I have sensed a small disturbance in the force lately. With the launch of Disney Plus, yet another platform has dipped its toes into the sea of monthly subscriptions. Netflix, Hulu, Disney Plus, Amazon Prime Video, HBOgo… the list is growing. The death of the cable industry happened when us millenials and gen x/y/zers realized that we can’t afford the luxury of paying close to $150.00 USD to watch commercially riddled programs at set times.
Thus came the revolution of the pirates; looting the web of it’s free content, and downloading countless torrents. The pirate life is still thriving, however Netflix/Hulu curbed some of the traffic for a bit. Paying $25.00 a month doesn’t seem like all that much, and is by all means affordable even for the financially doomed. But then ame Amazon Prime Video. Then came HBOgo. Then came Hulu with commercials, making it more expensive. Now we have Disney Plus.
At $6.99 a month, it one of the cheapest options available. It gives you access to all the old Disney classics we loved as children, and access to all the Star Wars films. Of course I have subscribed, but I’m beginning to tally up the total of my subscriptions and finding that I’m climbing ever slowly to that old school cable price my father is always boasting about. The cable industry hasn’t died, it has been reborn, and as more and more subscriptions are launched I’m sure that the pirate community will surge even more. It’s about time to get out the old terabyte hard drives and start storing my treasures again.
How many subscriptions are you currently using? How many of those are you actually paying for? Do you torrent or nah? I am seriously thinking about going back to the bay, because I’m finding more and more apps out there, and they are filled with mostly trash content. What do you guys think?
For myself, I only pay for Spotify. I feed off of my parent's accounts like: Netflix, and Direct TV. With Direct TV, I have the option to stream live TV off of my Roku at school using my parents email and password. This is why I love Direct TV. We used to pay for Comcast and had the whole TV package. It was VERY expensive, though. I think my parents were paying close to $300 a month. This was absolutely ridiculous so my sister and I made them switch because they aren't really tech savvy and didn't know about other streaming services. DIrect TV is relatively cheaper, though. My parents are thinking about cancelling Netflix because it is close to $15 a month now. They keep increasing the price. I miss when it was only $7 a month. Those were the good days.
ReplyDeleteI used to have DisneyPlus for about a week during the trial period and I honestly didn't care for it. Maybe it is because I don't really watch children's movies and I'm not really into Star Wars and all that stuff that they stream.
It's actually super easy to get free movies online but I don't do that because I am scared to.