What is Movies Anywhere Here’s what you need to know (Update - Screen Pass) - Android
In this age where we purchase and watch our entertainment from digital and streaming sources, consumers have several different storefronts to purchase content. There’s iTunes, Google Play Store, YouTube, Amazon Prime Video, Vudu and many more. As a result, many, if not most, movie fans have their digital collection of films spread out among all these outlets. At least, that was the case until 2014, when Disney created at the time was dubbed Disney Movies Anywhere. It allowed people who purchased Disney movies digitally to access them across a number of storefronts, without having to pay again to watch the same film on each outlet. In 2017, it changed its name to just Movies Anywhere, thanks to the fact that other major Hollywood studios joined up to support the same service for their digital library of films.
Today, the service supports not only a number of digital film stores, but the Comcast Xfinity cable TV service. Here’s what you need to know about Movies Anywhere, and how you can sign up to use this handy service.
As we mentioned earlier, Movies Anywhere is a Disney-controlled digital movie locker service. It enables supported digital films to be synced up to several online storefronts when they are purchased. Comcast cable TV customers can also watch them on their set-top box with its Xfinity service. In addition, there are apps for the service that are available for a variety of platforms, and you can also watch all of your supported films on the web via the Movies Anywhere website.
At the moment, Movies Anywhere is strictly for U.S. consumers. There’s no word if Disney plans to expand the service to other parts of the world.
No. Movies Anywhere is not a storefront all by itself. It’s a service that serves to sync up your movie purchases from several different storefronts. For example, if you buy Avengers: Endgame on iTunes, the film will now also appear automatically in any of the other supported digital storefronts that are linked to your Movies Anywhere account.
As long as the DVDs and Blu-Rays come from one of the Movies Anywhere-supported Hollywood studios, you can redeem your code found with the purchase of those discs to add the digital version of that movie to your Movies Anywhere library. You just go to the Movies Anywhere redeem page type in the code, and you should be all set.
Here’s the current list of digital storefronts that you can link together with your Movies Anywhere account?
Five of the major Hollywood studios currently allow their digital films to support Movies Anywhere. They include Disney, 20th Century Fox (recently acquired by Disney), Universal, Warner Bros. and Sony. This covers a ton of major movie franchises, including Star Wars, Marvel, Pixar, Aliens, Predator, Avatar, Die Hard, DC movies, Spider-Man, Jurrasic Park, Harry Potter and many, many more.
As of this writing, Paramount, Lionsgate and MGM/UA are not supporting the service That means if you want to buy a Star Trek, Transformers, Hunger Games, Twilight, or James Bond film on one of the Movies Anywhere-supported storefronts, they won’t automatically show up in the rest of your libraries. Hopefully, their boycott of this service will end in the near future.
The answer, oddly enough, is, “Mostly, no”. As the name suggests, Movies Anywhere supposed to be a movies-only digital locker service so if you buy a season of your favorite TV show, even if it comes from one of the supported Hollywood studios, it will stay in the storefront where you bought it. That being said, a very limited number of TV miniseries and movies are indeed supported by the service.
The standalone app can be accessed from a variety of platforms and devices:
In addition, you can watch your library of films at the service’s website on your Windows or Mac PC. It supports Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Microsoft Edge browsers. The Movies Anywhere site is not supported by Linux-based PCs.
It’s pretty simple to sign up for a Movies Anywhere account. Again, this service is just for U.S. consumers. If you live in the U.S., here’s what you need to do.
1. Go to the Movies Anywhere website and click on the “Get Started” logo on the top right part of the site.
2. You will be taken to a screen where you can choose to use your Google or Facebook account, if you have one, to create your Movies Anywhere account. If you choose not to use this method, you can manually type in your preferred email address, along with your first name and password, to establish your account.
3. Finally, you will be taken to a screen where you will be asked to link your newly established Movies Anywhere account to the supported digital storefront that you already use. If you don’t want to do this right away, that’s no problem; you can go back to this screen at any time by going to your account profile on the Movies Anywhere website.
Yes, you can! If you have kids or other family members that you want to share your Movies Anywhere library of films with, here’s how to set them up with their own profiles.
1. Go to the Movies Anywhere website, log into your account, and then click on your own profile. You should see an “Add Profile” selection in the menu. Click on that option to continue.
2. You are now in the Add Profile section. Just write up the name you want to use for the new profile, and add an (optional) profile image.
3. You can then decide if you want to limit the movies library you have for the person who is using this profile by its MPAA rating. A slider lets you select the rating, which means if the profile is for a child, he or she can be limited to watching just G or PG-rated films from your library.
If each person on the same account is watching a different movie, the Movies Anywhere website or app allows up to four simultaneous streams at once. It also supports up to two simultaneous streams of the same movie at once on one account. Keep in mind that your movie library can also be streamed on all of the supported digital storefronts as well, just in case four streams at once is not enough.
If you bought a 4K digital movie, it will stream at that resolution on the app, assuming your device or platform can support it. However, the app currently only supports movies with the HDR10 standard. It does not support movies that use the competing Dolby Vision HDR standard.
Yes. You can download movies on up to eight separate devices at once with the Movies Anywhere app for offline viewing. You can keep your devices offline for up to 90 days before the downloads expire. One big limitation is that the Movies Anywhere app does not support 4K or HDR movies for downloads.
Yes, you can! If you watch a film on, say, the Roku app, and have to stop in the middle, you can continue where you ended in the movie on, for example, the Android Movies Anywhere app.
Screen Pass is a newly announced feature on the service. Basically, it will allow you to lend most of your library of movies to anyone else who has a Movies Anywhere account. With Screen Pass you can lend up to three movies a month to others. Once you sent a notification to your family or friend that you are letting them borrow a movie to watch, they have 14 days to accept it. When they do, they then have 72 hours to watch that movie. One nice thing is that you can, in theory, share the same movie with up to three accounts per month. The best feature is that Screen Pass is available for free.
CNet reports that Screen Pass will start with a closed beta in March, followed by an open beta in May. The non-beta version will become available sometime in the late summer or early fall of 2020. The company says about 80% of the Movies Anywhere library will support Screen Pass; some studios will not allow certain titles to be loaned out, at least for now. The loaned movies can be watched on every Movies Anywhere app, except for the Roku version, although that may be fixed in the near future.
That’s what we can tell you about the Movies Anywhere service and apps. Have you used it to watch your library of digital films?
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