More Than 10 Million Sign Up For Disney+ in First Day (axios.com) 59
The Walt Disney Company said Wednesday that its new streaming service Disney+ had 10 million sign-ups since it launched Tuesday at midnight. From a report: Disney wouldn't release the number if the company didn't think it represented a major milestone. Disney told investors in the spring that it hopes to reach 60 million to 90 million subscribers by 2024. The number is also notable, considering the service launched with a few hiccups. Early reports on Tuesday suggested the technology for Disney+ began crashing on launch day. Analysts anticipated strong consumer interest prior to the launch of the new service. Polling suggests that consumers were interested in the service at launch because of the access to Disney's movie catalog, as well as its new show, "The Mandalorian."
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I would be willing to bet it's an American household that spends $1300 a year on entertainment. Cable, sporting events, movies, plays, video games,... I could easily see $100 a month in expenses.
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If you include internet costs I suspect that most people are half way to that $1,300 figure from that alone, and while the internet is a valuable learning tool I suspect most people are using it to derive some form of entertainment.
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Unless it's a one of those "dinner and a show" type venues that I'd say not likely. Dining is usually considered separate from entertainment.
Still - $1,300 per year on the whole category isn't bad at all. 3 streaming services plus a monthly movie ticket already gets you to around $500. Add in a few concerts, live sporting event tickets, and video games, and you'll get to that number pretty quick.
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Why the hell would anyone be dumb enough to pay for more that one library streaming service at a time, the whole idea is stupid as. You get the most out of streaming library and the jump to the next service. Ideally you should only come back to a streaming service after one year, so you pick up new complete seasons. I lasted with Netflix about six months or so before swapping out to another service Stan (australian) and I fully intend to drop it and swap out to another a get back to Netflix a year after dro
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any fiction novels
Would all documentaries, game shows, reality tv and news also not count, because you think people can't be entertained by non-fiction?
Education budget (Score:2)
In my opinion, documentaries and news (as opposed to reactionary propaganda) would fall under the education category in a household's budget.
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Looking back, I completel
Re:$1300/year (Score:4, Insightful)
Lap dances. $1300 won't last long.
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It's the snorting cocaine off the strippers ass after you've hired her for a 'private show' that really gets you.
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Includes internet? Just a cable package will run you $130-160/mo. Live sporting events? You'll spend your $1300 for a pair of decent seats at a single playoff hockey game.
It doesn't seem like much but assuming 7% interest in passive investing you'll need $26,000 wealth invested to offset that $1300/yr and grow it with inflation. It's a good thing to figure out before taking on a monthly expense... how much wealth would I need to have to actually afford it. A better one is to hold off until you actually have
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I'm shocked that the average American spends only 4% of average yearly income ($2500/yr) [thenest.com] on non-productive fun.
I'm also shocked that you think that a statistic concerning "entertainment" relates only to TV shows.
Obviously, they should take all of that money spent concerts, movies, sports events, theme parks, bowling alleys, golf courses, cable television, hobbies and pet and redirect it to something productive. Like mandatory education camps for people who think that there must be "better things to spend [other people's] money" on.
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I wish I could find it...
Google "how much money does the average american household spend on TV" and click the first link.. https://www.forbes.com/sites/t... [forbes.com]
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There's no way the average American spends only $1300 / year on entertainment. Maybe you mean video entertainment?
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$3.61 A day
Compared to other expenses it isn't that much.
Are their better things yes. But stop judging everyone for not making the best financial decisions all the time. Unless you are some self made billionaire (without Mommy and Daddy to give you a lot of upfront cash to start your life) you probably have not been completely wise with your money.
That 108 per month can go to getting 1 or 2 new big title video games a month
Going to a concert once a month
Going to a 3 star restaurant once a month (for yourself)
Going to a fast casual restaurant once a week
If you are going to go out and hang with your friends, you will be expected to pay for drinks, or go out for a meal, host at your home every once in a while....
The thing with TV, is we can stop or lower our subscriptions if needed. Also compared to most forms of entertainment it is something you don't have to budget time to enjoy. You have 1/2 hour free then you can watch a show.
I have never met a person who was perfect with their money. My old Boss/CEO was saying I should get an Apple TV. I said I didn't have the budget for it. And he was like it was only a hundred bucks. Not realizing that I took that job out of desperation because I was laid off my old job unexpectedly after buying a house, thus financially I was really hurting at that time.
