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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. rjh29 · · focus · HN ↗
      It's funny because everyone predicted this would happen back when Netflix had everything and was $5. "Eventually other companies are going to make their own apps, put in ads, increase prices and we'll be back to $80 a month"
      1. triceratops · · focus · HN ↗
        Ok but we've saved thousands of dollars until it finally happened.
        1. toomuchtodo · · focus · HN ↗
          It's fine to extract from the subsidies as long as you have an exit ramp. Always have an exit ramp planned for when the gravy train ends (because that's always the goal, achieve market share or dominance and then crank on profitability as hard as possible). The defense against enshittification is a stack you can own and operate end to end.

          <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=48835392">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=48835392

          (Jellyfin + Soundcloud + Bandcamp + sonarr&#x2F;radarr&#x2F;lidarr in this context; if you have Plex, that is also an option; you can also stick web content into this system with yt-dlp)

          1. bee_rider · · focus · HN ↗
            On the bright side, it’s just TV. I watch it like everyone else, but with the awareness that literally any hobby that replaced it would be a better use of my time.
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