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Rent movies on Google Play and watch instantly using the Google Play Movies app.Choose from thousands of movies, including new releases and HD titles in Google Play and stream them instantly on your Android phone or tablet. Your movie rentals will automatically be added to your My Movies library across your devices, no need for wires.
Make your movies available offline so you can watch from anywhere, even when you’re not connected. Also, get quick access to your personal video collection, including those taken on your phone or tablet.
Learn more about Google Play Movies at http://play.google.com/about/movies.

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Category:: Media & Video
Release Date:: May 26, 2012
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Publisher:: Google Inc.
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APP OF THE DAY: Android Film Rentals/Videos (Android) - Pocket-lint

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:06:31 UTC +00:00

Pocket-lint - Gadget Reviews, Product News, Electronic Gadgets

21 October 2011 22:06 GMT / By Chris Hall Accessing films or movies on Android has never been much of a problem. Support for a range of video formats, including Flash, means that streaming or playing local content is pretty simple - if you're prepared to do a little fiddling around. Apple haa its movie offering tied up: iTunes has been doling out the goods for years, making it easy to grab yourself a movie for your iPhone or iPad, or just for playback on your PC. Whilst US Android customers have been better served than those in the UK, the arrival of film rentals for UK Android owners gives Google a foot in the door, ahead of probable rivals Amazon/Lovefilm or even Netflix UK. This is a slightly odd App of the Day, because films arrive on your Android device through the Android Market but they are actually handled by Read More

Google's Videos app is a great way to watch content on a tablet | Android Tapp. Android App Reviews

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 02:48:08 UTC +00:00

Android Tapp

Posted by Comments . Official player for the movies you rent from Android Market. Select from thousands of movie titles in Android Market and begin watching instantly — no wires, no syncing, no hassle! Make your movie rentals available for offline use on your supported Android device so you can watch even when you’re not connected. Also get quick access to your personal video collection, including those you’ve taken yourself using your phone or tablet camera. Price: Free Content Rating: Everyone Pros Cons Videos is Google’s official app for viewing content on your device. It was really built specifically for the videos you can now rent via the Market, and it makes it easy to browse videos and rent directly from the app. However, you can also view your personal videos, and watch them with the same interface as the rented media. It’s a pretty basic app, and it does what it advertises. Read More

Official Google Apps in Android Market – A Guide | AndroidOS.in

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:48:36 UTC +00:00

AndroidOS.in - Global Android News Hub

Google as an app developer has released various applications in the Android Market and some of these come pre-installed on most Android devices – like Gmail, Google Maps, and Google Search. But others have to be downloaded from Android Market; we have compiled a list of these apps that have been developed by Google. The number comes around 40 apps, although we have tried our best, but we might have missed a few. But not all applications are available in every country and every device; some are regional apps as they support only certain languages or certain apps might support only few device types. So, the best way to check if one of these apps is available in your country is to go to the phone/tablet based Market app and try searching for that particular app – if it comes in the search results than you are good to go. Hours Read More

The Week's Best Android Apps

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:24:16 UTC +00:00

Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide

Pano: It's a panoramic picture taking app for your Android phone. Basically, you snap a series of side-by-side individual shots together and Pano automagically stitches them together to create one super long seamless photo. Hell, you can merge together 16 pictures into one humungo 360 degree photo if you wanted! So yeah, you remember that one time you wanted to capture the entire horizon on the beach? Pano does that. Facebook Messenger: Think of it as a cross platform messaging service that enables you to easily talk to people on any platform-Android, iPhone, Facebook, SMS and everything in between. It's not dissimilar to Kik or WhatsApp in this aspect. If your friends are on Facebook, they'll get your message in the Messages (or on their Android or iPhone). If they're not on Facebook, it'll be re-directed as a SMS message (they'll get a message from a random number saying CASEY CHAN Read More

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diablo93

It works just fine if you stream without many pauses. I paused a stream 3 or 4 times over an hour and it locked up. I then attempted to download the video for offline use in an attempt to avoid any streaming bugs. After waiting the 1.5 hours for the download to my transformer I attempted to do the same as above, pause a few times and resume....the same problem occurred. Finally gave up and just let it start over and play. Very disappointed with this app. Glad I only tested with one of the 99 cent videos.

