September: Netflix Will 'Become Exclusive US Pay TV Home of Films From Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Pixar' (venturebeat.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The licensing deal between Netflix and Disney for the rights to all new films that hit movie theaters in 2016 is nothing new. What is new is when exactly the deal will come into effect. "From September onwards, Netflix will become the exclusive U.S. pay TV home of the latest films from Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilms and Pixar," said Netflix content chief Ted Sarandos in a blog post. This will only apply to new theatrical releases because separate licensing deals are in place for other Disney content. The exclusive partnership with Disney does also extend into original programming. Netflix's partnership with Disney is part of a bigger plan to host more unique content that rival services do not offer.

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[goombah99]

By the way. I thought I'd mention that an alternative to netflix for DVD content is an interesting new service called VidAngel. Their model is you "buy" the DVD from them, they play it for you (stream), then you sell it back for $1 less than you bought it for. Thus you can get things only available on DVD sooner as a stream.

This scheme was developed for another purpose, buy having you own the media, even if it's temprorary, this allows you to Bowlderize it (remove anything offensive). Streaming companies are not allowed to alter the movies. But if the movie is owned by the end user they can do as they please. So one if effectively paying VidAngel to Bowlderize your videos professionally for you. You of course don't have to edit. You can watch it raw too.

Thus VidAngel gets you DVDs at a price less than netflix DVD and they come instantly when you want to stream them rather than wait for the mail to come or the disk to be available. Their limitation seems to be selection is more like Redbox and they don't have a deep catalog like netflix.