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Before you sign up for Disney+, use this calculator to add up the 'true' cost of your streaming [tr]
MarketWatch ^ | November 13, 2019 | Jessica Marmor Shaw & Katie Marriner

Posted on 11/21/2019 5:24:08 PM PST by SunkenCiv

As our calculator shows, the perhaps impulsive addition of just one service to your budget can snowball into a hefty outlay over a hypothetical half-century horizon, particularly when you're looking at that "true" lifetime cost.

Take someone paying for Netflix's NFLX, +0.07% standard subscription and Hulu, with no add-ons. That person is looking at a monthly bill of $18.98, and a lifetime aggregate cost of $19,264. Factor in the opportunity cost -- as represented by how much money could have been made investing that same money in the S&P 500 over those years -- and the lifetime cost balloons to $87,656.

Now tack on Disney+, and you're looking at $25.97 per month, $26,358 over a lifetime and a "true" lifetime cost of $119,938.

It may be hard to put that number in context over a lifetime, but that's well over three times the current median annual income in the U.S. of about $31,000. It's also, however, far less than the $300,000 "true" cost of an iPhone as estimated by MarketWatch columnist Brett Arends.

In a MarketWatch Twitter poll, 58% of people responding said they only intend to pay for one to two services.

Netflix, Apple TV+, Disney+, Hulu, Sling, Amazon... there are now So. Many. Streaming options. How many are you going to pay for?

(Excerpt) Read more at marketwatch.com ...


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KEYWORDS: amazon; amazonprime; apple; appletv; directtv; dishtv; disney; disneyplus; hulu; netflix; pandora; redbox; roku; sling; spotify; tvos; vudu; youtube
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Full title: Before you sign up for Disney+, use this calculator to add up the 'true' cost of your streaming services.

1 posted on 11/21/2019 5:24:08 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
I've had A-Prime for some time (nice rhyme), and use Roku to access it. Also nice on Roku is Tubi, which is a lot like Crackle used to be six or so years ago..

2 posted on 11/21/2019 5:26:19 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Alternate headline: Why is there stupid choices now when before we can just charge consumers $200/month to watch all of our crap knowing that they won't watch 90% of it?
3 posted on 11/21/2019 5:34:16 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (20 FReepin' years of Freakin' FReeping!!! FReep yeah!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Before you sign up for Disney+... throw away your pen!


4 posted on 11/21/2019 5:35:24 PM PST by Ken H (And Epstein didn't kill himself.)
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To: SunkenCiv

What is this “Watch”?

Why not participate?


5 posted on 11/21/2019 5:37:44 PM PST by Paladin2
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6 posted on 11/21/2019 5:38:10 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Paladin2
:^)

7 posted on 11/21/2019 5:38:44 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Also note that it is VERY likely that the majority of FReepers don’t have a 50 yr. planning horizon.

Just sayin’


8 posted on 11/21/2019 5:42:54 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: SunkenCiv

You can’t take it with you.


9 posted on 11/21/2019 5:43:34 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: SunkenCiv
I have a digital converter box with rabbit ears.
10 posted on 11/21/2019 5:45:47 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: Paladin2
It's okay to have one, just don't be disappointed. :^)

11 posted on 11/21/2019 5:48:13 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

My understanding is you can get Disney Hulu and ESPN for less than 15 a month in a bundle


12 posted on 11/21/2019 5:48:19 PM PST by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah from Song of the South:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bWyhj7siEY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loXiGSe9l4A

Save YouTube vids to disk (I’ve used en.savefrom.net for years):

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gbv=1&ie=UTF-8&q=save+youtube+videos


13 posted on 11/21/2019 5:51:43 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: cableguymn

This may be, although I doubt that it is $15 and it can be had by itself; if true, it may have to do with the hemorrhaging of ESPN subscribers.

http://www.google.com/search?ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en&source=hp&q=Hulu++ESPN+bundle


14 posted on 11/21/2019 5:54:00 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Deaf Smith
So, somewhere there's a deaf rabbit...
I've had the best reception with those newfangled flat antennas, but there's basically no reception out here in The Boonies, unless I'm also using a drop amp. Used to get those at Radio Shack, or really anywhere -- now online only.

15 posted on 11/21/2019 5:56:14 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

https://www.disneyplus.com/welcome/disney-hulu-espn-bundle?cid=DSS-Search-Bing-71700000059616285&s_kwcid=AL!%208468!10!79439826738329!79440062746399&msclkid=8ac53f9a640e1cc03fbc624d247cf4b2&gclid=CIvS_Nrb_OUCFYlzgQodzJQCRQ&gclsrc=ds

12.99


16 posted on 11/21/2019 5:57:25 PM PST by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: Ken H

Still need a stylus though...

http://www.disneyplus.com/


17 posted on 11/21/2019 5:58:31 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: cableguymn

Promo price?


18 posted on 11/21/2019 5:59:33 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Paladin2

Also question how people run their household budgets. For example if you don’t get Disney Plus, are you really going to put the money you would have spent on Disney plus into an investment? Or will it get spent somewhere else?


19 posted on 11/21/2019 6:00:17 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Paladin2

Also question how people run their household budgets. For example if you don’t get Disney Plus, are you really going to put the money you would have spent on Disney plus into an investment? Or will it get spent somewhere else?


20 posted on 11/21/2019 6:00:25 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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