Quote:According to a Morgan Stanley note, Business Insider is reporting that Disney's attempt at world domination could attract 30 million subscribers over the next decade, which would put its value at $25 billion. If all goes as planned and Disney's streaming service hits that subscriber number, and the company will need to, the streaming service could generate $5 billion in revenue. Disney wants a piece of the one billion households worldwide that pay for TV and likely are fans of Disney content. While this might seem like a huge loss for Netflix, so far, the latter company doesn't sound too worried.

Quote:As of now there are still a lot of questions about what form Disney's streaming service will take, how much it will cost and what will be on it. We know that there will be two versions of the service, one for sports content expected in 2018 and one for Disney content in 2019. Live sports were long considered the bulwark against cord-cutting, but as cable bills get more expensive and millennial viewers eschew sports, Disney is realizing that the company can offer sports in a streaming package, as well as on traditional cable.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cinemab...y-be-worth

(11-03-2017 08:12 PM)murrdcu Wrote:  

Quote:According to a Morgan Stanley note, Business Insider is reporting that Disney's attempt at world domination could attract 30 million subscribers over the next decade, which would put its value at $25 billion. If all goes as planned and Disney's streaming service hits that subscriber number, and the company will need to, the streaming service could generate $5 billion in revenue. Disney wants a piece of the one billion households worldwide that pay for TV and likely are fans of Disney content. While this might seem like a huge loss for Netflix, so far, the latter company doesn't sound too worried.

Quote:As of now there are still a lot of questions about what form Disney's streaming service will take, how much it will cost and what will be on it. We know that there will be two versions of the service, one for sports content expected in 2018 and one for Disney content in 2019. Live sports were long considered the bulwark against cord-cutting, but as cable bills get more expensive and millennial viewers eschew sports, Disney is realizing that the company can offer sports in a streaming package, as well as on traditional cable.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cinemab...y-be-worth

I think this sounds like a good idea in theory but I'm curious to see it in practice. More information will undoubtedly be released but I want to know how much it's going to cost. Lets say you'd pay $10 a month for the movie stream and $20 for the sports. Do you pay $30 for both? Do you get it for $25? Then there are the customers who will be buying this. Everyone is coming out with their own streaming service. More companies are going from distributors to their own content creation. It's great because you can pick and choose what you want (a la carte) but now you're going to be pay 20 different people and going to end up paying more. Disney didn't create this but everyone is getting swept up in it.