According to ComingSoon, $70/year, or $7/month. All the Disney stuff we were expecting, the Marvel stuff including the three new television series (guess those folks were doing those while the other half was making Avengers: Endgame*), Star Wars (including two new series, including one based off of Rogue One). Bunch of television shows, classic movies that the Mouse owns, and… a new Phineas and Ferb movie.
:pause:
Well, then. Yeah. I was going to buy this anyway, but… yeah. More details here. Note that it’s not all dropping at once, by the way: they’re staggering it out as the service ramps up. I assume that they’re worked it all out for maximum saturation; this is Disney that we’re talking about.
Moe Lane
PS: You’ll be able to download and watch stuff online, by the way.
PPS: Will it work? I suppose that this concept could fail, but Disney would really have to work at it. It’s got a good price point and a lot of content that is generally safe for kids and stuff that people my age want to watch too and they’re planning to offer a Disney+/Hulu/ESPN+ bundle that sounds appealing. Not quite a sucker bet, but it’s a pretty safe one.
*…Dang, but that was clever.
If you need a Phineas and Ferb fix right now,you might want to check out the creators’ current series, Milo Murphy. Milo’s a hyper cheerful Disney version of a weirdness magnet voiced by Weird Al. And while Murphy has more continuity from episode to episode than P&F, if you check out the next to last episode of last season and the first episode of this season, there’s a guest star that might be of interest. You’ll miss a bit of setup without some of the other episodes, but it won’t be incomprehensible.
And remember that the Mouse now also owns the Fox movie library.
Yeah.
In general, I’m more or less opposed to production companies making their own streaming service thing like this. I mean, I agree that they have the right in principal. I just don’t like the idea of having to pay every single company a fee if I want to stream their latest show, or something from their back library. It gets expensive if you have to do it that way instead of just watching it on Netflix.
But Disney will have enough content that it’ll likely actually be worth the cost.
I suspect that as more and more production houses begin to do so, the competition will bring down the price point back to aggregator levels. I’m far more willing to pay three companies $7/mo for ten or so good options than one company $50/month for 500 version of crap. Sling and Youtube TV are already sliding that direction, and Netflix can’t continue to raise prices and be left behind.
The animated “What If” series that is going to do PeggyCap (Peggy Carter as Captain America) in its first episode has me excited too. That alternate version was actually imagined in one of the Marvel mobile games I play and then got mentioned in the comics after it got popular.
I think it’s today that “What If” and PeggyCap got confirmed amidst the other announcements.