The popular video distribution service "Disney+", which has won more than 100 million members worldwide, has announced that it will expand its service in Japan from October 27 and add various functions and works. Did.
This announcement, there are good news and bad news, but first of all, bad news.The monthly fee is raised from 770 yen to 990 yen.It is painful for those who have contracted with multiple video distribution services, almost lined up in Netflix and Hulu.
However, there are plenty of good news so that you do not care about such prices.First, the change of enrollment form.Japan's Disney Plus was a service that was developed in a continuous form of Disney DX, which was once deployed by DoCoMo and Disney, so it was necessary to go through docomo Shop and My Docomo to join.However, from October, it will be possible to join from a credit card or PayPal, Apple App Store, Google Play Store, and Amazon app store.
It seems that if you join via the App Store, it will cost 1,000 yen (tax included) per month, but it is a good change because it is not necessary to create a docomo account anyway.For the time being, the relationship with DoCoMo does not seem to be resolved, so those who joined via DOCOMO seem to be OK at the moment.
Finally, it also supported game consoles such as PlayStation 4/5, the video was 4K UHD, and the sound was also enhanced by 5.1ch/Dolby Atmos.Well, in North America, etc., it was supported from the beginning, so it was an impression that it was finally coming, but it is still a nice evolution.
And the highlights this time are the addition of the new content brand "Star" of Disney Plus.The star was originally a satellite broadcasting station in Hong Kong, which was a FOX channel that operates mainly in Asia, but the right to the FOX was acquired by Disney in 2019, and the right was moved, and about six months ago, North America was about to be North America.It is deployed as a Disney Plus content brand in the area.
By the way, there is a movie -specialized channel "Star Channel" in Japan, but this is a Japanese original movie channel, and it used to have a 21st century Fox, but it has nothing to do with Disney Plus stars.。
In the stars added this time, Disney / FOX new and old video works, such as Disney Television Studios, FX Productions, 20th Century Studios, Searchlight Pictures, will be developed.
For now, movies such as "Nomadland", "Pretty Woman", "Titanic", "Devil in Prada", "Deadpool", "GLEE/Glee", "24 -Twenty Four-", "Walking"・ It has been announced that overseas dramas such as dead will be distributed.
The distribution of the drama "Shogun SHOGUN", which Hiroyuki Sanada will appear, has been announced, and new works will appear one after another.At the same time, the content from Japan to be created in cooperation with Japanese top creators will be announced at the same time.This is a pretty worrisome development.
Anyway, a lot of content will be added, so let's look forward to it!
