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Movies Anywhere is now LIVE
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Ha, EXACT same thing happened to me. I got Girl With the Dragon Tattoo redeemed on UV, it took forever to show up on VUDU, and now it has yet to leave VUDU into MA or iTunes. I’m gonna wait a week for things to settle down and disconnect and reconnect all my accounts to force a resync. I would hate to be their sysadmin right now
I ended up unlinking and relinking my amazon account and x-men popped up. Thanks.
Can anyone else confirm they have the same issue? iTunes movies are showing up in my Vudu library yet Vudu movies are not showing in my iTunes library.
I am having the same problem, none of my VUDU movies are porting over into iTunes. They did port over to Google Play and Amazon.
Sounds like only 4K HDR movies actually purchased or rented through iTunes will stream in real 4K if this post is correct. All those UV codes we entered would not give us real 4K.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=251842628&postcount=494
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=251842628&postcount=494
Hi! That is indeed the conversation I had with a rep, though I really am holding off final judgement until I hear back from engineering. There’s just so much more going on that screams “glitch” instead of intentional, I’m waiting to get the final word
Ugh, typical. Perhaps they should rename it to Movies Somewhere.Found this on the site.
Thanks for the info Kiran. But before I go through this, any idea when MA will be coming to the UK?
Based on VUDU and DMA - I would say never...
If it ever does arrive on these shores, you can just unlock your US iTunes account and link your UK itunes account and all your films would port over form MA to the UK iTunes account
[doublepost=1507883147][/doublepost]To those having issues with movies not showing up in iTunes, I found that if I looked up a movie I was waiting to port in the Apple Movies app (Apple TV) showed that I could play it - it was just the 'My Movies' section that hadn't updated properly.
Sorry, but Apple can’t move the goalposts in regards to 4K upgrades. If there is an HD title in your iTunes account that has a 4K version available, it should be upgraded for free, as per their own declaration.
Not at any point did they say that a digital code has to be redeemed in iTunes so it’s seen as an iTunes purchase and therefore can be upgraded. If there has then could someone point me to it please and I'll happily retract my comment.
I’d put money on a lot of people moving over to the Apple TV purely for this reason.
I have to believe that any HD film you have - whether it's ported or not from MA, will eventually be a 4K one.
Apple wouldn't want that type of negative publicity - especially after the positive reaction to them offering the whole HD to 4K free upgrade deal in the first place.
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Apart from that, Movies Anywhere is awesome. So pleasing to see all those UV films now in my iTunes account. Still have a few that haven't ported over from MA but that seems to be happening for quite a number of people so happy to let things settle down.
Not at any point did they say that a digital code has to be redeemed in iTunes so it’s seen as an iTunes purchase and therefore can be upgraded. If there has then could someone point me to it please and I'll happily retract my comment.
I’d put money on a lot of people moving over to the Apple TV purely for this reason.
I have to believe that any HD film you have - whether it's ported or not from MA, will eventually be a 4K one.
Apple wouldn't want that type of negative publicity - especially after the positive reaction to them offering the whole HD to 4K free upgrade deal in the first place.
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Apart from that, Movies Anywhere is awesome. So pleasing to see all those UV films now in my iTunes account. Still have a few that haven't ported over from MA but that seems to be happening for quite a number of people so happy to let things settle down.
If it ends up not being a glitch, it sure looks like a move by Apple to get people to move redeems/purchases over to iTunes. Sneaky! Although I’m not sure how Apple benefits from direct redeems which so far look like they do give the free upgrades.
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Thanks for reaching out to Apple....and hopefully engineering can give some answers. Please post back when/if you hear from them.
So far in my testing, I have yet to have an HD port show in full 4K on iTunes. Best I've been able to reach is 2228x928 and often it's less. My 4K ports are a mixed bad still.....some play in full 4K, others that played in full 4K at one point yesterday don't anymore.
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Tried that on my ATV3, iPhone, and iTunes on PC. No go. Even went as far as trying to purchase Wonder Woman, just not confirming it.
