Google Play Movies lets you buy or rent movies and TV shows, but the platform might soon let users watch content for free if they agree to see ads.
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Discounts can run up to 80 percent this next week on games, subscriptions, audiobooks and more! And movies and TV shows will be 99 cents on Thanksgiving!
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Google Play's US Best of 2017 lists include Super Mario Run in the lead in the new game category, and Photo Editor as the year's most popular new app.
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You can get a number of "premium" Android games at up to 80 percent off from Google Play, as well as free Play Music and heavily discounted books.
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The Google Play Store, which replaced the Android Market, is now five years old. And it's become more than just a smartphone apps store.
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We recently caught a few more pixels that have slipped into the Google Play Movies catalog. Now, those pixels have made themselves known.
Google has announced that over 125 motion pictures are now available in UHD quality with Google’s own VP9 codec. US and Canada residents can now purchase and stream 4K movies on their Android device, Chromecast Ultra, Sony Bravia Android TV, Xiaomi Mi Box 3, 2016 model year Samsung Smart TVs and on the desktop.
Options for 4K to rent and 4K to buy are scattered and both may not necessarily be available on a single movie. Rentals generally go for US$7.99 while purchases are US$29.99.
Those with new Chromecast Ultra devices can take advantage of a coupon for a free viewing of “Ghostbusters: Answer The Call,” “Captain Phillips” or one of a few other flicks in 4K as long as they grab a coupon code by December 31 and use it up by April 30.
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Who knew that you could pull together Justin Bieber and Ryan Reynolds together in one list?
The Google Play Store sells millions of copies of apps, music, movies and more over the course of a year and, for the first time ever, it decided to celebrate all that content in an awards ceremony. But now we’re talking about sheer volume as Google is disclosing the top five downloaded pieces of content in several categories for the year.
The Google Play “Best of 2016” list covers six categories: apps, games, music, movies, TV shows and books.
Believe it or not, Deadpool actually took the top spot in two of the categories, besting another literary entry from J.K. Rowling and a freaking Star Wars film:
All of these releases proved to be global hits for 2016 and a lot of these seem to be products for their time — the dominance of selfie editing apps is apparent here. Let’s hope that 2017 brings a little more freshness to the table.
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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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Every year brings with it its own smartphone controversies, and we wrapped up 2015 with a pretty big one, as T-Mobile introduced its love-it-or-hate-it Binge On service for streaming video. On the surface, it sounded alright: T-Mobile would let users stream content from a number of popular providers without that data counting against their plan allotment. All those users had to put up with for that privilege was slightly downgraded video quality. But then we started looking closer, and there were all these ...
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Google hopes its mobile payments system will strike a chord with users better than Apple Pay or Samsung Pay. The latter system has been sweetening the pot with wireless charging pads and such while the widest promo availability Android Pay took on was for giving away Android figurines with Jamba ...
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Google Play isn’t just a super convenient way for finding Android software and media to enjoy on your device – it can also be a great place to find some deals. Whether it’s a big store-wide sale or just one content provider offering users some discounts, new deals are always out there, waiting to be found. The problem for most of us is keeping on top of it all: how do you make sure you don’t miss the next big price-cut on the media you’re looking for? A new update to Play Movies ...
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LG’s mobile roundhouse is all over Android. Its Smart TV lineup is powered by a heritage mobile operating system, webOS. You might look at that product and think that it’s competing with what Google’s Chromecast offers. It’s not exactly the case, though, thanks to the completeness of LG’s ...
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