food and utilities had to come first), so I got completely out of the habit of watching TV. Now that I've got these shows and movies that are old to everyone else but new to me, I still haven't watched much of it. At least I finally found out what all the fuss was about regarding Firefly, thanks to binge-watching it on Netflix.
 
JirinPanthosa said:
Rotating services is a good idea, so I'm sure they'll find a way to kabash it. Stop and start fees and what not.

Trouble with giving up live TV and only using streaming is most channels I watch only have one or two shows I watch. They are all collectively worth paying for but not individually worth paying for. I have to imagine there will end up being consolidation, all these services buying each other or working together on package deals, because people won't pay a monthly fee for ten different services.
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I'm expecting to see something like this for CBS All-Access. If enough people sign up for Star Trek: Discovery, they may realize the dip during the hiatus. Maybe they'll "reward" those who stick with grandfathering them into the price per month they signed up under and increase the fee in January when the show comes back.

Ar-Pharazon said:
So, would Disney have issue with carrying, say, NBC programs, or the other way round? I mean, if NBC could make more money letting Disney run their shows on Disney Streaming™, why would they balk?

I really think it would come down to money. Everything does.
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I think the realistic thing is that NBC might let another service stream their shows, until they get their own streaming service off the ground. Something akin to what is going on with Disney. Lease their shows to another streaming service, develop your own, then take all your shows and put them on your own streaming service.

Honestly, I'm not sure what the end result will be, aside from the fact that there will probably never be a one streaming service to rule them all. Perhaps tiers? "Sign up for the Star Trek tier of CBS All-Access" and get access to all Star Trek shows and some similar, non-Star Trek content." "Sign up for the Pixar tier of Disney Streaming, get all the Pixar movies and a few choice non-Pixar movies" in which you'd get access to Pixar movies and the less popular non-Pixar Disney CGI movies. If you want Frozen and Moana, as well, you also have to sign up for the Disney CGI tier.
 
Any idea what will happen to the current Marvel series? Will they now all be cancelled? That would be such a waste.
 
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Any idea what will happen to the current Marvel series? Will they now all be cancelled? That would be such a waste.
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Netflix series produced by Marvel will remain on tne service. Studios that are owned by conglomerates that operate competing pay tv/streaming services still want to make money selling to other outlets. The R rated nature of the NF/Marvel shows aren't compatible to be on a "Disney" name branded service.
 
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