Disney+ finally decides to shut up and take my money.

Pre-orders are up for Disney+, folks. $6.99/month, $69.99/year. The Disney/Hulu/ESPN bundle will be cooking off for $12.99/month starting in November 12; but I crunched the numbers and decided that since I only wanted the first two I was better off buying them separately. Although I do agree with Tycho, here: the streaming services thing has gotten a bit much.

I think that we’re really not in the market for more streaming services, here at Chez Lane. Netflix has all of the shows my kids watch, I have Amazon Prime because it’s a damned utility at this point that also happens to show a bunch of movies, and Hulu and Disney+ will cover most of the TV that sounds interesting to me anyway. There’s a bloody limit, is all I’m saying.

Moe Lane

6 thoughts on “Disney+ finally decides to shut up and take my money.”

  2. The joy of streaming services is they usually batch release their shows. As our friend Luke notes above, Binge is the modern way. So: Subscribe to ServiceA for a month, binge all their stuff, cancel(As a buddy of mine did because why would he Watch anything on CBSAllAccess besides StarTrek?). Move to ServiceB for the next month. With that kind of rotation you still don’t miss much.

    1. Curiously enough, the IMDB service (free but has ads, available via Amazon Fire) has quite a lot of old stuff ..
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      Since Moe’s right, Prime is pretty much a utility .. I don’t see a good reason to shuffle around.
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      I would like to find a good “local channels” service, though .. even one that *doesn’t* include sports.
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      Philo maybe?
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      Mew

      1. Oddly enough, the AT&T where I live provides unlimited internet only if you pay a large bribe (AKA:waiver), OR if you bundle with any of their tv services. Which includes the $20 “local channels only” option. (And the bundle discount knocks about $20 off the monthly bill.)
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        My hat is off to the fine fellow who snuck that past multiple levels of bosses.

    2. We were gushing about My Hero Academia a while back, and Moe expressed an interest in seeing it. 😉 That’s as deep as the thought ran.
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      But IMO the couple of bucks a month you can pay Hulu to make advertisements go away, is money very well spent. Highly recommend.

  3. Netflix has lost a lot of my interest after I found all the Stargate shows on Prime. What Hulu and Disney+ are offering for Marvel and Star Wars fare is pretty much my wheelhouse, and that will escalate as the Marvel moves return home.

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