INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The Disney Plus streaming service – make that Disney+, if you want to be super official – has arrived in the United States, Canada and
The service has exceeded Disney's expectations, causing outages and login for some users
But it's here, and keen viewers have been diving into the deep treasure trove of content found on Disney Plus. They've uncovered a few nice
The original Star Wars trilogy is streaming in 4K with Dolby Vision, which is a really nice incentive to sign up to the service, even if
they have inexplicably made more tweaks to the film itself. Some usershave tweeted their disappointment that classic episodes of The
Simpsons, from before the HD era, are displaying in widescreen rather than the 4:3 aspect ratio that some hardcore fans would've preferred
The image appears to have been cropped to make it 16:9, which is similar to how FXX displayed the show on its own Simpsons app a few years
Hopefully it'll be addressed, but hey, that's still 30 seasons of great TV to enjoy. Disney Plus has picked a perfect time to join the
As the likes of Amazon Prime, Netflix, Hulu, and now Apple Plus have engaged in an arms race for exclusive and original content, Disney
boasts a very clear focus to make it an essential purchase.On Disney Plus, you'll find Disney classics, Star Wars, Marvel, Pixar, and even
All of these studios are creating exclusive content for the platform, too
Read on as we explain how to sign up to Disney Plus, exclusive shows to expect on the service, and where to download the Disney Plus app.How
to sign up to Disney PlusYou can sign up for Disney+ here
You can also sign up to a bundle that includes ESPN+ and Hulu for $12.99 a month, saving you $5 on subscribing to the services
separately. Disney Plus itself has plenty of movies to watch from launch, and it'll only get more as time goes on, but if you want adult
entertainment, Hulu will end up being a valuable location for the more adult shows from Fox's library
Likewise, ESPN+ is ideal for the sports lover in your life, assuming there is one, and not just a bunch of Star Wars and Marvel fans
desperate to jump into that content.That should be enough entertainment to keep you going for the time being, and more and more films will
be added to Disney Plus over the coming months if you'd rather just opt for the basic package. Disney Plus app links: start streaming on
your deviceDisney Plus is live, so it's time to get streaming
The Disney Plus app has released on pretty much every major platform, and you can also stream through the Disney Plus website
Here are the links to Disney Plus apps across various platforms:As you can see, Disney Plus has launched on pretty much every major platform
Disney confirmed the list of platforms that will support Disney Plus sometime before launch
It includes Apple TV, Roku streaming devices, Google Chromecast, iOS and Android, PS4 and Xbox One – as well as the Android TV platform
that supports Nvidia Shield TV, Sony TVs, and Hisense TVs. Amazon's Fire TV is also supported at launch
Search the app on your preferred device if it's not linked above, and you should fine it. A while back, we heard about a planned Disney
Plus app for Nintendo Switch – but at launch, no such app exists. Disney Plus users hit by login errors – Disney respondsThe Disney
Plus Help account on Twitter is getting its fair share of complaints about login issues across various platforms, and now Disney has
responded to the outages officially, explaining that it's "working quickly to resolve any current issues." It explains that the service has
"exceeded our highest expectations", suggesting considerable early success for the entertainment giant
A lot of people want to watch DuckTales, clearlyAs flagged by Variety, Downdetector reports on Disney Plus have been spiking since the
streaming service officially launched
The message reads "There seems to be an error connecting to the Disney+ service
Please try again later if the issue persists." Variety also reported that customers are complaining about the wait times via the customer
Teething pains for a new streaming service aren't unexpected, but let's hope Disney resolves these issues sooner rather than later. (Image
credit: Marvel Studios)Disney Plus FAQ: quick questions answeredWhat is Disney Plus? Like Netflix, this is a streaming service, but it's
exclusively packed with Disney content. When will Disney Plus launch? Disney Plus has already launched in the USA, Canada and the
It'll launch on November 19, 2019 in Australia and New Zealand, then March 31, 2020 in the UK and most of Europe. What does Disney Plus
cost? $6.99/month in the US (or $69.99 per year), $8.99 in Australia and Canada ($89.99 per year), $9.99 in New Zealand ($99.99 per year),
and €6.99 in the Netherlands (€69.99 per year)
No UK pricing has been announced.Where can I find it? Disney Plus has launched on on iOS, Android, Apple TV, PS4, Xbox One, Amazon's
