September 27 (Portaltic/EP) –
Disney+ ha started to implement the Extra Access option in Spain facing end shared subscriptions outside the homeso users will have to pay 4.99 euros per month to add an extra user to the Standard subscription with ads and 5.99 euros per month for an Extra Access for the Disney+ Standard and Premium options.
The streaming content company informed end of September last year about its plans regarding the use of the same access credential by multiple users, indicating that would stop offering the possibility of sharing subscriptions outside the home, that is, they did not belong to the collection of devices associated with the subscriber’s residence.
These plans were Initially designed to be implemented in Canada and the United States, However, in April of this year the CEO of Disney+, Bob Iger, indicated that they also intended implement these access restrictions to the rest of the regions, and that these measures would be definitively expanded to all subscribers in the month of September 2024.
Later, during the month of July, the platform began to inform users in Spain about these restrictions and included the new sharing guidelines in its service policies. Thus, the company explained If you want to include a person outside the home in the account, you can contract an extra Access, which represents an additional cost to that of the main account.
Now, the streaming platform is definitively following in the wake started by Netflix and has started limiting account sharing to users in the same household, with the launch of Extra Access.
As Disney+ explained in a communicated on its website, the platform has started expand your paid sharing program this weekso that it offers users new ways to subscribe together with family or friends, through the management of devices within a home.
With this, users can begin to contract the Extra Access option which, as Disney+ has detailed in its help centerwill have a price in Spain of 4.99 euros per month for the Disney+ Standard plan with ads and 5.99 euros per month for the subscription to Disney+ Standard and Premium.
“These features and capabilities are now available in the United States, Canada, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region after its launch in select markets during the summer,” the company clarified.
However, it must be taken into account that each Disney+ subscription can only have one Extra Access add-on, which can only be accessed by a person who is not in the same household. Additionally, Extra Access will be limited to a single profile and can only be used on one device at a time.
Likewise, users added through this option will have access to the same catalog and functions that are available to the owner from the Disney+ account.
VIEWING CONTENT OUTSIDE THE HOME
The company has also detailed that, when viewing content outside the home, users will be able to continue watching Disney+ on their compatible devices as a member of the household. However, the message will be displayed ‘This TV does not appear to be part of this account’s household’ and, after that, users will be able to indicate that are away from home or update homein case the location needs to be reset.
To continue viewing the content, once one of the two options has been selected, you must enter a one-time access codewhich is sent to the email address associated with the account holder.
Currently, subscriptions to this service in Spain are priced at 5.99 euros per month for the Disney+ Standard plan with ads, 8.99 euros per month for the Disney+ Standard plan and 11.99 euros per month for the Disney+ plan. Premium.
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