I don't mind it. They do reruns of Carson on digital cable here and I love sitting down to watch it because you get a sense of what the mood was that day in that year.
That's been the goal of media companies since streaming became a thing, so they can get around cable companies and charge viewers directly. The next step will be creating their own ISPs in major cities with exclusive content deals.
Yes. Streaming was too shortsighted when it was prefaced on avoiding ads because ad revenue was always the major money maker in television (print and radio media too). So for years they needed to find a way to bring it back. So now you’ll pay more than you do for cable for multiple separate services and eventually be subjected to commercials. Then there will be companies that will package the services and you’ll be back where it all started, paying for channel packages aka Cable.
It's weird that they are just now doing this when a lot of smaller streaming services like Asiancrush have had them for years. Like, my Samsung TV comes loaded with them. Hope Warner does it too.
Nothing, cable helped me find shows I otherwise never would have even realized existed. I miss channel surfing, I just don't see the need for this roundabout way of bringing it back
I like cable and linear channels. The problem today is all channels just marathon 3 or 4 shows over and over and it gets fricking boring fast. When variety died that's when my cable subscription did, and the ones running these digital channels like on Pluto TV are doing the same fricking thing, despite having a huge library to choose from.
Cable content was far worse than Nettflix for decades you teenager. Fricking boomers were joking about how it was a bankrupt system where 99% of it were content farms ever since the cold war and it only got worse in its last years when Nettflix started crushing them.
I like when people complain about how bad content is now, they forget that content has always been bad. We always have period where entertainment goes down in the dumps. Remember when people got sick of cowboys movies?
You're moronic. Watch TBS now and you might notice somethings off when watching reruns. They play them at like 1.2x speed so they can squeeze in more ads. Sometimes they might even cut out the opening to just the title card, and run ads over the credits. Plus you have no control over what to watch other than channels.
>People are too dumb to consciously seek out whatever they want to watch in a sea of non-advertised shit.
Can confirm. Am an idiot and had no idea 33 animated films came out last year because I didn't see a single ad for any of them as I use zero streaming services outside of when I'm on vacation or at family's houses. tbf I didn't see Cinemaphile talk about any of them either.
Going through the 2023 list on wikipedia. I'm going to ignore solely non-western media, capeshit, and legacy films. criteria threshhold is a runtime of at least 80 min. also, if i can't find a trailer, it doesn't make the cut. I might get some things wrong, so bear with me. >hurr but some of those movies are for toddlers
doesn't matter. all animation is for toddlers. >but the animation is ugly/not in a style i don't like
too bad. it's animated. it's over 80 minutes. it's a film.
>Butterfly Tale >The Canterville Ghost >Chef Jack: The Adventurous Cook >Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget >Elemental >Epic Tails >Glisten and the Merry Mission >A Greyhound of a Girl >Hidden Dragon >The Inseparables >The Inventor >Katak: The Brave Beluga >Kensuke's Kingdom >La leyenda de los Chaneques >Leo >The Magician's Elephant >Mars Express >Migration >The Monkey King >Mummies >Nimona >Nina and the Hedgehog's Secret >The Peasants >Richard the Stork >Robot Dreams >Rosa and the Stone Troll >Teenage Kraken >Scarygirl >The Siren >Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds >They Shot the Piano Player >Under the Boardwalk >When Adam Changes >Wish >Max and Me
Here's one I really like. It's not the best bumper but it's cool. I definitely remember seeing one just like this, but I'm not sure it was the exact same. Probably just memory though.
Here's one I really like. It's not the best bumper but it's cool. I definitely remember seeing one just like this, but I'm not sure it was the exact same. Probably just memory though.
A nice TV channel has been like the modern hearth fire for decades, it's nice to have something on in the background you can ignore that can still catch your attention and let you discover good stuff
This. The only problem with old-fashioned channels is when programming blocks would end. So if the kids had to stay home from school sick or something there'd be huge chunks of the day where the only thing they had to watch was maybe game shows.
You used a streaming service? They bury shit like you wouldn't believe. The UIs are god awful, they don't even have basic filters. Even direct searches often have them shoving unrelated shit in your face. A wise man said piracy is a service issue, and it's why I went back to it.
