YouTube movies

[maxpeck]

Since Google movies has merged with/moved to YouTube, this forum should probably be renamed to YouTube Movies. Also what would it take to get a YouTube category added to the search bar on blu-ray.com similar to MA/iTunes/Prime? Or is there a way to make your own custom sub-categories within the "Digital" category? It would be nice if I could keep track of which platform my various digital movies are stored on.

[vonDubenshire]

Well if you are in the USA, the way that YouTube offering movies and Google Play offering movies from way way long ago had two different licensing issues and that is why it has taken them a very long time to start trying to merge them together after everything. On top of that you got a lot of people who use one while the growth is in another sector.

If you read some of my posts I actually have talked a little bit about it and I understand some of the wiggle issues even though they don't tell me those specifically, but basically I have purchased everything through my Google Play/ Google TV store because I have a Google family library, a couple of friends are in my family so any purchases made we share together. Since movies anywhere from me is linked to it, we have a gigantic library, if I was 100% dedicated to Apple iTunes that would probably be my second alternative.

Because YouTube has been such a huge growth the past 5 years it's a very slow process and yes, to people like us it's annoying but to other people they don't really think much about where they bought their movie they know they can eventually find it but they also don't collect like we do.


So anyway, if you read some of my post basically if you purchase a movie through Google Play/ the website or the app or the TV your Google Play purchase is available to be shared with your Google family, and you can immediately go to YouTube and your family and you will have it in your purchased YouTube stuff.

If you make a purchase on YouTube, however the licensing agreement does not allow it to go backwards to the Google Play library for your family. As it stands a purchase in YouTube should still always show up in Google Play/ Google TV for you individually but it cannot be shared across the Family library with the way their licensing currently is.

So basically never make a movie purchase on YouTube if you can make it on Google Play instead.

If you're not in the USA I do not know what the situation is, I know that they migrated most TV show purchases to YouTube only but I don't really buy TV episodes.

I have yet to have any issues with a movie not actually being on both platforms although occasionally a studio + they're people who upload to each storefront (Amazon or iTunes or Google or Microsoft) Will keep making mistakes from time to time but it is as far as I have found, almost never been Google's fault. It is usually when a distributor uploads multiple versions of the movie.

I found a couple of account manager emails that worked at lionsgate who I kind of bugged and harassed a little bit with several movies that I did not understand why they never had updated so you have 4K versions after I had waited a couple of years and every other service did

It took a little work but after I started doing it they fixed them all however I did notice they left the old versions in at first and I started emailing about that too, so if you searched for, KNOWING with Nicolas Cage, you might accidentally land on the page that had the ability to only purchase an HD version and not the 4K.
The ability to only purchase an HD version and not the 4K.
Basically small studios and lionsgate are the worst.

And Paramount because they choose to

I do not always understand the pickiness of it I'm sure there's some licensing issues from time to time but I don't know why because it seems like everyone should want to be able to purchase the 4K one.

I am 99.99% sure it is someone that doesn't follow the proper uploading methods and put in all the metadata, if you dig around you can actually find the back end that these five or six companies that upload all the movies for production studios use, it doesn't tell you everything but you can start reading it and you can see where people make errors and it explains so much, the issue is Google can't fix it if the studio does not provide the copy of data/file that they need to offer you a 4K version.

Apple pushed hard for 4K because they wanted to grow with that section and they really wanted to do some things right sort of, I am not sure who ate money I know Disney resisted for a long time on that stuff but it seems now everyone is okay with 4K I think it's just the same repetitive things and nobody like me getting on to them enough

There's several posts in this entire forum where some guys know where to harass iTunes workers (I say harass, they're usually happy to fix it if they can)

Until Google stops offering movies through Google Play/ Google TV, I think it is best to stay as Google only or add YouTube to the forum name. Don't make separate ones because there is no need for that when they're actually still linked together on the back end


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I WAS DOING SOME WORK OUTSIDE AND VOICE TO TEXTED THAT ENTIRE THING SO SORRY IF I MAKE NO SENSE SOMEWHERE