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> Furthermore, it seems like so much more content now is not included in the monthly fee - they want to extract even more money from us! And I take issue with t

> Furthermore, it seems like so much more content now is not included in the monthly fee - they want to extract even more money from us! And I take issue with the actual pricing here too, for example Mulan was a whopping £20 - for comparison, an adult cinema ticket is around £10! So again, this feels totally unfair and unjustified. That's not surprising. What if there's more than one person watching the stream? > Disney is meant to be about "fun" multiple decades ago, maybe

xattt 5y ago
The problem was solved decades earlier: an FBI Warning at the start saying the screen can only be viewed by one member of a household at a time.
GordonS 5y ago
> That's not surprising. What if there's more than one person watching the stream? So what if there is? I'm watching at home, using my TV - it is nowhere close to a "cinema experience", I'm already paying a monthly fee, and I don't believe I've ever seen any streaming rental as expensive as £20 before. So, it was certainly a surprise to me!
- lostlogin 5y ago
  > I'm watching at home, using my TV - it is nowhere close to a "cinema experience" To replicate the cinema experience, for another €20 you could pay some kids to kick your seat and rustle chip packets, then turn the volume up to unbearable and play 35 mins of adverts before the movie.
- spywaregorilla 5y ago
  Disney doesn't give a shit. Disney cares about the opportunity cost of other sales approaches.
mnw21cam 5y ago
It is surprising when the price ceiling for DVDs of recent highly-rated films in the supermarket is £10, and blu-ray is £15.
- astura 5y ago
  Yep, and you can watch the DVD or Blu-ray and sell it for a few pounds.
- kmeisthax 5y ago
  Traditionally, home video and cinema were two segregated markets. The reason why you paid 10 pounds for that DVD is because the film is a few months old. If you wanted to see it at release date you were paying the same price per person, per view.

xattt 5y ago

The problem was solved decades earlier: an FBI Warning at the start saying the screen can only be viewed by one member of a household at a time.

GordonS 5y ago

> That's not surprising. What if there's more than one person watching the stream? So what if there is? I'm watching at home, using my TV - it is nowhere close to a "cinema experience", I'm already paying a monthly fee, and I don't believe I've ever seen any streaming rental as expensive as £20 before. So, it was certainly a surprise to me!

lostlogin 5y ago
> I'm watching at home, using my TV - it is nowhere close to a "cinema experience" To replicate the cinema experience, for another €20 you could pay some kids to kick your seat and rustle chip packets, then turn the volume up to unbearable and play 35 mins of adverts before the movie.
spywaregorilla 5y ago
Disney doesn't give a shit. Disney cares about the opportunity cost of other sales approaches.

mnw21cam 5y ago

It is surprising when the price ceiling for DVDs of recent highly-rated films in the supermarket is £10, and blu-ray is £15.

astura 5y ago
Yep, and you can watch the DVD or Blu-ray and sell it for a few pounds.
kmeisthax 5y ago
Traditionally, home video and cinema were two segregated markets. The reason why you paid 10 pounds for that DVD is because the film is a few months old. If you wanted to see it at release date you were paying the same price per person, per view.