Wow that's exactly what used to happen before streaming when only one or 2 shows carried entire channels while other channels where absolutely dead but kept alive for no reason other than dump franchises on it due to rights
What would be a good idea (and I hope I'm not the only person who thought of this) is introducing a random episode button on a particular series that isn't an hour long drama like Witcher or something
A nice TV channel has been like the modern hearth fire for decades, it's nice to have something on in the background you can ignore that can still catch your attention and let you discover good stuff
Paradox of choice. When Netflix was the only streaming service people would scroll through the hundreds of options for hours and never watch anything
Is too much to fricking for a streaming service to have a fricking playlist feature!? I don't want to marathon or "binge" a show, I want to watch a single episode and then get another show, because I don't just watch one goddamn show
I have Peawiener and sometimes, even though I can watch whatever WWE match I want, I'll just put it on their WWE channel while I'm eating dinner and just watch whatever classic matches they're showing.
The appeal of watching a channel is different to binge-watching a show
Not everyone wants to actively seek out content and sometimes just wants curated content to bring it to them, maybe find interest in something they never tried before
That's why programming blocks and bumpers were so good
I have Peawiener and sometimes, even though I can watch whatever WWE match I want, I'll just put it on their WWE channel while I'm eating dinner and just watch whatever classic matches they're showing.
What if I don't want to just binge watch a show, and also don't want to menu through things? Maybe I just have my TV on in the background.
>people wants to pay for NOT watching content
You morons deserve everything the tribe throws at you.
after what i've seen from the FAST channels on other apps, they'd probably seperate them and put a couple shows on each channel. and if they do end up lumping it in, they'd use some stupid new name like "Disney Animated Family Favorites Classic Style" even though the TOON DISNEY NAME IS RIGHT THERE, MAN!
I'm not entirely sure why they wouldn't. Toon Disney as a name, is quite all-encompassing. Toon Disney could literally just mean ALL Disney cartoons. They can just shove there old silly symphonies in the channel, too there newer story driven shows like the owl house and it wouldn't be much of an issue.
Toon Disney is for zoomers. Disney Afternoon is where it's at.
I grew up with both. They were great. I cant see why toon Disney can't have the afternoon block shows. It would seems like a real cluster frick to have a sperate channel for just Disney afternoon and toon Disney. Especially sense toon Disney aired afternoon shows.
This sounds like what Paramount does where they have specific channels for specific content. It doesn't cost extra to have and it's a nice novelty if you'd rather have content given to you than have it seeked out
Yeah but I guess too them, the Disney brand was still strong enough to hold its own streaming service at the time. I mean 2019 was the peak of disney power. Now the Disney brand is in shambles. I would say now would be a good time to dump all there stuff in Hulu after buying them out, but Hulu isn't exactly everyone's favorite streaming service either, and at this point, I'm sure Disney has put far too much money and tim into Disney + to the point where giving up on the thing would be a huge loss.
Really is moronic. St the point just merge already.
They should've just bought them out and put their shit on Hulu anyway instead of naming it Disney+
Yeah but I guess too them, the Disney brand was still strong enough to hold its own streaming service at the time. I mean 2019 was the peak of disney power. Now the Disney brand is in shambles. I would say now would be a good time to dump all there stuff in Hulu after buying them out, but Hulu isn't exactly everyone's favorite streaming service either, and at this point, I'm sure Disney has put far too much money and tim into Disney + to the point where giving up on the thing would be a huge loss.
Disney DOES own Hulu outright now, dumb dumbs. What was actually bought was them being able to have non-Disney non-kiddie shit on their service now, which is a unqiuely American issue, since Disney+ literally everywhere else in the world already had this option with no extra cost
>dedicated channels to Marvel and Star Wars
So close and yet so far
That's not the appeal of linear television, channels are supposed to be grab bags of different shows from different places, people liked Toon Disney because you could watch shit like Goof Troop and Brandy and Mr Whiskers, and then wait for Jetix to see Spider-Man TAS and Digimon.
The appeal is variety.
Having singular channels dedicated to a branch of your corpo isn't appealing. >b-but Pluto TV
Not the same thing, Pluto is literally free tv you aren't in a position to complain about it.
