Paramount joining?

[Stevensevens]

Originally Posted by DrrnHarr

Yes and no.

As @AZBrowncoat noted there are pro's and con's to both.

On the one hand:

• Disney never joined UV, keeping its library in DMA
• UV always seemed to have a clunky interface without the all-important app.
• With Disney since acquiring studios such as Fox I imagine that all the Fox titles would also have vanished from UV
• Amazon never joined UV
• With Amazon since acquiring studios such as MGM I imagine that all the MGM titles would also have vanished from UV

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On the other hand:

• MGM was on UV with the James Bond movies and Pink Panther movies
• Paramount was also on UV

I've given up on Paramount ever joining MA. but I expect MGM movies will once they are part of Amazon

My preferred retailer is iTunes , though I do have some of my old UV movies on Vudu.

To be honest since Wal-Mart has divested itself of Vudu I think Vudu's future is bleak. It wouldn't surprise me at all if Vudu went belly-up

Fandango bought VUDU. Are you aware of that? Fandango shut down their own store and made Vudu its primary store. Fandango been promoting Vudu and plans to make Vudu bigger in the future. Fandango is in the movie business so why would Vudu go belly up? I wouldn’t be surprised if google play stopped selling movies seeing how they stopped selling music and shut down the play movies app.

[meremortal]

Really would like for Paramount to join given their huge catalog. A decent chunk of the movies I bought on Vudu are through them and it's kind of annoying to not have them in MA. Same goes for Lionsgate and there are a lot of releases I'm often on the fence for that reason and in many cases will just get the blu.

[flyry]

Originally Posted by Stevensevens

Fandango bought VUDU. Are you aware of that? Fandango shut down their own store and made Vudu its primary store. Fandango been promoting Vudu and plans to make Vudu bigger in the future. Fandango is in the movie business so why would Vudu go belly up? I wouldn’t be surprised if google play stopped selling movies seeing how they stopped selling music and shut down the play movies app.

they did. at least on Roku. have to go to youtube now. also now google tv on my phone

[Me-Hostage]

Originally Posted by Stevensevens

Fandango bought VUDU. Are you aware of that? Fandango shut down their own store and made Vudu its primary store. Fandango been promoting Vudu and plans to make Vudu bigger in the future. Fandango is in the movie business so why would Vudu go belly up? I wouldn’t be surprised if google play stopped selling movies seeing how they stopped selling music and shut down the play movies app.

Wow. I just checked, when did Google stop selling music? I only used Google for movies when I had credit built up in my Rewards app. I'm shocked at how many stores still sell movies given then top ones prob take the most money. Does Playstation still sale movies on the PSN? I'm surprised they haven't shut that down (if it's still up), since Sony is already part of MA.

As for Paramount, Vudu updated their Pulse 2 and 3 listings. It says it's Paramount now, but both still have the MA logo, and are pre-order at the moment. MA has removed them though, so I think Vudu got lazy and forgot to remove the MA logos, or they will once the pre-order is up.

[Crimson King]

A big reason I like titles in MA, is because if a movie is locked to one site, that's it.
I like having choice of digital providers for the same movie, because quality of the transfers can vary from site to site.
One good example, Vudu, while having a huge library, is notorious for having films in the wrong aspect ratio.
Blazing Saddles is cropped full screen on Vudu, while MA and elsewhere, has it in in proper scope ratio, that's why porting is important to me, choices!