{"id":9781,"date":"2018-11-19T11:16:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T11:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/the-streaming-wars-can-disney-topple-netflix\/"},"modified":"2018-11-19T11:26:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T11:26:37","slug":"streaming-wars-watch-out-netflix-here-come-disney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/streaming-wars-watch-out-netflix-here-come-disney\/","title":{"rendered":"Streaming Wars: Watch Out Netflix Here Come Disney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix is by far the dominant player in the increasingly crowded (but still lucrative) streaming on demand sector, which has radically changed the way most of us view TV. Currently, the next biggest player is Amazon while Hulu which is currently only available to US\u00a0&amp; Japanese users probably comes in third.<\/p>\n<p>This trifecta is about to be shaken up with the advent of Disneys own streaming channel, which is due to come online late 2019. Assuming the Fox\u00a0deal goes ahead, Disney will not only have its own dedicated service, but will also become the majority\u00a0shareholder in Hulu giving it a significant presence.<\/p>\n<p>Disney is a brand in its self but it also has Pixar, Star Wars and National Geographic as mini-franchises and it seems likely that they will feature heavily in the new offering.<\/p>\n<p>Although nothing is fully confirmed the new service is expected to feature the following on top of the already huge classic Disney\u00a0library:<\/p>\n<h2>Star Wars<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"link\">The Clone Wars<\/span>\u00a0new season (exclusive to this service)<\/li>\n<li>All the Star Wars films including Episode 9 scheduled for 2019 release<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0The Mandalorian a big budget live series, being developed by <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0269463\/\">Jon Favreau<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li>A Star Wars Rogue One prequel series<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Marvel<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Marvel Movies Including Captain Marvel slated\u00a0for 2019\u00a0release<\/li>\n<li>An Avengers linked TV series focusing\u00a0on Loki, starring Tom Hiddleston<\/li>\n<li>A Marvel series for the Scarlet Witch<\/li>\n<li>A Marvel series teaming up Bucky Barnes and Sam Wilson (Falcon)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Pixar<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Toy Story 4<\/li>\n<li>An animated series based on Monsters Inc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Possibly the most exciting news though &#8211; for those of us who have childhood memories of the original release anyway is the rumour of a\u00a0live-action Lady and the Tramp remake. Now that may be worth the price of a subscription alone!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9801\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/Lady-The-Tramp-Movie-Poster-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/Lady-The-Tramp-Movie-Poster-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/Lady-The-Tramp-Movie-Poster.jpg 516w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No firm pricing has been announced but is expected to be lower than a comparable Netflix subscription and\u00a0it will undoubtedly end up being another add-on\u00a0to the household services rather than an either or.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix is by far the dominant player in the increasingly crowded (but still lucrative) streaming on demand sector, which has radically changed the way most of us view TV. Currently, the next biggest player is Amazon while Hulu which is currently only available to US\u00a0&amp; Japanese users probably comes in third. This trifecta is about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[213,214],"class_list":["post-9781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-disney","tag-netflix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9781"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9803,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9781\/revisions\/9803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}