Not even going to read the article but I’m going to go with “no, no they didn’t earn the price hike.” To me, to “earn” a price hike means new features or better functionality with the current platform, not just spamming me with mediocre content. Give me higher bitrate streaming, lossless audio, better ways to organize my watchlist, better desktop/laptop experience, etc, then MAYBE it’ll be worth paying a bit more to me.
Disney has “earned” latest streaming price hike, CFO says
Submitted 4 months ago by some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/disney-has-earned-latest-streaming-price-hike-cfo-says/
Comments
noredcandy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
pennomi@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Right? Prices for delivering the same service should go DOWN over time. What we have is industry-wide price fixing.
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah, bring the features… I think in the 4 years of being with Hulu they only had 1 redesign but still no new features and definitely never fixed any of the bugs that have been here forever. I really wanted to see some improvements to more 4k content and feature some of the live tv broadcasts in 4k but nope.
I finally canceled the over priced live tv and today’s the last day before it’s gone. $85 bucks a month is just not worth it. Found another service that offers a lot of channels for $8 a month and my wife only wants 1 local station so $7 for that. Knocking $85 down to $15 is a big win. I don’t think I will be the only one if they really think they can raise prices like that. Glad I’m done with them.
ynazuma@lemmy.world 4 months ago
What is this mysterious “other service”
Friend’s wife wants to know. We’re bored in bed
BenFranklinsDick@lemmy.world 4 months ago
All they’ve earned is the cancellation of my subscription.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Disney has earned…
*fires up VPN*
…oh, yeah I don’t really know this ‘Disney’ fellow, but he sounds like a popular guy. What were we talking about? Anyway, I’m gonna hit the ol 'tube for a bit to wind down before bed. Have fun y’all!
Phegan@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Disney has earned everyone going back to piracy
Etterra@lemmy.world 4 months ago
How about he earns a giant pay cut.
MrFappy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
With how absolutely garbage most of their shows have been, I wholeheartedly disagree.
JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 4 months ago
The consumers will be the judge.
barsquid@lemmy.world 4 months ago
No, that’s not correct.
DemBoSain@midwest.social 4 months ago
I like that the picture is from Secret Invasion. I might have gotten to episode 3? I can’t remember, I was probably looking at my phone.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Have I “earned” 10.1tb of the Disney+ content that’s currently populating my hard drive?
digredior@lemmynsfw.com 4 months ago
How would one theoretically go about helping Disney create multiple dislocated backups of their best movies and tv shows in case their server breaks and we lose Pocahontas 2 forever?
eating3645@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Usenet or private trackers should do the trick.
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 4 months ago
One could potentially search for “trash guides” and browse through the results.
Aceticon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Considering that Disney was the main lobbyist in the US Congress for increasing Copyright period length (and hence severelly and one-sidedly cut the quid pro quo of Copyright legislation which is that Society gets those works as Public Domain after for some years enforcing the limitation on the copy of those copyrighted works) from it’s original 20 years to Death Of Author + 70 years (which in general adds up to around 150 years), people have not just earned the right of getting copies of Disney’s works without paying for them, they even have the moral high ground when they do so - you’re really just taking backs the proceeding of Crime, though as Disney bough the Law, this is one of those situations were the Crime is De Facto but not De Jure.
Artyom@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Did you put in marginal effort and count on past successes to continue to pay off with this 10 TB, cuz if so, you and Disney’s CFO seem to have matching definitions of “earned”.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
Yes.