Google and Twentieth Century Fox have just announced a partnership that will give Play Store customers access to more premium films, released more quickly than before. The deal makes more than 600 new films available through the Play Store in HD quality, including Prometheus, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Ice Age: Continental Drift, The Watch, and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Day.
Additionally, many of the titles – including Prometheus – will be available to purchase digitally for up to three weeks before they are available on Blu-ray or DVD.
This will certainly give Google some help in an area in which it was sorely lacking: content. But is it too little, too late? In the face of competition from the likes of iTunes, Amazon, and Netflix, Google’s video library is still severely lacking. This is especially true when you consider that, between these three services, I don’t think there’s anything I want to watch that I can’t find. On Google, however, I often struggle to find just one title that I actually want to watch.
I’m still hopeful that, as Google continues its negotiations with more studios, it will become more competitive. But it’s still got a lot of work to do.
Netflix doesn’t have Dogma, Chasing Amy, lol only Clerks! I’m going to like the options
This is great and all, but I am 0-2 on downloading movies from the Play Store to my phone for watching on a plane, without WiFi. A 3.5 hour flight gets a lot longer when the movie you planned on watching takes a dump after 9 seconds.
Am I the only one, or have others out there had less than successful experiences too?
Now, if only Flixster wasn’t completely worthless for people with rooted devices.
At least there is a work-around for the Play Store, unless they just opened it completely by now.
google still has a ways to go I think. Since I believe movies her have to be purchased individually as opposed to unlimited streaming for a monthly fee.
If I buy a movie from the play store on my phone, can I get it on my PC? That’s the REAL question.
Yeah, when you’re about to purchase something on the Play Store website on a PC it says for google devices and PC. . go check it out. play.google.com
Well that’s cool. Cool that you can watch on your phone, and PC. Well done Google. Keep up the good work.
i’d really like to see google books being integrated into android!!!
I haven’t and will never pay for a movie to watch on my phone, especially at those high prices. Maybe if I’m on vacation and have to stay in the hotel room for some reason and I have my hdmi cable, then maybe it will be worth it.
I’d like to see them open up movies to rooted devices. Currently i can’t get any movies on my tablet or phone because of Root.
I’ve never had the need to watch a movie on my phone, I’m never stuck somewhere long enough.
Very cool. I agree with being rooted. I’m unable too. Just don’t get that part.
Too bad I don’t want to watch a full movie on a 4.7″ screen haha
Not only is it not convenient to watch a movie in a tiny screen with a crappy speaker. But these movies are expensive to rent! Who would pay so much to watch a movie that can be rented at RedBox!
Google Play still has a long way to go, but the more content they can offer the better. Whenever I can’t find a movie title on Netflix, I instantly jump to Play store to see if its available. It’s a hit and miss, but a quick and easy way to rent and download a movie to my HTC Flyer.
I use Google Play to watch the movies that I have on my SDCard and have no complaints. I’ve tried using other downloaded movie apps but always seem to hear a popping sound in the background so I stick with Google Play. Does anyone know how to refresh your list of movies once you have erased them? Again, this is for movies that were on my SDCard, not movies i’m trying to stream. Thanks!