You Can Now Rent Disney Movies On YouTube
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As promised, Disney films are now beginning to roll out to YouTube Movies–the video platform’s streaming online video rental service for premium video content. A handful of titles are available now, with many more on the way over the next several weeks–YouTube says it’ll be hundreds. So rejoice, Disney fans, you can now rent Disney movies on YouTube for only 99 cents a pop.
Rent Disney Movies On YouTube
Among the first Disney films to become available for rent on YouTube:
- Cars
- Cars 2
- Pirates of the Caribbean (all 4 films in the series)
- Alice in Wonderland
- Winnie The Pooh
As the YouTube blog reminds you: there are thousands of feature-length Hollywood films for rent on YouTube, like Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 2, Horrible Bosses, Green Lantern, Bridesmaids, and more. So it was essential that Disney get their film sin there as well.
Or was it? How many of you use YouTube Movies to rent films? I ask because I’m curious. I use it frequently. I didn’t think anything would ever beat the price and convenience of Redbox, but YouTube does it. I get HD video without ever having to even drive to the store to pick up or return a Redbox rental–plus, I save a whole penny!
For now, DVDs may still be the preferred rental format for most Americans, but that’s obviously going to change over the next several years. I have a hunch YouTube is going to be a player in the digital movie marketplace for some time to come. In the short term, Disney movies ought to bring a whole bunch of new customers to the service.
Tags: Disney, DVD, film, Hollywood, movies, streaming
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I couldn’t agree more that the way people rent movies will be changing over the next few years. We’re already seeing plenty of other options, and some early adopter consumers. But Youtube doing rentals, in my opinion is a bad idea for a couple of reasons. For one thing, one of their main challenges in making it a success will be to change the way their brand is recognized. And how it’s recognized now is user created and uploaded content. Now granted, plenty of this content consists of cat videos, but there’s tons of people out there putting up all kinds of instructional videos, and some great entertainment (for instance The Joker Blogs, The Guild etc). My concern is that it will make this great indie content harder/impossible to find, and that will discourage these talented up-and-comer filmmakers from creating these great shows.
The other thing is, I just don’t see much appeal here. There are lots of other ways to rent movies and most of them give you a way better value than pay-per-view through Youtube does. To give an example, I had Netflix for about a year. Now it wasn’t bad as a supplementary service, but I didn’t use it that much since I’ve had DISH Network for years, and more recently become an employee too, and get most of my entertainment through my DISH. About 2 months ago DISH came out with the Blockbuster Movie Pass that was even a better value than Netflix, giving me streaming content, by mail DVDs, Blu-rays, and video games and 20 high definition movie channels for $10 a month. Your going to get way more mileage out of that variety of services than from $10 in pay-per-views, at $0.99-$3.99 each.