Red Oak

I've finally been able to download this app and what a disappointment. I bought the Galaxy 10.1 tablet for my travel needs; need to be able to "pin" a movie so I can view later - usually when in the air... I did the firmware, then OS update on the tablet, knowing I needed to be up-to-date in order to play a movie. Sadly, it doesn't seem to be the case. After I rented the movie, I tried to stream the movie. That did not work. Then I followed the Market's instructions on how to pin the movie and waited. Isn't there supposed to be some sort of Status Bar to let me know how long it will take to download, and the progress thus far? There isn't. I waited over an hour and still could not watch the movie. I've asked for a refund of my money. I sincerely hope I will not be told it must be my wireless connection - we are a gaming family, often have 2-3 people playing WoW and streaming music or video through the WiFi on the TV. Even with all this traffic on the network, I'm able to effortlessly stream Amazon rented movies on the tablet, so I know that is not the case. Hope this gets fixed soon.

Michael

I was streaming a movie rental the other night and discovered that I couldn't fast forward or rewind with this player. If I tried to do either of those functions, the movie would freeze and give me an error.This happened to me during a movie that was 116 minutes long. At minute 100, I lost my connection due to a "server not available." I called support and they told me to "pin" the movie and download it to my Transformer to avoid any future streaming issues. I did that but was unable to fast forward to minute 110 where I left off, I had to start the entire movie over again and check back at minute 100 to finish it. This is ridiculous!! When I was speaking to the support tech about this issue, he told me that this was a "known problem" with tablets. Okay Google, so how about we try to fix it?

woody24

Every 5 - 10 minutes, the audio cuts out for about 10 seconds at a time. This has happened with the 2 movies I have watched this way. I had restarted the phone a few times during the first movie I tried to watch. The second movie, I just dealt with it. But this is terrible. A phone thats supposed to be more than capable of handling something like this, chokes. Now I've got to look forward to this happening on the other 4 $.99 movies I rented all at once before testing the player. Droid 3.

Tuck

I root every phone I get for a reason. There are useful features that I can activate that are not malicious or harmful to my phone or carrier. Rooting gives control of my phone back to me. I paid for it so I should be able to do with it as I like. Blocking this app from root users had nothing to do with support issues. I've never had my phone refuse to properly use an app because it was rooted. This app not working for root users is completely under the developers control.

Tony

Although no rooters is disappointing, the first screen I saw when app opened told me that I couldn't rent because I'm rooted. Would be nicer if the app description said so, so I wouldn't even download app. Would be easy to get upset if I had rented before downloading the app. Google maintains their integrity by being upfront, telling about other methods to view rentals, and offering refunds. Don't hate. Google doesn't lie and Google doesn't cheat.

Darin

First time I rented a movie from the marketplace, the app 'crashes' about a third into the movie, and then sits there, buffering, then pausing, then attempting to play, then buffering, then pausing, spinning blue circle of naff all! You cannot forward/rewind or simply resume. What century is this? Google, fix this pile of mess! Rented another movie last night and the exact same thing happened. Cancelled and received a refund. Are we having fun yet? All this on a brand new Asus Transformer.... I regret not buying an iPad.

David

The player itself seems to function fine, and the selection of movies is not too bad. What's really frustrating is that (presumably because of fears over piracy) there's no option to stream the content to DNLA devices. My HTC Sensation offers this streaming functionality from the built-in video player, such that I can stream videos directly to my TV, or music to my Sonos players. As a legitimate customer, I'm penalised by the content owners; my experience would be better if I chose to steal the content instead. What is the point of "protecting" content that has already been pirated countless times and is available for free in countless places on the web?

jskoog

I just rented and watched a movie on my thrive by connecting HDMI to my TV and it worked great. So now I want to delete the rented download, why can I not find a way to delete this movie?! Or does unpinning it mean delete? I don't know why such a simple thing should be such an annoyance. I have to admit, the more of Google's stuff I use, the more I wish I had stuck with apple and bought an I pad even though I really like my thrive, Google software is all too frequently annoying.

