How To Register Purchased Digital Movie On Amazon

Disney has created the purchase in one case, watch everywhere pic service that consumers accept always wanted. The company has managed to rally support from a number of major Hollywood film studios — Paramount and Lionsgate are the major holdouts — and the end result is Movies Anywhere, a new service that promises glorious cantankerous-platform support for (nigh) all the digital movies that you've ever purchased. You lot're no longer stuck watching a movie with just the video app from the visitor you bought it from.

With Movies Anywhere, your iTunes movies volition now show up in Amazon Video and vice versa. Same for any movies you've bought from Google Play or Vudu. And all those UltraViolet movies you redeemed from codes in Blu-ray cases are at present bachelor, well, everywhere. (Except for the ones from Paramount and Lionsgate, of course.) Over 7,300 movies piece of work with Movies Anywhere at launch, and more will exist coming over time.

The service launched yesterday and ran into some early issues; the ability to link a Vudu account (where most people have their UltraViolet library) with the service was unavailable for several hours. But that problem seems to have been cleared upwardly, as past the afternoon I was able to successfully add Vudu to my service and within a few minutes, my iTunes movie library grew substantially thank you to UltraViolet titles.

Movies Anywhere is currently available only in the U.s.. With that brutal disappointment out of the fashion for international readers, let's await at how it all works.

Getting started

Sign upwardly for a Movies Anywhere account. This is a new service and is separate from Disney Movies Anywhere. The two do not share login credentials, so you must register to go started. Each Movies Anywhere account tin can have 1 master account and several subaccounts, each with their own parental controls (ratings restrictions, etc.) and recommendations.

Link your retailer accounts. This is the big step that brings all of your movies together, and it doesn't take long to do. You lot'll movement down the list of video providers starting with Vudu. During the link process, each volition ask yous for permission to join your existing Vudu / Google Play / iTunes / Amazon account with your newly-created Movies Anywhere account. Choose aye, and and then all of your movies (from participating studios) volition be added to your Movies Anywhere library.

Once you lot've connected Movies Anywhere to each digital retailer, your movies will be bachelor across all of them. Previous and future purchases will all automatically be added and synced without you lot having to do anything.

Movies Anywhere supports digital movies from all of the following studios:

Disney (including Lucasfilm, Curiosity Studios, and Pixar)
Sony Pictures
Twentieth Century Fox
Universal
Warner Bros.

*Paramount Pictures and Lionsgate are not currently participating.

Watching movies

You can watch everything in your Movies Anywhere library across many platforms and apps.

Below I've listed many popular devices and some of the various apps on each that you lot tin use to watch Movies Anywhere. On platforms where it'south bachelor, you can download the new Movies Anywhere app — but there'due south nothing forcing you to do that. You're just as gratis to stream content with the apps yous're already familiar with similar Amazon Video, Apple'southward TV app, or Google Play Movies. Lookout man wherever and even so yous want. That's the vision that UltraViolet originally promised, but with Apple and Amazon now on board, Movies Anywhere is the thing actually delivering it.

Android: Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, Movies Anywhere, Vudu
Android Tv: Google Play Movies, Vudu
Apple tree TV: Movies Anywhere, Television app, Vudu
Chromecast
Burn down Idiot box and Fire TV Stick: Amazon Video, Movies Anywhere
iPhone and iPad: Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, Tv set app, Vudu)
Mac: Google Chrome, Safari
PlayStation 4: Amazon Video, Vudu
Roku: Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, Movies Anywhere, Vudu
Various Kindle Fire tablets
Windows: Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge
Xbox I: Amazon Video, Vudu

Movies Anywhere titles piece of work across many apps and devices. Here, a bunch of UltraViolet titles are at present part of my iTunes pic library and are indistinguishable from regular purchases.

Movies can also be downloaded for offline viewing. If yous're watching on a living room device like a Roku, Chromecast, or Apple tree TV, you'll be streaming your movies. But what if y'all want to watch something on a flight or during your commute? The Movies Anywhere smartphone app gives you lot the option to download movies so you can watch after when you're without a Wi-Fi connectedness. The default download quality is standard definition, but you can choose HD if you prefer.

