[garduque]

I have a 2- and 3-year-old. Give me all the Disney things at $10/mo and we're good. I'd prefer they be included in Netflix, but Netflix+Disney and I'm still better off than cable, and hopefully there is some better curated content as a result.

[thwarted]

Give me all the Disney things

This would totally be worth $10/month to have access to the entire Disney catalog; the entire "Disney Vault", all the content from the 60s, 70s, and 80s; all the Wonderful World of Disney; all the classic Disney movies (the entire catalogs of the likes of Fred MacMurray, Annette Funicello, Tommy Kirk, Keenan Wynn and other contract Disney actors from those eras; movies like The Black Hole, Apple Dumpling Gang, The North Avenue Irregulars and other stuff that, if it's available at all, is only currently findable used on VHS); all the animated Disney movies; all the Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck shorts; all the Mickey Mouse Club episodes, all the tween-centric episodic shows, etc.

This would potentially be worth more than $10/month.

If it's just going to be the popular animated feature-length movies, it's not worth $10/month. And they could still screw this up by not having the entire animated movie catalog available for random streaming, but rather only a subset available at any given time.

Disney has a truly massive archive of quality, family content, much of which hasn't been seen for decades and few people even know about or remember. It would be a shame if it continues to rot in obscurity in their vault.

[cptskippy]

> And they could still screw this up by not having the entire animated movie catalog available for random streaming, but rather only a subset available at any given time.

That artificial scarcity that Disney practices with physical media won't work with an on-demand service and if they try it will definitely be what kills the service.

It works with physical media because once you own it you can watch it as much as you like. So when they do offer the media, people jump and pay full price for it because they know it's their only chance for a while.

With on-demand people aren't going to stick around in the hopes that a movie they want comes into rotation.

[ctdonath]

"Song of the South" being a prime example. Pirated discs are prolific in the region the story is set in, consistently fetching >$20 a copy.

[jerf]

I just went with the family to Disney World, and was actually amazed at how much stuff is based on Song of the South. You see Ariel from "The Little Mermaid", you see Buzz and Woody from "Toy Story", and you hear Zip-a-dee-doo-dah from "[REDACTED - THIS NEVER EXISTED - REPORT TO ROOM 101 FOR REEDUCATION]". There's some costuming and stuff in the parade for it, and a few other things too.

It's in competition with what is just a shitload of stuff now (all of Disney, all of Pixar, all of Star Wars, all of Marvel), and it's still holding its own in the park pretty well for a thing that never existed. It's not dominant, since nothing can really be dominant in a line up like that, but it's definitely there.

[InitialLastName]

I remember going to Disney World as a kid and having no idea what half the characters we saw were from... Br'er Rabbit, Fox, Bear.

That was in the 90's, so before the Pixar, Star Wars, and Marvel stuff got pulled into the fold. It's good to see that there are still some characters floating around that kids have no reference for.

[rdtsc]

One thing I noticed with my kid (5 yrs old) is they enjoy repeatedly watching the same show. Even if the whole Disney catalog was available they'd probably watch the same move for days on end. At first I was encouraging trying new shows but apparently it is normal for kids to act that way. So what we ended up doing was just purchasing the movies. The trick is figure out if they'd like it. But so far we've had a good track record at guessing.

$10/month would be worth it for me but it's probably not realistic. A single movie usually costs more than that. With this plan they'd cannibalize their own media market.

[Iv]

> $10/month would be worth it for me but it's probably not realistic. A single movie usually costs more than that. With this plan they'd cannibalize their own media market.

Another way of being 'realistic' (not moral) is to see that 1TB hard drive is 100 bucks and can contain a thousands of Disney movies, which can be obtained fairly easily online.

They can't charge too much for something that people essentially buy out of good will rather than necessity.

[flukus]

> Even if the whole Disney catalog was available they'd probably watch the same move for days on end. At first I was encouraging trying new shows but apparently it is normal for kids to act that way.

I remember doing that but I thought it was because we only went to the video rental store once a week.

[bluedino]

Any of my friends who have young kids, they all have a different Disney/Pixar movie on a loop.

[lostmsu]

Hell, I do the same all the time. Honestly, there's very little number of shows or movies that bring noticeable value. So I prefer to rewatch good ones I've already seen.

[chrisseaton]

Well that's just Disney Life isn't it? All Disney things, and it's less than $10 a month. My daughter loves it.

[dalore]

Doesn't Disney already have a streaming TV service called Disney Life that does all this? It's £4.99 a month here so less then your $10/mo range. You get access to quite an extensive catalog of Disney stuff. It's a bit clunky the interface, not remembering where you were when you left. Fast forwarding is a pain. Sometimes crashing (and coupled with the not remembering and the fast forwarding is a pain, makes it a bigger issue).

[Mindwipe]

Yes. You'll note a lot of writing about this from the US posing questions that ignores that we already know what this service will be like, because they've already piloted it in the UK. And they're going ahead with it because it did reasonably well.

This article already fails by virtue of going "whu, no Marvel, how do the build a proposition here?" We already flaming know.

[falcolas]

$10 a month can build up an impressive DVD collection in short order. And then you own them and can stop paying to access that content.

Not saying it's the better option, but a lot of folks forget that it is an option.

[TheBeardKing]

To me Amazon has the best kids content, so add to that Netflix and HBO Kids and we're covered. I'm not shelling out more for Disney.