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&13/mo, because I like Seinfeld lol. No offense but this streaming thing is a little *trumpetsound.wav* out there for me.

$ that is, though I wish I could pay with &'s

i'm down to just amazon now and that's going away for good in a few months when my sub is up

disney is gonna offer an ESPN/Hulu/Disney+ bundle for a reasonable price. sounds good if i can still get the ad-free version of hulu (the with-ads version is nearly unusable imo)

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The bundle they're advertising is Hulu with ads. I'm hoping an adless upgrade will be available...

$20/mo. on first run-through, when I didn't realize I could do multiple selections, and even then I still skipped all options on questions #1, #5 and #6, so I ended up with only:

Criterion Channel: $10.99 (Which is actually less as I locked in the charter member rate and will never let go)
Amazon Prime: $8.99 (I like Maisel, what can I say?)
Shout! Factory TV: Free (Wait, this is free?!)

Did a second runthrough where I selected everything I "wanted" (including knowing that Stranger Things stood in for Netflix, and I know there's other stuff on there I do watch), and it came to $58/mo.

They need to also bundle in music streaming services for this to be truly accurate.

tbh - and i suppose this goes without saying - this "online test" is probably not the best way to decide your bundles as it is hella arbitrary

As free ads go, it's about as effective as I've ever seen, as it pushed me as close to adding Shudder and Shout! Factory TV (which is not free) as I've been thus far.

Yeah, definitely good advertising --

gonna pass on Criterion because I still have most of my pre-streaming era DVDs and VHS tapes which are mostly Criterion-esque

Emphasis on free (just handed over to streaming services) advertising to be clear.

oh definitely!

all these companies should band together and create a bundle where we can pay one monthly fee to access all these services. they could even name it after the infrastructure that delivers the media to our computers.

we'll call it "cable"

i kinda like this balkanization tbh --

Don't really understand how to watch tv no more tbh.

I'm doing Hulu with Live TV and HBO: $60/mo. Netflix at $12, amazon (yearly). Disney launched today, no? I can't find it as an add on in Hulu this morning.

it's a stand-alone service: https://www.disneyplus.com/

"There will be nothing on Disney+ that's not branded or family-friendly," Kevin Mayer, the chairman of Disney's direct to consumer division, said during a preview event at the Disney studios, USA Today reports.

But despite the vast selection, Disney has positioned Hulu as its adult alternative which will house R-rated content. The "Deadpool" films that are produced by Fox but star Marvel characters are among the films that call Hulu home.

So where is non-kiddie Fox stuff like "Alien" going to go?

hulu, i believe

But of course I assume there is no "Disney+/Hulu" bundle without ESPN, right?

Anyway, I filled out that Times thing and it told me I would continue to subscribe to Netflix (free with my phone plan), Amazon (free with my Prime), Criterion, maybe Hulu (my $1 a month promo runs out in two weeks), maybe Disney+ (could be a Hanukkah present), and that all the other movies and TV I want to watch not covered by the aforementioned I'll probably torrent as needed. Which was a surprisingly accurate prediction!

Amazon (free with my Prime)

that is how they want you to think of it! what's it up to now? $112/yr or something?

we’ve been doing Amazon, Netflix & Vue on our PS4 plus an antenna with tivo Roamio for regular tv free to air stuff and torrentz for anything else.

with Vue going away we’re stuck looking at options again and ugghh

i mean Vue kinda drove me nuts but it was good for what it was.

i guess apple tv is what we’ll end up doing but i am not 100% clear on ~when~ the promised ps4 support is coming? seemed like this year sometime but idk

Disney+ has launched, with the first 19 seasons of The Simpsons stretched out sideways to fit some exec’s office TV screen

that is how they want you to think of it! what's it up to now? $112/yr or something?

We were Prime members before they added video streaming, so it's always been secondary to us to free shipping and credit card kickbacks. So yeah, it's "free" with my Prime, the same way Netflix is "free" with my phone, but OK, I guess it all goes into the same money pool. Anyway, let's say, sure, Prime is $112 a year. Actually, I think it's $119 a year. That's (does the math) ... about $10 a month! My gosh, that's a couple dollars a month more than Disney+! And comparable to Netflix! And Criterion! And so on! And with other benefits rolled in beyond streaming! (faints)

Non-sarcastic point being none of these plans are particularly onerous. Most are about the same price as seeing two matinees in the theatre a month. Or one shop-bought coffee a week. BS like what sic just illustrated or constantly changing offerings or shitty catalog clutter is what makes me the most wary or annoyed.

