Hulu

[Skipper Justin]

Will be interesting to see what kind of changes if any this means for Disney's streaming side in terms of how they're run. Hopefully they at least start to partially integrate Hulu into Disney+ soon after like Iger had talked about awhile back. There's no way Hulu goes away though. It is actually one of the closest streamers to being in a healthy place of the major ones.

I really wish it would be the opposite. Turn Disney+ into Hulu. The Hulu platform is just so much to use compared to Disney. Like easy things like fast forwarding is so annoying on Disney+.

 

[Nick]

I really wish it would be the opposite. Turn Disney+ into Hulu. The Hulu platform is just so much to use compared to Disney. Like easy things like fast forwarding is so annoying on Disney+.

The Disney+ UI needs a lot of work. It really hasn’t changed much since launch at all.

 

[Nick]

HEAVILY looking forward to this.

 

[GAcoaster]

LOL-- Disney may have to pay Comcast an additional $5 Billion for Hulu:

Disney may have to pay $5 billion more for Comcast's Hulu stake

Walt Disney said on Wednesday it may have to pay up to $5 billion more to buy Comcast's minority stake in Hulu, if an appraiser were to agree with Comcast's assessment that the stake should be valued at more than $40 billion. Earlier this year, Disney and Comcast hired investment bank RBC...

finance.yahoo.com

I know they're different divisions and accounting makes this an indirect thing, but if they do that should pretty much cover the cost of Epic, right?

 

[Jake S]

It’ll provide some nice stock buybacks — about time those guys got a win!

 

[jseal777]

"I don't care if Comcast wins I just need Disney to lose!"

 

[Jerroddragon]

Had no idea season 5 was so close. Starts next week, lets go