Are you planning a vacation, but don’t know how to pass the time while traveling, especially by plane? The ideal choice would be those of retrieve TV series or movies that friends and acquaintances have recommended to you, but that you haven’t had time to look. Obviously in many cases it is not possible to use the connection of your portable device, but do not worry because now almost all streaming services allow you to download content to your device to be able to watch them comfortably in offline mode. In this article we talk about Disney Plus and how you can download movies and TV series from the proprietary application.
Disney Plus: how to download movies and TV series
Disney Plus: supported devices
Disney Plus, in fact, allows the unlimited download of titles in its catalog, with the possibility of downloading entire seasons or individual episodes as regards the TV series. First of all, remember that the service has been available in Italy since March 24, 2020 and is present in numerous devices such as:
- Mobile devices And Tablet (via app downloaded for free)
- Android smartphones and tablets from (OS 5.0 (Lollipop) or later
- Apple iPhone and iPad (iOS 11.0 and later)
- Amazon Fire tablet
- Web browser (via streaming)
- Windows: Chrome 75+, Edge, Firefox 68+, Explorer 11 and later
- macOS: Safari 11+, Chrome 75+, Firefox 68+ and later
- Chrome OS: Chrome OS 79 and later
- Game consoles and TVs connected to streaming devices
- Apple AirPlay (with tvOS 11.0 or higher)
- Apple TV 4K with tvOS 11.0 and later.
- Chromebook
- Chromecast (Version 1 and later)
- Sony PlayStation 4 (PlayStation 4 Pro, PlayStation 4 Slim, PlayStation 4) and PlayStation 5
- Xbox One (Xbox One, Xbox One S, Xbox One X) and Xbox Seris S and Series X
- Multimedia players
- Set-top box
- Set-top boxes that use Android TV, including NVIDIA SHIELD TV and Mi Box
- Smart TV (pre-installed or via app downloaded for free)
- Android (Sharp AQUOS and Sony Bravia)
- LG WebOS (from 2016 or later with WebOS 3.0 and later)
- Samsung Tizen (from 2016 or later)
How does it work?
Before moving on to the explanation of the actual procedure for downloading content, it is important to remember that it can be downloaded only from the official application present on iPhone and iPad, Android smartphones and tablets and Amazon Fire Tablet. It is also not possible to download movies and TV series directly to your PC, however if you download them to your phone or tablet they can be switched to your computer or watched offline on your TV using a USB / HDMI cable or via Chromecast, Bluetooth connection or Wi-Fi transmission. Fi Direct based on the brand of the devices and the year of manufacture of the devices.
How to download content on Disney Plus?
Now, therefore, let’s move on to quick and easy guide on how to download movies and TV series from the Disney Plus catalog through the official application:
- Open the Disney Plus application (if you don’t have it, you must necessarily download it from the App Store or Google Play Store)
- Log in with your credentials (we leave you with all the relevant information with this article)
- Go to the content you want to download and click on the screen Download (i.e. the icon with an arrow pointing down)
- The download starts automatically and you just have to wait for it to finish
- In the case of a series, the Download button allows you to download a single episode or an entire season. In fact, under the episodes, you can choose the season you want to watch. Right on the right is the same icon with the arrow, but this allows you to download the entire season. After confirming the Season Download in the pop-up window that appears on the screen, the actual download will begin.
How to see the downloaded contents and how to delete them?
To be able to take advantage of the downloaded content in a totally offline way, just access your profile through the application and go to Download section where all the downloaded contents are present. To watch them, if of course the download was successful, simply tap the play button to start streaming offline. The application, however, allows you to customize the way you can download the contents to your liking: by going to the Settings you can choose whether to download only via Wi-Fi or even data connection, the video quality between high, medium and standard and also the position where to end the downloaded contents in the Download section. It is right to warn you that the High quality, in addition to requiring more time to download, also requires a lot of space in the device (about 5.1 hours of content), while for those of Medium quality it goes up to about 20.6 hours and for those at standard quality hours exceed 30.5.
Finally, if after viewing the downloaded content if you want to eliminate someone to make room for other content, just go to the section Downloadselect the title you want to remove and click on the item Remove Download. In addition, the application also has an indicator that shows the memory available in the device: you can find it in Settings under the heading Cancel all downloads.
What we recommend to download
Among the contents to download, we strongly recommend that you recover the entire film saga of Star Wars or, if you already knew it by heart, you could recover the much appreciated television series set in the same universe of Star Wars as The Mandalorian or The Book of Boba Fett. If you are a lover of superheroes and in particular of the Marvelthen you can’t miss all the films that have accompanied us for ten years until the end with Avengers: Endgame and the new contents of the so-called Phase 4 including new original television series such as WandaVision, Hawkeye and the brand new Moon Knight.
You can also find a wide selection of animated films both from the very rich Disney / Pixar catalog such as DuckTales or the great classics like The Little Mermaid, Mickey Mouse or Cinderellabut also fresher contents such as The Simpsons or Phineas and Ferb or documentaries like the fantastic The Imagineering Story. There is also no shortage of splendid National Geographic content, including Free Solo, Apollo: Moon Mission And Point of no return and, with the arrival of Star, also products dedicated to more adults such as series of the caliber of Grey’s Anatomy, The X-Files, The Walking Dead, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Modern Family, Family Guy, Futurama or movies like the saga of Alien, Borat, Titanic and many other contents including great classics and absolute novelties. In any case, if you always want to stay up to date on the best upcoming content, we leave you with our articles dedicated respectively to the best films and the best series of 2022 updated month by month.