I actually like the idea but relegating channels to specific IP's and properties is not the way too do it. I know Disney is far too franchise brained to see past there multi million dollar universe fetish, but even the most die hard goy slop eating star wars fan is gonna get sick of watching a channel that only funnels Star wars content into there head. They should instead just have channels for different types of demographics. Merge stuff like there old cartoons, silly symphonies, Disney afternoon and toon Disney stuff into one block. Then you can have marvel and Star wars stuff share a channel no problem. Maybe fit in anime, or other animated shows aimed towards adults in there. Just have an adult swim block with adult animation and anime.
>old cartoons, silly symphonies, Disney afternoon and toon Disney stuff
All of these are hard to find on DVD. Why do they not care about physical media?
Because then you'd legally own it and they could never take it away from you. With streaming, they can take or modify anything without warning.
Pretty much. It's also a case of where Disney doesn't see much profit in the older cartoons especially. If we were to take out any controversial stuff like racism, sexism, etc, these old cartoons really don't appeal to anyone anymore besides nerd and the few people who watched them growing up. The only reason the re - release some of these cartoons is mainly for historical purposes, and because they know that even though nobody will watch the cartoons, they'll be bugged about not including them anyway.
This is purely for there really old cartoons though. The Disney afternoon stuff and toon Disney cartoons are still a big source of nostalgia and money for them.
I already made my own with dizquetv.
If I had to guess, it would be just 5 shows marathoned all day while most of their catalog gets ignored for no reason. Like the 90s Nick channel on Pluto TV.
Is so easy to put variety into the schedule but they never fricking do it.
Honestly I wish I was able to make a program that would act like a channel. >Pull Shows and movies from my Hardrive >Put in bumpers and promos between shows
>Internet >Cable
One of these options allows the average joe to get all this content for literally free and not even with torrenting either.
The other was just a generation's gateway to a lot of series, franchises, and networks but was not sustainable once the internet and streaming services grew bigger and bigger.
Man I want the cartoon Disney aesthetic back. Not just the toon Disney block but I mean stuff like the Disney afternoon stuff, toon town online, and the toon town lands st the parks. Shit is so kino.
Ok this is all neat and stuff but where the frick is the lilo and stitch anime? It's not on Disney +. Why do I pay for this shitty service when it doesn't even have everything on it.
There's a lot of Disney shows that aren't on Disney+ for some rason actually.
Fricking Aladdin the animated series and House of Mouse aren't on the service
I get why the house mouse isn't on there; they like to keep the mouse in his chamber for all eternity, never letting him have anything ( *cough* runaway brain *cough*)
But why not the Aladdin show? They have the mid ass little mermaid show on there.
Because Aladdin's orientalist enough as it is, can't have an entire show's worth of offending Arabic people!
And House of Mouse has those hecking problematic Song of the South animals in it!
The obviously wouldn't put the WW2 propaganda shorts and song of the south on Disney +. But, they still haven't put...
>Most of there over 300 catalog of classic cartoons >A literal but frick ton of 60s and 70s live action films >The over 100 pieces of content they gutted from Disney + already >A bunch of animated shows (including Aladdin and Mickey mouse works/the house of mouse) like the wuzzles and Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show. >Slot of the old ABC Disneyland programs from the 50s to 70s >And probably even more stuff
What are they, fricking stupid? People pay for streaming so they don't have to deal with schedules and this months pool of 3 movies on cable. No wonder why they're always in financial trouble despite owning literally everything.
No, cable died because streaming was more convenient, people are collectively moronic but they're not going to return to cable voluntarily. The internet is peppered with corpses of failed streaming services.
FAST channels are a thing and some people seem to like them. It's in addition to the on demand viewing you're used to. It's not replacing anything.
Man it's been known for years that streaming would just become cable.
This is such a dumbass take. Cable doesn't give you the option to subscribe to only one or two channels that you actually watch. You can't subscribe to one channel for a month and then drop it, you can't stream in 4K with HDR, you can't watch ad free. Streaming, even if you're subscribed to every major service, is still probably cheaper than cable and it's a much higher quality experience you're getting.
No, cable died because streaming was more convenient, people are collectively moronic but they're not going to return to cable voluntarily. The internet is peppered with corpses of failed streaming services.
I wasn't giving a take. everyone knew that companies were going to try and turn streaming into something adjacent too cable. Never once said that they should or shouldn't, this is just a thing thats been plainly obvious.
