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I don’t know if I’d describe it as a panic - I think it is a shift in strategy, according to their earnings calls and whatnot. Rather than prioritizing number of subscribers over quality of subscribers, they are shifting towards trying to get more from each individual subscription while reducing...

Apologies, my response got cut off. The last thing I was going to say was that we could really use the streaming services helping with lobbying to make internet access regulated like a utility, the same as water or electric. It’s just as important for modern life as those and it’s nonsense that...

Fortunately, that hasn’t been my experience. Before we cut the cord, we lived in an area where our cable company had no competition. We were charged $200 a month for basic tier cable (no premium channels) and decent speed internet. We still had streaming apps then, so we paid for those on top...

This is absolutely nothing new in the entertainment industry or really any industry. Corporations take write-downs all the time on projects that underperform financially. All a write-down is, is a fancy way of saying to the government, “we spend $200 million to create this asset, but it turns...

They might have done the transfers used for the Treasures DVD tins in HD - that was the case with some of the other releases and that’s why Spin & Marty was in HD when Disney+ launched.

No showtimes announced yet but I gotta believe it will be, at least partially. Apparently from what I’ve read Disney has been requiring any 3D capable theater that wants to play Avatar 2 in December to show the 3D versions of other Disney owned properties this year (like Doctor Strange 2 and...

Makes sense - it’s back in theaters in a few weeks. I can’t imagine that it won’t be on the service in the immediate lead up to the sequel’s release.

It’s ok, better to have double coverage than for it to have gone unmentioned.

Earlier in this very thread :) (But yes, I agree, search is better at turning up whole threads with title matches than articles discussed within differently named threads.)

Oh goodness, I’m already insufferable enough around the house without the help :D

It’s a tough job but someone’s gotta do it :D

About a year. I think the service premiered 11/12/19, plus or minus a few days.

I don’t see what would be improper - these masters already exist, they’re simply now adding an option to allow their subscribers to view them.

One wonders if, when Hulu becomes fully the property of Disney, if they’ll just roll out a different software platform that already includes those features, rather than trying to retrofit them to a platform that is behind the curve in user experience.

I don’t think it’s a licensing issue, though I could be wrong. The IMAX framing for these films gets used whenever they’re shown on commercial TV. For films that were entirely in that format, like Avengers Infinity War, it’s opened up straight through on TV. For films that switched back and...

How is this any different from cable days when some first run movies went to HBO, while others went to Showtime or Starz? Subscription streaming is the successor to premium cable subscriptions, not to physical media ownership or video store rentals/purchases.

They weren’t the droids you were looking for :D

I would guess that it’s two things. The pandemic does make it harder to access, assess and introduce new assets to the service - by no means impossible, but with a lot of people working remotely, it becomes harder to do. And the other thing may have to do with demand. They can tell how many...

If they keep at it so there’s a new episode of Star Wars or Marvel just about every week of the year, I’ll have no reason to cancel. If it’s more like the first year of the service where it was just eight weeks of a show and then nothing new for another year, I’ll cancel rather than keeping it...

My plan for D+ is the same whether it’s $5 a month or $15, and the same as with every other service: as long as there’s new content being released, I’ll keep my subscription active. When the shows I watch finish their runs, I’ll cancel my membership until there’s more content available that I...

The old ABC show or something different?

I think my biggest disappointment on day one of the service was seeing those older shows listed but then clicking and seeing it was only the episodes I already had on DVD.

I hope they add more to the classic offerings. If they started adding more hours of the Disneyland show with Walt hosting, as a series in chronological order rather than as individual specials to find under the Movies banner, that would certainly get my attention. PBS Living is getting my...

There’s nothing wrong with not every service being for every person. There’s also nothing wrong with subscribing only when they have content that interests you and canceling during the periods when they don’t. I think the days of identifying with a certain service and therefore being subscribed...

Makes sense. There are a lot of people who effectively got the first year of D+ for free or deeply discounted and that year will be up mid-November. Having marquee content in December will help drive renewals at a key moment.

Smart business. After a month on D+, any subscribers who wanted it now have it. Might as well open it up to everyone else.

It cost me $20 to see Spectre in a theater. I’d gladly pay $30 right now to see No Time To Die at home.

I expected at least $200 million and I’m not surprised. And I think other PVOD titles could do similar business, especially if theaters close again or if people just don’t warm up to the risks of going. It took Tenet a week of sneaks and two weeks of general release to basically hit ten percent...

I suspect the movie will do the business they’re expecting with the audience they’re targeting at the price point that they’re offering.

I remember when the Disney+ service was first rumored and then announced to be in development, and I put forth the theory that conventional theaters and the theatrical release model as we knew it was dying, and that Disney was ahead of the curve by establishing a direct to consumer business to...