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by rdtsc 3218 days ago
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.

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> $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.

> 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.

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