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Let me tell you about our recent "date night" which I'm sad to say was a couple months ago. I took my wife out for the evening to rock the fuck out, because we're into that kind of thing, and it was a once-in-a-decade opportunity to see the mighty Sasquatch and Nebula. If you like to rock in America, you probably went to that tour whereever it was closest to your town. We normally split the bills (she picks up a bar tab here, I pick
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That's not a lot - that's only just over $100/month. Which seems a little on the low side for a cable bill. Which likely is just a basic package and then some, not including things like HBO and other premiu
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That number seems quite low considering the cost of entertainment these days. I would love to see the article your pulling this from.
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I wish I could find it, but I just read somewhere today that the average Americans spends $1300/year on entertainment!
20 years ago a couple might spend $60 on dinner and a movie. Do that every two weeks and that's $1500 per year...
Now they just turn on their home theatre.
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Not sure what they're defining as entertainment, but $100/month seems reasonable.
Internet $50+/month, streaming services or cable $10-30/month, then a random $20/month on a few events or what not.
Just cable TV, a premium channel, and internet gets real close.
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Bread and circuses.
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I tried to find out with a Google search:
According to USA Today:
How does the average American spend their paycheck? See how you compare [usatoday.com]
Entertainment: $2,913. This includes in-home entertainment costs, as well as outside-the-home entertainment ventures. Certain other expenses, such as your pets, are included here.
I don't see where they get off including pet expenses as entertainment. My pet is part of the family and not just entertainment, but that's probably $500 a year right there. I spent $130 last month just for the vet to tell me she was healthy.,,,and to stay current on her vaccines and stuff, but that was not entertaining for me or the cat.
Throw in a few concerts and dining
And it's free for one year... (Score:1)
Disney is far more interesting (Score:3)
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Sometimes the overly artsy canned films while may be works of art and can be appreciated for what they do. Sometime after a day of work, you just want to watch Hulk Smash, Wall-e mesmerizing visuals, or just listen to the songs you heard as a kid, which just makes you feel comforted like you were younger.
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Disney is hit and miss like all the others. The live action remakes of their cartoons all suck, but the Mandalorian was okay. Not great but enough to stick with it for now.
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In otherwords (Score:5, Insightful)
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10% of Verizon wireless customers signup for their free year of Disney+ and the investors go wild ....
Which is appropriate since even if 80% of those users are intending on cancelling after a year, only 20% of them actually will.
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But wait, FIOS customers can get it if they have 50/50 internet or a double-play bundle. Great, I have a triple-play (because cheaper than the double was, no phone actually hooked up) and 100/100 internet. But, it's only for *new* FIOS customers.
Guess who's seeding torrents of their shit for the next year.
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FTFY
The brats kept nagging (Score:3, Insightful)
What can one do?
Re:The brats kept nagging (Score:5, Insightful)
What can one do?
Tell them no.
Back to torrents (Score:1)
But how many will pay? (Score:1)
I'm more curious as to.... (Score:4, Interesting)
I'm more curious as to the piracy rate of The Mandalorian. I know I would certainly never ever pirate media but several friends of mine have said they don't have the patience for new entries to the streaming market and will be pirating everything that comes up that isn't on their 2-3 subscriptions they currently have.
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Downloading S01E01 as we speak......
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It's not even available in Europe yet so piracy is the only way to join in with the discussions on The Mandalorian.
Incredible that they made the same mistake yet again, dividing the world up into regions and not releasing in all of them at the same time.
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We will probably sign up (Score:3)
We will probably sign up, although, not until after they have some time to make it work.
The only thing I give a shit about on the whole thing is The Simpsons. And Disney has managed to fuck that up [vice.com]. So by "make it work" I specifically mean both "get login working reliably" and "unfuck The Simpsons".
Only Disney could fuck up one of the most successful shows of all time.
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Only Disney could fuck up one of the most successful shows of all time.
And movie franchises (Star Wars). I watched the first Disney Star Wars and the franchise was immediately dead to me. It was, as Scorsese said about the Marvel flicks, a remake rather than a sequel. Sure, there were some new characters and different things, but as a whole it was nothing but a risk-adverse copy. Every scene had some homage to the original trilogy, it was almost like a parody of itself. I'll take Jar Jar Binks over that crap any day.
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This is unfortunately very common. Look at the absolute disaster that is the Buffy HD "remaster". Not only is it cropped but they didn't properly colour grade any of it so scenes that are supposed to be at night appear to be in the daytime now.
Most "remasters" are pretty bad, it's not just Disney.
First day is irrelevant (Score:2)
First day numbers don't impress me.
How many folks pre-order video games only to regret it ?
How many folks stand in lines for $hyped_movie_of_the_year only to regret it ?
Let's see where their subscriber numbers are a year from now.
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