Disney+ new streaming announced officially

[untakenname]

Unless you have multiple young kids I don't think this is good value for money as there's too many other streaming services people already are paying for.

[Halb]

Zirconia said:

Been puzzling this then this pops up.
https://www.cnet.com/news/disney-plus-streaming-se...
Towards the end

Most interesting. I wonder why Netherlands? A testing platform small enough in W. Europe?

[Zirconia]

untakenname said:

Unless you have multiple young kids I don't think this is good value for money as there's too many other streaming services people already are paying for.

Looking at the prices, I would bite their hands off. I have stopped Netflix and waiting to see what Apple will have on offer. BT is only with me until the contract runs out. People seem to be getting the hump over this.

Halb said:

Most interesting. I wonder why Netherlands? A testing platform small enough in W. Europe?

Mystery. No doubt come out in the wash and all that.

[David87]

I already pay for DisneyLife, so presume it’ll just migrate across to this. My kids love it and there’s a lot of stuff on there.

I binned Sky recently and now just have Netflix, Amazon Prime and this Disney thing. Save a bunch of money and don’t really miss live TV at all.

[ukaskew]

I'm sure somebody with time in their hands has already done this but the 'available to watch until' line against various Disney properties on Sky doesn't really supply any consistent answer on their deal with Disney, except to say it appears to run for quite some time yet.

Of course we could continue to see new releases on Sky until that presumably lucrative deal expires alongside a UK Disney+ that gets all the new original content plus whatever they have in the archives free of deals with Sky, Netflix etc.

[Zirconia]

Interesting
https://www.macrumors.com/2019/09/10/4k-disney-mov...

4k markers spotted on Apple, for Disney films. No provenance though.

Which s rather strange as the studios allow the 4k option not Apple, and they are going to compete. Which raises why the heel is he a delay to get the streaming service out in the UK.

[Zirconia]

Wow. Link picked up from this twitter feed.
https://twitter.com/BillHuntBits/status/1174421945...
https://www.slashfilm.com/disney-movies-and-tv-sho...

Some list, that is a lot of films. Roll on the 4k. Might get Star Wars as a hard copy though if it ever surfaces in 4k.

[Steve vRS]

One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing, is missing. What an omission.

[Halb]

an excellent film

[Zirconia]

Ah, with Peter Ustinov, one of my favourite actors and speaker.

[Halb]

ee do speke ded gud

[anonymous-user]

Zirconia said:

Interesting
https://www.macrumors.com/2019/09/10/4k-disney-mov...

4k markers spotted on Apple, for Disney films. No provenance though.

Which s rather strange as the studios allow the 4k option not Apple, and they are going to compete. Which raises why the heel is he a delay to get the streaming service out in the UK.

Apparently it’s about E.U. rules regarding having a certain % of locally produced content in streaming services.

[Zirconia]

El stovey said:

Apparently it’s about E.U. rules regarding having a certain % of locally produced content in streaming services.

Ah, I thought the deal with other providers was a thin reason, it would be a poor contract that prevented you using your own material and I expect Disney to have some smart lawyers. Certainly they must have packaged it as an option in the US?

Either way. Hurry up Micky.

[Zirconia]

Mentions of March 20th. Edit. (need to go to specsavers, 2020 not 20th)
https://advanced-television.com/2019/11/07/bbc-say...

If true.

Edited by Zirconia on Friday 8th November 06:30

Edited by Zirconia on Friday 8th November 06:31

[ukaskew]

March 31st official. Just the 5 months to avoid Mandalorian spoilers then...

[jimmyjimjim]

https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/7/20954072/disney...

Good. The fire TV cube I got on prime day has been worked hard and we're really liking it. I've a chromecast I was planning to use if they couldn't sort things out, but the fire tv is used for 99% of all viewing now.

I bought the 3 year bundle for $140; good value.

[Zirconia]

ukaskew said:

March 31st official. Just the 5 months to avoid Mandalorian spoilers then...

My mistake on the 20th.


Following the twitter feed and it is annoying seeing all the stuff coming to the channel and nothing for the most of the world until later.

[ajprice]

Zirconia said:

Wow. Link picked up from this twitter feed.
https://twitter.com/BillHuntBits/status/1174421945...
https://www.slashfilm.com/disney-movies-and-tv-sho...

Some list, that is a lot of films. Roll on the 4k. Might get Star Wars as a hard copy though if it ever surfaces in 4k.

Nice list . Some of those in the movies list are the animated shorts shown before Pixar movies, like For The Birds and Bao. A few minutes long each, not full movies. Not complaining though .

[rider73]

are we allowed to say the three letters
VPN?

[ukaskew]

Apparently there are major Star Wars spoilers in Mandalorian. The chances of avoiding those between social media, podcasts etc is next to zero for that long.

Really frustrating, I get that Sky have lots of existing content so they need to chat to expire first, but why not launch with the new stuff anyway. I'm sure plenty of people would pay up just to get the new shows for a few months.