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After delisting Mulan from a potential theatrical run in June, Disney has firmed up its plans for its newest live-action remake. Starting September 4, Mulan will premiere exclusively on Disney+ in various territories, including the United States, Canada, and New Zealand, according to Disney CEO Bob Chapek.
Unlike other Disney+ streaming premieres, however, Mulan will launch with an extra price point on top of the service's $7/mo subscription rate. Paying Disney+ users in the US will have to fork over an additional $30 for what Chapek described as "premiere access,"
which likely equates to a temporary rental of the film instead of full-blown ownership a la platforms like iTunes and Amazon Video. Other territories' rates have not yet been confirmed. (Chapek took the opportunity to confirm that Disney+'s worldwide subscriber numbers are somewhere near 60.5 million.)[Update, 9:30pm ET: Disney has since confirmed that a $30 payment for Mulan will permanently unlock it in your Disney+ account, so long as you remain a paying subscriber.]
The beginning of the end of movie theaters?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Unixnut on Friday August 07 2020, @06:04AM
Try using VLC. I generally find it useless on most "proper" machines (laptops/desktops/etc...), but on a tablet/mobile phone, it one of the better media apps. It specifically supports SMB/NFS and other protocols. Unfortunately I could not get it to work with NFS despite all my attempts (my network is pure NFS), so in the end I set up samba on my server just for it. It works fine, I use it to stream videos to my bedroom when I can't sleep (I hold no media on the phone itself).
In my case, I attached my phone to two square bars of balsa wood, which I attached to my bed frame, so I can lie back in bed and watch without holding it up for ages (I would get the "tired arm" issue as well). Same thing should be doable with a tablet.