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Disney+ to Launch in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and the UK on March 31, 2020

rmoliv said:
Some companies seem to think that those (UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain) are the only countries in Europe. They always get things first. Shame.
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It’s about importantance of the market unit. The others are less important. Same with US and Europe.
 
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urtules said:
Not all countries are equal. There's probably good reasons this is happening in a way it is. Also EU has freedom of movement, you are in control improving your living standards by moving to more progressive country. Hell, you even can move to UK without a visa now. Taking control of your life or complaining, your choice.
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What has this got to do with progressiveness or living standards? It's not launching in Sweden, Norway or Denmark, and probably those are among the top in Europe regarding those two parameters. I don't see any good reason as to why a freaking streaming service could not launch across the European single/common market at least simultaneously. Anyway, sooner or later it'll launch, as Netflix, Prime Video, and others did.
 
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Brian Y said:
Genuine question - why would this service be restricted by location?

Normally, this is because of negotiations with rights holders (i.e. pay XX to show in YY) - but if Disney own the rights to the content, and it's their first party service, why the restrictions?
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I have sky for 2 reasons - sky sports, and because the sky movie catalogue is better than any subscription service out there.
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I use NowTV from Sky. You can get Sky Movies and Sky Sports through that.
 
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This paired with Netflix should keep me covered on all bases. Looking forward to when it comes to Japan. Though I might end up using a VPN to get the american version
 
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Iger didn't mention how much European customers would have to pay to access its 500 feature films and over 7,500 shows, including the entire Pixar library and a raft of original content.
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The countries with € will pay the same as the Netherlands.

rmoliv said:
Some companies seem to think that those (UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain) are the only countries in Europe. They always get things first. Shame.
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Biggest markets first - not really surprising.

jroadley said:
One day it won't vary by territory - at least I hope so.
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They are waiting for exclusive contracts with third-party streaming services to expire (mostly with Netflix). The goal is to have unified international content availability.

urtules said:
Also EU has freedom of movement, you are in control improving your living standards by moving to more progressive country.
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How is this even related? Many European countries not included in this roll-out are the most progressive countries in the world (Sweden, Belgium, Finland).
 
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There is more than enough TV that interests me from FreeSat. No monthly or yearly charges. All recorded and adverts skipped over.
 
Delaying the release of The Mandalorian internationally will be remembered as one of the stupidest in recent business history. It's going to be pirated so heavily as to be pretty much worthless when Disney finally get off their arses and bother to release it elsewhere. Truly brain dead.
 
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rmoliv said:
What has this got to do with progressiveness or living standards? It's not launching in Sweden, Norway or Denmark, and probably those are among the top in Europe regarding those two parameters. I don't see any good reason as to why a freaking streaming service could not launch across the European single/common market at least simultaneously. Anyway, sooner or later it'll launch, as Netflix, Prime Video, and others did.
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Perhaps I picked a wrong word. Some might call those countries progressive, doesn't mean it's the country I would choose to live in.
 
danny842003 said:
Theres no real reason why this should be the case as they own the rights to their own product. Unless they need to wait for deals to expire with other broadcasters.
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rmoliv said:
What has this got to do with progressiveness or living standards? It's not launching in Sweden, Norway or Denmark, and probably those are among the top in Europe regarding those two parameters. I don't see any good reason as to why a freaking streaming service could not launch across the European single/common market at least simultaneously. Anyway, sooner or later it'll launch, as Netflix, Prime Video, and others did.
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Yeah but funnily enough, not even all Amazon Prime tv shows are available in Europe.
Prime in Europe (maybe besides UK/Germany) is trash.
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urtules said:
Progressive means a different thing for us.
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Please give us your definition 🙂
Oh, and please clarify, who is "us"? 😀
 
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rmoliv said:
What has this got to do with progressiveness or living standards? It's not launching in Sweden, Norway or Denmark, and probably those are among the top in Europe regarding those two parameters. I don't see any good reason as to why a freaking streaming service could not launch across the European single/common market at least simultaneously. Anyway, sooner or later it'll launch, as Netflix, Prime Video, and others did.
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In Scandinavia NENT (Viasat/Viaplay) has the rights to Disney content, and that deal has to run out before Disney+ can launch.

In the UK I believe Sky has the rights.

I would guess that Disney+ will be launched in Scandinavia March 31, 2020.
 
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Veinticinco said:
Curious. Why are the Dutch getting it 5 months earlier than the rest of Europe?
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They used The Netherlands to beta test it. It’s been available free there since September, probably testing the user interface and servers on a small scale before full roll outs.
 
So I want to watch the Mandalorian. Do I a) wait until April next year or b) find a streaming site.

They should have released it on the same day everywhere.
 
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Too late... Disney will lose my 5x7€ that I would most certainly pay for this... but I CAN'T! Compare that to Apple+ which is available globally since 1. Nov? I can't image how many millions Disney will not be making in theses 5 months with this slow global rollout...
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Brian Y said:
Genuine question - why would this service be restricted by location?

Normally, this is because of negotiations with rights holders (i.e. pay XX to show in YY) - but if Disney own the rights to the content, and it's their first party service, why the restrictions?
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Because Disney has local representations in every almost every country: Disney Switzerland, Disney Germany (Buena Vista, Walt Disney Company) and so on..they handle all local licenses... not so Apple
 
I“m in Germany.
With Netflix, Amazon and Apple there are so many shows and movies available that I don’t see any reason to add Disney.
It‘s just a shame that we‘re forced to pay for our public service TV that I don‘t watch at all.
 
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JLL said:
In Scandinavia NENT (Viasat/Viaplay) has the rights to Disney content, and that deal has to run out before Disney+ can launch.

In the UK I believe Sky has the rights.

I would guess that Disney+ will be launched in Scandinavia March 31, 2020.
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Whoever has the rights, if Disney owns the content, I guess they could just terminate the contracts and move on to launch their own service as soon as possible.
 
silvetti said:
Yeah but funnily enough, not even all Amazon Prime tv shows are available in Europe.
Prime in Europe (maybe besides UK/Germany) is trash.
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Please give us your definition 🙂
Oh, and please clarify, who is "us"? 😀
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