{"id":327847,"date":"2019-11-17T15:30:30","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T13:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=327847"},"modified":"2019-11-17T15:31:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T13:31:36","slug":"everything-you-need-to-know-about-disney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/327847-everything-you-need-to-know-about-disney.html","title":{"rendered":"Everything you need to know about Disney+"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/323376-disney-streaming-service-all-the-shows-and-movies.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Disney+<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0has garnered significant attention following its launch in the US, Canada, and the Netherlands on 12 November 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The streaming service offers users a large database of popular movies, shows, and originals, and is seen as a competitor to streaming giant Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Disney+is not yet available in South Africa, and The Walt Disney Company Africa said that it has no news to share regarding any plans to launch the service locally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll Disney Plus originals are exclusive to the Disney Plus service,\u201d the company said. \u201cAt this point, we have no news regarding this service launch in Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This means that the only way South Africans can watch original Disney+ content such as the recently-launched series &#8220;The Mandalorian&#8221; is through piracy.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Disney+ content<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Disney+ offers content from popular franchises that Disney owns, such as Star Wars and Marvel, as well as content from Pixar and Disney\u2019s own studios.<\/p>\n<p>In total, Disney+ offers its users nearly 500 movies and 7,500 episodes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/323376-disney-streaming-service-all-the-shows-and-movies.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Examples<\/strong><\/a> of popular content available on Disney+ include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Star Wars Episodes 1-6<\/li>\n<li>Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/li>\n<li>Rogue One: A Star Wars Story<\/li>\n<li>The Mandalorian<\/li>\n<li>Toy Story 1-3<\/li>\n<li>Finding Nemo<\/li>\n<li>Pirates of the Caribbean &#8211; Movies 1-4<\/li>\n<li>Captain Marvel<\/li>\n<li>Iron Man<\/li>\n<li>Avengers: Age of Ultron<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, if Disney+ was to launch in South Africa, it is unlikely that all of its content would be available to local subscribers due to licensing issues.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, fans who want to watch anything owned by Disney with an age restriction higher than PG13 will have to use Hulu instead.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike many of Netflix&#8217;s original shows, Disney+ series episodes will be released on a weekly basis instead of all at once.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Pricing<\/h3>\n<p>There is no South African pricing for Disney+, as the service is not available locally.<\/p>\n<p>Disney+ costs $6.99 per month in the United States, and users are allowed to stream to four devices simultaneously and watch content in 4K.<\/p>\n<p>This is substantially more affordable than Netflix\u2019s equivalent offering, which costs $16 per month. It is worth noting, however, that Netflix has a substantially larger content library.<\/p>\n<p>US customers can also bundle Disney+ with Hulu and ESPN+, which comes to a total of $13 per month.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Effect on Netflix<\/h3>\n<p>The launch of Disney+ also means that Disney is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/283964-disneys-streaming-service-is-coming-and-it-will-take-content-from-netflix.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">removing<\/a><\/strong> its content from Netflix. Disney expects this process to be completed by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/disney-plus-streaming-service-everything-to-know-all-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">late 2019<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix has historically been the home of Disney movies, which means that this is a big loss for the streaming service.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Marvel will be the first movie that will launch on Disney+ rather than Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>The launch of Disney+ has also seen Disney&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/327549-disney-market-value-now-twice-netflixs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">market value<\/a><\/strong> grow significantly, with the company not worth double the value of Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>This is a notable change, as Netflix had a larger market value than Disney last year.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/327549-disney-market-value-now-twice-netflixs.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Disney market value now twice Netflix\u2019s<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney+ has garnered a lot of attention following its launch in the US, Canada, and the Netherlands on 12 November 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":323378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[12857,35,2054,11439],"class_list":["post-327847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-disney","tag-headline","tag-netflix","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327893,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327847\/revisions\/327893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}