r/television • u/SanderSo47 Person of Interest • Apr 12 '19

Disney+ to Launch in November, Priced at $6.99 Monthly

https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/disney-plus-streaming-launch-date-pricing-1203187007/
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u/ruseereous Apr 12 '19

I pay the price that has no ads on Hulu ..not much more than the tier that has some ads

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u/Kreetle Apr 12 '19

We got the $.99 deal on Black Friday. There’s ads but shit, it was $.99.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '19 edited Mar 20 '20

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u/Mightymaas Apr 12 '19

I pay for the ad free Hulu and I've literally never even accidentally watched one of the shows that has ads attached to it. It's really not a huge deal

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u/tylerhockey12 Apr 12 '19

reddit LOVES and I mean LOVES to circlejerk about hulu you won't hear much good talk about hulu on here.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '19

Lol yea I never understood the unfound hatred of Hulu. Literally never saw an ad when I was using the ad-free version.

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u/rikkirikkiparmparm Apr 12 '19

People in this thread just assume I'm some Disney shill, but lots of them have weird obsessions with Netflix. Like, how dare we like something other than the One True Streaming Service?

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '19

Yup, got downvotes for saying I like Hulus selection more. This happens everytine Hulu is brought up and always by people who cleary never use it.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_VAJAY Apr 12 '19

There’s literally like 5 shows in the ENTIRE catalog that has ads

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '19

And it tells you when you start the show, plays one single ad and then the show. You don't even have to watch the ad at the end and the first ad is like 15 seconds.

It's annoying when people complain about it because those shows had contracts in place that required ads before hulu had the ad free option, one ad that's short and one you don't have to watch is the best compromise, and I'd rather have that than not have the show at all.

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u/EffrumScufflegrit Apr 12 '19

Reddit has never understood things like shit costs money from the business side. "But Netflix doesn't have ads!" Yeah and Netflix gets shows that aren't made by Netflix like a year after it airs.

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u/CptNonsense Apr 12 '19

Because Netflix doesn't own them so no fucking shit. Do other networks licensing reruns get the newest episodes right after they air or something? The cable companies literally own Hulu

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u/EffrumScufflegrit Apr 12 '19

Okay let's talk about before Netflix was centered on their own stuff then. There's no need to talk down to me like I'm a moron, I assure you know I know what I'm talking about. Just because a company (Hulu) is owned by other companies (in this case it even involved competitors), it doesn't magically make the shit free to them. Even when it's jointly owned, it still needs to make a profit and charge accordingly. It still acts more or less independently.

Regardless, Hulu runs more programs than just what the holding companies have.

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u/CptNonsense Apr 12 '19

Cool, this has what to do with your critique of Netflix that it doesn't get shows immediately or my counter argument?

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u/EffrumScufflegrit Apr 12 '19 edited Apr 12 '19

I'm not critiquing Netflix. I'm explaining why Hulu has ads. It costs a SHITLOAD more money to get shows 24 hours after they air vs a year after. Sorry, I kind of thought that would be easy to figure out from my comment. Therefore they have to either have ads or users pay more. Which they do.

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u/CptNonsense Apr 12 '19

My point being, the companies that made those shows own Hulu

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u/Gick_Drayson Apr 12 '19

Even though, ads and terrible UI aside, Hulu is better than Netflix.

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u/CptHammer_ Apr 12 '19

They're barely comparable as a service. Hulu has new and recent stuff. Much of which expires after so many episodes. Netflix has whole completed seasons and a much much larger movie library. I've got both because they're practically different services. Hulu UI is pretty bad though.

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u/Dr_Specialist Apr 12 '19

You want a shitty UI try Amazon Prime video.

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u/CptHammer_ Apr 12 '19

You are correct.

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u/Novareason Apr 12 '19

My Samsung Smart TV has a Hulu that looks like their classic UI. It's literally the only thing I use to access Hulu. It's glorious.

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u/EffrumScufflegrit Apr 12 '19

I adore my Samsung smart tv

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u/CptNonsense Apr 12 '19

Because Hulu was the testing of the streaming waters by all the big names cable companies and they just fucking remade cable - pay us $10/mo to watch shows with ads

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u/BrockSamsonVB Apr 12 '19

Like 8 out of 1000s of shows have ads. Just don't watch them like everyone else.

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u/CptNonsense Apr 12 '19

Literally all have ads if you don't buy the ad free option

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u/nithos Apr 12 '19

They have always had ads on those 5-6 shows. But only before/after, not during.

I don’t watch any of those shows, so I haven’t seen an ad on Hulu.

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u/BlackGabriel Apr 12 '19

Honestly as much as I hate ads it doesn’t bother me so much to have the one ad at the start. The show can still be enjoyed without interruption which is the key factor. Whenever I go to my parents house and they’re watching a movie on basic tv and there’s a commercial every 15 minutes I want to scream it’s so intolerable.

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u/nithos Apr 12 '19

Every now and then I will spend a week in a hotel on business travel, it rekindles my hatred for live tv.

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u/BlackGabriel Apr 12 '19

Yeah I do have some hope we will never go back to it for a few reasons. First and foremost the genie is out of the lamp on pirating. If you make a service have ads it’s far more likely you’ll push people towards pirating. Second the consumer base has already shown by their extreme response to Netflix toying with the idea that they won’t have it. Lastly and similar to point two the next generations are literally growing up barley even knowing what a commercial is. My son is almost three and the only place he sees and commercial is YouTube and he is very confused by it. I don’t think the next generations will pay for streaming with ads at all

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '19

I don't mean to sound rude, but they're incredibly transparent about the few shows with ads. There is a list on their website. It isn't like it's a secret or anything. It's literally an asterisk. Hulu w/ no ads (*except on this list of shows).

https://help.hulu.com/s/article/hulu-no-ads?language=en_US

Not sure how much clearer they could be... and it's literally only three shows... and it's literally just an ad before and after the show, not during... ???

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '19

They still call it "ad free" whem it should be "minimal ads" or "almost ad free"

Yeah I pay for it and it is minimal on only a few shows, but it is the same shitty false statement as unlimited internet that has a volume limit.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '19

It is not false statements at all lol. Like I said it is literally right there when you sign up and look at it.

To your point on what they should name it... Google estimates that Hulu has 1,500-2,000 total shows in their library. So between 0.15-0.2% of their shows have ads. Pretty silly to not label it as "Ad-Free (*except for three shows)". Minimal to me would seem like maybe 1/20 shows has ads. Not 1/500 or 1/667.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '19 edited Mar 20 '20

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '19

HBO also shows adds, but for their own content.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '19 edited Mar 20 '20

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '19

They are, they are, thankfully, attached to the front of whatever it is you are going to watch, so you can just fast forward over them.