Disney+ new streaming announced officially

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carl_w said:

After watching Maldo I had a quick look at the first 15 mins of SW IV:ANH. It looks weird in 4K, like they've reshot it using video cameras.

I had a quick skim. Last I watched any Star Wars (apart from Solo on 4k disk) was on a 30 inch CRT meaning this looks better than I remember, I have done this avoiding for a reason and that was 4k. They are throttling this, I might hold off the newer stuff till the speeds up some. I get very picky with visual quality.

I do have the new box set on order even though this streaming is now payed for, I think it will deserve the hard copy for my preference, not to everyones taste. At least if the internet dies I will have a lot to watch, be interesting to compare the streamed throttled to hard copy.
https://thedigitalbits.com/featured/articles/sw-ne...
https://thedigitalbits.com/item/star-wars-a-new-ho...

Started Muppet Treasure Island last night instead.


Arrrrr.

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CoolHands said:

Yeah but I hope you’re not all naive enough to not see we are ALL going to end up shelling out far more. Everything is cut & divided up and you need a bit of each (provider) so you end up forking out loads

They own the content, I want to get it. Requires an exchange of funds, same for a record or CD. If I bought the hard copy in 4k of what I want to watch, it would cost me more than a few years worth of disney. Though just shelled out for the box set but 9 films (and extra's totalling 27 discs) balances out at 4 years of disney. ish.

I have seen a lot of comments about people getting upset when the likes Netflix to get a competitor, only need one service they say, shouldn't be pulling stuff back they say. Going to make it too hard to work out payments or too many options etc. I work out and pay a lot of household stuff, cars and holiday insurance and so on. That is not a problem.

Digital should be far easier and if I had the wherewithal I would have an app that dips in to the various services and bills for what I use. That will need the suppliers to be on board but I expect something will happen.

I stopped Netflix because the 4k was meh. The "original content" hit and miss and they auto play (now stopped) was terrible and one episode they had, absolutely shocking. I get screwed over more by BT for the 4k tv package I am locked into, that will be gone when I can. Never had Sky but I understand their full package is eye watering, my BT is nigh on a grand a year.

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First full film last night and no buffering issues but 4k and it is a bit off with the throttling. Watched a few of the shorter programs now and all good with no buffering, it is on an Apple TV on BT network.

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w00tman said:

Yeah I get some bandwidth-restriction-style picture downgrade on occasion on the steams - fairly obviously so as I'm using an OLED which makes anything less than a good picture look pretty dreadful.

This is on a 350Mbps connection (that is rock solid - usually speed tests around 380Mbps) so must be throttling on Disney's end.

Disney have already said they are. I was expecting it and picked on Incredibles 2 last night. It is a 2K DI but down on what I expected, a sniffer looking at the router throughput says 10mb/s or so. Apple still running their 4k at 26+ last I checked.

Might leave it till they up the rates still to dig into the others.

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RosscoPCole said:

Most probably a stupid question. Can you download from Disney+ onto a USB and watch it on a TV that has no internet connection? So my kids can watch stuff when we are in the middle of nowhere.

Not used it myself.
https://help.disneyplus.com/csp?id=csp_article_con...

Not a stick but an option?

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mk1coopers said:

Wreak it Ralph breaks the Internet appeared yesterday, so I guess more content is being drip-fed onto the app to prevent binging on the free trial, couldn't see a section for recenty added though, it would be handy just to check what's 'new' (even if it is old new!)

I found this last month or so, unofficial, there is a FAQ to say who they are if provenance is required (based in the UK I think)
https://whatsondisneyplus.com
https://whatsondisneyplus.com/about-us/

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Simpsons original format 4:3 that were stretched to 19:9 are going to be 4:3 again.
https://twitter.com/DisneyPlusUK/status/1245790100...

tres important for some visual gags.

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I am seeing a few post credit and extra's. Latter through a selectable option.

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LaurasOtherHalf said:

Zirconia said:

I am seeing a few post credit and extra's. Latter through a selectable option.

When you click on each movie, there's a sub menu of extras.

Watched Newsies last night, our eldest did it for her dance show at xmas and had never heard of it-worth watching if you can put up with musicals.

Yep. Don't know if the extra's are the same as a hard copy version.

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50 million subs globally. Uk estimate around 4. Think thier plan was for a number slightly higher a year in. Keeping them though is the trick.

https://advanced-television.com/2020/04/09/disney-...

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ukaskew said:

Wow, Artemis Fowl going straight to Disney+ on June 12th. Didn't see that coming, that's a significant amount of potential box office down the drain.

Bumps the subs up though.

How many studios are holding back I wonder. They are working on what initiatives come down from up high as well. Guessing cinema's may be in some difficulty for some time but that is for the other thread.

Still holding off the 4k stuff at the moment until they open the taps.

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Seems they coughed up on that one as a mistake.

Last Skywalker film and new cartoon series out on May 4th.


(groans, really groans, never liked that pun past first hearing)


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p1stonhead said:

Someone hacked my account last night. Changed the email and password and locked me out. First time such a thing has happened to me.

Disney 24/7 chat is great. They sorted it straight away.

Probably guessed or got your details from elsewhere? What else is possibly compromised?

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Shakermaker said:

I don't think Spiderman is on D+, is it?

Or, as I don't have a subscription, is there a way to find out what IS on there, without signing up?

There is a fan site.
https://whatsondisneyplus.com/library/disney-libra...
Not sure how correct it is but there are UK, US etc. versions to watch out for. Probably have to drill down through the menus I think.

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Are you on the UK Disney + site? Not going in through any company VPN or anything?

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Hamilton will be on in July (3rd). Says filmed live, guessing before all this crap kicked off. I hear it has good reviews, had to look it up, never heard of it.

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HBO is launching soon, if not already. In the States that is.

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Bullett said:

Zirconia said:

HBO is launching soon, if not already. In the States that is.

As part of your D+ sub or a seperate entity?

Separate. Should have been clear.
https://advanced-television.com/2020/05/27/hbo-max...

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Simpsons now 4:3 where applicable. Need to go to "details" for the main page on the Simpsons and disable the 16:9 upgrade option.

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Shakermaker said:

Thank you!

I've had D+ since Tuesday and watched a few things so far. Wife loves it, and I introduced my daughter to the original DuckTales this morning, she was ambivalent towards it.

If you have 4k and are a visual perfectionist (as far as streaming will go), it is throttled for the time being. I am staying off any 4k stuff for now. The difference between star wars 1977 and disk is huge at the moment. It would drive me up the wall, one or two "4k" animations are showing issues.