Category: Google Play Movies & TV

The Google Play Movies & TV app has been updated with several small but important improvements.  The update build, version 3.15 for those keeping score at home, brings improved movie watching controls that are more intuitive and similar to other apps.  Gone is the banner style controls that were on the bottom of the display and it is replaced with a progress style bar that indicates how far along you are in a movie.  To fast forward, simply slide your finger across that progress bar and a single frame will pop up above your finger to show you that scene.  To start playing again, simply lift off the screen.

With the highly anticipated 6th season of Game of Thrones kicking off this Sunday, you can get a great deal on all of the previous seasons right in the Google Movies & TV store.  Seasons right now are down to just $14.99 or you can buy all of the seasons together for $79.99.  Given that each season normally sells for $38.99, this is a huge discount on all five seasons together.  The price is certainly temporary and there is no uplift for HD.  $14.99 gets you each full season in HD.

The all new Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice has just hit theaters but that doesn’t mean you can’t pre-order your digital copy of the movie.  Over at the Google Movies & TV portion of the Google Play Store, you can now place an order for the Ultimate Edition of the movie for $19.99.  This extended version of the movie gives you around 30 minutes of additional footage and in comes with the original theatrical version of the movie too.  So for the same price as the movie only, you are getting the extended version too.

The Google Movies & TV store (off the Google Play Store) has a great promotion running now through April 28th on a movie rental from the store.  Selecting from a wide range of movies, you can get 75% off of a single rental in that time frame for a evening in and a night away from Netflix.  There is no special code or anything required.  All you need to do is select from the list of movies that are a part of the promotion and you will get 75% taken off of that rental when you check out.

The Google Play Movies & TV app has been updated today and while on the whole it is a minor update, there is a nice improvement to the Wishlist feature that comes in this build.  The update is build 3.11.5 for those keeping score at home and it is in the Google Play Store now.  If you already have the app installed, you should see the OTA update in the next day or two at the latest.

From a bug fix perspective, Google has improved the playback reliabilty of the app so you should see some improvements as you play back on your devices.  In testing for this post, the pause/start function while watching a movie or television show is much smoother than before and starts up quicker.

But as I said, the big news is Wishlists.  More on that after the break.

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens has been in movie theaters for less than 24 hours but you can already pre-order the move on Google Play.  The movie absolutely destroyed opening day totals, bringing in an estimated $54m on its first day and this weekend it will likely set even more records. Now through Google you have the opportunity to pre-order the movie when it is released for download sometime in 2016.  No there is no stated release date but pre-order will assure that the moment that it is available on the store, it will be in your library, ready for you to download.

The move is available in HD for $19.99 while the SD version is $14.99.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens – $14.99 (SD) or $19.99 (HD) – Google Play Store