Google Play reportedly planning to do free 4k upgrades

[FubarFrenzy]

This is good news on several fronts. For me most important is upgrading the App on LG TV's. Few months ago I bought a couple movies in 4K only to later realize at the time you had to use a chromecast ultra to play it. The LG app could not. From the articles it looks like that could change. The sooner the better.

I still don't see some movies I purchased in HD upgrade to 4K (UHD). I own Interstellar, but still haven't seen an upgrade on that. Maybe due to the studio, that isn't included.

I'd like to see VUDU follow suit here. That would be awesome.

[AZBrowncoat]

Originally Posted by FubarFrenzy

This is good news on several fronts. For me most important is upgrading the App on LG TV's. Few months ago I bought a couple movies in 4K only to later realize at the time you had to use a chromecast ultra to play it. The LG app could not. From the articles it looks like that could change. The sooner the better.

I still don't see some movies I purchased in HD upgrade to 4K (UHD). I own Interstellar, but still haven't seen an upgrade on that. Maybe due to the studio, that isn't included.

I'd like to see VUDU follow suit here. That would be awesome.

I can definitely see how this could pressure on Vudu to follow suit.

[gushin]

Originally Posted by FubarFrenzy

This is good news on several fronts. For me most important is upgrading the App on LG TV's. Few months ago I bought a couple movies in 4K only to later realize at the time you had to use a chromecast ultra to play it. The LG app could not. From the articles it looks like that could change. The sooner the better.

I still don't see some movies I purchased in HD upgrade to 4K (UHD). I own Interstellar, but still haven't seen an upgrade on that. Maybe due to the studio, that isn't included.

I'd like to see VUDU follow suit here. That would be awesome.

Did you redeem or buy it from Google? If not it won't be upgraded. Look at the page on Google's site I linked in my post. The 4k upgrades are for movies that were redeemed or bought from Google in the past.

[FubarFrenzy]

Originally Posted by gushin

Did you redeem or buy it from Google? If not it won't be upgraded. Look at the page on Google's site I linked in my post. The 4k upgrades are for movies that were redeemed or bought from Google in the past.

Oh yeah, definitely redeemed via Google. I'm part of the google survey and had some money saved up, so I've bought a few movies via google. I'm thinking maybe some of the studios aren't supporting this? Or it hasn't transferred over yet. I'm patient. I'll wait.

Plus in my situation i have to wait for the LG Google app to upgrade. Who knows exactly when that is.

[Alan Gordon]

Originally Posted by FubarFrenzy

I still don't see some movies I purchased in HD upgrade to 4K (UHD). I own Interstellar, but still haven't seen an upgrade on that. Maybe due to the studio, that isn't included.

Correct! That movie is from Paramount, and Paramount is not listed as one of the supporting studios (yet).

[FubarFrenzy]

I've been seraching the internet on when Google will implement the app on their LG OLEDs with no success.

Any idea? I know they said soon, guess we have to wait for official date.