I just found out today that Flixster Video, one of the few UltraViolet apps, has shut down, without them alerting their customers via email in advance. This raises a lot of concerns about access and availability of cloud-based services, as consumers have no real guarantee of long-term access to the content that they are purchasing. Luckily, Ultraviolet is still supported by VUDU and FandangoNow (Although I hadn't heard of the latter until today). The idea behind UV is that it is an inter-operable format, and thus supposed to be much less vulnerable to being shut down - however, none of the major players support UV: Amazon, Apple, Microsoft or Google. This results in the current state of legal streaming being your library is fractured across dozens of apps and services, with no way to search all at once.
Is anyone else sick to death of how hard it is to manage your legal streaming library? Near as I can tell, there's zero subreddits dedicated to legal streaming in general, but tons of communities around finding and using illegal streaming sites. I'm also frustrated that there's no way to redeem a movie code just by scanning it with your phone, and also no way to gift movies to someone. The movie industry should really take a cue from Valve's Steam, which has gamified and socialized collecting digital games.
Anyone out there interested in starting a subreddit about legal streaming sites and services?
Submitted August 28, 2017 at 03:40PM by sigmaecho http://ift.tt/2vmlGz5
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