Studios to Join Disney Movies Anywhere Platform? (1 Viewer)

[Cranston37+]

For anybody keeping track - the number of movies being added behind the scenes to Movies Anywhere have been growing a lot lately...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...fZowwB8fLSvswkdixOJxY/htmlview#gid=1408869864

 

[Sam Posten]

Got a guess when this might go public?

 

[Cranston37+]

Got a guess when this might go public?

Man, I wish...

 

[Joshua Clinard]

The Rumor Mill says before the Christmas shopping season.

 

[Cranston37+]

Almost 7,000 titles have now been added to MA. Hundreds going up by the day. Something is definitely going on.

And it should be noted that there are approximately 9,000 non-TV UV titles, so about 78% of UV has been transferred to MA...

 

[Joshua Clinard]

Only 6200 movies on the list were UV, so that is 68%, not 78%. We are still missing movies from Lionsgate, Dreamworks Animation, Paramount, and MGM. If they don't get those studio's on board, they won't be able to replace UV with one digital locker for all our movies.

 

[Sam Posten]

And it will be useless.

 

[Cranston37+]

Only 6200 movies on the list were UV, so that is 68%, not 78%. We are still missing movies from Lionsgate, Dreamworks Animation, Paramount, and MGM. If they don't get those studio's on board, they won't be able to replace UV with one digital locker for all our movies.

And it will be useless.

 

[Sam Posten]

Seriously. The only point is to make it a single locker. If it’s not a single locker then it’s no different than the mess that UV is today.

 

[Cranston37+]

I’m just saying have a little optimism! We don’t know that it won’t be a single locker yet. Just the fact that they are bothering to do it at all shows that is probably the plan...

 

[Sam Posten]

You’ll not be surprised to learn I am an extreme UV pessimist. The good thing about being any kind of pessimist is that for any given prediction you are either right or pleasantly surprised. I haven’t been surprised yet, maybe I am due

 

[Joshua Clinard]

I’m just saying have a little optimism! We don’t know that it won’t be a single locker yet. Just the fact that they are bothering to do it at all shows that is probably the plan...

That was the original plan with UV too, but it didn't happen. I used to be an optimist when it came to UV, but they didn't reach a lot of their stated goals. I am not going to get my hopes up that this new system will be a perfect system either.

 

[Cranston37+]

BOMBSHELL

I’m just gonna leave these right here...

(with screenshots in case the page gets pulled)

EDIT - yup they pulled the site!

https://www-beta2.vudu.com/mobileMa.html

Notice how the free movies include 1 each from Disney, Fox, Universal, Sony and Warner.

Obviously no Paramount, Lionsgate, or MGM, but I am truly not worried about that. Every format has this kind of crap at the beginning and I don’t think the studios would have gone to this trouble if they thought it was going to be a problem.

Also, there is evidence of Google Play hooking up to it.

IT IS REAL, FOLKS!

 

[Sam Posten]

BOMBSHELL
Every format has this kind of crap at the beginning and I don’t think the studios would have gone to this trouble if they thought it was going to be a problem.

Interesting, what were the downsides when iTunes movies started?
Compared to the absolute disaster that was UV when it started?

If they don't have all the studios they are competing against themselves at this point...

 

[Cranston37+]

Interesting, what were the downsides when iTunes movies started? Compared to the absolute disaster that was UV when it started?

You don’t like UV... we get it...

 

[Cranston37+]

Another leak, this time from Google Play...

 

[Sam Posten]

So no Xbox or PSN connectivity if that’s true

 

[Cranston37+]

So no Xbox or PSN connectivity if that’s true

I have a sneaking feeling that how things are set up with a service before it even launches is probably not how it will always be set up during the entirety of its future...

 

[Joshua Clinard]

Vudu, Amazon, and YouTube apps are available on Playstation and the xBox.

 

[Sam Posten]

Vudu, Amazon, and YouTube apps are available on Playstation and the xBox.

That’s not the point. XBL and PSN are both massive movie storefront silos in their own right. If they are cut off from cross garden buys this seriously knee caps them. And I thought both were DMA participants