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Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits

163 points · 188 comments · Brajeshwar

  1. avgDev · · focus · HN ↗
    Oof. I guess sailing the high sees is back on the table.

    We are back to cable pricing, but shows and movies are all over the place and now we need multiple apps to track us.

    1. afavour · · focus · HN ↗
      On the other hand, we're back to cable pricing except everything is on demand and there's no need to match any channel timetable when you want to watch a show. So it's not all bad.

      In a way I feel today's environment is less conducive to pirating than it used to be. So many fewer people have any kind of "always on" computer these days, they're using phones and tablets instead. Not to mention locked down App Stores, etc.

      1. ajsnigrutin · · focus · HN ↗
        That's today... give them time.

        In slovenia, one of the media houses demanded from telcos (iptv providers) to disable skipping ads when timehshifting shows (for the first 3 days), so even if you're watching a show that was on yesterday, you can skip forwards/backwards all over the show, but you can't skip over the ads (currently you can skip forwards over the ads only "a lot" (like 10 minutes), then slowly skip backwards until you reach the end of the ads, but it's a pain).

        So yeah... cameras tracking your eyes (that you're not turning away or going to pee during ads) are next, and then the "drink the verification cam".

        ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;siol-net.translate.goog&#x2F;novice&#x2F;slovenija&#x2F;nova-pravila-na-pop-tv-razburila-gledalce-zakaj-placujem-ogled-za-nazaj-ce-moram-gledati-oglase-700518?_x_tr_sl=auto&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en-US&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;siol-net.translate.goog&#x2F;novice&#x2F;slovenija&#x2F;nova-pravil... )

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