Watch iTunes, Google Play, Amazon Movies in One App

Practiced news for those of you who have purchased movies over the years from iTunes, Google Play, Amazon, and Vudu. A new service launching today in the U.s., dubbed Movies Anywhere, volition let you bring those flicks together into a unmarried library accessible on any device.

To try it out, head to the Movies Anywhere website or app and create a free business relationship, connect your digital retail accounts to import your movies from the 4 same services, and voila. All the movies you've purchased from participating studios—Disney (which as well encompasses Pixar, Curiosity, and Lucasfilm), Fox, Sony Pictures, Universal, and Warner Bros—will be available for you to watch.

The Movies Anywhere app works on iOS, Android, Apple TV, Android Idiot box, Roku, Amazon Burn down devices, and Chromecast. With support from five of the globe'due south biggest motion-picture show studios, Movies Anywhere offers access to a library of more than 7,300 digital movies.

"Movies Anywhere ways that consumers never accept to call back where they purchased a pic or which device they tin watch it on, because all of their eligible movies will be centralized inside their Movies Anywhere library and bachelor across platforms through the Movies Anywhere app and website," Walt Disney Studios Senior Vice President Karin Gilford, who is general manager of the Movies Anywhere team, said in a statement.

Plus, for a limited time, when yous link two or more accounts through Movies Anywhere, you'll get five movies for free as an incentive to try it out. Those complimentary movies include Big Hero 6, Ghostbusters (2016), Ice Age, Jason Bourne (2016), and The Lego Movie.

According to Borderline, Disney owns the new service (which was previously called Disney Movies Anywhere, and supported merely the studio's movies). The study notes that Paramount and Lionsgate are "2 of the main holdouts from the content side" at launch, though "in that location are indications that Lionsgate is supportive of the initiative and could climb aboard in the coming months."

This isn't the start time studios take tried this kind of thing. In 2022, a consortium of major Hollywood studios launched UltraViolet, a service that allows purchased movies to be stored and viewed in the cloud.

About Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag'southward expert on fettle and smart domicile products. Didactics yoga for nearly x years has helped her in evaluating a range of connected wellness products including fitness trackers, heart rate monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, strength training machines, treadmills, and more. Angela also tests smart home devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, merely to name a few.