4K Google Play Movies rolling out slowly

Posted on by Jules Wang

Google Play Movies is going 4K — just in time as the Chromecast Ultra reaches wide distribution.

Some users are finding that in addition to SD and HD options to buy and rent, they are also seeing 4K rent and buy options for very select movies. On one thread in the Android subreddit, mikegfx said that he was able to find 4K streaming for “This Is The End,” “Zoolander,” “Star Trek,” “Star Trek Beyond,” and “The Fifth Element”. There is no purchase option for the Star Trek franchises, just indications that it is streamable in UHD.

The recently released Chromecast Ultra is able to stream 4K footage, but it’d really help if we could get a little bit more than 4K YouTube from Google’s native ecosystem. We just don’t know how long it’ll take for Play Movies to drag out extra resolution files, but it’s a start that we’re seeing right now.

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Chromecast Ultra, Daydream View on sale from Google Store

Posted on by Jules Wang

A couple of items have gone on sale on the Google Store and they’re both Made by Google. We’re not just talking about the Pixel phones that start shipping and actually selling today, but two other sub-$100 devices to flank your Google experience.

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Gone from the Google Store: Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, NVIDIA Shield, others

Posted on by Jules Wang

Every single product announced at today’s event in San Francisco has been placed up on the Google Store today. That includes the Pixel phones, Google Home, the Daydream View VR headset, the Chromecast Ultra and

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Google announces the new Chromecast Ultra

Posted on by Jaime Rivera

For those of you fans of an ultra-affordable 4K content consumption, well, the Chromecast has just grown up in many ways to become that product. The Chromecast has historically proven that you don’t need to spend more than $100 for a great content consumption experience, and it has evolved year over year to become better. Google has just announced a new Chromecast Ultra, and the boost of features is significant.First of all it now supports HDR video, in addition Dolby Vision, and yes, all this content can play in 4K. This means that it will pull 4K video from Google Play movies when ...

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The Google Rumor Roundup: mobile that matters

Posted on by Jules Wang

Well, it was bound to come, right? Tomorrow’s the day that we come and get our love from Google and that event should entail all the rumors we have cluttered around our desks at Pocketnow.And while plenty of these devices, like the long-awaited Google Home and Google WiFi, will definitely take us to the future, there are a couple of things we’d like to focus on for our purposes here.The PixelsWatching these two phones evolve from being multiple codenames to ...

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Images of Chromecast Ultra show up, Chrome logo doesn’t

Posted on by Jules Wang

It seems that the Google “G” logomark will be the look of the season. The ads are there, the rumors back it up and now we have pictures of a $69 Chromecast Ultra, courtesy of VentureBeat and Evan Blass.Compare it to Chromecasts of yesteryear and you’ll find not much change in form factor, even though the existing ...

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Google Home and Chromecast Ultra prices ‘confirmed’ ahead of October 4 launches

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

While the Pixel and Pixel XL phones, quietly manufactured by HTC and assertively marketed by Google, are set to undoubtedly seize the spotlight at Big G’s highly anticipated October 4 product announcement event, you shouldn’t forget there’s

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Save the date: October 4 tipped as announcement date for Pixel phones, 4K Chromecast, and more

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

While Google has never adhered to the excessively leaky code of conduct of most other top-tier mobile software and hardware designers, the search giant probably outdid itself with the secrecy and confusion surrounding this year’s Android iteration name, proprietary VR release(s), and Nexus upgrades.Wait, what Nexus upgrades? It’s time to bury the purist-beloved brand, it seems, and

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