Disney has officially announced the launch date of its new streaming service, Disney+.
The $6.99 a month service will be available in the U.S. on Tuesday, November 12, 2019.
It will include all of the Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars, National Geographic and Fox catalog. Disney tweeted:
“In year one, you’ll be able to rediscover more than 7,500 episodes and 500 films from our library on #DisneyPlus.”
In related news, Raymond Wong of Mashable complains that there are officially too many damn video streaming services.
PC Mag has a good chart comparing ten of the US streaming options.
My take: Over-saturation is becoming a growing problem. I can envision that folks will mix and match services each month, depending on what they want to watch; they won’t be as loyal as in the past. But this is a problem I think that will be eventually solved by an evolution of technology. Remember at the beginning of telephony that each town had its own exchange. These morphed from a maximum of 10,000 users per Central Office to today’s global networks. Likewise, I predict that content will one day flow directly from creators to viewers, bypassing curators. In the meantime, get ready to shell out the big bucks.