>I wasn't giving a take. everyone knew that companies were going to try and turn streaming into something adjacent too cable.
Well it's not at all, and everyone says it and it's just not true.
I thought they should add the live Disney, xd and abc or Freeform channels cause live tv is still important max and paramount should do the same with Cartoon Network and nick. A lot of users said they wouldn’t be able to see the checkered past thing cause they don’t have cable
I'm sure that's the plan, ABC, Disney Channel and others will be included in addition to the franchise/genre specific channels
That's how Paramount Plus has it
They will try to make it cool by splitting channels/time slots by age groups. Everyone will want to let everyone else know that they don't watch the baby shows/cartoons and only watch the prime time/teen+ slop
Do actual human beings watch shows like Star v evil or the owl house? Those fans seem like aliens...the only 2010s Disney cartoons that most people actually like are gravity falls and the DuckTales reboot. Granted though, both of those cartoons were good so...
Only NPC's watch those shows. Only thing from 2010's I watched was wizards of Waverly place, good luck Charlie, dog with a blog, shake it up, liv and Maddie, Austin & ally, & Jessie - and that was very on and off during the last couple of years in high school. Don't know how or why NPCs stay subscribed to Netflix or anyone else, quality doesn't seem worth it at all anymore, not even free. Even only paying $1 a month with the black Friday discount and I can't bother myself, or any of my siblings ( ages 16-26) to watch it all.
>Do actual human beings watch shows like Star v evil or the owl house
No, literally the only "fans" are shipgays who are obsessed with two characters being paired so they coom to them
They don't care about the actual shows
Have also got my 5 daily calendar notifications set reminding to cancel before the promo pricing ends to not end up forgetting and paying full price for the next year, will cancel the day before or 5 days before
I still can't get over how Disney+'s advertising is "Disney+ isn't what you think it is", and then the ad is just Marvel and Star Wars shit. That's exactly what I thought it was, buddy!
Peawiener and other streaming services have "Live TV" channels. I always wondered why Disney+ didn't have that-- or include ABC for that matter. This could be neat--they could do things like have a "Classic Disney Channel" channel that plays 90s-era Disney Channel shows, etc...
Isn't this just cable with extra steps?
Disneycable.
I don't mind it. They do reruns of Carson on digital cable here and I love sitting down to watch it because you get a sense of what the mood was that day in that year.
That's been the goal of media companies since streaming became a thing, so they can get around cable companies and charge viewers directly. The next step will be creating their own ISPs in major cities with exclusive content deals.
Yes. Streaming was too shortsighted when it was prefaced on avoiding ads because ad revenue was always the major money maker in television (print and radio media too). So for years they needed to find a way to bring it back. So now you’ll pay more than you do for cable for multiple separate services and eventually be subjected to commercials. Then there will be companies that will package the services and you’ll be back where it all started, paying for channel packages aka Cable.
I never stopped pirating, because i'm not an idiot.
Anybody with sense knew that streaming would just become Cable 2.0.
Wow, someone's gonna get laid in college.
It's weird that they are just now doing this when a lot of smaller streaming services like Asiancrush have had them for years. Like, my Samsung TV comes loaded with them. Hope Warner does it too.
It is if they start charging extra for it.
Why wouldn't they?
What's so bad about cable?
Were you alive for it? It was dogshit
Yeah, but I wasn't the one paying for channels. I didn't see what was so bad about it.
Eurogay here, cable was kino back in the 1990s-2000s. Especially when you used a hacked decoder lol.
Nothing, cable helped me find shows I otherwise never would have even realized existed. I miss channel surfing, I just don't see the need for this roundabout way of bringing it back
I like cable and linear channels. The problem today is all channels just marathon 3 or 4 shows over and over and it gets fricking boring fast. When variety died that's when my cable subscription did, and the ones running these digital channels like on Pluto TV are doing the same fricking thing, despite having a huge library to choose from.
Cable content was far worse than Nettflix for decades you teenager. Fricking boomers were joking about how it was a bankrupt system where 99% of it were content farms ever since the cold war and it only got worse in its last years when Nettflix started crushing them.
I like when people complain about how bad content is now, they forget that content has always been bad. We always have period where entertainment goes down in the dumps. Remember when people got sick of cowboys movies?
