In just one year, Disney + has become one of the most popular streaming services in the world, with nearly 100 million subscribers
Engadget: In Europe, Canada, and New Zealand, Star is launched, a new sub-channel that stores Disney’s “adult” content. Star will bring together titles from Disney, ABC, and 20th Century Fox back catalogs, as well as Hulu originals that didn’t cross the pond, in one easy-to-find place.
And as of today’s launch, here’s what to expect and what it means. What’s a Star? Disney + has “channels” for each of its Marvel and Star Wars content departments for Pixar and National Geographic.
Star has been selected as the new umbrella name for Disney shows that are not directed at children. What kind of material will Star host?
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Initially, the star of Europe will show around 75 TV series and 280 movies, as well as four “star originals”. To the television series with which Disney applies the beginning, the modern family, the lost, the 24, the family, the boy, and the Atlanta.
On the movie side, you get titles like Deadpool 2, Devil Wears Prada, Favorite, and the Grand Budapest Hotel. If you dig into the archive, you will find Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Bones, Scrubs, and Scandal. On the movie side, there are big hits like Independence Day, set alongside Revenge of the Nerds 2: Nerds in Paradise. In the near future, the full golden girls, the beach, can you forgive me and carry, will hit the platform.
Plus Logan and X-Men: First Class To Stay And What About The Exclusive? Estrella will be the exclusive home of Big Sky, the ABC crime drama that is currently running in the United States. Love, Victor, a series that plays in the world of all love, Simon, who had last year on Hulu Premiere, similar to Helstrom, the Marvel series already labeled. Rounding the Quartet is another original Hulu, created by Rick and Morty’s Justin Rohand and Mike McMahan, of Star Trek: Low Decks.
What about technical things? Disney + has a flat rate for which you can register seven active profiles, with four streams running at the same time. They come in SD, HD, or UHD / 4K, and up to 10 devices can store amounts of “unlimited” material.
You also get support for Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision, more Groupwatch – Generally, in all Disney + you can watch a show in a group over the internet. How are adults going to keep their eyes innocent from all this cheeky language and violence? The first time users open Disney + after today, they will see a pop-up window.
During parental controls. You can also set different age qualifications for specific profiles by selecting content suitable for 6, 9, 12, 14, 16, and 18 years of age. Each profile can also be protected by a PIN, and a special child storage mode can be activated for children under 7 years of age. Isn’t it strange that Disney would agree to IT star instead of Hulu? Yes and no. In the US, Disney’s ever-increasing material stack is divided into three species: Disney + for children, Hulu for adults, and ESPN + for sports.
Customers can pay for each of these services separately or subscribe to the Disney + Package and get all three. But they decided not to copy this model to the rest of the world, but to use the brand Star. Last summer, Bob Chapek, CEO of Disney said that it would make no sense to use Hulu as it has “no brand awareness outside”.
In the meantime, life began as follows Star India, who bought Rupert Murdoch’s fox from the 20th century 1992. As Disney Fox bought, it took control of a variety of brand objects, including Hotstar., India’s streaming platform.
Includes the Star of India in various other parts of the world, it makes sense not to waste this consciousness. (A cynic could add because Disney has the absolute star, but Hulu has only in a few years, it makes sense not to promote a Bran D currently in the joint possession of Comcast.
What does this mean for the streaming landscape in general? Disney is likely trying to expand the ranks of its own streaming library at the expense of its rivals.
The first broadcasts will likely continue to be sold on local channels around the world, but the treasure trove of footage that remains Disney shows like X-Files, Prison, and Glee will disappear after the expiration of these competition licenses.
More importantly, these older shows have been worth a lot, more than anyone has ever suspected. Earlier this year, Neilsen rating companies during the pandemic, Comfort Rigged people became well-known network programs. Grey’s anatomy was the second most frequent sample in 2020.
Do you currently have restrictions? In the content library, some obvious entries are missing for the time being, as the first hard film, as you like to speak for the continuation.
And many of the new TV seasons are missing from the list. As with the modern family and the X-Files, only the first eight out of a total of eleven seasons are available at the former, the latter will receive the first nine of eleven alien/conspiracy seasons.
-Tracking meaningless. Over time, it will probably get better, but it’s worth noting that you can not dock every TV series and every movie on the platform.