It’s official! Disney+ has arrived in South Africa. The Walt Disney Company officially launched the streaming service here on Wednesday the 18th of May 2022 for R119 per month or a discounted annual fee of R1190.
More info about Disney+ in South Africa
Disney+ content library contains Disney’s animated films and series and movies and series that fall under the Marvel, Star Wars and National Geographic banner. It also features access to it’s Star Hub. The Star Hub includes movies and TV shows aimed at a more adult audience from Hulu, 20th Television, 20th Century Studio (formerly known as 20th Century Fox), Searchlight, and Touchstone Pictures. 2277 titles are available to stream (1332 movies and 945 series).
Disney+ is available on these platforms
Mobile devices: iPhone & iPad (iOS10+), Android mobile (4.4.4+), Android tablets
Browsers: Chrome (version 75+), Safari (version 11+), Microsoft Edge (version 79+), Firefox
Living Room (CTV): Android TV (OS 7.0 or above), Chromecast [Gen2 above (Firmware 1.43+)], Apple tvOS 11+ (Gen 4 above), LG (WebOS 4.0+), Samsung Smart TV.
The ability to download content for offline viewing will be introduced in June 2022. Subscribers will be able to download an unlimited number of movies and episodes.
Notable Series that’s available to stream on Disney+ in South Africa
The Book of Boba Fett, The Mandalorian, Star Wars: Clone Wars, Moon Knight, Hawkeye, Loki, 9-1-1, 9-1-1: Lone Star, Black-ish, Grown-ish, Grey’s Anatomy, How I Met Your Mother, Modern Family, Pam & Tommy, The Fixer, The Resident, Boston Legal, Ally McBeal, American Dad!, Family Guy, Futurama, The Simpsons (all 33 seasons), American Horror Story, NYPD Blue, The X-Files (all 11 seasons), The Walking Dead, Desperate Housewives, Malcolm In The Middle and The Golden Girls.
Notable Movies that’s available to stream on Disney+ in South Africa
All the Alien movies, All the Predator movies All the Star Wars movies, All the Die Hard movies, All The Pixar movies, All the Planet Of The Apes movies, Braveheart, The Devil Wears Prada, Life Of Pi, Wall Street, Dead Poet’s Society, The Beach, Titanic, Pretty Woman and Avatar.
My experience of Disney+
I installed the Android app just after midnight on the 18th of May 2022. Singing up was pretty easy. I got the OTP (One Time Pin) a few seconds after signing up and before I could say “Mickey Mouse”, I was streaming the first episode of Moon Knight on my LG Velvet 5G phone. The mobile interface is pretty user friendly and linking it with my Google Chromecast (3rd Generation) was not difficult either.
During the course of the day I logged into my account on 2 different web browsers and I did not experience any major issues. The service runs pretty smooth on both of these platforms. The streaming quality is top notch. I also tried installing the Windows 11 app on my PC, but I found that this is not available to South Africans yet. I’m pretty sure that this will change in the future though.
The only thing that frustrates me is the fact that you have to sign into your web browser and get asked for an OTP. There’s no option to sign in via email yet. Hopefully this feature will also be made available in the near future.
If you have not signed up for Disney+ yet, you can do so HERE.
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