Disney Plus: Price, Launch Date

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7. $8.99 for Netflix is close to my television limit.

I won't pay for another television service. If I don't see a Disney movie at the theater, and it doesn't show up in the Redbox or on Netflix, I simply won't see it anytime soon. Oh well.

Our kid, who loves smaller budget film making, set us up with Netflix in the first place. Previous that we just had a VCR and a DVD player and we rented the movies we wanted to see. We also buy DVDs of movies we really enjoyed, or I later find them in thrift stores.

Our library of movies is fairly large. I think one of the first DVDs we ever bought was The Princess Bride. Before that we'd buy video cassettes. We still have a super high end video cassette player I bought in a thrift store for ten dollars, but I've gradually replaced all our VCR movies with DVD thrift store finds.

We haven't had cable, satellite, or broadcast television for over a decade.

I've lost any tolerance I once had for television news or commercials. My wife never had any tolerance for either. She'd rather read a book.

Maybe I'm just cheap, but I think there is going to be a lot of consumer push-back against streaming services that try to duplicate the "premium channel" business model of cable television. That's precisely what cord cutters like me were rejecting.