Sorry, you missed your chance to sign up for a free trial of Disney+

[Andy Meek]

• The Disney+ free trial offer has been one of the benefits that helped the streaming service, which launched back in November, quickly build up an impressive subscriber base -- along with tons of great content, of course, from brands like Marvel and Star Wars.
• However, Disney+ has quietly ended its practice of offering new subscribers a free week to try out the service before their paid subscription kicks in.
• Disney+ costs $7/month -- and, it should be noted, this move comes ahead of what's sure to be a banner month for the service in July, when it will add programming like a live Broadway recording of the smash-hit Hamilton.

Disney+ is continuing to assert itself as perhaps the toughest rival Netflix has faced yet in the ongoing streaming wars, a rivalry that Disney is arguably kicking up a notch in July with a mammoth slate of new releases that includes a live Broadway recording of Hamilton. Personally, I've already got October circled on my calendar, because that's when season two of my favorite Disney+ offering is set to premiere (The Mandalorian, notable for being the first live-action Star Wars series and in my opinion worth the price of a Disney+ subscription all by itself).

Speaking of the subscription price for the streamer, Disney has also just confirmed a big change on that front. New subscribers were getting the opportunity to trial Disney+ for free for a week before their subscription kicked in, but that's a practice that, unfortunately, Disney has now ended.

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