Digital shifting

[Alan Gordon]

Originally Posted by Ruined

Also, IMO people shouldn't be buying on itunes (or google play etc) but instead movies anywhere or VUDU. Reason why, cause if Movies Anywhere ever goes belly up those itunes purchases are now all locked to a single brand of digital device, which sucks. People should support the multiplatform services for their own good!

Movies Anywhere is not a retailer. It's a locker system that links with other retailers. You cannot buy from them.

Originally Posted by Ruined

Hence, if Movies Anywhere goes belly up, the content from those stores will be locked to iPhone/iPad and Android phones/tablets respectively. Kind of short-sighted to rely that much on Movies Anywhere for cross-device compatibility and then ultimately not support it, no?

Movies Anywhere is for cross-service compatibility. It connects with Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play/YouTube, Microsoft (Windows/Xbox), VUDU, DirecTV, xfinity, and Verizon.

Originally Posted by Ruined

While it is true that Apple and Google currently have licenses with some TV manufacturers, both have their own digital device ecosystems where their stores have exclusives. For instance, I can't natively watch iTunes content at all on an Android phone or tablet, and you can't natively watch Google Play content at all on a iPhone or iPad. And at any time, Apple or Google could stop licensing to TV manufs so that they can focus on their own ecosystem hardware if they chose to.

Google has a Google TV app for iPhone/iPad. You can also watch your purchased content via the YouTube and YouTube TV apps on both iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS.

Originally Posted by Ruined

Thus, supporting the most consumer friendly options (VUDU, Movies Anywhere) are really the best choice. Yeah, it might be a little more expensive at times without the free upgrades, but if you are going to upgrade the physical disc anyway that usually comes with a free code that isn't too much of a big deal.

Movies Anywhere is NOT a retailer. They're a locker.

If you click on the purchase link on Movies Anywhere from an iPhone/iPad, it literally takes you to iTunes. If you're on the website, it gives you a list of retailers to purchase from.

iTunes has a considerably higher video bitrate than VUDU, and often, a higher audio bit-rate than VUDU, which coupled with free 4K upgrades, definitely makes it the more consumer friendly options to me, but YMMV.

Originally Posted by Ruined

With ultraviolet, the licenses shifted to VUDU which does not have cross compatibility with itunes. If MA disappears, stuff you redeemed or purchased in itunes may just end up staying in itunes. I'm not sure why they would give you a second copy in VUDU. And if that is the case, they will all be locked to apple devices. On a side note, UV redemptions actually still work in VUDU to this day for LG 4K discs.

Movies Anywhere is the service that allows itunes to be used across devices. Without MA you are stuck with whatever apple let's you use them on

What the heck are you talking about?

All my UV movies that were MA enabled shifted to MA FROM VUDU. All my iTunes purchases and redeems transferred to VUDU from MA.

Originally Posted by Ruined

I'm not sure why they would give you a second copy in VUDU. And if that is the case, they will all be locked to apple devices.

Have you ever used Movies Anywhere? Do you even know what it is?

My apologies for the off-topic post.