Fishy
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This is actually a pretty good service. If you’re not using it, I recommend you start.
It’s an expansion of the Disney Movies Anywhere digital locker - basically, by enrolling in Disney Movies Anywhere, any Disney digital movies purchased on one service would be available on the competing services as well. (E.g. If you had bought Toy Story on iTunes, you could now watch it on Google Play, Amazon Prime, YouTube, Vudu.)
Other studios recently signed on, (Sony, Warner, 20th Century, Universal), and so Disney Movies Anywhere has become Movies Anywhere. Now if you have some movies on Amazon, some on iTunes, etc., you can bring them all in under one umbrella by linking your accounts. (And if you link three accounts, they will also give you five movies....Jason Bourne, the Ghostbusters chick flick, Big Hero 6, Ice Age and the Lego Movie.)
The end result is that all of the orphan movies I either got for free for some reason or bought during some ridiculously low promo price period are now under one roof. We’re partial to Apple TV for movie streaming and that meant I needed to keep a Fire Stick attached if we wanted to see one of the movies on Prime. (Added benefit...Apple seems to be replacing normal HD movies in my library with 4K versions. It’s even happened with some of the movies that are newly available because of Movies Anywhere. The other services do not seem to be following suit.)
I absolutely recommend the service. To make it even more useful, I recommend you open and link a Vudu account to it. If you do, any old movies you might have had through Ultra Violet will be brought into Movies Anywhere. And if you have any BluRay or DVDs lying around, you can get them into the digital service via their Disc to Digital program. (You have to use the app to scan the barcode on the DVD/BluRay.)
Once you scan the barcode, You pay $5 for DVDs or $2 for BluRays to get a digital version.
It’s an expansion of the Disney Movies Anywhere digital locker - basically, by enrolling in Disney Movies Anywhere, any Disney digital movies purchased on one service would be available on the competing services as well. (E.g. If you had bought Toy Story on iTunes, you could now watch it on Google Play, Amazon Prime, YouTube, Vudu.)
Other studios recently signed on, (Sony, Warner, 20th Century, Universal), and so Disney Movies Anywhere has become Movies Anywhere. Now if you have some movies on Amazon, some on iTunes, etc., you can bring them all in under one umbrella by linking your accounts. (And if you link three accounts, they will also give you five movies....Jason Bourne, the Ghostbusters chick flick, Big Hero 6, Ice Age and the Lego Movie.)
The end result is that all of the orphan movies I either got for free for some reason or bought during some ridiculously low promo price period are now under one roof. We’re partial to Apple TV for movie streaming and that meant I needed to keep a Fire Stick attached if we wanted to see one of the movies on Prime. (Added benefit...Apple seems to be replacing normal HD movies in my library with 4K versions. It’s even happened with some of the movies that are newly available because of Movies Anywhere. The other services do not seem to be following suit.)
I absolutely recommend the service. To make it even more useful, I recommend you open and link a Vudu account to it. If you do, any old movies you might have had through Ultra Violet will be brought into Movies Anywhere. And if you have any BluRay or DVDs lying around, you can get them into the digital service via their Disc to Digital program. (You have to use the app to scan the barcode on the DVD/BluRay.)
Once you scan the barcode, You pay $5 for DVDs or $2 for BluRays to get a digital version.