You're moronic. Watch TBS now and you might notice somethings off when watching reruns. They play them at like 1.2x speed so they can squeeze in more ads. Sometimes they might even cut out the opening to just the title card, and run ads over the credits. Plus you have no control over what to watch other than channels.
People are too dumb to consciously seek out whatever they want to watch in a sea of non-advertised shit.
t. actually worked at a major media company and hired to help develop streaming "channels" of content
>People are too dumb to consciously seek out whatever they want to watch in a sea of non-advertised shit.
Can confirm. Am an idiot and had no idea 33 animated films came out last year because I didn't see a single ad for any of them as I use zero streaming services outside of when I'm on vacation or at family's houses. tbf I didn't see Cinemaphile talk about any of them either.
>33 animated films came out last year
Where the frick was I when 33 animated films spawned out of thin air?
Are you just not gonna tell us what the 33 animated films were? I don't use streaming services either.
if you can't find them on your own, you're dumber than me
Going through the 2023 list on wikipedia. I'm going to ignore solely non-western media, capeshit, and legacy films. criteria threshhold is a runtime of at least 80 min. also, if i can't find a trailer, it doesn't make the cut. I might get some things wrong, so bear with me.
>hurr but some of those movies are for toddlers
doesn't matter. all animation is for toddlers.
>but the animation is ugly/not in a style i don't like
too bad. it's animated. it's over 80 minutes. it's a film.
>Butterfly Tale
>The Canterville Ghost
>Chef Jack: The Adventurous Cook
>Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
>Elemental
>Epic Tails
>Glisten and the Merry Mission
>A Greyhound of a Girl
>Hidden Dragon
>The Inseparables
>The Inventor
>Katak: The Brave Beluga
>Kensuke's Kingdom
>La leyenda de los Chaneques
>Leo
>The Magician's Elephant
>Mars Express
>Migration
>The Monkey King
>Mummies
>Nimona
>Nina and the Hedgehog's Secret
>The Peasants
>Richard the Stork
>Robot Dreams
>Rosa and the Stone Troll
>Teenage Kraken
>Scarygirl
>The Siren
>Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds
>They Shot the Piano Player
>Under the Boardwalk
>When Adam Changes
>Wish
>Max and Me
>Hidden Dragon
and
>The Monkey King
are collabs with China, so feel free to ignore those
AND with less reliable delivery technology!
BUMPERCHADS WE’RE BACK
I hope they bring back old bumpers. Autistic as it is, those were one of my favorite parts about toon Disney
There bumpers were peak kino.
post em
?si=FNKX-056PbgTWikQ
Here's one I really like. It's not the best bumper but it's cool. I definitely remember seeing one just like this, but I'm not sure it was the exact same. Probably just memory though.
I like the ones with the characters
?feature=shared
I forgot they made a pick mickey one.
?si=zRzbuJYpgcP8azrW
?feature=shared
Where's my lilo and stitch bros at?
?feature=shared
Ahhh...perry the platypus...
Man Madeline was so kino. Is t talked about enough.
I love this idea.
>(You)
>anything you want to watch at your fingertips
>customers still too stupid and you need to run a curated channel service anyway
A nice TV channel has been like the modern hearth fire for decades, it's nice to have something on in the background you can ignore that can still catch your attention and let you discover good stuff
This. The only problem with old-fashioned channels is when programming blocks would end. So if the kids had to stay home from school sick or something there'd be huge chunks of the day where the only thing they had to watch was maybe game shows.
Bob Barker and The Price is Right was the king of kids sick days.
Drew Carey just isn't the same. I can't ever see him as hosting anything other than Whose Line Is It Anyway.
So you want to be able to put something on but not be blamed when everyone thinks it's trash? I can see that being useful.
You used a streaming service? They bury shit like you wouldn't believe. The UIs are god awful, they don't even have basic filters. Even direct searches often have them shoving unrelated shit in your face. A wise man said piracy is a service issue, and it's why I went back to it.
Seriously why are companies so bad at making UI now? Streaming, websites, console menus, game menus; UI in all of these departments have tanked.
Smaller development teams
Lack of competition
Low priority
Paradox of choice. When Netflix was the only streaming service people would scroll through the hundreds of options for hours and never watch anything
>people would scroll through the hundreds of options for hours and never watch anything
You mean just like cable?
