Here is a list of all movies and TV shows at launch of Disney+. Well worth the $3.80 per month, and they will obviously be obtaining, creating, and adding more over the next few years.
Cool cool. Notable entries for me:
Adventures in Babysitting
Honey I Shrunk the Kids
Spacecamp
Tron
Missing…
Mickey’s Christmas Carol
Several Muppet movies
JustWatch has added a Disney+ button for the Netherlands. I don’t know how authoritative it is, but JustWatch is a fine resource that I recommend wholeheartedly, and it is available for many countries.
So no Disney+ app on Samsung SmarTVs? What a pain in the ass.
Not on the Amazon Fire Stick at this point, either. I really don’t want to have to buy another device. 
I’m just streaming from a Chromebook. I presume it will work fine on the Disney+ website. Otherwise, I have no device to stream from.
I’m disappointed that I can’t sign-up in Canada yet! It launches in 2 weeks and I still can’t find a link to sign-up yet.
Also to note, there is no updated list (for Canada) of what content will be shown. Obviously all net-new shows will be there, but there is no guarantee that all of the movies that are on the US list will be shown in Canada on day 1.
Colour me frustrated!
MtM
Forgot about this thread.
My friend said she did some digging and the free year can be “tacked on” to the 3 years I already paid for. But I do not know how it works for people like me who share a plan. Since I don’t live with the person I share with (business partner) I probably don’t get that extra free year for my own line. We’ll see.
I hope this is on-topic enough to not be a threadjack, especially as I see a number of people have mentioned this issue, but haven’t yet seen a definitive solution.
I have a Samsung Smart TV, and I would like to watch Disney+, with sound and video in high quality, coming from that television. Without resorting to unconfirmed rumors of future potential availability, how do I do this?
I have phrased my question in this way because I have already done some googling, and have become frustrated by what I’ve been able to find so far. Because so far, I have found tech blogs that are 90% hype for Disney+, and very light on information about actually watching it on my Samsung.
I do have a desktop in the room we watch TV in, and I know I can easily send video over to my Samsung, no problem. I’m not tech savvy enough to know that I can do so in HD or 4k, but I know I can get whatever’s on my desktop monitor over to the TV. In any case the sound still plays through my desktop system, which is unacceptable for any regular TV viewing. I don’t watch to watch Endgame or whatever with all the explosions and dialogue sounding like they are rotated 90 degrees and yards away from the action on screen.
Is a Roku really my best option? Cuz that would mean a fourth remote - “universal” remotes have never seemed to work for this VCR-clock-still-blinks-noon kinda guy. Worse, I don’t have a 4th HDMI input on my TV. Can I plug a Roku into my DVD player or Comcast DVR?
I’m getting too old for this shit.
What are the 3 HDMI inputs currently plugged into?
You can get an HDMI splitter. Good news and bad news there, though: The good news is that you can find one with a remote control so you don’t have to get up and walk over to the tv to switch between HDMI inputs. The bad news is that becomes yet another remote to deal with.
Worse is that they make everything “smart” nowadays to the point that devices are too smart for their own good. I have a remote control HDMI switcher, but it doesn’t work for my Samsung blu-ray player because the blu-ray won’t turn on if it doesn’t sense a live output to send its signal to, and the HDMI switcher won’t let you switch to a device that isn’t sending a signal. So I have the roku and cable box hooked into the switcher (they always send signals) and the blu-ray plugged into the tv’s second HDMI port. It’s confusing and annoying that I have to do two completely different things to switch devices depending on which devices I’m switching between. On the plus side, I have a single universal remote that operates all my devices, including the switcher.
Comcast DVR, DVD player, and my desktop’s video output. I realized shortly after posted that I can pretty safely lose the latter. For as often as I actually put anything from my desktop onto the TV, I might as well just switch out HDMI cables.
Thanks for the info on the HDMI splitter, Ellis. I will definitely look into that if I decide I need additional devices or for some reason want to us the TV as my 3rd monitor more often.
It looks like I will be getting a Roku, but I’m hoping that Samsung will add Disney+ to their supported apps near launch time, or at least that Hulu or Prime will add an option to watch through their services.
If you want to hear something even more ridiculous, I just got a new TCL Roku TV. Brand new 2019 model that was just released. It doesn’t have the Apple TV app yet, but my $19 Roku device does. So I’ll have to plug my Roku into my Roku to watch. I’ll probably just wait a few months for support to catch up to the new hardware before I subscribe.
Also - if anyone is getting a new Roku device, if you purchase it through Walmart, they’ll give you $10 in Vudu credit. If you aren’t all that interested in digital movie streaming, I’ll take it!
?? When you say desktop video output, you mean HDMI, right? That should be carrying sound*. Have you looked at the sound settings when its outputting to the TV? My experience is they usually auto-select but maybe yours needs a nudge.
*After all, it stands for Handy Dandy Movie Input, doncha know.
Huh. I don’t remember what I was thinking when I set everything up, but for the past few years I just assumed. Thanks to this comment, I checked, and yes, I can play sound from the desktop just fine with a click of the mouse. Thank you!
Where’s that Emily Litella quote when you need it?
Didn’t Vudu abruptly end a few weeks ago? I had it as one of my roku “channels” but then a few weeks ago it was replaced with a “Not Found” icon and I can no longer add it. I did some googling about Vudu disappearing but all the hits were articles about Ultraviolet being shut down.
Anyway, not sure what the $10 credit would be for. As far as I could tell, Vudu is (was?) 100% free. At least it was all the times I watched movies on Vudu.
Vudu is still most definitely alive. And it is a movie rental/purchase service with a few free movies - like an iTunes or Google Play Movies sort of deal.
I’m in a similar situation with my LG TV, and I wonder if Disney+ will be accessible on the TV through its web browser app? We have an Amazon Fire Stick, and for a while it had no YouTube app due to some dispute between Amazon and Google. During that time it was simple enough to just go to youtube.com in the Fire Stick’s browser and watch videos that way.
That’s very odd. No - Vudu is alive and well.
It’s a digital media marketplace. You can buy or rent movies and television shows, much like Apple TV/iTunes (but without the music).
So Verizon is giving a free year. There is supposed to be a Hulu bundle price. I have Verizon and Hulu and haven’t figured out how to sign up through either.