Sweet!Vudu just updated their iOS app to version 5.0. The app now supports HDX and AirPlay. Hopefully a tvOS app is coming soon!
Sweet!Vudu just updated their iOS app to version 5.0. The app now supports HDX and AirPlay. Hopefully a tvOS app is coming soon!
Vudu just updated their iOS app to version 5.0. The app now supports HDX and AirPlay. Hopefully a tvOS app is coming soon!
Maybe, but it's not as if doing a tvOS version is a lot of work, and it's just plain silly not to enable all possible ways to consume your product.I wouldn't hold my breath on that one....
Maybe, but it's not as if doing a tvOS version is a lot of work, and it's just plain silly not to enable all possible ways to consume your product.
That only matters if they want to sell through the app. The iOS app is view only no sales so there's nothing to negotiate. The tvOS app could be the same.No, it's not the work, heck..they have apps all over the place....it's coming to terms with Apple.
That only matters if they want to sell through the app. The iOS app is view only no sales so there's nothing to negotiate. The tvOS app could be the same.
Mobile is viewed differently. Vudu, Amazon and others wish to sell you movies just like itunes. They are left at a huge disadvantage if customers can't purchase in app. If Apple want's to take all the profit, just like they sold the movie it leaves little reason to proceed.
Well, Apple doesn't take "all the profit", there's a service fee, 30% (or less, and I'd imagine a business entity like Walmart can strike some cost effective deals ...) but like @randian said above, if Vudu doesn't sell through the AppleTV app, there's no profit cut, and for Vudu, they potentially sell a not insignificant amount of content to the AppleTV owner base.
i.e., Cost of Development vs. X number of additional content consumers
Amazon probably isn't a good comparison because not only do they sell content, they broker content between other providers (like HBO), and the _big_ difference: they sell competing hardware (that Vudu does not).
Maybe, but it's not as if doing a tvOS version is a lot of work, and it's just plain silly not to enable all possible ways to consume your product.
Flixster has also had an iOS app for a long time, but no ATV app yet. They even said they were working on the ATV app 11 months ago. There's no way porting from iOS to TVOS takes that long.
Something is going on.
Flixster pulled UV streaming support from their Amazon Fire app several months back, that was how we were accessing our UV (Vudu) movies on an upstairs TV. It's _chaos_![]()
It's such a shame that Ultraviolet has been pretty much a damp squid since it was forced upon us, more so in the UK as my much preferred iTunes codes were replaced mainly by Ultraviolet with TV playback options severely limited.
Just received an email from Wuaki saying they're dropping support from the 1st March so that's my TVs app now longer going to be used.
I can still AirPlay via my iPhone but I find that slightly inconvenient.
It's such a shame that Ultraviolet has been pretty much a damp squid
Another nail in the UV coffin. I've completely given up on Flixster / UV as it becomes increasingly difficult to view my movies on the platform. More accurately I suppose, I've given up on BR discs, and have committed to iTunes and 100% digital ... there's no way this can come back to haunt me
Which app do you use to airplay please?
Thanks
When it was time to replace the TV's in our house, I opted for 'smart' TV's as they support the Flixster app and that's where I store the UV titles.
I still wish they would create the Apple TV app. I came to this thread, hoping against hope, that it had been released.
Flixster is not a hardware competitor.I'm waiting for an itunes app on the Roku, wonder which will come first?
Yeah, Amazon has competing hardware and ecosystems vs. Apple, the latter we know is going to keep their ecosystem limited to their hardware - but it seems like a miscue for a content distribution service like UV (and Vudu), who don't have a competing hardware product to not want their service on as many devices as possible.
Disney provides a "hub" for content re-distribution through multiple devices/consumption channels, even Google Play allows movies purchases/rentals through YT >> Apple TV, and that's kind of [even if indirectly] a competing hardware platform.
I had no idea you could watch Google movies through YT - how do you do that?