I have a 2- and 3-year-old. Give me all the Disney things at $10/mo and we're good. I'd prefer they be included in Netflix, but Netflix+Disney and I'm still better off than cable, and hopefully there is some better curated content as a result.
This would totally be worth $10/month to have access to the entire Disney catalog; the entire "Disney Vault", all the content from the 60s, 70s, and 80s; all the Wonderful World of Disney; all the classic Disney movies (the entire catalogs of the likes of Fred MacMurray, Annette Funicello, Tommy Kirk, Keenan Wynn and other contract Disney actors from those eras; movies like The Black Hole, Apple Dumpling Gang, The North Avenue Irregulars and other stuff that, if it's available at all, is only currently findable used on VHS); all the animated Disney movies; all the Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck shorts; all the Mickey Mouse Club episodes, all the tween-centric episodic shows, etc.
This would potentially be worth more than $10/month.
If it's just going to be the popular animated feature-length movies, it's not worth $10/month. And they could still screw this up by not having the entire animated movie catalog available for random streaming, but rather only a subset available at any given time.
Disney has a truly massive archive of quality, family content, much of which hasn't been seen for decades and few people even know about or remember. It would be a shame if it continues to rot in obscurity in their vault.
That artificial scarcity that Disney practices with physical media won't work with an on-demand service and if they try it will definitely be what kills the service.
It works with physical media because once you own it you can watch it as much as you like. So when they do offer the media, people jump and pay full price for it because they know it's their only chance for a while.
With on-demand people aren't going to stick around in the hopes that a movie they want comes into rotation.
It's in competition with what is just a shitload of stuff now (all of Disney, all of Pixar, all of Star Wars, all of Marvel), and it's still holding its own in the park pretty well for a thing that never existed. It's not dominant, since nothing can really be dominant in a line up like that, but it's definitely there.
That was in the 90's, so before the Pixar, Star Wars, and Marvel stuff got pulled into the fold. It's good to see that there are still some characters floating around that kids have no reference for.
$10/month would be worth it for me but it's probably not realistic. A single movie usually costs more than that. With this plan they'd cannibalize their own media market.
Another way of being 'realistic' (not moral) is to see that 1TB hard drive is 100 bucks and can contain a thousands of Disney movies, which can be obtained fairly easily online.
They can't charge too much for something that people essentially buy out of good will rather than necessity.
I remember doing that but I thought it was because we only went to the video rental store once a week.
This article already fails by virtue of going "whu, no Marvel, how do the build a proposition here?" We already flaming know.
Not saying it's the better option, but a lot of folks forget that it is an option.