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Phunkenstein · 18-01-2021, 16:36

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Originally Posted by muppetman11

It seems Disney + is the next streamer to raise prices and not even a year old.

The monthly price is set to rise from £5.99 to £7.99. Existing subscribers will stay at £5.99 until August 21.

Yep, it’s timed with the launch of the Star catalogue - better get myself locked in for another year! Managed to get the last year at £39.99 (via TopCashback) so I think I can just about stomach 59.99 instead of 79.99!!!

OLD BOY · 18-01-2021, 16:41

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Originally Posted by muppetman11

It seems Disney + is the next streamer to raise prices and not even a year old.

The monthly price is set to rise from £5.99 to £7.99. Existing subscribers will stay at £5.99 until August 21.

It was only designed as an introductory price though. StarzPlay has only a fraction of the number of Disney+ offerings, and that costs £4.99.

I fully expect the price to settle at around £10.00pm to be honest. Maybe they will also introduce cheaper tiers with less content, fewer screens and not in UHD.

**Chris** · 18-01-2021, 16:42

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Originally Posted by muppetman11

It seems Disney + is the next streamer to raise prices and not even a year old.

The monthly price is set to rise from £5.99 to £7.99. Existing subscribers will stay at £5.99 until August 21.

Their launch price was pretty obviously a deal aimed at reeling people in. It was never sustainable for them to make such a huge chunk of their back catalogue permanently available on line at that price, much less produce new content. Most of what’s on Disney+ is stuff we were still buying on DVD for our kids until very recently. Disney is now never going to sell us another disc.

OLD BOY · 18-01-2021, 16:44

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Originally Posted by Phunkenstein

Aside from the Disney pipeline, what are they replacing? Sky still have their deals with Paramount and Universal, have renewed deals with Warner Bros and Sony and renewed a deal with Disney for movies via the 20th Century brand that are not destined for Disney Plus - if anything these deals are additive and will go someway to giving them fresh and fairly high profile content and a boost to the wider catalogue... seems like a fairly adequate replacement to me!

Also Studiocanal (and what was formerly Optimum Releasing) have not had any pay tv window output deals with Sky for the best part of a decade so a significant number of those movies will be on Sky Cinema’s proposition for the first time including the Paddington movies.

Fair point. My comment was made in anticipation of other studios going FTC when the existing contracts expire. Maybe that won’t happen this time around.

Phunkenstein · 18-01-2021, 16:53

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Fair point. My comment was made in anticipation of other studios going FTC when the existing contracts expire. Maybe that won’t happen this time around.

It’s entirely reasonable to think that may happen in the longer term, especially with Warner Bros, 20th and maybe Paramount (if they don’t stop selling off all their movies to streamers for stupid amounts of money) but I’d also expect Sky to evolve how they offer movies as that happens... they’re still in a position to offer it as a separate proposition but further down the line? I expect some changes especially if they align closer and closer to their sibling company.

1andrew1 · 18-01-2021, 17:32

Will be interesting to see what happens to MGM, valued for its ownership of the James Bond franchise.

It put itself on the market a month ago for a reported $5bn and has previously held talks with Apple and Netflix but its asking price was reputedly too high for them.
https://www.theguardian.com/business...or-sale-at-5bn

cheekyangus · 18-01-2021, 18:08

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY

It was only designed as an introductory price though. StarzPlay has only a fraction of the number of Disney+ offerings, and that costs £4.99.

I fully expect the price to settle at around £10.00pm to be honest. Maybe they will also introduce cheaper tiers with less content, fewer screens and not in UHD.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you are saying Old Boy, but Star (mentioned earlier in thread) and Starzplay aren't the same thing. Star being owned by Disney and Starzplay being run by Starz with is owned by Lionsgate.

Raider999 · 18-01-2021, 18:29

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Originally Posted by muppetman11

It seems Disney + is the next streamer to raise prices and not even a year old.

The monthly price is set to rise from £5.99 to £7.99. Existing subscribers will stay at £5.99 until August 21.

That will be so they can cash in on Cricket fans wanting to watch England's tour of India.

OLD BOY · 18-01-2021, 18:36

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Originally Posted by cheekyangus

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you are saying Old Boy, but Star (mentioned earlier in thread) and Starzplay aren't the same thing. Star being owned by Disney and Starzplay being run by Starz with is owned by Lionsgate.

No, I was referring to StarzPlay, but sorry for any confusion. I could have picked Acorn or Britbox, but I was comparing the amount of good, watchable content available on the various streamers. The StarzPlays, Acorns and Britboxes of this world pale into insignificance when compared to the big players and ultimately, the price differences will reflect this.

However, there is no doubt that the addition of Star and sports content will push the price up.

johnathome · 18-01-2021, 18:39

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Originally Posted by Raider999

That will be so they can cash in on Cricket fans wanting to watch England's tour of India.

There's also a more mature service that is being added as well.

Phunkenstein · 18-01-2021, 18:51

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Originally Posted by Raider999

That will be so they can cash in on Cricket fans wanting to watch England's tour of India.

It’s still speculation that Disney intend to stream the series rather than find a buyer for the rights - and the speculation itself is indicating it will be Hotstar offering it and not Disney Plus. Still remains to be seen if that’s the case.

1andrew1 · 18-01-2021, 19:39

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY

No, I was referring to StarzPlay, but sorry for any confusion. I could have picked Acorn or Britbox, but I was comparing the amount of good, watchable content available on the various streamers. The StarzPlays, Acorns and Britboxes of this world pale into insignificance when compared to the big players and ultimately, the price differences will reflect this.

However, there is no doubt that the addition of Star and sports content will push the price up.

I don't think there's any stated intention to offer sports in the UK. Disney's Western brand for sports is EPSN and that's currently licensed to BT Sport.

The confusion seems to have arisen in that instead of using the part-owned Hulu brand for their adult-orientated content, Disney will be using their Star brand from India, which is heavily associated with cricket coverage. However, it looks like it's just the brand that's being used and not the content.

jfman · 18-01-2021, 19:43

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1

I don't think there's any stated intention to offer sports in the UK. Disney's Western brand for sports is EPSN and that's currently licensed to BT Sport.

The confusion seems to have arisen in that instead of using the part-owned Hulu brand for their adult-orientated content, Disney will be using their Star brand from India, which is heavily associated with cricket coverage. However, it looks like it's just the brand that's being used and not the content.

At least there's an acknowledgement of price rises. The low cost pay-TV alternative is coming to an end with inflation busting price rises year on year as they clamour to establish a viable business model.

OLD BOY · 18-01-2021, 20:54

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1

I don't think there's any stated intention to offer sports in the UK. Disney's Western brand for sports is EPSN and that's currently licensed to BT Sport.

The confusion seems to have arisen in that instead of using the part-owned Hulu brand for their adult-orientated content, Disney will be using their Star brand from India, which is heavily associated with cricket coverage. However, it looks like it's just the brand that's being used and not the content.

You are correct, but my focus was on when the current ESPN contract with BT expired.

Raider999 · 18-01-2021, 23:19

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Originally Posted by johnathome

There's also a more mature service that is being added as well.

Perhaps you would like to elaborate?