Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits
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Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits
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avgDev · · focus · HN ↗
We are back to cable pricing, but shows and movies are all over the place and now we need multiple apps to track us.
joshstrange · · focus · HN ↗
It's absurd that piracy is the _best_ user experience. 1 app, 1 place for your content, no licensing deals to worry about, no outrage pulling old episodes, local streaming, the list goes on.
You literally cannot pay (legally) for a better experience, and that makes me sad.
hypendev · · focus · HN ↗
Streaming services have become the worst of all worlds.
As an EU citizen, even tho I pay for Netflix and Prime, I cannot access most of the content there as even tho it exists on the service because it's not available in my country.
Amazon prime has 2 good shows and just a bunch of D-tier movies or some 35+ year old ones. It's mostly worthless.
Netflix region locks a whole lot of content or removes it after some time. I can't watch some great movies and TV shows because "oh we don't have rights for this region".
Meanwhile, piracy provides a user experience that not just lets me access all of their content - one I'm already paying for - anywhere, but also lets me access movies and shows that would otherwise not be found anywhere else, including regional movies and short movies.
kyriakos · · focus · HN ↗