Chris

"Cannot fetch license" error on every single movie we purchased and downloaded onto a brand new Droid X. We downloaded several movies thinking each time we had fixed the problem. Tried removing and reinstalling the app. Also had a similar problem Traveling in Canada. Downloaded several movies onto a Galaxy Tab 10.1, which works about 50% the time with Google in the US. But in Canada Google lets you pay for the movie just before telling you that you can't watch it in Canada. Yep, this app literally steals your money as well as a great deal of your time. Incompetent and/or sinister programming effort.

Seems to work well enough, but I'm sorry, I don't always want to watch a movie on a tiny screen. It won't let me output to HDMI for some stupid (I'm gonna assume greedy movie studios or some other nonsense) reason. Next time I'll go to the video store. Rented a movie for the family to watch, tried to watch it from my tablet (asus eee pad transformer) to my tv through HDMI, no go. Had to end up using the "TV out" AV output from my android phone. All I can say is I'm glad I didn't rent the HD version or I'd be demanding a refund. Totally unacceptable. 2 stars because presumably it works well enough to watch movies on the go or by yourself, but some of us have friends and family.

jason.e

I enjoy the idea of the app - being able to rent movies without a contract and monthly fee for cheaper than going to a movie store (although not cheaper than redbox, which is slightly problematic). I also don't foresee myself renting movies to watch on my little device, if I had a way to play it on my television through an app on a Nintendo Wii, Xbox, PS3, BluRay player, etc., it would be more appealing. Google really needs to start branching out to these popular devices if they want their "Play" line to take off. Also, I'm wondering why I don't have the option to add my own content. I am able to add my own Music to my library, but not my own videos. I have videos of my kids and digital copies of movies that I have purchased on my home computer - they are mine and I should be able to watch them on my devices.

Alex

Ok first of all I think it's pretty petty to not allow root users access to this app, do you REALLY think we can't figure out a better way to steal movies than on our phones? Better block anyone who owns a laptop from using this program as well! Second, I had this app hidden in my app drawer because i never used it before, and since the Google Play update it doesn't give me an option to unhide it, which wouldn't be a big deal since I can't use it anyway, but it's pretty annoying none the less.

Justin

This is why media industries are dying. When the tech savvy TRY to be honest and pay for things, the media industries put silly restrictions on their products that make it impossible to use. No root support? Why would google kick its developers in the gut like that? Do you know how difficult and pointless it would be to rip a streaming, low quality movie from a phone? I wish I could give this zero stars. What an absolute joke.

Uncle Chachi

We already agreed not to copy the content. From the TOS: 3.8 You agree that Google and/or third parties own all right, title and interest in and to Google Play and the Products available through Google Play, including without limitation all applicable Intellectual Property Rights in the Products. "Intellectual Property Rights" means any and all rights existing under patent law, copyright law, trade secret law, trademark law, unfair competition law, and any and all other proprietary rights worldwide.

Michael

You're going to block me BC I root my phone? I root my phone BC I'm not tech stupid and want the bloatware off; overclocking ability (1.56ghz); and to have it function more like a PC than a locked up p.o.s / I have TONS of paid apps - I have never used warez; if its good I pay! You're going to block me BC I pimp my phone? You're losing money but its not only that - I've supported you since the G1 hence the first Android / opensource yeah right...more like you've become big and bloated - gAapple?

Andrew

Tells me to download new app, so I did. Tried to rent movie and it kept asking to enter CC info over and over. Just out of curiousity, I checked my bank account to see if it was charging my CC. Yep, 5 times. Crappy interface, no phone number or link to cancel charges. Sorry Google - you lost my money. Using Samsung App from now on. Never have problems with them. I hope you use your Big Table cluster and find this message. Terrible support.

