Perhaps best of all, particularly for all of you with a wide array of devices around the house: this should improve compatibility of your libraries considerably. More movies will be added as more studios get onboard (Lionsgate and Paramount are noticeably absent here, right now) and as the existing partners get comfortable… but, at first glance, this seems like a big step in the right direction. iTunes as a whole, in comparison, has about 65,000 movies in its catalog. I’m told that Movies Anywhere will support around 7,300 movies at launch. That means, of course, that it might not have all of the movies you’ve bought across the various stores, particularly at first. Now just “Movies Anywhere”, it’ll now also include movies from Sony, 20th Century Fox, Universal, and Warner Brothers. This program evolved out of Disney Movies Anywhere, which launched a few years back but was limited to just Disney, Marvel, Star Wars, and Pixar flicks. If it’s not working for you, check back tomorrow.) And it’ll be free! ( Update: the Movies Anywhere website seems a bit broken at the moment, presumably due to launch day hiccups. Movies from a bunch of the big studios will now be watchable through one app called Movies Anywhere, regardless of whether you bought it from Google Play, iTunes, Amazon, or VUDU. It shouldn’t work like this… and it seems like the big names are finally coming to agree. When you’re buying based on where it’s cheapest or which device you’re currently watching on, it’s easy to end up with a bunch of movies sitting behind a bunch of different store’s gates. Keeping track of where you bought each movie, though, is pretty busted. Being able to buy a digital copy of a movie in a second through something like Google Play or iTunes or Amazon is great.

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