Wow that's exactly what used to happen before streaming when only one or 2 shows carried entire channels while other channels where absolutely dead but kept alive for no reason other than dump franchises on it due to rights
What would be a good idea (and I hope I'm not the only person who thought of this) is introducing a random episode button on a particular series that isn't an hour long drama like Witcher or something
Think of it like using shuffle on a random playlist instead of choosing every specific song every time you want to hear a different one.
What if I don't want to just binge watch a show, and also don't want to menu through things? Maybe I just have my TV on in the background.
Is too much to fricking for a streaming service to have a fricking playlist feature!? I don't want to marathon or "binge" a show, I want to watch a single episode and then get another show, because I don't just watch one goddamn show
>playlist
gayyyy
YOU'RE GAY
I have Peawiener and sometimes, even though I can watch whatever WWE match I want, I'll just put it on their WWE channel while I'm eating dinner and just watch whatever classic matches they're showing.
The appeal of watching a channel is different to binge-watching a show
Not everyone wants to actively seek out content and sometimes just wants curated content to bring it to them, maybe find interest in something they never tried before
That's why programming blocks and bumpers were so good
>people wants to pay for NOT watching content
You morons deserve everything the tribe throws at you.
I would if they have shoty mcshort shorts
>Toon Disney
Toon Disney is for zoomers. Disney Afternoon is where it's at.
toon disney WAS the disney afternoon channel in it's infancy. then it was the one saturday morning channel. and then it was jetix.
Toon Disney was how I learned about AoStH
You think they would lump it all in? Or create different channels for each?
after what i've seen from the FAST channels on other apps, they'd probably seperate them and put a couple shows on each channel. and if they do end up lumping it in, they'd use some stupid new name like "Disney Animated Family Favorites Classic Style" even though the TOON DISNEY NAME IS RIGHT THERE, MAN!
I'm not entirely sure why they wouldn't. Toon Disney as a name, is quite all-encompassing. Toon Disney could literally just mean ALL Disney cartoons. They can just shove there old silly symphonies in the channel, too there newer story driven shows like the owl house and it wouldn't be much of an issue.
Thanks Toon Disney
>Muhh zoomers
I grew up with both. They were great. I cant see why toon Disney can't have the afternoon block shows. It would seems like a real cluster frick to have a sperate channel for just Disney afternoon and toon Disney. Especially sense toon Disney aired afternoon shows.
>A block of some 90s Disney cartoons vs. an entire channel of all 90s Disney cartoons plus some DiC and Nelvana shows.
ngmi
So like pluto?
Yea like Pluto has been for years. But hey Disney planned for it years ago I guess.
I had the idea of having a live stream by these services to be like cable with bumpers, trailers, and shit and they stole my idea.
I had this idea, a year ago. Just simulcast cable broadcasts on the service.
This sounds like what Paramount does where they have specific channels for specific content. It doesn't cost extra to have and it's a nice novelty if you'd rather have content given to you than have it seeked out
That's where society is headed. we will all be the people in Wall E, people who have content and pleasure funneled into our brains.
What’s the status on Disney+ and Hulu merging? or was that never a thing and I’m just confused?
Still in the beta phase.
Hulu content is on Disney Plus now... as long as you have a Hulu subscription
Really is moronic. St the point just merge already.
They should've just bought them out and put their shit on Hulu anyway instead of naming it Disney+
Yeah but I guess too them, the Disney brand was still strong enough to hold its own streaming service at the time. I mean 2019 was the peak of disney power. Now the Disney brand is in shambles. I would say now would be a good time to dump all there stuff in Hulu after buying them out, but Hulu isn't exactly everyone's favorite streaming service either, and at this point, I'm sure Disney has put far too much money and tim into Disney + to the point where giving up on the thing would be a huge loss.
Disney DOES own Hulu outright now, dumb dumbs. What was actually bought was them being able to have non-Disney non-kiddie shit on their service now, which is a unqiuely American issue, since Disney+ literally everywhere else in the world already had this option with no extra cost
No, it's full intrigated into the service and marketing now, you just need to pay extra for it. But hey, American Dad on American D+ now
Torrent+HDMI cable
You have no excuse to keep paying a single cent to these megacorps
>took this long to copy pluto tv
i dont understand why they havent done this sooner, especially for channels/blocks like adult swim
they started doing it last year on the ABC site. they made ESPN8 the Ocho a real channel.
