Hidden Gems of Disney + instant videos

The Mandalorian episode 1 was AMAZING!

First two eps of The Mandalorian were pretty great. The show is really fun in a way that I can't explain.

The new DuckTales is very funny. I'm watching it with the family and we all are enjoying it. Great acting and writing all around.

Also, had a nostalgia trip watching Boy Meets World and Even Stevens. I was surprised that both shows still hold up.

This might be the catalyst to us canceling Netflix, at least until a new show we are dying to watch comes out. Dragon Prince is about the only new thing we are looking forward to so looking to cancel in early January.

The $7/month for Disney+ 4k vs the $13-15/month we pay for HD Netflix is a big reason. There feels like so much value in quality content on Disney+ over Netflix's quantity but not always quality feel that the price difference seems even bigger. The more family friendly nature of Disney+ is huge for us having two little kids, as well.

So last night we watched Escape to Witch Mountain, which holds up and is still fun, followed by – at my wife’s insistence, mind you – Return from Witch Mountain, which is still awful and always will be.

Tonight we’ll watch Race to Witch Mountain, which I’ve never seen but the wife has.

I really enjoyed that second episode of Mandelorian.

tuffalobuffalo wrote:

I really enjoyed that second episode of Mandelorian.

It was amazing!

We still haven't started. We're finishing up GBBO's holiday episodes then watching season 3 of the Toy show. Both on Netflix.

By the time we're done with that we'll have four episodes of Mandalorian to watch.

IMAGE(https://i.imgur.com/PFBmSls.jpg)

is there a way pick up where I left off in a video? i watched Star wars Rebels at work Friday and wanted to pick up where I left off today but I can't remember what episode it was and I see no way to see a history.

farley3k wrote:

is there a way pick up where I left off in a video? i watched Star wars Rebels at work Friday and wanted to pick up where I left off today but I can't remember what episode it was and I see no way to see a history.

Not that I'm aware of from within the app. The Apple TV app keeps a history, but it's not always correct. There is also a huge bug on Apple TV where even if a video completely finishes, going to back to it will always load up the last 5 seconds. You have to manually scrub back to the beginning. Hoping it gets fixed soon.

Here's a tip for those (like me) who might have missed it:

If you click into a video, before you click play there is often a sub-menu with 'Extras' that contain a lot of the video extras from movies that usually come on the Blu-Ray release.

IMAGE(https://i.imgur.com/BxZjfvG.png)

I love a lot of stuff about the service but really that feels like a stupid oversight. I can log in to Netflix and go back to where I was 3 months ago. It is nice with series like Rebels.

Is this only working on AppleTVs/devices?

Wink_and_the_Gun wrote:

Is this only working on AppleTVs/devices?

No, it's on Roku and Fire TV. Also iOS, Android, and works in browsers. Pretty much everywhere.

PaladinTom wrote:
Wink_and_the_Gun wrote:

Is this only working on AppleTVs/devices?

No, it's on Roku and Fire TV. Also iOS, Android, and works in browsers. Pretty much everywhere.

Also Xbox One and PS4. Some smart tvs if they are new enough.

I have a feeling that my Samsung TVs are probably too old.

My TV and PS3 are all too old, so I got an Amazon Fire TV Stick and so far it's working great.

I had to go through my Xbox One. My LG 4k Smart TV(only 3-4 years old) has webos 2.0 which LG will not upgrade to 3.0 which is the only version LG is putting Disney + on.

This is one of the reasons why I never like relying on the built in TV apps. I'm picking up a 4k roku or fire stick next week, depending on how the new TV handles passing surround to my sound system.

I have a Fire Stick on my older TV downstairs but I can find the app for Disney+. Am I missing something?

Sydhart wrote:

I have a Fire Stick on my older TV downstairs but I can find the app for Disney+. Am I missing something?

Go to amazon web site and then to the firetv app/channel section. The disney+ app will probably be on the front page but if not just search for it.

IMAGE(https://i.imgur.com/Erkwtgh.jpg)

Baron Of Hell wrote:
Sydhart wrote:

I have a Fire Stick on my older TV downstairs but I can find the app for Disney+. Am I missing something?

Go to amazon web site and then to the firetv app/channel section. The disney+ app will probably be on the front page but if not just search for it.

Found it! Thanks Baron. I didn't even know how to do that on out Fire Stick since I don't hardly ever use it.

Agent Carter is on Disney+!

IMAGE(https://i.imgur.com/axjoULi.png)

Really enjoying The Mandalorian so far. I had tried to convince myself not to be interested, I think because I didn't want to sign up for the service, but there was a free trial and now I can use my Google Play store balance to pay for it too, so I signed up and am happy I did.

I've also re-watched the first two Star Wars prequels out of curiosity, and boy are they terrible! I didn't like them at the time (okay, I semi-convinced myself on my first viewing of The Phantom Menace that I was enjoying it, but by my second viewing in the theater I surrendered to the truth) and never watched them outside of the theater, so I had wondered if maybe they'd gotten a bad rap. Nope! Still awful! I had never watched Episode 3, however, and have always heard that is "the good prequel" so I started that last night. I made it through the first hour so far, and it's fine. It still has a lot of the bad stuff about the prequels--lame quips (all the banter Obi-Wan has to do is particularly dreadful, poor Ewan), bad Anakin acting, the Jedis are total morons--but it is much less boring, there have been some very cool action scenes so far, and wow do all of these movies look great in 4K with HDR Dolbyvision.

This is a weird leap, perhaps, but watching the Prequels makes me extra impressed by Better Call Saul. One of the major failings of the prequels is that it's really hard to tell an origin story when you know where things end up. It's a hard task, and the prequels completely fail at it. Faced with similar problems, where we know what's going to happen with Jimmy/Saul, Better Call Saul manages to create so much suspense and tension and even hope out of a character whose end point we already know. Someone hire Vince Gilligan to make his own prequel trilogy. I bet it'd be great!

Disney Plus will get a continue watching feature in the 'near future,' report says

The Mouse House is planning to add a "continue watching" feature to its new service in the "near feature," according to ComicBook.com. Whether that is before the end of 2019 or in early 2020 is currently unknown.

A feature it should have had from the beginning really.

farley3k wrote:

Disney Plus will get a continue watching feature in the 'near future,' report says

The Mouse House is planning to add a "continue watching" feature to its new service in the "near feature," according to ComicBook.com. Whether that is before the end of 2019 or in early 2020 is currently unknown.

A feature it should have had from the beginning really.

Yeah, what an oversight, especially considering it already remembers where you left off in a movie and whatnot, it just doesn't show you.

Can't confirm that for TV shows since I haven't watched any.

They need to fix their Autoplay code too. Despite having it turned on in our profiles, half the time it doesn't actually do anything and we need to exit an episode and manually go to the next one.

Both of these things are Streaming 101 table-stakes that there isn't much excuse for not working out of the box, especially when they have been working on this service for literally years.

Just subscribed!

mrlogical wrote:

I had never watched Episode 3, however, and have always heard that is "the good prequel" so I started that last night.

It's not.

For me, Episode 1 is the most watchable of the 3, but only in the sense that I'd choose to watch it instead of being killed or something, and even then I'd have to think for a moment about my decision. The lightsaber stuff is good, the podracing scene is fine if you ignore the dumb dialog, and Neeson and McGregor do the best they can with the terrible script. Episode 3, on the other hand, has going for it .... well, I can't think of anything. It's paced well? I dunno -- it's not as bad as Episode 2, which is the worst movie I've ever seen.