Web User - UK (2019-12-11)

CANIWATCH DISNEYPLUSUSINGAVPN?

Discuss Disney Plusat http://www.facebook.com/webusermagazine 11 -26December 2019^39

DisneyPlus

its streaming debut),TheLion King,

WhoFramed Roger Rabbit?,TheMuppet

Christmas Caroland mostofthe Marvel

CinematicUniversefilms.All thePixar

movies and short films areon there,

as isanewliveactionLady AndThe

Tramp.The firstsix Star Wars movies

areavailable too,alongwithTheForce

Awakens.Itis the firsttimethe original

trilogyhas beenmade availablein

4K HDR.

If you’remoreafan of theclassic

Disneyera, you can revisit all your

favourites, includingSnowWhiteandthe

SevenDwarfs,Pinocchio,Bambi,Mary

Poppins,TheJungle Bookand many

more.See thefull listatbit.ly/

disneylist4 90.

WhatTVshowsareplannedfor

thefuture?

Star Wars:The Clone Warsismakinga

movetotheservicewith12 new

episodes, and there’sashowabout Obi-

WanKenobi in theplanningstages,

together withaprequel toRogue One:

AStar Wars Story(areyou sensing a

theme?). NewMarvel showswill also be

unveiled andit issaid fans willneedto

watchthem if theywant tokeep inthe

loop about plotlines for forthcoming

Marvel films. Oneof the showswill

includethe Marvel character Loki and

debutin 2021.

Disneyalsoowns NationalGeographic

so you can stream documentariessuch

asGordon RamseyUncharted,Lifebelow

ZeroandBrain Games,aswell asbrand

newcontentincludingTheWorld

According toJeff Goldblum.

So,howdoIwatchtheseshows?

DisneyPlusis available asan appfor

Rokudevices, AmazonFire,Chromecast,

PS4, XboxOne,iPhone,iPad, AppleTV,

Android and Chromebooks,whichmeans

it canbe watched on atelevision,laptop,

tabletor phone.Showsand films can be

streamed butyoucan also enjoy

unlimiteddownloads ifyouwant to

watchcontent offline laterwhen you

don’t have anyinternet access or can

only getapoor signal.

Soundsgreat.HowdoIsign up?

Sadly,you’ll havetowait. Although the

servicehas launchedin the US,Canada,

Netherlands, Australia and NewZealand

(and attracted 10 million subscribers

already),it’snot going tohit theUKuntil

31 March. This is probablybecauseof the

currentdeals Disneyhas with UK

services. Sky,for instance,has acontract

with Disneyfor its films and television

shows,and thereisevenadedicatedSky

Cinema Disneychannel. This islikely to

be scrapped whenthecontract runsout

in 20 20 .Skyalso has adealfor Fox

movies and, again, thiswillbe coming

toan end.

If you needaDisneyfix now,you can

check outDisneyLife(disneylife.com/uk)

for£4.99per month, whichhas more

than 450movies and5,000 boxset

episodes.

HowmuchisDisney charging?

In the US, subscribersarebeingasked to

payjust$6.99permonth or $69.99 per

year,whichis–deliberately,weassume –

$2 cheaper thanthe bottom-tier Netflix

price.This ploywilllikely bereplicatedin

the UK sowe’dexpect ittocostnomore

than £6.99 here.Whetherwe’ll getthe

exact samecontent aselsewhereis

unknown atthisstage but weshould at

leastget toseeall theDisneyPlus

Originals.

Thegoodnewsis thatDisneyPlus

subscriptions letyou streamon up to

four devices atthe sametime.Asa

bonus,theserviceisnotcharging extra

for4KHDR(althoughnot allshowswill

be available inthisformat) and italso

supports DolbyAtmos andDolbyVision,

whichis greatfor anyone with

compatible equipment. Itrequires

5Mbpsbroadbandfor HDcontent and

25Mbps for 4KUHD.

Whatnext forNetflixand

Amazon PrimeVideo?

These streamingservices arelikelytorely

moreand moreonoriginalseries. Netflix,

forinstance,islosingFriendstothe new

WarnerMedia streamingserviceHBO Max

but homegrownseries such asStranger

Thingsremainhugelypopular.Licensed

content makes up two-thirdsofNetflix’s

offering,however,whichwill be of

concern.Amazon Prime Video,

meanwhile,is ho ping forbig returns on

anew$250mLordofthe Ringsseries

and aPremierLeague deal thatwillsee

20 footballmatches beingbroadcast

livethismonth.

Yesand no.Certainly,you can useavirtual private

networkto get aUS, Canadian, Netherlands,

Aust ralian or NewZealandIP addressthatwilllet

youwatch shows.But you’ll need more than

aVPN alon e.

DisneyPlus won’t accept aUK payment method

or address,forexample,soy ou’ll need some

otherway of subscribingto the service. One way

is to get afriend in aDisneyPlus countrytopay

on your behalf or getaUSdebit card from

TransferWise (transferwise.com).

Anotheroption isto try usingaUSApple ID

with an AmericaniTunes account and makethe

payment usingaUSApp Storegift cardtoget

your subscription up and running. But bewarned

thatsuch methods breach DisneyPlus’sterms

and conditions, soyour effortscould ultimately

be invain.

Disneyfans intheUKwillhavetomakedo

withDisneyLifeuntilDisneyPluslaunches

Youcan watchDisneyPlusonavariet yof
devices andstream to up to fo ur at once

Expecttopayaround £6.99amonthwhen

DisneyPluslaunches intheUKinMarch