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I haven't figured out how they will dig themselves out of the hole of not being ubiquitous like Netflix. I'm a prime candidate for buying their service (small

I haven't figured out how they will dig themselves out of the hole of not being ubiquitous like Netflix. I'm a prime candidate for buying their service (small children who are definitely going to be missing some of the Disney content they've previously gotten on Netflix) but as far as I can tell, I have no options to subscribe on my two smart TV devices (Roku and Samsung). I'm sure as heck not buying another device just for them. I actually went looking for an app on the Samsung app store and found several Disney-branded things that just added to my confusion. One seemed to be streaming TV but 1) it didn't seem to have any recent content, and 2) when I tried it, it wanted me to sign in with my "local TV provider", which just makes me shake my head. My initial experience as a willing consumer doesn't give me much hope they're gonna pull this off...

shantly 7y ago
Not being on Roku's kinda weird, as it's hugely popular, widely deployed, and sees high usage. It's an odd platform but if your product is a video streaming catalogue + service well, that's exactly what it's built to do and getting that going's not all that hard. But maybe they're looking for access to whatever special SDK the big boys (Netflix, Google) get so they can make their branding folks happy (more consistency with experience on other platforms). I'd imagine developing with that's more involved. Samsung, some kind of custom Android probably? TV operating systems are a pain in the ass to test, fairly expensive to develop for, and relatively bad at drawing actual usage no matter how widely they're deployed. Might be the delay there. Big enough service needs to pay attention to that junk eventually, but I could see them dropping that for launch.
- williamjackson 7y ago
  Disney+ is on Roku, they just didn't make the channel available before today.
tssva 7y ago
Disney+ is available on Roku.
SketchySeaBeast 7y ago
Is your Samsung old? You should have the app. I know that when I turned on my LG TV this morning it notified me there was a Disney+ app available. https://news.samsung.com/us/disney-plus-launches-samsung-smart-tvs-us/ https://news.samsung.com/us/disney-plus-launches-samsung-sma...

shantly 7y ago

Not being on Roku's kinda weird, as it's hugely popular, widely deployed, and sees high usage. It's an odd platform but if your product is a video streaming catalogue + service well, that's exactly what it's built to do and getting that going's not all that hard. But maybe they're looking for access to whatever special SDK the big boys (Netflix, Google) get so they can make their branding folks happy (more consistency with experience on other platforms). I'd imagine developing with that's more involved. Samsung, some kind of custom Android probably? TV operating systems are a pain in the ass to test, fairly expensive to develop for, and relatively bad at drawing actual usage no matter how widely they're deployed. Might be the delay there. Big enough service needs to pay attention to that junk eventually, but I could see them dropping that for launch.

williamjackson 7y ago
Disney+ is on Roku, they just didn't make the channel available before today.

tssva 7y ago

Disney+ is available on Roku.

SketchySeaBeast 7y ago

Is your Samsung old? You should have the app. I know that when I turned on my LG TV this morning it notified me there was a Disney+ app available. https://news.samsung.com/us/disney-plus-launches-samsung-smart-tvs-us/ https://news.samsung.com/us/disney-plus-launches-samsung-sma...