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At the price of both of these services, am I the only one thinking "why not both"? It a LOT cheaper for both than standard cable or satellite (here in Europe an

At the price of both of these services, am I the only one thinking "why not both"? It a LOT cheaper for both than standard cable or satellite (here in Europe anyway) and both would have stuff the other does not. Title sounds very click-baity to me...

philliphaydon 7y ago
My thoughts exactly. Also, I feel like in the (actual) Netflix originals, they also put a lot more effort into it. If you compare CW's 'Arrow' fight scenes vs something like Daredevil or Punisher. Arrow's fight scenes are boring. But Disney is also very PG so I don't expect Disney to have the same level of Marvel TV series on their service. So for me, I would subscribe to both. But I have no reason to subscribe to Hulu (and its TERRIBLE interface), HBO, or any of the other services available.
- cannonedhamster 7y ago
  Disney+ will include Hulu apparently which means all the adult shows and movies, along with kid specific context. HBO is being gutted by AT&T. I enjoyed some Netflix originals but they really cut back on the shows I liked and had virtually no movies of note. Now they'll have less. If you watch primarily television Netflix might be a good option. If you want movies Disney is probably going to be the way to go. Unfortunately Disney should be broken up as a monopoly, but that would never happen nowadays.
IloveHN84 7y ago
Both is useless and expensive (over 240€/year for both).
- askafriend 7y ago
  For a household of 4, that's really cheap for a year of entertainment!
- tiernano 7y ago
  I'm paying 70+ per month to sky alone. 240 a year is peanuts!
  - 72deluxe 7y ago
    Out of interest, did you not consider this expensive when you started paying that amount? I used to work with people who thought it was a "good deal" to be paying £110 a month to Sky for their phone, broadband and TV. I couldn't work out why. It's a lot of money. Mind you, they might have been watching TV all day long - nothing better to do, I suppose.
    - Jaruzel 7y ago
      For a lot of long term Sky subscribers (myself included) that £70 per month is a result of many years of small price hikes. It's easy to say 'just ditch Sky', but when the hard disk inside your sky receiver is full of downloaded/recorded content that isn't available for free anywhere else (so you'd have to pay for it again), it's hard to actually break away from the service. For those that aren't aware, the content that is stored on your Sky receiver is encrypted to the boxes serial number AND your viewing card. According to Sky, it's impossible to copy the content to another box (even as part of a Sky Q upgrade), let alone extract it for viewing on another platform. Sky use this tactic to lock the customers in.
      - mprev 7y ago
        Ring Sky, tell them you're leaving. They'll give you an offer. If you don't like it, go through with leaving. They'll make you serve a 30 day notice period. Before that ends you'll get a better offer. If you don't like that offer, actually leave. They'll send you an even better offer. There's no need to pay full price for Sky once you're out of your first year's contract.
    - SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
      £110/month to watch adverts? No thanks.
alkonaut 7y ago
If only one of the streaming giants would sign some kind of deal with some of the TV networks (or some of the distributors) so that I could get my fix of news and sports from them. If they had e.g. the big BBC/CNN news casts live I'd happily pay Netflix a lot extra for that.
- boveg 7y ago
  $50/month is a lot extra, but if you are willing to pay it, YouTube TV (https://tv.youtube.com/welcome/ https://tv.youtube.com/welcome/) offers exactly what you are asking. Also, its youtube, which means the streaming quality is superb.
bjt 7y ago
Exactly my thought.
tastroder 7y ago
Out of curiosity, what do you mean with "cheaper than satellite"? Initial costs of the dish and receiver aside that's free around here.
- denvrede 7y ago
  Could you define "around here"? I'm from Germany and for premium satellite content (Sky) you pay 25-30 euros upwards for the movie and entertainment (shows and documentaries) packages.
  - tastroder 7y ago
    Oh, Germany as well. Honestly didn't realize these premium satellite things are still widely used over purely IP based content delivery options so they slipped my mind there.
- tiernano 7y ago
  Ireland, non free satellite, sky: €72 per month for the pack I'm on.

philliphaydon 7y ago

My thoughts exactly. Also, I feel like in the (actual) Netflix originals, they also put a lot more effort into it. If you compare CW's 'Arrow' fight scenes vs something like Daredevil or Punisher. Arrow's fight scenes are boring. But Disney is also very PG so I don't expect Disney to have the same level of Marvel TV series on their service. So for me, I would subscribe to both. But I have no reason to subscribe to Hulu (and its TERRIBLE interface), HBO, or any of the other services available.

cannonedhamster 7y ago
Disney+ will include Hulu apparently which means all the adult shows and movies, along with kid specific context. HBO is being gutted by AT&T. I enjoyed some Netflix originals but they really cut back on the shows I liked and had virtually no movies of note. Now they'll have less. If you watch primarily television Netflix might be a good option. If you want movies Disney is probably going to be the way to go. Unfortunately Disney should be broken up as a monopoly, but that would never happen nowadays.

IloveHN84 7y ago

Both is useless and expensive (over 240€/year for both).

askafriend 7y ago
For a household of 4, that's really cheap for a year of entertainment!
tiernano 7y ago
I'm paying 70+ per month to sky alone. 240 a year is peanuts!
- 72deluxe 7y ago
  Out of interest, did you not consider this expensive when you started paying that amount? I used to work with people who thought it was a "good deal" to be paying £110 a month to Sky for their phone, broadband and TV. I couldn't work out why. It's a lot of money. Mind you, they might have been watching TV all day long - nothing better to do, I suppose.
  - Jaruzel 7y ago
    For a lot of long term Sky subscribers (myself included) that £70 per month is a result of many years of small price hikes. It's easy to say 'just ditch Sky', but when the hard disk inside your sky receiver is full of downloaded/recorded content that isn't available for free anywhere else (so you'd have to pay for it again), it's hard to actually break away from the service. For those that aren't aware, the content that is stored on your Sky receiver is encrypted to the boxes serial number AND your viewing card. According to Sky, it's impossible to copy the content to another box (even as part of a Sky Q upgrade), let alone extract it for viewing on another platform. Sky use this tactic to lock the customers in.
    - mprev 7y ago
      Ring Sky, tell them you're leaving. They'll give you an offer. If you don't like it, go through with leaving. They'll make you serve a 30 day notice period. Before that ends you'll get a better offer. If you don't like that offer, actually leave. They'll send you an even better offer. There's no need to pay full price for Sky once you're out of your first year's contract.
  - SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
    £110/month to watch adverts? No thanks.

alkonaut 7y ago

If only one of the streaming giants would sign some kind of deal with some of the TV networks (or some of the distributors) so that I could get my fix of news and sports from them. If they had e.g. the big BBC/CNN news casts live I'd happily pay Netflix a lot extra for that.

boveg 7y ago
$50/month is a lot extra, but if you are willing to pay it, YouTube TV (https://tv.youtube.com/welcome/ https://tv.youtube.com/welcome/) offers exactly what you are asking. Also, its youtube, which means the streaming quality is superb.

bjt 7y ago

Exactly my thought.

tastroder 7y ago

Out of curiosity, what do you mean with "cheaper than satellite"? Initial costs of the dish and receiver aside that's free around here.

denvrede 7y ago
Could you define "around here"? I'm from Germany and for premium satellite content (Sky) you pay 25-30 euros upwards for the movie and entertainment (shows and documentaries) packages.
- tastroder 7y ago
  Oh, Germany as well. Honestly didn't realize these premium satellite things are still widely used over purely IP based content delivery options so they slipped my mind there.
tiernano 7y ago
Ireland, non free satellite, sky: €72 per month for the pack I'm on.