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**Ahtman**

Marvel's Netflix deal coming to an end. Future shows will be on Disney's streaming service

Well, as much as I don't want to subscribe to another stupid streaming service, it seems like Disney is going to make me. We already knew that Disney would be killing off their deal with Netflix and Hulu and that all of their films and TV shows, including all of the Star Wars and Marvel stuff, will exclusively stream on their upcoming streaming service.

Now, it seems like any future Marvel series that would normally be developed and streamed on Netflix will be moving to the Disney streaming service in the future. I know this was a safe assumption, but hearing confirmation of their plan for it in the Wall Street Journal was still a little jarring.

It kinda sucks to hear that we eventually won't be seeing any Marvel shows on Netflix anymore. I love those shows! Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and The Punisher!? Yeah, now I will definitely have to subscribe to the stupid Disney streaming service because I want to watch the story continue for those characters. I also will want to see any other new characters they eventually introduce to that universe.

The report also confirms that one of the main reasons that Disney is looking to purchase 20th Century Fox is so that they could have a better chance of competing with Netflix. Disney Chief Strategy Officer Kevin Mayer said:

“[W]e’ve turned our attention to the one platform seeing growth challenges. That’s the television platform. The Fox deal would’ve given Disney control of a large portion of Fox’s TV shows, which Disney would’ve then presumably moved over to their upcoming streaming service."

Mayer goes on to say that we shouldn't look at the Disney streaming service as “an anti-Netflix move, but a pro-Disney move.” This big move is going to end up costing Disney over $300 million a year, but according to the report, Disney is confident that the strategy will pay off in the end.

It's no surprise that Disney only wants to make themselves stronger. Don't get me wrong, I love Disney, but you can't deny that they are on a path to dominating the world of entertainment.

**LordofHats**

And this is why I wanted CBS's on demand service to fail, and now Disney as well. I'm not paying seven bucks to everyone on the internet just to watch one or two shows.

**adamsouza**

All the Netflix series seem a little too edgy for Disney

**GoatboyBeta**

So will the current Netflix shows be continuing on this new service, or will they be ending?

**Yodhrin**

Either way, time to dig out the old eyepatch and parrot - if the entertainment industry are going to try turning the internet into an even worse version of the cable subscription model, they'll just go back to getting none of my money at all.

**LordofHats**

Yodhrin wrote:
Either way, time to dig out the old eyepatch and parrot - if the entertainment industry are going to try turning the internet into an even worse version of the cable subscription model, they'll just go back to getting none of my money at all.

Gabe Newel was completely on the nose when he claimed piracy was a service problem. Game of Thrones isn't the most pirated show in years because people don't want to pay for HBO, it's because people don't want to pay HBO just to watch Game of Thrones.

To be fair, this model will probably be cheaper than current cable, because instead of being forced to buy a massive package of dozens of channels you'll never watch you can just pay for the ones you do want to watch, but it's not really about what's cheaper for me as much as convenience and usability. Owning personal copies of my favorite shows and movies is cheaper than paying someone a monthly fee and I'm perfectly content to wait until it his a box or itunes and I can just load it up on my PC and get the exact same service for even less.

**Easy E**

Well, I am starting to think Netflix has no use anymore if the providers decide to segment the market.

The local video store will probably start making a comeback once the Net model fragments. The local video store can st least get all the things you want to binge watch under one roof.

**Bran Dawri**

Yodhrin wrote:
Either way, time to dig out the old eyepatch and parrot - if the entertainment industry are going to try turning the internet into an even worse version of the cable subscription model, they'll just go back to getting none of my money at all.

This. I don't have a link, but it's the perfect opportunity for ye olde Archer meme.

Do you want piracy? Because that's how you get piracy.

**kronk**

LordofHats wrote:

Gabe Newel was completely on the nose when he claimed piracy was a service problem. Game of Thrones isn't the most pirated show in years because people don't want to pay for HBO, it's because people don't want to pay HBO just to watch Game of Thrones.

To be fair, this model will probably be cheaper than current cable, because instead of being forced to buy a massive package of dozens of channels you'll never watch you can just pay for the ones you do want to watch, but it's not really about what's cheaper for me as much as convenience and usability. Owning personal copies of my favorite shows and movies is cheaper than paying someone a monthly fee and I'm perfectly content to wait until it his a box or itunes and I can just load it up on my PC and get the exact same service for even less.

