Comment on Disney+ and Hulu Merging Into Single App, Beta Coming in December
LegionEris@feddit.nl 7 months ago
'Member when monopolies were bad? 'Member anti-trust laws?
Hulu has been one of my staple subscriptions for most of its existence. Idek what we’ll do if they fuck up Hulu. It would be a real reckoning in the entertainment of my household. We’d almost certainly give Paramount+ a shot. Idk that we really want to go back to Netflix.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 7 months ago
Just go to the dark side and buy blurays
LegionEris@feddit.nl 7 months ago
I mean, I do buy hard copies of some things. But that is ludicrously far from a replacement for current TV. Many shows never get physical releases. Many shows will only get a physical release if they get enough viewers on their original platforms. Or they don’t get a physical release for years after the original airing. And that’s not even getting into how expensive it would be. To get full collections of all the shows we watch and rerun on Hulu would cost several hundred dollars. And then I’m still missing Jeopardy and Holey Moley and plenty of other shows and movies. Buying hard copies is a wildly inadequate replacement.
realcaseyrollins 7 months ago
I guess it depends on how much TV you watch. Physical media together with iTunes is almost enough for me.
LegionEris@feddit.nl 7 months ago
My wife and I are serious arts and entertainment people. We watch a lot of stuff–new and old, good and bad, any and all lengths. We met on a forum for the Dark Tower books, and experiencing and discussing art together has always been important to us. So carefully selecting and occasionally rotating paid services is a whole thing for us.