devices, browsers, and Android TV.Will Disney Plus beat Netflix? We pit Disney Plus vs Netflix to see who comes out on top, but there's
likely room for both in your streaming life. What Disney Plus channels are there? There are no channels, as such, but there are five
separate content hubs for Disney, Pixar, Star Wars, Marvel, and National Geographic
It will also feature content from Fox, like The Simpsons. Here's what the Disney Plus interface looks like. (Image credit: Disney
Plus)Disney Plus release date: it's officially launched in the US and CanadaThe Disney Plus streaming service launched in the early hours of
November 12, hours before its official launch time of 6AM ET
If you're in the US, Canada or the Netherlands, what are you waiting for? Sign up
Australia and New Zealand get it on November 19. Disney Plus will arrive in the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain on March 31, 2020
Good luck avoiding those spoilers for The Mandalorian
It's going to be a tough four monthsDisney will eventually bring the service to the entire world, but rolled out over a two-year period
You could be waiting a while depending on where you live. Disney Plus price and bundles explainedThe Disney Plus price is $6.99 per month
(that's about £6 / $10), or $69.99 per year in the US
The price is then $8.99 for both Canada and Australia (or $89.99 per year), while in New Zealand it's $9.99 per month or $99.99 per year
In the Netherlands, the price is €6.99 per month, or €69.99 per year
We've created a comprehensive guide on the Disney Plus price tiers, to help you compare it to its rival streaming services. You can also
get Disney Plus with ESPN+ and Hulu in a bundle for a nice $12.99 per month
And Verizon customers in the US are lucky: if you're signed up to its 5G unlimited wireless, Fios home internet or 4G LTE plans, you get a
year of Disney Plus for absolutely free.Expect more on the Disney Plus UK price and the price for other countries as Disney keeps rolling
the service out. All of this means the service is cheaper in the US than Netflix, for now at least
"I can say that our plan on the Disney side is to price this substantially below where Netflix is
That is in part reflective of the fact that it will have substantially less volume," said Robert Iger, Disney's chairman and CEO
"It'll have a lot of high quality [content], because of the brands and the franchises that will be on it that we've talked about
But it'll simply launch with less volume, and the price will reflect that."Iger also suggested that the price could rise gradually over time
as the service grows, which wouldn't be a massive surprise
This is exactly what has happened with Netflix as its investment in original content has escalated over the last few years.New episodes of
The Clone Wars are coming to Disney Plus. (Image credit: LucasFilm)Disney Plus has 4K HDR streamsDisney Plus streams to up to four devices
simultaneously in 4K resolution and HDR (high dynamic range) at no extra cost – with up to seven user profiles on the platform
Not all content is available in 4K / HDR, of course, and naturally you'll still need a 4K TV to watch the content that is
But since all of the original Star Wars films have launched on the service in 4K with Dolby Vision, that bodes well for future films that
make the leap to Disney Plus. Netflix, on the other hand, has a premium tier that grants access to 4K / HDR streams
The all-in-one nature of the subscription is appealing by comparison.Disney Plus supports both Dolby Atmos as well as Dolby Vision, making
it a fantastic choice for movie lovers. Star Wars on Disney Plus features another change to Han/Greedo shootoutThe version of Star Wars
found on Disney Plus is apparently based on the 2011 Blu-ray release, but fans have noticed another bizarre change to the infamous
Another frame of Greedo saying the non-existent word “Maclunkey!” has been added (via Film Stories), shortly before a new visual
explosion obscures the characters from view
It's an odd change, to say the least, but hey, we've gotten used to it from the original Star Wars trilogy
At least we can laugh about it.(Image credit: Marvel Studios/Disney Plus)Disney Plus: Marvel TV shows and movies16 movies from the Marvel
Cinematic Universe have launched with Disney Plus in the US, with more planned down the line
You can also look forward to exclusive new Marvel TV shows featuring your favorite superheroes, as the MCU officially extends to TV shows
One report suggested these shows will have budgets of $25 million an episode. A first look at these shows is available on Disney Plus right
now, in a special called Expanding the Universe. The first of these MCU shows will be Falcon and The Winter Soldier (starring Anthony
Mackie and Sebastian Stan), coming in Q3 / Fall 2020, around a year after Disney Plus goes live
It'll be six episodes long, and will feature the return of Civil War's Helmut Zemo (Daniel Bruhl).The numerous fans of Tom Hiddleston will
