Microsoft's Movies and TV now supports Movies Anywhere!

[Vishvjeet Arya]

Now that Movies and TV supports MoviesAnywhere, are you going to buy stuff from the movie store? I know I will!

 

[Christian Matthew]

Now that Movies and TV supports MoviesAnywhere, are you going to buy stuff from the movie store? I know I will!

yes.... i already buy Microsoft movies because of my xbox but this is just pure awesomenous

 

[RolexDPracer]

I totally am. The vast majority of my movie collection is from my Microsoft store purchases. Now that I can watch content on my Android devices, I'm less hesitant to by from the Microsoft store. When Windows Phone died, my movie purchases dried up significantly.

 

[GraniteStateColin]

When I read about this last week, I immediately signed up for Movies Anywhere, connected it to my MS account, and bought Avengers Infinity War in UHD.

To my massive disappointment, there's no way to download it at higher than HD on PC and no way to download at all on my Xbox One X (streaming only). So frustrating!! That's not a Movies Anywhere problem, but a Microsoft Movies & TV problem.

It's not possible to get fast enough Internet bandwidth here to stream 4k/UHD. Based on the sizes of the UHD movies compared with HD movies, it should take about 10-12 hours to download. That's completely worth it to me for UHD quality -- start the download one evening and watch the movie the next day. Maybe the studios' licensing terms prevent Microsoft from allowing UHD downloads, but Microsoft should at least provide some new buffering technology to allow it to buffer the whole movie in the background before playing. Even if it must auto-erase after that, it would still be better than nothing.

Note that I don't think anyone else offers anything better, so this isn't a negative unique to Microsoft Movies & TV, but it's still a problem that should be solvable.

 

[GraniteStateColin]

Maybe, if I figure out how to download a 4k copy. I know I can't do that on Movies & TV and streaming isn't always an option for me.

@unmorphed, I'm in the same boat and I don't think it's possible. I just tried this weekend after buying a UHD/4k movie. On PC, it looks like the movie can only be downloaded in an HD or SD version. No download option at all on Xbox (which is where I really wanted to watch it).

 

[gregsedwards]

I'll definitely buy more content now that Movies & TV is participating in Movies Anywhere. However, I do wish that MM&TV provided better family-sharing feautres. Right now, I can buy a movie in MM&TV and it's available to me as well as my family members through MA, because I set-up sub accounts for them. However, those subaccounts don't cross-pollinate with their own MSAs, so they can't watch my movies under MM&TV under their own logins. Basically, unless they want to watch via MA, they're out of luck. Surely, Microsoft don't expect me to buy multiple individual copies of every movie or share my account, just so my kids can watch their favorite movies, right?

 

[wotsit1982]

Took the words out of my mouth. It'll be another here today, gone tomorrow Microsoft service.

No chance.

 

[Vishvjeet Arya]

But that is the idea behind MoviesAnywhere, to buy once from any store and watch anywhere even if the store you bought it from shuts down!

 

[Vishvjeet Arya]

I'm not going to buy any movies from Microsoft, I don't feel they will continue to support their own services in a few years (see groove music )and think it will be safer to buy digital content from other providers who have a bigger stake in TV and video content.

Wasn't that's the idea behind MoviesAnywhere? To watch and maintain your buying rights, you buy it from any store and get to keep it even if the store shuts down!

 

[abel46]

Why would I buy movies? A movie is something that I see one time. And most likely - never again. Therefor I only rent it. If it is very new, so it can't be rented only brought, then wait a month or two, and then it can be rented. I see something else in the mean time.

 

[pkcable]

Why would I buy movies? A movie is something that I see one time. And most likely - never again. Therefor I only rent it. If it is very new, so it can't be rented only brought, then wait a month or two, and then it can be rented. I see something else in the mean time.

Or Netflix, HBO Go, etc. I agree why buy a movie?

 

[unmorphed]

@unmorphed, I'm in the same boat and I don't think it's possible. I just tried this weekend after buying a UHD/4k movie. On PC, it looks like the movie can only be downloaded in an HD or SD version. No download option at all on Xbox (which is where I really wanted to watch it).

It's definitely not an option with Movies & TV, Microsoft support has confirmed that. What I'm hoping is that one of the other Movies Anywhere members support 4k downloads.