Disney + streaming platform launches new service for 2021 -

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Disney + launched a feature called GroupWatch on Tuesday in the United States.

This is described by the channel as "a new experience of co-provisioning to watch films and series [...] with friends and family, even separated".

All the programs in the streaming platform's catalog are compatible with the tool, specifies a message on the Disney group's website.

GroupWatch offers a synchronized playback mode that can be used simultaneously by up to seven people.

They will then be able to "share their reactions in real time".

To do this, a selection of six emojis is made available to express your impressions to all the members of the group.

GroupWatch are officially available in the United States on #DisneyPlus.

No date has been announced in France for the moment.

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Upcoming launch in Europe

The new feature is available to Disney + subscribers through mobile devices, smart TVs or the web version of the portal.

It has already been in operation in the form of a test since September 10 in Canada and September 18 in Australia and New Zealand.

GroupWatch's launch in Europe is scheduled for "later this fall".

To access it, all you have to do is click on the icon displayed on the presentation page of each program.

A link then allows the user to invite up to six other subscribers to join him for a group session.

Each of the viewers can pause, speed up or rewind playback.

All these actions will then apply simultaneously to the views of all the participants in the session.

“Stories come to life when you can share and enjoy them with others,” said Jerrell B Jimerson, Disney + vice president of products.

The manager also mentions the current period when "many of us are still far from our friends and family".

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