be happy to hear that next in the new Marvel line-up will be the Loki TV show, a six-episode miniseries starring the trickster god
We also know from San Diego Comic-Con that the series will kick off after Loki's sudden escape in Avengers: Endgame, via the Tesseract
No doubt he'll get into plenty of mischief as a result. 2021 will also see WandaVision, a spin-off following Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth
Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany) that will tie into the events of the Doctor Strange sequel – and a Hawkeye TV show, with Jeremy Renner
reprising the role, and mentoring a new iteration of Hawkeye, Kate Bishop. It's Hawkeye's time to shine!(Image credit: Marvel)Marvel's head
of television, Jeph Loeb, did say there'll be more "street-level heroes" coming to the Disney Plus service too, with Marvel TV shows set to
replace or expand on the likes of Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Daredevil, Iron Fist, and The Defenders – all of which were cancelled on
Since then, however, Loeb's upcoming exit has been reported (via THR), and Kevin Feige now oversees the TV division that was previously
separate from the rest of Marvel Studios. So we're not sure where that leaves those characters.Interestingly, there's also going to be a
Marvel TV show that puts a different spin on the MCU
Called Marvel's What If?, the animated series is based on a comics series where reality played out a little differently for our favorite
Like how would Agent Peggy Carter have fared if she'd taken the super soldier serum instead of Steve Rogers? Many Marvel actors will be
reprising their roles for this anthology show, making it much more than just a weird curio.At Disney's D23 Expo in late August, now-Marvel
CCO Kevin Feige announced three new series – She-Hulk, Moon Knight and Ms
Marvel – that would all debut on the service, too, vastly expanding the MCU by introducing all-new characters
Even with those coming, there are plenty of Marvel spin-offs we still want to see make the jump to the small screen.When it comes to older
MCU movies, we can expect those to be pulled from Netflix as soon as contracts run out before being moved across to Disney Plus when it
In an earnings call with investors, Disney CEO Bob Iger clarified that 2019's Captain Marvel would be the first Disney movie exclusive to
the service – and on November 6, it was confirmed that Avengers Endgame will be launching on November 12 when the service goes live, too,
moving from a previous December date
Shortly before launch, too, Disney announced eight more Marvel movies on Disney Plus, including The Avengers. (Image credit:
Lucasfilm)Disney Plus: Star Wars TV shows and filmsYou may remember that Disney bought Star Wars back in 2012, meaning it now has the rights
to the entire library of movies, as well as the ability to make original programming set in that universe
Expect plenty of Star Wars films and TV shows on Disney Plus as a result
Every movie from Episodes I-VII will arrive on day one, with later films and spin-offs arriving in 2020. The first episode of The
Mandalorian is now live, a show created by Jon Favreau (the director of Iron Man and The Jungle Book)
It stars a Boba Fett-resembling character continuing the legacy of the bounty hunter, and the trailers sure make it look like full-fat Star
This show has a rumored budget of $15 million per episode, and you can certainly tell from the level of effects on display. It's not the
only new Star Wars episodic content confirmed for Disney Plus, either
Rogue One's Cassian Andor (played by Diego Luna) will also get his own prequel TV series exploring his life before the events of the 2016
Even if Disney's CEO thinks there are too many Star Wars movies coming out, the TV schedule is only getting more packed. Also officially
confirmed is an Obi-Wan Kenobi TV series, with Ewan McGregor to reprise his role from the prequel movies, and a seventh season of Star Wars:
The Clone Wars animated series
But you can check out exactly what films and TV series are hitting the service in our Disney Plus Star Wars guide.Disney Plus: The Simpsons
and Fox contentDisney's acquisition of Fox was a very, very big deal – especially for Disney Plus.Fox own the rights to a huge amount of
classic television, including The Simpsons, which will see every episode in its 30-year history come to the Disney Plus streaming
service. Fox used to hold the keys to the X-Men franchise, putting big restrictions on the Marvel Cinematic Universe (such as the word
'mutant' never being used onscreen)
The merger now means those characters can appear in the MCU, along with the Fantastic Four
They're likely to be saved for movies rather than TV shows, but either way, one day you're likely to see MCU projects based on both coming
to Disney Plus. Disney Plus will also be getting a selection of animated '90s cartoon classics, like X-Men, Fantastic Four, and Spider-Man
