Walt Disney Studios said on Tuesday that it had completed a deal to show films from its Disney, Pixar and Marvel banners on Netflix, replacing a less lucrative pact with Starz.
The agreement is the first time one of Hollywood’s big studios has chosen Web streaming over pay television. Netflix has made similar “output” deals with smaller movie suppliers like DreamWorks Animation and the Weinstein Company. But all of the majors — Disney, Paramount, Universal, Warner Brothers, Sony and 20th Century Fox — have stayed with Starz, HBO or Showtime until now.
Streaming technology has convinced many people to save money by abandoning cable programming, this is only going to be amplified as streaming sources like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon start taking away resources held exclusively by cable, and especially premium cable companies.
Every house these days has internet, so outside of streaming cable is becoming an expensive luxury many can’t justify.
except…streaming video is almost never captioned. Being my wife is mostly deaf, that’s kind of a requirement.
Netflix offers Closed captioning on most of their content.
What they don’t offer is for foreign-film freaks like myself, the original audio with English captions.
I cut my TV service last year.
I told them I hadn’t watched TV in months so there was no need for their service and they didn’t even try to get me to keep the service.
From what I remember of the clerk it sounds like she got that call alot.
Heck, since we canceled our cable I actually watch more “real tv,” since the one local station I like wasn’t included in the package. But still get our money’s worth from Netflix, for sure.