Tag: Disney
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Disney Blames The Disney+ App, Not Amazon for Its Recent Issues
Today at the Recode’s Code Media conference in Los Angeles, Disney’s Direct-To-Consumer Chairman Kevin Mayer opened up about the recent issues with the Disney+ app. According to Mr. Mayer, the app was the issue, not Amazon’s hosting. “It had to do with the way we architected the app,” Kevin Mayer said. Kevin Mayer also went…
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How to Cancel Your Disney+ Subscription After Your Free Trial
Disney+ launched one week ago and saw huge success within just the first 24 hours of going live. Now that those initial subscribers are seeing their 7-day free trial come to an end, many people are asking how to cancel their subscription. Below, we’re sharing a step by step guide to help you cancel your…
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Disney+ is Coming to VIZIO Smart TVs With Chromecast in Early December
When Disney+ launched, one of the big surprises was the fact that VIZIO Smart TVs with Chromecast could not play Disney+. This left many VIZIO TV owners unhappy as they had expected to be able to watch Dinsey+ using the built-in Chromecast. Now VIZIO has announced that they will add Chromecast support for Disney+ in…
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Disney+ Is Now Roku’s 4th Most Popular Streaming Service
Today marks one week since Disney+ launched in the United States, and it is already the fourth most popular Roku Channel. This means Disney+ is more popular on Roku than Amazon Prime Video and is just behind Netflix, YouTube, and Hulu according to Roku’s most popular list. During the first few weeks, most new services…
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Disney+ Has an Update That Adds Resume and Restart Options
Disney+ launched on Tuesday, November 12 and had a hugely successful first day. Soon after, technical problems started popping up, with customers taking to social media to share that they weren’t able to login to their accounts. Most of the initial glitches have been worked out. Now, Disney+ is beginning to get customer feedback about…
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Disney+ Adds a New Mickey Short Celebrating Mickey Mouse’s 91st Birthday
Today Mickey Mouse turns 91 and Disney+ is getting in on the fun. Available today is a new Mickey Mouse short called Happy Birthday, Mickey! You will also find a huge new collection of Mickey Mouse shorts and classic Mickey Mouse movies listed on the home page of Disney+. This news comes as Disney announced…
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4x More People Are Trying to Cancel Disney+ Than Netflix
When Disney+ launched the talk was all about how this would take a huge bite out of Netflix subscriber numbers. Now according to the research group LightShed Partners, right now four times as many people are googling how to cancel Disney+ than they are searching for how to cancel Netflix. The question now is as…
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Disney Wants to Crack Down on Piracy Following the Launch of Disney+
We recently learned that Disney is working with Charter to cut down on password sharing. Now Disney is looking to crack down on piracy following the launch of Disney+. TorrentFreak recently spotted a job listing for someone to join Disney’s “piracy intelligence” team. This team works to keep an eye on piracy and put a…
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Sprint Customers With Free Hulu Can Bundle Disney+ & ESPN+ For a Discounted Price
Do you have Sprint with Free Hulu? Good news, you can bundle ESPN+ and Disney+ and get $5.99 back every month! The only catch is all three accounts have to have the same email address associated with them. After signing up for Disney+, click on your profile. There, you’ll find a section labeled Subscription, where…
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Disney+ Will Add The Original Versions of The Simpson Episodes in 2020
Since launch, one of the main complaints about Disney+ has been the fact that Disney used the widescreen version of The Simpsons, not the original 4:3 version. This meant some parts of the image are cut off to make The Simpsons fit into a widescreen version. Now Disney has announced that they will release the…