Non-sarcastic point being none of these plans are particularly onerous

agreed ... though things do add up, and it depends on how tight your finances are already ...

on one hand, not so expensive. on the other hand, after a childhood of staring at what would now be considered an insanely tiny television and watching only broadcast content and a handful of VHS tapes...

turns out only some of the Simpsons are stretched, most of them they just cut 1/3 of the screen & jokes out

All the classic Simpsons episodes on Disney+ are in cropped widescreen format -- this means you miss out on tons of great visual jokes, like how Duff, Duff Lite and Duff Dry all come from the same tube. pic.twitter.com/cTy9adulFl

— Tristan Cooper (@TristanACooper) November 12, 2019

WTF. I have to assume outcry will force them to fix that.

"But of course I assume there is no "Disney+/Hulu" bundle without ESPN, right?"

no, it's bullshit. I signed up anyway since having hulu and adding disney+ means that's the deal you get unless you use a different email address for both which doesn't do you any favors.

Fuck sports, that's why I cut cable out of my diet in the first place, making you pay for sports.

Apparently the PG rated Disney service doesn’t have the straight story = it is trash

Aren't most tv-remasters in this cropped widescreen format? The Wire did that as well (though they knew all along they might do this some day, so didn't put too much information at the top of the screen). I think that whole marathon thing they did back when FXX debuted, which iirc was slightly overshadowed by the birth of BLM in Ferguson, were in widescreen as well?

"only some of the simpsons are stretched" making me picture an extremely wide bart walking around an otherwise normal simpsons ep

XP Yes, the marathon eps of the Simpsons were cropped to 16:9.

This reminds me of when Marcia Wallace died and Fox was gonna show "Bart The Lover" as a tribute, but then pulled it at the 11th hour because it wasn't 'HD-Ready', which we now know means it was cropped.

There's a way to present 4:3 shows pillerboxed for 16:9, but between screwy TV settings and corporate indifference, it's infrequently utilized except on DVD/Blu-Ray.

'it wasn't cropped'

FXX had the option to watch the whole episode or just 2/3 - Disney replied to multiple enquiries ahead of launch assuring folks that they would be in 4:3 on Disney+

also, apparently Greedo and Han now shoot at the same time

the sensible centrist take

Well, they've done it again. #DisneyPlus appears to have altered the infamous Han and Greedo scene from #StarWars. See for yourself. pic.twitter.com/6aGqwoOrzF

— Garrett McDowell (@GarrettMcDowel1) November 12, 2019

BREAKING: Greedo shouting "Maclunkey" isn't the only major change to the Original #starwars trilogy on #DisneyPlus pic.twitter.com/7HMRKGQkc0

— Eric Fell (@ericfell) November 12, 2019

maclunkey indeed, my dude. maclunkey indeed.

looooooool at Harrison Ford's digital head suddenly leaping six inches right, unattached to his neck, to dodge that laser bullet

u get the best pictures on the radio imo

the funniest thing is that isn’t Disney’s edit of Star Wars. George Lucas made edits *every single time* a new theater or home release came out. he’s a weird dude

A modern parable in two acts pic.twitter.com/k1eqiPB69x

— Scott Nye (@railoftomorrow) November 12, 2019

meanwhile HBO is claiming BBC, TBS, CNN, Boomerang, Cartoon Network, DC Universe, Tru TV, TNT and Adult Swim, along with the Ghibli, WB and New Line catalogs.

also this disclaimer is interesting:

Get HBO Max with HBO NOW
HBO NOW subscribers who are billed directly through HBO will also get access to WarnerMedia’s new offering, HBO Max, at launch for no extra cost.
Offer available only to new and existing HBO NOW subscribers who subscribe through hbonow.com and are billed by HBO. Offer not available to HBO subscribers that obtain their subscriptions through third-party providers that are authorized to distribute the HBO NOW service.

in other words, please stop subscribing through apple and amazon and hulu and buy your shit direct from the plug

What about if you get HBO through your cable provider like a philistine?

meanwhile HBO is claiming BBC, TBS, CNN, Boomerang, Cartoon Network, DC Universe, Tru TV, TNT and Adult Swim, along with the Ghibli, WB and New Line catalogs.

??

prob cool as long as you're a time/warner philistine (or i guess they rebranded as something else?), otherwise tell your story walking

http://i.imgur.com/l8QOZb7.png

📌More than 700 episodes of BBC shows will be available on #HBOMax exclusively. Includes:

🔸Doctor Who
🔸The Office
🔸Top Gear
🔸Luther
🔸the honourable woman
🔸pure
🔸Trigonometry
🔸Stath Lets Flats
🔸Home
🔸Ghosts pic.twitter.com/JWkssfGhx3

— HBO Max News (@HBOmaxNews) November 11, 2019

though, i mean, you know, TWITTER, so