The big Fox movie arriving on day one for Disney Plus is James Cameron's Avatar
Fox movies like The Princess Bride and The Sound of Music will follow
You can expect a reboot of Home Alone coming down the pipe, too, which we were all definitely asking for.Disney's live-action remake of
Mulan (2020) will be coming to Disney Plus too.(Image credit: Disney)Other Disney Plus movies, shows, and exclusivesMarvel and Star Wars
might be the highlights, but the Disney Plus originals extend far beyond superheroes and space
A gigantic selection of additional new shows and TV series are in the works, including a new Monsters Inc
project called Monsters at Work (coming in 2020), while from launch you can enjoy a fresh mockumentary take on the evergreen High School
Musical series that, brace yourself, is called High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. An original Christmas film called Noelle also
arrived with Disney Plus at launch, starring Anna Kendrick and Bill Hader.For classic Disney lovers there's a live-action remake of Lady and
the Tramp, while '90s animation fans will eventually get a new live-action Mulan that will hit both theaters and the streaming service
Deadline suggests that projects based on Don Quixote, Sword and the Stone, and 3 Men and a Baby are in the works, along with other projects
titled The Paper Magician, Togo, and Timmy Failure
A game show called The Big Fib was also ordered in November 2019.If you're more interested in Disney's many decades of animated movies,
however, the company says it will include every flick that's ever been locked away in the Vault
That may include some of the first, harder-to-find Mickey Mouse pictures. Younger kids will have plenty to watch, with programming from
Disney Channel, Disney Junior and Disney XD.Disney Plus will also be a home for DisneyNature documentaries, including Dolphin Reef –
narrated by actress Natalie Portman
Disney Nature works both in documentary films and animation, and will also be bringing animated feature Penguins to the Disney Plus service
A documentary series called The World According to Jeff Goldblum will also start when the series arrives
It's pretty much what you'd expect it to be from the title. All of Disney Plus's original shows will roll out on a weekly basis, unlike
services like Netflix and Amazon where every episode tends to drop at once. (Image credit: Disney Plus)Will Disney Plus have classic Disney
It's been confirmed that every Disney film ever made is destined for the service, so everything from Snow White to Frozen 2 should be
available on Disney Plus at some point after launch.What will Disney Plus be missing?The Disney streaming service won't have content from
outside of the Disney ecosystem, as far as we know
The reason you see such a vast range of content on Hulu and Netflix is because they have a big web of licensing deals with external studios
Disney Plus is a more focused offering. But, of course, Disney has plenty of content to draw from, especially with a slow drip of Fox
It's also worth noting that there won't be any R-rated or adult-oriented content on the service
Expect mature-oriented Fox films to go to Hulu instead, according to a report from Deadline.Even though Disney now owns Fox, for example,
that doesn't mean you'll start seeing Deadpool swearing on Disney Plus
There's talk however of a PG-13 take on Deadpool 2's X-Force for the platform (via ComicBook).Sorry, Deadpool, but you're too adult for
Disney Plus. (Image credit: Fox)It's pretty obvious, but the Marvel TV original series on Netflix won't be crossing over to the new Disney
Plus service – as far as we know
That means the likes of Daredevil, Luke Cage, and Jessica Jones won't be rebooted on Disney Plus in their current iterations
They've all been axed anyway, but we can't see them leaving Netflix any time soon
It's possible you'll see them return some day, but maybe it's better to leave that era of the characters behind. What you will see on
Disney Plus, though, is the dreadful Inhumans series from 2017
That arrives on Day One. Is Disney Plus worth it?Now that the service has launched, we can take a comprehensive look at the Disney Plus
offering, and judge whether it's worth it
Look out for our Disney Plus review, where we'll give our verdict on the app, its original programming, and the price. If you can't wait
and don't want to spend before you're sure it's something you want, Disney Plus has a seven-day trial when you sign up
From there, you can decide if there's room for this streaming service in your life. Importantly, too, with a massive back catalogue of Fox
content to draw from, the service will only grow with time
The launch line-up, with the first seven Star Wars movies and 16 of the 23 MCU films, does make it feel like the home of these beloved
But the long-term test will come in its original programming, which should start taking shape in 2020. Original reporting by Andrew
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