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

163 points · 188 comments · Brajeshwar

  1. behnamoh · · focus · HN ↗
    Surprisingly, increasing user hostility is a filter of users' tech savviness and IQ. I doubt most HN dwellers will tolerate price increases or ads or anything like that. They can pirate shit, and they can block ads. They're better off compared to the rest of the population who is not tech-savvy enough or smart enough to bypass these user-hostilities. These companies basically extract revenue out of people who are relatively poor.
    1. vehemenz · · focus · HN ↗
      This seems backwards. The salaries around here are relatively high, so a marginal increase in monthly entertainment costs wouldn't be noticeable in the first place. People can get self-righteous if they want, but these are entertainment services, not essential goods.

      Only speaking for myself, but these streaming services would need to increase costs A LOT to make me invest valuable time replacing them.

      1. downut · · focus · HN ↗
        "here"

        It's a big world out there, whatever "here" means.

        That last sentence makes me wonder, do you enjoy ads?

        I went to a Super Bowl party a while back and the half time show glitched continuously. Random weird glitches for the rest of the time. => note to self: don't pay for this.

      2. bobitsaboy · · focus · HN ↗
        I could be wealthy beyond my wildest dreams and still be turned off by their obnoxious changes.
      3. jerf · · focus · HN ↗
        The "relatively high" salaries also mean that 20 minutes of ads in a 60 minute session "costs" more. It's not quite as simple as applying my hourly rate to the ads, but it's at least a decent place to start the analysis, and by that metric it doesn't take long before the ads are the dominant cost of the service. It gives me a lot of virtual money to deploy to the task of turning to entertainment that doesn't annoying vast quantities of my time to squeeze out fractions of a penny from me because they can do it in bulk.
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