Jen and Ashwin
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- May 28, 2015
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I wonder how many regular disboard posters signed up for Disney+ ! The projected millions of subscribers out there is astounding. Just a few years ago it seemed Netflix had such a corner, but just wait a little bit and something else comes along as usual. They do, yes, have a significant market share, but I'm so curious how it'll look in a year.
I've had Netflix since back when they sent a disc to your house, and once it was returned you got sent the next requested one on the list. Before that, I was doing that with Walmart, did anyone used to do these send and return discs? Now, here it is a large production company. I wonder what shows will keep me following on Disney+, Netflix I'll admit has me a little meh sometimes. Or agenda riddled, shock factor, I personally can't stand that. I watched Stranger Things, When Calls the Heart, binge watched the Office, the Crown, but really such a large percentage of the shows on there are just weird to me. They don't rotate their movies enough, and have become weird-show heavy to me.
I have subscribed to Netflix since I was in high school when you got the discs, so I have been a really long term subscriber. We don't have cable TV, just Netflix, ad-free Hulu, Amazon and now Disney+. I had Amazon Prime long before it offered streaming service, so getting the streaming seems like a free bonus to me since I would probably have otherwise continued to pay for Amazon Prime otherwise. I also subscribed to a free trial with CBS All Access and after the 3 free months should have long expired, we still have access to that. I wouldn't actually pay for it, so if we just keep getting it for free that seems to make DH happy. He was been watching Twilight Zone lately.
Overall, our monthly TV entertainment costs are $11.99 for Hulu, $12.99 for Netflix, and now $3.88 for Disney+ (as I said above, I don't count the cost of Amazon). So just under $29 per month. Still way less than I would pay for a cable package. And in the summer, we usually put Hulu on hold when there aren't many new shows coming out, which saves us a bit of money too. Though as the price of Netflix climbs, I wonder more and more if we will start subscribing for a few months, then cancel for a few months and then resubscribe again. DH definitely watches more TV than I do.