I wonder how much Disney+'s numbers will be helped by that tranche of subscribers.
Also, my kids go through phases… watching the same shows on repeat, then switching. It would cost way more to buy the shows than stream them.
But having kids can totally justify a Disney+ subscription.
Libraries carry DVD's, and some libraries also have streaming services available for free.
You can buy a lot of content for less than $100, and even include a few higher priced favorites.
Also why limit to 1 year's budget? The magic of owning assets over renting is you keep them. If you spend 100$ a year on DVDs you'll fill up a shelf in short order.
Best of all: you can pick what you want. So often I've read a recommendation for a high quality movie only to have no method to watch it despite paying for Disney and Netflix. I remember as a kid Netflix had everything, now it appears to have nothing. Meanwhile the high quality classics are the exact ones cheap and easy to buy in DVD form.
Not to mention, this year is only the start. If streaming services are not bad enough value for you now, wait a few years. They are only going to get worse.
kids love repeat content
I'm 43. To this day I can put Aliens on in the background on Plex in my office while I'm working. I could watch it every single day. One, it's an exceptionally well-crafted action movie (the first action scene doesn't even take place for almost one hour into the film), and the second, my Mom is very much like Ellen Ripley, even down to appearance and build - long, curly black hair, pretty, smart, driven, soft and caring, but harsh and brash when necessary.
It took me many nights smoking cigars and sitting around discussing movies with my friends before it dawned on me that's why I enjoy Alien and Aliens so much. I'm basically watching my Mom be a space trucker Xenomorph-killing badass.
I can’t even imagine how crazy it wouldve driven me if it was the same movie every night instead. Different episodes of the same show was bad enough. I probably would have moved out.
Then may I suggest a DVD player?
This is why Amazon has Nickelodeon.
The services know it's harder to do the streaming juggle when you have kids.
But then it always is hard to explain things when I don't understand them myself.
If you pay for Spotify rather than hacking it, you're really not supporting artists financially very much, right? Paying someone a millionth of a dollar to stream their music seems to me like kind of an insult, actually, and recording their song to a cassette from the radio like kind of a compliment.
This is absurd. One is paying them, the other isn’t. It’s not a “compliment” to not receive income, even if you think the income received is meaningless.
Further, the radio argument is flawed - the radio station paid to play that music for people who might record it. Johnny Torrent didn’t.
I dunno, every one of these arguments always comes down to “but I want it” and other nonsense to try to pretend that it’s ok to steal from artists. It’s the same justification I used when I was twelve and stole a pack of gum from 7-11, and it’s no less lame when the people making it are ostensibly adults.
The majority of your money goes to the artist/right holder, "[Spotify has] an approx revenue split of 70/30 - so that’s 70% to the artist/rights holders and 30% to Spotify."[1]
[1] https://dittomusic.com/en/blog/how-much-does-spotify-pay-per....
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/370618/spotifys-cost-of-...
Property laws exist because property is scarce. But if I copy your idea or your data, all I'm doing is wiring the neurons in my brain in the same fashion as yours, or arranging the bits on my own computer in the same order as yours.
"Intellectual property" is a contradiction in terms. I'm open to arguments that there might still be reasons it shouldn't be OK, but arguments from property rights or analogies to theft just don't work.
Pretty interesting philosophy.
I should tell that to my kids' swimming school. Or their daycare.