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The US finally has its hands on Disney’s premium new subscription service, but you might have some trouble actually logging on and streaming.
Disney has been hyping up its new streaming platform Disney+ for quite some time now.
We’ve been bombarded with various trailers for content that’ll feature on the service over the last few months, including the gritty new spaghetti-western style Star Wars series The Mandalorian and a bunch of rereleased classics from the Disney archives.
Other programmes based on Disney properties such as the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Home Alone, and Night at the Museum, amongst others, are also geared to launch sometime within the next year. The US officially got its hands on the platform last Tuesday, though things haven’t been as smooth as Disney probably hoped.
You may experience some difficulties getting everything running if you sign up right now. According to multiple, vocal users on Twitter, the website often crashes when entering your details, the smartphone app can become unresponsive, and shows themselves may even lag when you’re trying to watch – not the most ideal situation.
Disney released a statement almost instantly, explaining that the bugs were being caused by ‘consumer demand [that] exceeded our high expectations’. Over 7,500 reports of errors flooded in an hour or so after the service went live. 35 percent of these were related to log-in issues and 64 percent were for issues playing content back. I’m not sure what that other 1 percent complained about – maybe too many superhero films?
Expect things to smooth out in the coming days but, if you do feel like braving it right now and you live in the US, Australia, or the Netherlands, you can sign up for $6.99 a month. Disney+ won’t be available in the UK, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, or Ireland until 31st March 2020, which means I’ll have to wait a while if I want to actually get in on this Mandalorian buzz.