Gotta love Pluto though.
>24/7 Godzilla channel
>24/7 MST3K channel
>24/7 Iron Chef
I mean I really can't ask for much else.
>dedicated channels to Marvel and Star Wars
So close and yet so far
That's not the appeal of linear television, channels are supposed to be grab bags of different shows from different places, people liked Toon Disney because you could watch shit like Goof Troop and Brandy and Mr Whiskers, and then wait for Jetix to see Spider-Man TAS and Digimon.
The appeal is variety.
Having singular channels dedicated to a branch of your corpo isn't appealing.
>b-but Pluto TV
Not the same thing, Pluto is literally free tv you aren't in a position to complain about it.
I actually like the idea but relegating channels to specific IP's and properties is not the way too do it. I know Disney is far too franchise brained to see past there multi million dollar universe fetish, but even the most die hard goy slop eating star wars fan is gonna get sick of watching a channel that only funnels Star wars content into there head. They should instead just have channels for different types of demographics. Merge stuff like there old cartoons, silly symphonies, Disney afternoon and toon Disney stuff into one block. Then you can have marvel and Star wars stuff share a channel no problem. Maybe fit in anime, or other animated shows aimed towards adults in there. Just have an adult swim block with adult animation and anime.
>old cartoons, silly symphonies, Disney afternoon and toon Disney stuff
All of these are hard to find on DVD. Why do they not care about physical media?
Because then you'd legally own it and they could never take it away from you. With streaming, they can take or modify anything without warning.
but it's easy profit
Most people don't know that companies prefer power over income. That's why all the big websites like YouTube operate at a loss.
Pretty much. It's also a case of where Disney doesn't see much profit in the older cartoons especially. If we were to take out any controversial stuff like racism, sexism, etc, these old cartoons really don't appeal to anyone anymore besides nerd and the few people who watched them growing up. The only reason the re - release some of these cartoons is mainly for historical purposes, and because they know that even though nobody will watch the cartoons, they'll be bugged about not including them anyway.
This is purely for there really old cartoons though. The Disney afternoon stuff and toon Disney cartoons are still a big source of nostalgia and money for them.
>Marvel and Star Wars
>'genres'
Star Wars is science fiction obviously, but what genre is Marvel, alternative history?
>what genre is Marvel
Superhero
(it combines action, sci-fi, fantasy, etc.)
Star Wars isn't even Sci-fi. It's science fantasy.
The first sci-fi hit of the 20th century had the hero's soul travel to another planet on a moonbeam.
Name?
I already made my own with dizquetv.
If I had to guess, it would be just 5 shows marathoned all day while most of their catalog gets ignored for no reason. Like the 90s Nick channel on Pluto TV.
Is so easy to put variety into the schedule but they never fricking do it.
I also run a cartoon channel but I use ersatztv. it's good for local media.
You can live broadcast with this? Imma check it out.
Honestly I wish I was able to make a program that would act like a channel.
>Pull Shows and movies from my Hardrive
>Put in bumpers and promos between shows
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Can't they just fricking make internet based digital cable already. I'm tired of all the baby steps towards that by around 2028.
>Internet
>Cable
One of these options allows the average joe to get all this content for literally free and not even with torrenting either.
The other was just a generation's gateway to a lot of series, franchises, and networks but was not sustainable once the internet and streaming services grew bigger and bigger.
Youtube TV, Hulu Live, etc. is literally that. Cable TV through an app in full quality. +Local networks and PBS. It's nice (but pricey)
Nope. Can't let people know that there was once a time when Disney's TV cartoons were legit good.
Man I want the cartoon Disney aesthetic back. Not just the toon Disney block but I mean stuff like the Disney afternoon stuff, toon town online, and the toon town lands st the parks. Shit is so kino.
Why not just put the current channels on the service?
Ok this is all neat and stuff but where the frick is the lilo and stitch anime? It's not on Disney +. Why do I pay for this shitty service when it doesn't even have everything on it.
There's a lot of Disney shows that aren't on Disney+ for some rason actually.
Fricking Aladdin the animated series and House of Mouse aren't on the service
I get why the house mouse isn't on there; they like to keep the mouse in his chamber for all eternity, never letting him have anything ( *cough* runaway brain *cough*)
But why not the Aladdin show? They have the mid ass little mermaid show on there.
