Google is cleaning up its applications and removing Play Films and TV from its catalog on connected televisions. If you were still using it, your films will have to move.
Google likes to create applications, which sometimes do essentially the same things, then merge them with another, rename them, delete them… And sometimes, it lets services live that almost everyone has forgotten existed, before remember it and warn of its imminent disappearance. If you are a user ofAndroid-TVyou may have received an email warning you that on October 5, the Google Play Movies and TV app will close.
Normally, you raised an eyebrow when you realized that yes, the service still existed. However, the application was removed from many connected televisions in 2021and on mobile, it has left its place to GoogleTV last year. The latter is the one that the firm wants to push since it regularly receives updates, such as a mode that removes personalized suggestions. But if you were still using Google Play Movies & TV, this is what your titles will become.
Google Play Movies & TV bows out on TVs, but your titles are safe
After October 5, there will remain 3 platforms to purchase content on your connected TV: Youtube, Android-TV And GoogleTV. Purchases you made on the old app will be accessible in these. However, it is not known what will become of them if you live in a country where they do not have the same rights and licensesi.e. outside the United States, continental Europe and the United Kingdom.
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It appears that Google wants to refocus its resources on the products it is actively developing at the moment. Users will also be less confused in front of the multitude of stores in which it is possible to obtain films and series. Because if you look closely, it’s a bit like having several identical stores that sell the same thing to the same customers. This is normal when the brands are competitors, much less so when they have the same owner.
Source: TechRadar