Other apps such as Amazon Prime Video, the Tv set app on iOS, and Vudu will besides allow yous download Movies Anywhere titles for offline viewing, then you tin just utilize those instead. That freedom of choice is another benefit of these major apps at present sharing access to the same library of your purchases.

Apple appears to be upgrading some movies from other stores to 4K for free. A handful of films from my UltraViolet library including Edge of Tomorrow are showing as 4K in iTunes (and on Apple Television) despite non being originally purchased from Apple (or at 4K resolution). iTunes sees all Movies Anywhere titles equally "purchased," so it's possible that Apple is upgrading them to 4K where possible as it does with regular purchases. The Verge reached out to both Apple and Movies Anywhere to see if this is indeed the case. A Movies Anywhere spokesperson said, "The auto upgrade of HD to 4K HDR titles on iTunes will vary studio by studio and retailer by retailer." Still, that makes for a pretty fantastic reason to sign upwardly.

I didn't buy *Edge of Tomorrow* from Apple. This is an UltraViolet title — just it has been upgraded to 4K HDR on iOS and Apple TV.

You can stream on four different signed-in devices at the same time. But if for some reason you lot're trying to watch the same motion-picture show on different devices simultaneously, you tin only do that on 2 of them at once.

Movies Anywhere titles get perks like iTunes Extras and Amazon X-Ray (when bachelor). Even though you lot might not have purchased everything in your library from Apple or Amazon, you'll still get the absurd features that are unique to those platforms when watching titles there — no matter where the original purchase happened. The Movies Anywhere app volition too include some bonus content.

Each retailer app (Amazon Video, iTunes, Vudu, etc.) treats these movies equally "purchased" or "owned." Pull up a store list for any of them, and it'll look just as though you'd bought it from that service to begin with.

Amazon and Apple treat everything in your Movies Anywhere library as if you'd purchased the movies from them directly.

Other important miscellaneous things

Goggle box shows aren't included. Movies Anywhere only supports... movies.

Rentals don't work. Only total purchases or UltraViolet redemptions.

Y'all can buy movies wherever y'all want (or where they're cheapest). I but bought Once, a movie from Fox, on Amazon. And inside a few minutes it showed up in my iTunes film library. Just like that. So from hither on out, you can just buy a moving-picture show wherever it'due south on sale knowing it'll notice its way to your Movies Anywhere library for viewing anywhere. But brand sure it's one from a participating studio. Again, Paramount and Lionsgate titles won't work until those studios join in. Considering the positive reception that Movies Anywhere is getting, I'm not sure how long they can really concur out.

The Movies Anywhere app doesn't support 4K or HDR movies, but other apps do. The main Movies Anywhere app tin can't yet play 4K and HDR formats. But they'll work fine elsewhere. "Yous can play back at that resolution with any linked participating retailer that supports 4K playback." Then if yous've bought a 4K HDR movie from Apple (or get a gratis upgrade as mentioned above), it'll play back at maximum quality on the Apple TV 4K — and potentially other fix-pinnacle boxes that support 4K. That's some other reason to stick with the apps y'all're already using.

Movies won't play at all if your calculator is hooked up an external monitor that's non HDCP compliant. I ran into this when testing the service on the monitor at my desk. If the necessary HDCP back up isn't at that place, y'all'll get an mistake bulletin about it later on hitting play.

You lot tin can redeem digital codes directly through Movies Anywhere. There'south no longer any demand to apply Vudu or another UltraViolet app.

You should probably opt out of (some) nosy viewing data sharing. When you outset set upwardly your account, you might take clicked through a few things that gave Movies Anywhere permission to share a agglomeration of your data and viewing habits with its video partners and picture show studios. You can really go dorsum and uncheck those by going to More and Video Data Sharing. Disney notes that information technology volition end upward sharing some info with partners regardless, but at to the lowest degree you can limit the amount.