Hulu just landed on Disney Plus – here’s what it looks like

Almost everything Hulu can do, you can now do in the beta of Disney’s new Disney Plus app

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It’s here: a newcombined Disney Plus and Hulu appis now available as a beta version for you to try. The unpredictably named Hulu on Disney Plus app is rolling out as a bundle to subscribers now, and it’ll launch more widely in early 2024. If you subscribe to both of thebest streaming servicesseparately using the same email address you should be able to use the integrated version too.

The newDisney Plus bundledoesn’t deliver 100% of the features of Hulu, however. For Hulu plus Live TV and Premium add-ons you’re still going to need to use the Hulu app. And because of rights issues the full Hulu video on demand catalog isn’t there yet, so you may well encounter the odd missing favorite such asModern Family.

Overall, though, it’s a pretty good indication of where the Disney streaming ship is sailing. The new beta app isnow availableto try, so if you’ve been wondering whether youshould get bothstreamers then you don’t have to choose between the two.

How Hulu works in the Disney Plus app

Everything works just as you’d expect. When you open theDisney Plusapp you’ll see that Hulu now has its own tile at the top alongside Disney,Marvel, Pixar,Star Warsand National Geographic. That tile takes you to the Hulu hub, which gives you the usual thumbnails for featured shows and movies, recently added content and then shows and movies by category. However, there’s not yet a sidebar to for fast access to particular kinds of content, andThe Vergereports that there’s no Continue Watching synchronsation between the new app and the existing Hulu app.

If you’re a parent or look after young children and you don’t already have user profiles set up, this would be a good time to do it. Hulu’s content is generally for more mature audiences than Disney Plus' core content. Disney says that one of the reasons for launching now in beta is to give “Disney Plus subscribers time to adjust parental controls and establish profiles for the entire family, if they don’t already exist”.

According to Disney, one of the key reasons for bringing the two services together is to make it easier to find content. Instead of needing to know what shows are on Hulu and what ones are on Disney Plus, you’ll be able to find them in the same app. “One of the things thatHuluon Disney Plus is going to achieve is it’s going to increase engagement, which reduces churn,” says Joe Earley, Disney Entertainment’s president of direct-to-consumer. “I think that people are going to discover content they never even realized was on Hulu.”

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Writer, broadcaster, musician and kitchen gadget obsessive Carrie Marshall has been writing about tech since 1998, contributing sage advice and odd opinions to all kinds of magazines and websites as well as writing more than a dozen books. Her memoir,Carrie Kills A Man, is on sale now and her next book, about pop music, is out in 2025. She is the singer in Glaswegian rock bandUnquiet Mind.

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