Nate

I'm going to start by saying I have never bootlegged a single app because I didn't want to pay the small amount good developers ask for. If an app or service is good, I contribute and purchase it! I am an IT consultant and I root my Android devices to make them function more like a real computer than a closed off feature phone. Backup of the whole OS, file management, removing bloatware, and overclocking are my main uses of Root. Not to pirate lower quality movies I could get from a torrent site at higher quality and not even have to pay a penny. This idea that root breaks DRM is either bullshit or Poor coding because Windows has Admin access the second you install it and they found ways to ensure DRM works. You are losing a HUGE portion of your customers, who would be Happy to pay for your service, by imposing rediculous restrictions like this!!! We bought Androids to get a real computer phone, not an iFeaturePhone.

Uncle Chachi

WE ALREADY AGREED NOT TO COPY CONTENT! From the TOS: 3.8 You agree that Google and/or third parties own all right, title and interest in and to Google Play and the Products available through Google Play, including without limitation all applicable Intellectual Property Rights in the Products. "Intellectual Property Rights" means any and all rights existing under patent law, copyright law, trade secret law, trademark law, unfair competition law, and any and all other proprietary rights worldwide.

diamond

I tried renting a movie on here and like others have stated, the movie wouldn't play due to some stupid error message about my device being rooted?! In my case, my device is NOT ROOTED!! It still had all stock programming, but yet I get this message and cannot watch any movie I attempt to rent?? You need to take a look at this issue google, and whats the big deal about a device being rooted anyhow lots of people root their devices for different reasons, and if my device is rooted, then it is due to something Acer did for my tablet model, not by my doing!!

Projectflipmode

Sometimes when I read forms I lose hope for humanity. Its truly sad how many people are smart enough to know how to root there phone and remove bloatware. But not smart enough to know that google, like amazon and apple are at the mercy of movie makers. Its not available to rooted users not because google doesn't like you. But because the movie makers won't allow them to sell it otherwise. This app works great for renting movies, same price as amazon video on-demand, itunes, vudu and any other pay as you go on-demand service. The nice perk google gives is it lets you re-rent movies for a dollar.

corroded

I came here originally to complain that my hire did not download, citing a problem with it not being available in my country. Apparently though, taking my money was available in this country for that product though. Anyway, I see this horsesh*t that seems to be implying that rooted phones are pirates, taking a leaf out of the Apple dictators handbook. I've paid for every app I have, and I still root, because of things like SetCPU... I can happily avoid Google Play Movies and Google Wallet until you sort it out, after all its only your competitors that gain from your stupidity.

David

I downloaded a movie only to have it not play. I then went to write a note requesting help. However, that s screen required tons of answers and data! All information available on the Android. I'm confident Google does this on purpose to avoid paying for support costs. I then replied to the receipt which was of course rejected. They do not want to help me, only take my money. Google is acting just like any other large non. Customer focused...profit hungry corp.

Hugh A

I used this app to rent and watch Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. Given the fact that this was the only place I could even find Psycho available to rent, and for only $3 at that, I thought I had a pretty good deal. Unfortunately, the film wouldn't even begin to play on my computer. I tried frequently to get it to start up, only to be met with the message that "An error occurred. Please try again later". I tried on two other computers and on other web browsers to no avail (although if Google Movies had worked on Firefox or IE instead of Chrome, there would be an entirely different review being written at this moment). Finally I relented and decided to pull the movie up on my Galaxy SII, which worked fine UP UNTIL the last 2 minutes of the movie. At that point the "connection to the server" kept getting dropped and I had to "click to try again" 10 times before the last 2 minutes of the film were done. I'm generally a huge fan of Google, I buy books and music and apps from them as often as I can, but this product has so far been a disappointment.

Ben

I can hire 2 new releases + 5 weekly's for the price of 2 (old) movies here, from CIVIC or BB. Considering we actually do this EVERY week, I see no value whatsoever in this app or service. If studios (or Google) could provide movies at $1 under for hire, or a few $ for purchase then I could see them selling at a crazy rate, still making both parties a good profit. This is simply a cash-in and of no benefit. I'll stick to the video store, others the torrents. Shame, I was excited..

