5 ms·

That's 12 blu-rays a year. Do your kids really watch THAT much Disney? You could buy every new Disney movie each year and have extra slots to fill out the bac

That's 12 blu-rays a year. Do your kids really watch THAT much Disney? You could buy every new Disney movie each year and have extra slots to fill out the backlog for that price, plus de-facto ownership of the data.

Fezzik 9y ago
The size of Disney's catalogue may be underestimated by some. Having instant access to all their movies[1] and television shows[2] has quite a bit of value, and would consist of hundreds upon hundreds of blu-rays. I am not one who would sign up, but certainly if I had children I would much rather have streaming access to all of this than stacks of discs. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Walt_Disney_Pictures_films https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Walt_Disney_Pictures_f... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Disney_television_series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Disney_television_seri...
- wfunction 9y ago
  Are children into live-action Disney films? That seems to be the vast majority of their catalog, not animations.
  - mahyarm 9y ago
    Bambi is still a good movie for the 5 year olds of today too.
  - freehunter 9y ago
    Define "children". Do 10 year olds like Pirate of the Caribbean? Yes. Do 12 year olds like Hook? Also yes.
    - nebabyte 9y ago
      I am assuming a catalog "filled" with live action Disney films would mostly have those one-off concept movies they created for their channel than pages upon pages of movies standing peer to Pirates of the Carribean. Still interesting enough to kids but let's not pretend like it's not padding; those movies were often very formulaic, "relatable kid with a weird life or circumstances goes on a journey" - not really worth the price tag for a subscription.
- peter303 9y ago
  I counted approximately 400 feature films excluding Lucas, Mavel.
mathgeek 9y ago
I would never want to own the physical discs (minimalism), but if the price is right this will still be better than buying the individual movies on Vudu for some people.
whatusername 9y ago
Disney movies for the kids, Marvel/Star Wars for me... That sums up a large % of the Netflix viewing in my house.
djrogers 9y ago
Im guessing you don’t have kids? Disney Jr, Disney Channel, and Disney XD put out more content than you could possibly imagine - some of it very good, and most of the rest at least tolerable. Disney movies are a very small portion of their catalog, although to someone in a household without kids I can see how it would appear that marvel and Star Wars were all Disney did.
Larrikin 9y ago
Kids handling Blu-Ray disk and constantly swapping them out would easily triple the blu-ray disk cost and also probably add on the cost of atleast one new blu-ray player a year.

Fezzik 9y ago

The size of Disney's catalogue may be underestimated by some. Having instant access to all their movies[1] and television shows[2] has quite a bit of value, and would consist of hundreds upon hundreds of blu-rays. I am not one who would sign up, but certainly if I had children I would much rather have streaming access to all of this than stacks of discs. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Walt_Disney_Pictures_films https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Walt_Disney_Pictures_f... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Disney_television_series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Disney_television_seri...

wfunction 9y ago
Are children into live-action Disney films? That seems to be the vast majority of their catalog, not animations.
- mahyarm 9y ago
  Bambi is still a good movie for the 5 year olds of today too.
- freehunter 9y ago
  Define "children". Do 10 year olds like Pirate of the Caribbean? Yes. Do 12 year olds like Hook? Also yes.
  - nebabyte 9y ago
    I am assuming a catalog "filled" with live action Disney films would mostly have those one-off concept movies they created for their channel than pages upon pages of movies standing peer to Pirates of the Carribean. Still interesting enough to kids but let's not pretend like it's not padding; those movies were often very formulaic, "relatable kid with a weird life or circumstances goes on a journey" - not really worth the price tag for a subscription.
peter303 9y ago
I counted approximately 400 feature films excluding Lucas, Mavel.

mathgeek 9y ago

I would never want to own the physical discs (minimalism), but if the price is right this will still be better than buying the individual movies on Vudu for some people.

whatusername 9y ago

Disney movies for the kids, Marvel/Star Wars for me... That sums up a large % of the Netflix viewing in my house.

djrogers 9y ago

Im guessing you don’t have kids? Disney Jr, Disney Channel, and Disney XD put out more content than you could possibly imagine - some of it very good, and most of the rest at least tolerable. Disney movies are a very small portion of their catalog, although to someone in a household without kids I can see how it would appear that marvel and Star Wars were all Disney did.

Larrikin 9y ago

Kids handling Blu-Ray disk and constantly swapping them out would easily triple the blu-ray disk cost and also probably add on the cost of atleast one new blu-ray player a year.