This (4K upgrade issue) has been discussed in other communities and what I'm hearing / reading is that what the Apple rep told the person above is correct. Apple had to do this to get the studios on board with with Movies Anywhere. My issue is that it's extremely deceptive because it shows 4K tags everywhere unless you know where to look (on the remote swipe down during playback and you will see HD on VUDU ported HDX titles). If this is the intent they need to remove the 4K tags and give you a way to purchase upgrades. Currently you can't without jumping through hoops.
I'm also holding out hope that it's a glitch but it's not looking good.
I'm also holding out hope that it's a glitch but it's not looking good.
Completely deceptive! If they have the technology in place to send a different stream based on how you obtained the movie, then they have the technology to list what I actually own....not show what is available, which in this case is 4K. And if it's the case now where HD ports from MA won't give the 4K version, then they need to speak up. Otherwise it's just a sleezy practice to get more people to buy on iTunes.
A merchant with over 800 million iTunes accounts pulls a lot of weight in any negotiations. Apple was probably one of the few companies that could even pull off the "free upgrades" to UHD. And they've started to change the entire industry for good - lower prices in Vudu for example. That's all good for the consumer. Movies Anywhere is good for the consumer as well. But I don't think for a minute that Apple (or any other merchant) isn't looking out for themselves....and they should. Apple/Google/Amazon probably all not super thrilled to support MA - have a feeling in this case Disney got enough big studios to push it through. But I'm sure Apple and the rest will do all they can to make sure you still stay in their platform.
To me it seems so far that Apple wanted to make everything super user friendly and blur the lines between HD and 4K. That's why you can't buy just an HD copy on iTunes today....they were basically saying, if you buy HD, you'll get the HIGHEST QUALITY AVAILABLE - no one else is doing that. Problem right now is.....there are exceptions to that with Movies Anywhere movies.
Let's wait for something "official" before jumping on Apple's back.
As mentioned, even before MA popped up yesterday, there have been issues regarding the 4K films in regards to them changing from HD to 4K so who knows what is actually going on.
I'm more concerned that iTunes still hasn't ported over films I redeemed last night on MA.
As mentioned, even before MA popped up yesterday, there have been issues regarding the 4K films in regards to them changing from HD to 4K so who knows what is actually going on.
I'm more concerned that iTunes still hasn't ported over films I redeemed last night on MA.
Well, going on 12hrs and still my Vudu movie thats Movies Anywhere compatible hasn't appeared in Movies Anywhere. Clearly the service isn't able to deliver what it promised right now.
Very interesting this MA thing. I'm loving that all my titles are showing up under iTunes now. I have a few movies that I had as "UHD" on Vudu that are showing up on my iPad as 4K titles in iTunes now. Not sure if they will play in 4K on my ATV's yet. The first 2 that I know weren't in iTunes yesterday were Wonder Woman and Baby Driver. They were both in my Vudu library as UHD and now they are in iTunes and seem to show 4K available.
The other thing that I can't figure out at all right now is 2 movies showed up in my recently purchased that I never purchased; Big Hero 6 and 2016 Ghostbusters...
The other thing that I can't figure out at all right now is 2 movies showed up in my recently purchased that I never purchased; Big Hero 6 and 2016 Ghostbusters...
If you own the UHD versions in Vudu, they will play as 4K on the Apple TV. If you only own the HDX Vudu version, they will play in HD w/ HDR on the Apple TV, not 4K. Big Hero 6 and Ghostbusters 2016 were given away to people when they signed up for Movies Anywhere.
Can those who have iTunes connected check something for me? If I go into my iTunes account, the Movies Anywhere section.... disappeared. It used to let you disconnect it from in there, but now that whole thing is just straight gone. Normally wouldn’t be an issue, as it’s easy to reconnect, but Movies Anywhere thinks things are still good to go, says they’re nice and connected. I have movies not moving over and I suspect this is the issue, I can’t disconnect and reconnect.
For those for whom things have been going normally, does your iTunes account page still have a Movies Anywhere section in it?
For those for whom things have been going normally, does your iTunes account page still have a Movies Anywhere section in it?
Ah, good to know. I didn't notice that when I was signing up this morning. I don't seem to be having any issues so far. Seems I still have some movies in only iTunes or Vudu, but that is expected as not all the studios are on board yet.