Brett

This is a good stable competitor to apples version. As for the rooters the main problem google has with allowing rooted devices access is its copywrite protection requirements to the producers of the content which I understand, however this again highlights that google needs to invest in a good built in subroot uset ability so we can have the level or root access developers require without comprimising the entire platform. The issue should mr more about not needing to root in order to develope!

Arion

I have a samsung galaxy prevail. When I download the rentals after payment, I am told the rental expire in 30 days, when asked if I want to watch play back it says expire in 24 hrs. Now I can actually watch the movie which is great, but what would be the point of buying a 30 day movie you can't watch up til 30 days? Just wanted to know. Lucky it only cost me 1.99 each. Google, please lose my debt card number. But yeah awesome movie though. THANKS. ;)

William

Does what it does pretty well. Only major complaint is that I can't choose exactly what resolution I want it to stream at, only HD or not, unlike on a PC where I get to choose 360, 480, 720 or 1080p for a HD rental. Another issue is that when resuming playback after a previous session it sometimes doesn't stream data but just displays the paused symbol. To the people complaining about this not working on rooted devices, this is likely not Google's choice. You have to realise that Google is profoundly unpopular with the entertainment industry so if they want to get any content on their network then they have to bow to the demands of the content holders.

Racy55

As a non-rooted phone owner, I thank Google for finally delivering good quality movies to us in Australia. This service mostly removes the need to illegally download movies.Rental charges are cheaper when compared to going to the video hire shop and much more convenient also. No late fee charges for starters! Only have phone at present but look forward to when I get my tablet to download to and plug in or All-share wireless to my big screen Plasma TV. Don't need rooted phones for my usage, and don't really see the advantage in doing it either. Every time you get an update, you've got to reload all your apps and some settings, and apparently cant use Google wallet either!! And most Android users DONT root their phones, only a minority seem to need this process, so keep working on providing us non-rooted users with great apps!

Sim

Sorry Google. Too expensive. Try again. This time, keep the ease of Piracy in mind and the fact that people will pay a couple bucks for the ease of use and guaranteed quality, but not $7 for stuff they could have pirated months earlier. Also, my phone isn't rooted, but I still agree with all below, you encourage open source and then do this. Lastly, I read that there is no way to HDMI out from a TF201. WHY! You morons! That's the way you will rent movies currently. No one has android TV's yet and watching a film on a tablet or phone is generally crap. Poor form for one of my favorite companies in the world.

Fassell

Rooted users should not be punished because they decided to root their device to get more out of it. I wouldn't buy a computer that had admin rights on it, that I couldn't take off. Why should buying an OPEN SOURCE device be any different. If you were against rooting, then you should not have created OPEN SOURCE technology. I downloaded this app just to post this comment, this is unbelievable that you would do this to a majority of YOUR customers. Look at your reviews and notice that more than double the amount of people rated this with 1 star vs 5 stars.

Brannigan

Are you Google TV or You Tube or Android or Chrome web store or Chrome OS? I understand if you want to persue seperate products / market segments but the user experience across these needs to click. When I ends up with a myriad of the same product over and over with each only half done and disjointed like this you are just segmenting the market to add no value. I end up without a product that does what I need it to do and it leave me frustrated... Larry what happened to focusing Google on doing less things but doing them well? Unfortunately your tool does not let me give negative stars. To top it the thing wont work on my device as I rooted it and for some reason Google discriminates on this between desktop and handtop.

James

Worked like a charm with my Photon connected to my tv via HDMI. Picture was a bit dark but only slightly & I assume this is only due to the restrictions of a cell phone display (to be expected). Also, movies are priced a little too high. Only thing that justifies paying that much is convenience of not having to go anywhere to rent (which saves on effort to and gas). However, if I were to rent multiple movies in a night it would be more worth while to go to the video store. Free rental after X rentals maybe

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