10-08-2023, 01:14 PM
Meanwhile, they're stopping physical media releases in Australia. Possibly a move to lure more people to the service?
7news.com.au
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(10-08-2023, 01:14 PM)W. Knight Wrote: Meanwhile, they're stopping physical media releases in Australia. Possibly a move to lure more people to the service?
7news.com.au
(10-08-2023, 11:31 AM)Neil Jones Wrote: There are tootings that Disney+ is due to introduce a new ad supported tariff which will follow the same sort of arrangement as Netflix.
UK wise, £4.99 with adverts, £7.99 without them (but no 4k) and £10.99 with no ads but 4k/Dolby Atmos. Existing subscribers will move to the £10.99 package at their next biling date after November 6 unless you intervene otherwise.
www.cordbusters.co.uk
On a related note there seems to be musings that Disney is in trouble. Not necessarily financial trouble but recent movie productions have flopped (some major big time) and some stuff does well to break even, Disney+ isn't breaking even and there are ongoing issues with Disney Parks, in particular Disney World Florida.
(10-08-2023, 01:45 PM)WillPS Wrote: Probably also just not as profitable for them to keep going with it. I was amazed when I nipped down the media aisle at my local Asda to see such a range of Disney DVDs, all under £5.
(30-07-2023, 08:41 AM)Neil Jones Wrote: I'm pretty sure its just me but coming back to Home Improvement, the earlier seasons as per previous discussion look semi-decent but by the time we get to Season 5 and particularly Season 6 everything's sort of started looking a bit mushy, almost as if the uploads/stream doesn't have enough bandwidth to render it properly, and it looks even more washed out than the earlier seasons do.
Far as I know nothing changed with the production of that show halfway through the run (bar maybe some behind the scenes equipment) and I haven't seen an app update so...?
(10-08-2023, 12:48 PM)gottago Wrote: This is only part of it I think. The streamers are at a point where they have such a hold of the TV market that they can now tap into an incredibly lucrative advertising market that will probably in the long term end up bringing them more revenue than subscriptions alone. Netflix has stuttered a bit with moving people to the ad tier and even filling ad spaces but now they're ditching the basic ad-free tier, and adding more features like being able to use the ad tier on multiple screens, I expect their ad tier will become dominant soon enough.The studios are at a point where they must tap into advertising revenue because the streaming model is no where near as profitable as the model it replaced.
Getting subscribers to pay you to watch advertising is basically a win-win for the streamers, as long as the content remains strong enough to keep people subscribing. Not unlike Sky, especially when it was at its peak and people didn't seem to care that their channels were full of ads.