Disney Raises Prices for Streaming Services by as Much as 27%::Walt Disney Co.
is raising the prices of its streaming services, including a 27% increase for
the advertising-free version of the flagship Disney+.
TLDR:
Current ad free plans for Disney+ and Hulu are now raising $3 more on October 12. Both becoming $13.99 and $17.99.
There’s a premium plan? Here in Australia, we still just have the one monthly plan, which they recently increased by $3 per month.
If they jump onto the “premium” plan bandwagon like the others, and move 4K to that, this will literally be the final streaming service for me to drop. I’ve already dropped all the others. Only reason I kept this is because the sheer volume of content for my wife and daughter makes the $14 worthwhile - I just don’t have enough storage space (yet) to deliver all that via my Plex setup.
They’re introducing it in Europe from November 2023, not sure about other regions. The press release here explains what’s in each plan - unfortunately the premium plan is listed here and it sounds just like Netflix.
Sonovabitch. This is why I cancelled the others in the first place - forcing me to pay for additional devices, just to get 4K streaming. That, and Netflix wanted to charge me for password sharing because my stepkids use our account when they’re at their dad’s. Netflix’s answer was they should have a profile at each house. Losers.
I’ve seen a few people mention Stremio lately. What’s the tldr; in terms of benefits?
I went through a fair amount of “adjustment”, getting my family to use Plex and Overseerr (replacing Kodi and “ask Dad to get it”), so I’d want to have some compelling reasons to change things on them again.
I actually started using Stremio today because of what this guy said. I never heard of it. It’s definitely easy to use, but requires some setting up with plugins. Without the right plugin (torrentio) you won’t be able to stream anything without being told to use a subscription service. It took me about 5 minutes to figure out how to get the plugin. I just watched Evil Dead: Rise and I had plenty of options for streaming it. Considering how I canceled my Netflix subscription a little while ago it’s nice to have a reliable replacement. I mean, it’s even better than Netflix. Lots of new movies and shows to watch. I hope this thing lasts a long time because it’s just what I was looking for.
I recently learned that you could integrate real-debrid with Plex though and stream instead of storing locally if you like so that may be worth looking into for your (and my) use case.
Sounds like they’re removing 4K from the standard plan and moving it to the new premium plan. Fuck you Disney!
There’s a premium plan? Here in Australia, we still just have the one monthly plan, which they recently increased by $3 per month.
If they jump onto the “premium” plan bandwagon like the others, and move 4K to that, this will literally be the final streaming service for me to drop. I’ve already dropped all the others. Only reason I kept this is because the sheer volume of content for my wife and daughter makes the $14 worthwhile - I just don’t have enough storage space (yet) to deliver all that via my Plex setup.
They’re introducing it in Europe from November 2023, not sure about other regions. The press release here explains what’s in each plan - unfortunately the premium plan is listed here and it sounds just like Netflix.
Sonovabitch. This is why I cancelled the others in the first place - forcing me to pay for additional devices, just to get 4K streaming. That, and Netflix wanted to charge me for password sharing because my stepkids use our account when they’re at their dad’s. Netflix’s answer was they should have a profile at each house. Losers.
Use stremio instead
I’ve seen a few people mention Stremio lately. What’s the tldr; in terms of benefits?
I went through a fair amount of “adjustment”, getting my family to use Plex and Overseerr (replacing Kodi and “ask Dad to get it”), so I’d want to have some compelling reasons to change things on them again.
I actually started using Stremio today because of what this guy said. I never heard of it. It’s definitely easy to use, but requires some setting up with plugins. Without the right plugin (torrentio) you won’t be able to stream anything without being told to use a subscription service. It took me about 5 minutes to figure out how to get the plugin. I just watched Evil Dead: Rise and I had plenty of options for streaming it. Considering how I canceled my Netflix subscription a little while ago it’s nice to have a reliable replacement. I mean, it’s even better than Netflix. Lots of new movies and shows to watch. I hope this thing lasts a long time because it’s just what I was looking for.
Nice dude you can install the plugin “cyberflix” so you get streaming catalogs that you can scroll through in discovery.
stremio has gotten a lot worse quality wise since rarbg went down. it doesnt seem to scrape torrentgalaxy correctly and i have no idea how to fix it
I recently learned that you could integrate real-debrid with Plex though and stream instead of storing locally if you like so that may be worth looking into for your (and my) use case.