Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-06-04 (Wednesday)

Ubiquitous wrote:

It's a very rare thing when someone in Hollywood lets
something this potentially damaging slip out, and yet Tony
Gilroy let it slip that Disney told him "Streaming is dead"
and confessed financial difficulties to him during production
of Star Wars: Andor.  Does this mean Disney Plus is in
trouble?  And could the timing of this leak have been any
worse, given Disney has begin another round of major layoffs?
Join us as we try and break down this stunning and unexpected
development! #disney #starwars #disneyplus
 
https://youtu.be/GBmsgEJssDk?si=Md9eX8TzeN3Auayx

I don't know about Disney+ "in trouble" but as a consumer, with
three grown-up children who are also consumers - and they would
be the people these services would see as their demographic -
the model of having to pay a [reasonably high] monthly
subscription fee to a service that then forces adverts on people
is not a model that most people find attractive. So my children
use one Disney+ account between them, for the grandchildren
mainly, and password share. I don't blame them.

I only subscribe to Disney+ when it's on offer, currently I'm in
the last month of a ~$1.99 a month four month offer. I wouldn't
pay full price for Disney+ and then have to sit through
adverts... whilst their advert free tier costs way too much. So
it's not a bad service per se, but it is over-priced. Plus,
there are just too many different streaming services out there.
Normal people can't subscribe to them all. So if any of these
companies do find their streaming service "in trouble"...
they've only got themselves to blame.