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Disney Direct
By: Neumatic Date: August 9, 2017, 2:52 am
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It was announced that that Disney will be pulling its movies
from Netflix and starting its own streaming services
HTML https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/08/disney-will-pull-its-movies-from-netflix-and-start-its-own-streaming-services.html,<br
/>as well as a similar service for their ESPN channels.
Honestly, this is something I'm surprised hasn't happened yet.
Now, I think I've b*tched in the past about how I don't want to
pay for a dozen different streaming services (case in point, CBS
All Access JUST to watch Star Trek Discovery), but Disney is a
horse of a different colour. Why?
What's your favourite CBS show? Is it actually a CBS show or
was it created by another company and only distributed by CBS?
What's your favourite 20th Century Fox movie?
Now, what's your favourite Disney movie? You can answer that in
a second, and you know exactly what was a Disney movie and what
wasn't (a couple animated flicks might be tricky, I'll concede)
but more or less, Disney is instantly identifiable. And they
have a massive back catalog to draw upon, not just their classic
animated movies, but their live action movies, the Disney
afternoon shows, TGIF, a ton of ABC shows, not to mention their
two Disney cable channels AND Radio Disney. Not to mention
specials, documentaries, etc. They're spoiled for choice. And
I'm not sure how familiar you are with Disney Channel, but
they're big on exploiting their talent: giving them shows,
movies, music videos, etc. And having that all on one platform,
where they could control the promotion as well, that would be
pretty big. Not just promoting what just dropped to stream, but
also what's about to come out in the theaters.
Now on top of that, imagine what else they could put on there
that wouldn't quite work on traditional TV. They could create
programming about their D23 convention, for example. I know
that Ed Catmull loved The Wonderful World Of Disney, it would be
great to see that come back, showing of how tech is used to
create their new movies. They could also do virtual tours of
their parks, the new attractions and the old favourites.
Imagine if VR came to the channel, you could go on every ride
that they ever had at any of their parks.
And that's just the content, don't forget: Disney is BIG on
controlling the entire user experience, something they could
never do with Netflix or Hulu, and finding a use for all that
data that they'd be collecting. I'm sure that plays more into
the decision than I'd like to imagine.
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Re: Disney Direct
By: Chiprocks1 Date: August 9, 2017, 8:00 am
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Heard about this yesterday and I agree...I too thought this
would have happened a long time ago.
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