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One counter point to why I personally pay for Disney+ is that I have kids, and kids love repeat content. I don't think new content particularly matters to them,
by ryanisnan 3y ago
One counter point to why I personally pay for Disney+ is that I have kids, and kids love repeat content. I don't think new content particularly matters to them, at least not at their age.
I wonder how much Disney+'s numbers will be helped by that tranche of subscribers.
- geph2021 3y agokids love repeat content This is very true, to a certain age. My kids would watch some things over and over again, until they reached a certain age when there was an abrupt change. Once that change happens it's polar opposite, they could not fathom watching something a second time.
- j2kun 3y agoWhat age was that in your case?
- MattGaiser 3y agoNot OP, but until I was about 10 or so, I wanted to watch Lion King 1 and a Half nearly every week.
- geph2021 3y agoyep, around 10 as well
- dunham 3y agoI'd say around 10 also. For the past year, my 3 year old wanted to watch the same episode over and over and my 10 year old tried to talk her into whatever the new episode was.
- cortesoft 3y agoMy roommate in college watched Gladiator every single night for like a full year.
- WXLCKNO 3y agoWere you not entertained?
- arcanemachiner 3y agoI thought I double-posted, but you beat me by 1 minute! Verbatim!
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- eulgro 3y agoWhy??
- cortesoft 3y agoNot exactly sure. Strange guy. He liked to fall asleep to the same movie every night.
- cbozeman 3y agoDeep seated reasons he probably hasn't spent the time exploring. I'm 43. To this day I can put Aliens on in the background on Plex in my office while I'm working. I could watch it every single day. One, it's an exceptionally well-crafted action movie (the first action scene doesn't even take place for almost one hour into the film), and the second, my Mom is very much like Ellen Ripley, even down to appearance and build - long, curly black hair, pretty, smart, driven, soft and caring, but harsh and brash when necessary. It took me many nights smoking cigars and sitting around discussing movies with my friends before it dawned on me that's why I enjoy Alien and Aliens so much. I'm basically watching my Mom be a space trucker Xenomorph-killing badass.
- codetrotter 3y agoOne of my flatmates was watching GoT on max volume, one or more episodes every night. I got pretty darn tired of the intro jingle blasting every damn night at like 3am. I can’t even imagine how crazy it wouldve driven me if it was the same movie every night instead. Different episodes of the same show was bad enough. I probably would have moved out.
- lisper 3y ago> kids love repeat content Then may I suggest a DVD player?
- alasarmas 3y agoMay I humbly suggest that VHS is superior to DVD for young children, because you can manually censor naughty bits out of “too adult” movies by scratching the magnetic coating off the tape
- gcr 3y agoYou can do the same thing with a DVD if you have a needle and a steady hand.
- jakearmitage 3y agoThank you for this, it was a great laugh.
- jdougan 3y agoThat's too hard. Just use C-x M-c M-censordvd in emacs.
- sp332 3y agoA magnet works as well and doesn't affect the lifespan of the tape as much.
- Danieru 3y agoWe bought a DVD player and a couple high quality DVDs. Seemed rather silly to pay for a year of nothing just to watch reruns. Kids are happy, and now we get to show them higher quality shows.
- cortesoft 3y agoMy kids like repeats, but not THAT many repeats… and they mostly like tv shows. A full run of a TV show on DVD is around $50. So less than 3 tv shows would pay for a full year of Disney+ with all the shows. Also, my kids go through phases… watching the same shows on repeat, then switching. It would cost way more to buy the shows than stream them.
- bombcar 3y agoWe hit up the local library and Goodwill. Streaming dollars get a lot of movies that way, and reduced ads. But having kids can totally justify a Disney+ subscription.
- macNchz 3y agoThere are also many people on ebay selling bulk lots of dvds for pennies apiece. The top search result right now for “disney dvd lot” is $140 for 600!
- westcort 3y agoSame, and the reduced strain on my internet bandwidth has also helped me. Now is the time to buy, as physical media is quickly disappearing.
- christophilus 3y agoLibraries are also excellent resources for this kind of thing. Also, they have great audio book players for kids. My son is currently listening to the Hobbit, and my daughter to Charlotte’s Web.
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- citizenkeen 3y agoThis is why Max bought exclusive rights to Sesame Street. This is why Amazon has Nickelodeon. The services know it's harder to do the streaming juggle when you have kids.
- jjulius 3y agoThere's something a bit twisted about using my kids for their own financial gain. Hence my pirating of said shows - no issue getting those repeat views in via Plex/NAS.
- citizenkeen 3y agoI keep thinking about Plex but I struggle with the idea of teaching my kids that stealing is okay. Like, for a little kid: "This kind of theft is okay, this kind of theft isn't." seems nuanced for a little kid.
- ndriscoll 3y agoSimple enough: stealing is bad, but sharing is good. If you had a replicator and could make physical things for free to give to your neighbors, of course you'd do that.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoAnd the people who work on Sesame Street will feed and clothe and shelter themselves with the things you give them with your (nonexistent) replicator.
- ndriscoll 3y agoWe don't watch Sesame Street (or much TV at all), but if we did, we'd probably stick to the pre-elmo stuff. Jim Henson died when I was an infant so I imagine he'd not be much worse off if we did pirate it. Fred Rogers would probably similarly not have much to complain about if we copied his show. Or Tex Avery, etc. etc.
- cdubzzz 3y agoThis what I use the PBS Kids apps for. Free repetitive content without any kind of monetization or need for me to curate.
- noqc 3y agoWhy would you subcribe to repeat content? Your argument doesn't follow at all.
- briHass 3y agoSame kid stage here, but I did drop down to the ad-supported level due to the recent price jump. They claim kid profiles won't get ads, but I suspect they'll reverse course on that. When they do, that will be it for me. I'm not going to pay to have ads spewed into my childrens' faces.
- ndriscoll 3y agoChildren's shows have almost all been ads ("toyetic") for a long time. Paying for Disney is paying for ads.