Category: disney

After Math: When your goose cooks

[ad_1] Elon Musk is having another rough week (man, I seem to say that a lot). First, it turned out that the American private eye he hired to dig up dirt on the guy he called a pedophile was actually a conman from the UK. Then the National Highway Transportation Safety Board dinged his company […]

ESPN+ was already an insane deal, now it has the Bundesliga

[ad_1] Right now, if you want to watch every Bundesliga match in the US, you have to pay a lot for it. Fox Sports currently has the rights to the German league and the network typically broadcasts a handful of games spread across Friday, Saturday and Sunday each week. These are usually shared among Fox […]

Disney titles will be on Amazon Prime Video in Latin America

[ad_1] The entertainment titan plans to roll the service out to the rest of the world over the next couple of years, so most fans will have to wait a bit before they can access all its originals and the movies it’s hosting. Disney’s deal with Amazon will serve as some sort of a stopgap […]

Disney deal will keep ESPN on PlayStation Vue for years to come

[ad_1] It wouldn’t be surprising if Sony paid a premium compared to the deal announced in 2015. Disney’s channel offerings have expanded considerably since then, and that’s not including any cost increases for existing channels. And like other streaming TV providers, PlayStation Vue is highly dependent on sports. Sony might not have much choice if […]

Disney+ public pre-orders are open, but without deep bundle discounts

[ad_1] If you didn’t already buy into the three-years-upfront D23 plan for Disney+ streaming, the doors are open for subscribers, at the promised rates of $69.99 annually, or $6.99 per month. The service started taking sign-ups tonight during the Emmys while other streamers (mostly Amazon) took home trophies, but with more than 25 original series […]

Disney might have merged with Apple if Steve Jobs were alive

[ad_1] Iger talked about his friendship with Jobs in the piece, telling the story of how Disney managed to acquire Pixar happened even though Jobs held a “deep-rooted” animosity toward Disney at the time. He also talked about they discussed the future of TV before the iPhone’s release and how he told Jobs that he […]

Disney CEO Bob Iger resigns from Apple board ahead of TV+ launch

[ad_1] This is what Apple CEO Tim Cook said in 2011, when Iger joined as a board member: “His strategic vision for Disney is based on three fundamentals: generating the best creative content possible, fostering innovation and utilizing the latest technology and expanding into new markets around the world, which makes him a great fit […]

Apple can make TV+ ubiquitous through brute force

[ad_1] No, Apple’s best weapon will be its near ubiquity. For one, there are hundreds of millions of iPhones, iPads, Macs and Apple TVs already in people’s homes. And many more will be arriving later this month when the newest iPads and iPhones go on sale. Let’s also not forget that, earlier this year, the […]

Get Disney+ for $4 per month, if you buy three years upfront

[ad_1] For a limited time, Disney is offering a steep discount on its Disney+ streaming service. When it launches on November 12th, Disney+ is set to cost $6.99 per month, with an option to pay $69.99 for the year. But if users are willing to sign up for th… [ad_2] Source link

For Disney, it’s all about ‘quality over quantity’ with Disney+

[ad_1] Of course, since Disney’s announcement in 2017 that it would launch its own streaming service, Disney+ was immediately billed as a Netflix rival — which is understandable considering how dominant Netflix has been in that business over the past few years. But Paull sees it differently. “I don’t really think about it in that […]