The Oatmeal did a comic on it for Season 1, but it's still relevant, I think.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones

**Formosa**

kronk wrote:
LordofHats wrote:

Gabe Newel was completely on the nose when he claimed piracy was a service problem. Game of Thrones isn't the most pirated show in years because people don't want to pay for HBO, it's because people don't want to pay HBO just to watch Game of Thrones.

To be fair, this model will probably be cheaper than current cable, because instead of being forced to buy a massive package of dozens of channels you'll never watch you can just pay for the ones you do want to watch, but it's not really about what's cheaper for me as much as convenience and usability. Owning personal copies of my favorite shows and movies is cheaper than paying someone a monthly fee and I'm perfectly content to wait until it his a box or itunes and I can just load it up on my PC and get the exact same service for even less.

The Oatmeal did a comic on it for Season 1, but it's still relevant, I think.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones

Perfect

**Dreadwinter**

Yodhrin wrote:
Either way, time to dig out the old eyepatch and parrot - if the entertainment industry are going to try turning the internet into an even worse version of the cable subscription model, they'll just go back to getting none of my money at all.

You know, I used to pirate a lot of stuff. Got a few letters from the internet providers with less than nice words about it. It came down to "fething quit" or some such. I stopped partially because of that and partially because I have access to Netflix/HBO now. My buddy pays for Netflix, I pay for HBO. We share it between ourselves. It is nice that you can share these services between 3-4 people each. You can get a good group share going on it. But if streaming services are going to further fragment instead of uniting under a few umbrellas, then I fear I may have to go back to the old ways. One must pay the iron price!

RAISE THE BLACK FLAG!

**AduroT**

The ones I really hate are stuff like CBS having episodes of Survivor free to watch on their website with commercials, but not on mobile. The videos can’t be seen on my phone. Soooooo... I has to pirate shows that were already free to watch but now CBS loses that extra bit of ad money

**LordofHats**

kronk wrote:
LordofHats wrote:

Gabe Newel was completely on the nose when he claimed piracy was a service problem. Game of Thrones isn't the most pirated show in years because people don't want to pay for HBO, it's because people don't want to pay HBO just to watch Game of Thrones.

To be fair, this model will probably be cheaper than current cable, because instead of being forced to buy a massive package of dozens of channels you'll never watch you can just pay for the ones you do want to watch, but it's not really about what's cheaper for me as much as convenience and usability. Owning personal copies of my favorite shows and movies is cheaper than paying someone a monthly fee and I'm perfectly content to wait until it his a box or itunes and I can just load it up on my PC and get the exact same service for even less.

The Oatmeal did a comic on it for Season 1, but it's still relevant, I think.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones

Yep. Japanese media companies realized this ages ago when they noticed hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of people in Western markets were pirating manga and anime because the turn around time for regional releases could be as long as five years. Even on some of the most popular series', it could takes a year for chapters or episodes to release in other languages, even though random people on the internet were translating and editing new releases within hours. They solved the problem by falling behind Crunchy Roll, which has been a break out success, and by shortening the turn around time on regional releases. Throw in cracking down on host sites, and pirating of anime and manga is nowhere near as significant as it once was (though it's still pretty big because the turn around times can still be long and internet scanlators can put out a chapter within half a day).

**Bran Dawri**

Unless they fragment to the point where you pay only for what you watch, yep. I see an influx of new (or new old) pirates on the horizon. Land ho!

**SkavenLord**

Eh, DVDs make for a better-looking collection anyway.

**Yodhrin**

Bran Dawri wrote:
Unless they fragment to the point where you pay only for what you watch, yep. I see an influx of new (or new old) pirates on the horizon. Land ho!

Yup. See, this is what these companies either don't get or refuse to see: for consumers, only two models make any sense. Model 1; two or three "broadcasters"(Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, say) competing to buy in shows and funding new shows. Most folk will only actually *need* to sub to one or two, and there's still just enough of a rivalry between them to prevent stagnation providing they don't import stupid regional restrictions from TV as well. Model 2: complete, free-for-all pay-as-you-go. The iTunes model where you can buy individual episodes of individual shows for pennies.

Everything in between those two *only* benefits the entertainment corporations, and while they insist on making us wait months or even years to get the chance to buy home media you're damn right a lot of folk are going to say eff-it and run up the Jolly Roger.