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    Google is killing off the final vestiges of Google Play Movies & TV, a service that bought premium Hollywood movies and TV reveals as a part of Google’s once-cohesive string of Google Play content material stores. The firm emailed customers of Android TV to say that the “Google Play Movies & TV app will not be obtainable in your Android TV machine from 05 October 2023. You can proceed to purchase or hire motion pictures instantly by way of the Shop tab in your Android TV.”

    Play Movies has been going by way of a sluggish demise as Google shuffles round its media content material. The smartphone Play Movies app grew to become “Google TV” in 2022, and that very same yr, the Play Store app was stripped of film and TV gross sales. On third-party good TVs (this is a unique class than at present’s Android TV announcement) the app was killed in 2021. On Android TV, the brand new “Shop” tab appears to simply be an OS-integrated Google TV content material retailer.

    If you assume this sounds complicated, you are not alone. Google’s assist web page displays the ridiculous state of Google’s video apps, instructing customers that “in Your Library, you’ll find content material that you just purchased from: Google Play Movies & TV, YouTube, Android TV, Google TV.” How any regular particular person is supposed to grasp that pile of Google media manufacturers, and the way it works throughout telephones, the net, and varied good TV OSes, is past me.

    • Google’s electronic mail to Android TV customers.


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    Google Play was as soon as a media empire at Google, with the Google Play Store (for Android apps and video games), Play Music, Play Books, Play Newsstand, and Play Movies and TV. The concept again within the 2010s was to compete with the digital media revolution Apple created with iTunes, the iPod, and the iPhone. iTunes had all of the content material folks might need, and Android wanted an analogous setup, so a ton of content material stores had been launched by Andy Rubin’s Android staff. Most of the media stores began within the Android Market however then pivoted to a extra Google-wide providing with the launch of Google Play branding in 2012.

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    At the height of its powers, the Play Store had tabs for apps, music, books, magazines, motion pictures & TV, and a “units” ironmongery shop, all in a single interface. Back then, Google Play felt like a cohesive platform and a top-tier ecosystem. Nothing at Google is ever steady, although, and the corporate’s different media stakeholders sought to choose aside what the Android Team had constructed. The Google Store took over {hardware} duties from the Play Devices part in 2015. Magazines shut down in 2018 and was changed by Google News, and after two years, Google News gave up on the concept of promoting content material. Play Music was shut down in 2020, and customers had been pushed to YouTube Music, which, even after the depressing transition, is nonetheless an all-around inferior product. Hollywood content material is now cut up between YouTube (which presents à la carte film purchases), Google TV (which is each Google’s TV working system and an Android app), and a still-surviving “Movies & TV” part that is only on the internet Play Store. The one Google Play baby nobody appears to need is Play Books, which is nonetheless awkwardly surviving because the lone content material retailer within the Play Store app.

    While there is nonetheless that Play Store internet part, I suppose it is time to name it for the Google Play Movies & TV model. All the apps will be useless in October, and presumably, meaning the now-useless retailer will be booted from the net interface as nicely. Everyone needs to get this video content material on their good TVs now, and good TV distributors get to choose and select what apps they pre-load. That makes standalone “me too” Google apps like Play Movies a tricky promote, however Google has a video app all of the distributors need: YouTube. During a carriage dispute with Roku, Google discovered that packing all its video content material right into a single YouTube app would be certain that all of its video content material can be carried by each good TV vendor. It constructed YouTube TV—the $73-a-month cable TV substitute service—into the conventional YouTube app, and it is sensible to maintain purchases of Hollywood content material in there, too. For that to occur, the Play Movies & TV model must die.

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