skylark68
Screenwriter
Yeah, I can tell you in all honesty that Moana is on Netflix. My 2 year old watches it at least once every day (slight exaggeration).
Still, this has been one of my long-standing problems with streaming: the movies can be pulled at any time for any reason. And there isn't a think the consumer can do about it. If you have the disc on the shelf, no one (short of theft) is going to take it away from you.
If you want to rent a title, I'm not opposed. I use Redbox about once a month and take full advantage of Netflix and Hulu. But I have a very hard time trusting most people or entities to abide by their own rules. I'm also not opposed to using Netflix/Hulu/whatever. What I am opposed to is everyone having their own service which don't talk to one another.
Curated?can try to explain that Netflix isn't a video store , it's a curated subscription service
Curated?
Netflix is everything they can license at whatever they deem affordable.
As a casual observer, it seems Netflix wanted to be the "everything" store. But they are victims of their own success and media owners are hiking rates or refusing to license to them.
Which is not "curation" by Netflix anymore than I haven't "curated" my garage to not have a Ferrari
I really believe that the Disney streaming service will be a resounding success. This is assuming that all Disney classic movies (including “Song of the South”) are always available as well as every episode of TV rarities such as “Walt Disney Presents” and “Zorro” (just to name two of many). There are also tons of live action movies which have not seen Blu-ray releases (such as “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”) which would presumably be available in HD.
Throw in original programming — such as the long rumored live action Star Wars series — and the service could be irresistible.
The ESPN streaming channel should also be popular among cord cutters.
By 2020 I can envision most consumers just subscribing to a high speed internet service with subscriptions to Netflix/Hulu , Disney, ESPN, and Amazon Prime. I doubt there will be room for much else.
Here's an issue for me: I watched The Parent Trap on Netflix a while back, the original, and it was the dreaded pan and scan. If I want pan and scan, I'll go to Goodwill and buy a VHS tape for 50¢. I get that Netflix shows what's given to them, but it's still disappointing. If Disney does give us the classics via their streaming service, will they be original or pan and scan?
I'll check my settings then. YouTube and Hulu both are correct on their aspect ratio on anything I watch, so I assumed Netflix had boogered up something.Looks to be in it's correct aspect ratio on Netflix to me...
But the cable business is floundering. Nearly half of adults ages 22 to 45 didn’t watch any broadcast or cable TV in 2017, according to a study by the marketing agency Hearts & Science, and the number of so-called cord cutters abandoning cable is growing by the year. This is troubling news for ESPN, whose daily viewership has declined more than 10 percent since 2011. It’s nearly as troubling for Disney, which makes more money from television than from its movies or amusement parks.
The U.S. film business, meanwhile, has arguably been in slow-motion decline since Dwight Eisenhower’s administration. The typical American bought more than 20 movie tickets a year in the early 1940s, a period in which Disney pumped out Fantasia, Pinocchio, Dumbo, and Bambi in three consecutive years. But ticket sales plunged after the rise of television in the ’50s, and they’re still falling: The typical American bought fewer movie tickets in 2017 than in any year during the previous two decades. Among the key demographic of 18-to-24-year-olds, North American movie-theater attendance has declined 17 percent since 2012, a sign of more bad news to come for Disney.
That is, if it sticks to its traditional ways of making money. Americans aren’t watching less video entertainment each year. They’re actually watching much, much more—on their smartphones, laptops, and internet-connected TVs—thanks to the rise of streaming, where Netflix, not Disney, reigns supreme. It might seem confounding that Netflix’s market value is about 90 percent of Disney’s, considering that Disney does many things profitably while Netflix has one specialty, internet video, and hardly makes a dime on it. But investors and young people agree: The future of entertainment will be streamed.
Variety has some more new comments from Bob Iger about the streaming service:
http://variety.com/2018/biz/news/bob-iger-disney-streaming-21st-century-fox-1202803646/