Off-Topic Disney+ Start Streaming November 12

[upnorth]

Seems it's perhaps possible to access the channel already today for free through the Google app but, only as Dutch subscriber. Don't know if it works to bypass with a VPN.

Disney+ - Apps on Google Play

Dutch subscribers will enjoy free access to the service until the official launch on 12 November. Disney+ is the new home on your Android for unlimited access to your favourite movies and series from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic, and more. Join now to enjoy...

play.google.com

Disney+ is rolling out worldwide via a staggered rollout plan, first with the United States, Canada and the Netherlands on November 12, 2019, then Australia and New Zealand on November 19, 2019, then the United Kingdom, Western Europe, and Latin America throughout 2020, with other regions such as Asia-Pacific and Eastern Europe gaining access to Disney+ by September 2021.

Disney+ - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[oldschool]

Everybody and their brother now has a streaming service. Streaming wars are serious now.

 

[upnorth]

A good thing is that one ain't forced into any extrem long subscriptions. 1 month at a time is fair enough IMO and it's easy to switch to another service. They also have to supply more and better movies and series to get customers to stay.

Disney+ will almost for sure have it's fair share of issues when it starts. But some of it's exclusive series like the Mandalorian and the upcoming return of Obi Wan Kenobi ( title unknown ) will tease many to join.

 

[upnorth]

Disney's streaming service, which will include the likes of Star Wars, Marvel, Pixar and National Geographic, is hitting the UK on 31 March.

Disney+ will also arrive in Germany, France, Italy, Spain on the same date, having already soft-launched in the Netherlands. The service's biggest launch will be The Mandalorian, Jon Favreau's TV series set in the Star Wars universe. The US gets the hotly-anticipated show when Disney+ launches on 12 November.

Disney+ streaming service UK launch date confirmed

The UK gets the streaming service at the same time as other key European territories, Disney says.

www.bbc.com

Tom Hiddleston return as Loki is also an upcoming show on Disney+ but, no official timeline yet.

 

[upnorth]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1194254167013019653

 

[blackice]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1194254167013019653

I got it to work for a while this morning. It took a bit for the quality to be decent, also for all the content to populate in the menus. Good thing it’s a free trial. I did discover my son likes muppet babies alright.

 

[upnorth]

Good thing it’s a free trial.

30 days or?

 

[blackice]

30 days or?

7 day free trial. You have to give them your CC so you’d have to cancel the renewal. We decided to try it for a month to see if it’s worth it. So this gives us 5 weeks to test.

 

[Burrito]

I didn't care about this at all....

... until I noticed in my email that it includes National Geographic.

National Geographic is good...

 

[mlnevese]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1194254167013019653

I'm yet to see any major online service correctly predict their bandwidth/processing/storage needs for launch...

 

[Burrito]

https://gizmodo.com/how-to-get-your-free-year-of-disney-if-youre-a-verizon-1839800718

Oh wow.... I just happened to stumble upon.... that I get Disney free for a year.

Verizon FIOS did it for me.

So that's cool..

 

[blackice]

And now my son has discovered Cars, and I do believe it was a life changing experience. He played with his toy cars all night.

 

[upnorth]

Thousands of Disney customer details hacked

Hours after its new streaming service was launched, customer details were sold on the dark web for under £10

www.bbc.com

 

[blackice]

Thousands of Disney customer details hacked

Hours after its new streaming service was launched, customer details were sold on the dark web for under £10

www.bbc.com

Based on the number of accounts it seems likely they were reused passwords, even if some wouldn’t admit it. Though maybe some other flaw is possible.

 

[upnorth]

What Disney+ is facing right now is what other streaming services have been fighting against for years. Hacking forums have been overflowing with hacked Amazon Prime, Hulu, and Netflix accounts. The reason hackers are still putting up new accounts for sale on a regular basis is because people are buying.

we also came across several lists of Disney+ account credentials being offered for free, to be shared and used by the hacker community (Disney+ allows account sharing).

Thousands of hacked Disney+ accounts are already for sale on hacking forums | ZDNet

Hackers began hijacking accounts hours after Disney+ launched earlier this week.

www.zdnet.com

 

[mlnevese]

I doubt they will allow sharing for long. Unless they want to pay for the service they are providing to undermine other services.

 

[upnorth]

I doubt they will allow sharing for long. Unless they want to pay for the service they are providing to undermine other services.

I don't know how Disney+ is implementing their account sharing. Netflix has a restriction on amount of connected devices and also implemented certain account checks like IP etc to make it easier for their customers to notice possible hacks.

 

[blackice]

I don't know how Disney+ is implementing their account sharing. Netflix has a restriction on amount of connected devices and also implemented certain account checks like IP etc to make it easier for their customers to notice possible hacks.

They definitely watch IP on some level. I accidentally opened the app still connected to a vpn (which I use on mobile mostly for ad and malware filtering) and nothing would load. As soon as I turned it off it worked.

 

[venustus]

Netflix saw 'little-to-no impact' from the Disney+ launch, download data indicates

Credit Suisse thinks Netflix shareholders can rest easy when it comes to Disney+.

www.cnbc.com