Movies Anywhere Announcement
Karin Gilford, General manager for Movies Anywhere, said in the announcement, “Movies Anywhere means that consumers never have to remember where they purchased a film or which device they can watch it on because all of their eligible movies will be centralized within their Movies Anywhere library and available across platforms through the Movies Anywhere app and website and also available at their connected digital retailers. And as Movies Anywhere continues to add more studios, retailers, and platforms, the entertainment possibilities are endless.”
Movies Anywhere
This new service has evolved from Disney Movies Anywhere, which lets you view your content across devices and platforms but is limited to Disney properties like Star Wars, Marvel, and Pixar. Movies Anywhere will include movies from major studios like 20th Century Fox, Universal, Sony Pictures, and Warner Brothers.
Initially, the Movies Anywhere library consists of just over 7,300 titles which means not every movie you’ve bought will be available right away. But keep in mind that more content will become available as new studios get on board, like Paramount and Lionsgate, and as existing studios get comfortable with this service and make titles available. There is also a special promotion to help celebrate the launch. If you link two or more accounts to Movies Anywhere, you will get free copies of five different movies from each partnered studio. At the time of this writing, the site is still in a holding pattern with an animation and hashtag #AnywhereIsComing. But it should be live at some point today — hopefully by the time you’re reading this. This new service looks to replace the failed UltraViolet technology popularized by VUDU. It should help solve the problem of accessing your content across different services and devices. Let’s hope this works as advertised and the Hollywood studios don’t screw it up. Have you started using Movies Anywhere yet? Leave a comment below and let us know if you like it or not so much. It would be really really great if they would add a feature that let you insert a DVD into your computer and it would add it to the collection. I’ve got hundreds and it would be so much easier. Cheers In the same vein, I think that it should have been the first thing worth mentioning in this article that the offer is only available to citizens in the US. This way, one would know, right off the bat, not to waste time registering for an account. Comment Name * Email *
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