Because Aladdin's orientalist enough as it is, can't have an entire show's worth of offending Arabic people!
And House of Mouse has those hecking problematic Song of the South animals in it!
The obviously wouldn't put the WW2 propaganda shorts and song of the south on Disney +. But, they still haven't put...
>Most of there over 300 catalog of classic cartoons
>A literal but frick ton of 60s and 70s live action films
>The over 100 pieces of content they gutted from Disney + already
>A bunch of animated shows (including Aladdin and Mickey mouse works/the house of mouse) like the wuzzles and Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show.
>Slot of the old ABC Disneyland programs from the 50s to 70s
>And probably even more stuff
Marvel and Star Wars are genres.
What are they, fricking stupid? People pay for streaming so they don't have to deal with schedules and this months pool of 3 movies on cable. No wonder why they're always in financial trouble despite owning literally everything.
Man it's been known for years that streaming would just become cable.
No, cable died because streaming was more convenient, people are collectively moronic but they're not going to return to cable voluntarily. The internet is peppered with corpses of failed streaming services.
FAST channels are a thing and some people seem to like them. It's in addition to the on demand viewing you're used to. It's not replacing anything.
This is such a dumbass take. Cable doesn't give you the option to subscribe to only one or two channels that you actually watch. You can't subscribe to one channel for a month and then drop it, you can't stream in 4K with HDR, you can't watch ad free. Streaming, even if you're subscribed to every major service, is still probably cheaper than cable and it's a much higher quality experience you're getting.
I wasn't giving a take. everyone knew that companies were going to try and turn streaming into something adjacent too cable. Never once said that they should or shouldn't, this is just a thing thats been plainly obvious.
>I wasn't giving a take. everyone knew that companies were going to try and turn streaming into something adjacent too cable.
Well it's not at all, and everyone says it and it's just not true.
I thought they should add the live Disney, xd and abc or Freeform channels cause live tv is still important max and paramount should do the same with Cartoon Network and nick. A lot of users said they wouldn’t be able to see the checkered past thing cause they don’t have cable
I'm sure that's the plan, ABC, Disney Channel and others will be included in addition to the franchise/genre specific channels
That's how Paramount Plus has it
They will try to make it cool by splitting channels/time slots by age groups. Everyone will want to let everyone else know that they don't watch the baby shows/cartoons and only watch the prime time/teen+ slop
Do actual human beings watch shows like Star v evil or the owl house? Those fans seem like aliens...the only 2010s Disney cartoons that most people actually like are gravity falls and the DuckTales reboot. Granted though, both of those cartoons were good so...
Only NPC's watch those shows. Only thing from 2010's I watched was wizards of Waverly place, good luck Charlie, dog with a blog, shake it up, liv and Maddie, Austin & ally, & Jessie - and that was very on and off during the last couple of years in high school. Don't know how or why NPCs stay subscribed to Netflix or anyone else, quality doesn't seem worth it at all anymore, not even free. Even only paying $1 a month with the black Friday discount and I can't bother myself, or any of my siblings ( ages 16-26) to watch it all.
>Do actual human beings watch shows like Star v evil or the owl house
No, literally the only "fans" are shipgays who are obsessed with two characters being paired so they coom to them
They don't care about the actual shows
If this is actually happening, I want a dedicated channel too classic Disney cartoons and the afternoon toons.
>Yes, because when I think of Disney, I think of...
>Marvel and Star wars.
Modern Disney sucks homosexual balls bros. I miss old Disney.
Have also got my 5 daily calendar notifications set reminding to cancel before the promo pricing ends to not end up forgetting and paying full price for the next year, will cancel the day before or 5 days before
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I still can't get over how Disney+'s advertising is "Disney+ isn't what you think it is", and then the ad is just Marvel and Star Wars shit. That's exactly what I thought it was, buddy!
Peawiener and other streaming services have "Live TV" channels. I always wondered why Disney+ didn't have that-- or include ABC for that matter. This could be neat--they could do things like have a "Classic Disney Channel" channel that plays 90s-era Disney Channel shows, etc...
Just give me a 24/7 Simpsons channel to watch like the deranged animal that I am