{"id":2223,"date":"2022-03-24T15:19:07","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T15:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/03\/24\/google-wont-let-you-buy-movies-and-tv-shows-from-the-play-app-starting-in-may\/"},"modified":"2022-03-24T15:19:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T15:19:08","slug":"google-wont-let-you-buy-movies-and-tv-shows-from-the-play-app-starting-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/03\/24\/google-wont-let-you-buy-movies-and-tv-shows-from-the-play-app-starting-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Google won\u2019t let you buy movies and TV shows from the Play app starting in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/3\/23\/22993235\/google-play-tv-app-movies-play-store\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/3\/23\/22993235\/google-play-tv-app-movies-play-store<\/a><br \/>\n<code><br \/><\/br><\/code><\/p>\n<div readability=\"58.040336134454\">\n<p id=\"ldDXe5\">Google will no longer sell movies and TV shows from the Google Play app starting in May, the company announced (<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2022\/03\/google-will-stop-selling-movies-and-tv-shows-through-the-play-store\/\">via <em>Ars Technica<\/em><\/a>). Instead, you\u2019ll be able to get movies and shows from the Google TV app. <\/p>\n<p id=\"1d8dm6\">\u201cOn Google TV, you will find the same experience you are used to on Google Play Movies &#038; TV with the latest new releases, rentals, deals, and great recommendations for you,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/googleplay\/thread\/156571755\/play-movies-tv-is-moving-to-google-tv\">according to a company support page<\/a>. Content you have already purchased will be available in the Google TV app, and you can use Play credit \/ gift cards to buy things there if you need.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-float-right\">\n<aside id=\"9m14vx\"><q>Google Play will still have apps, games, and books<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"LB6G8s\">Ultimately, this doesn\u2019t seem like too dramatic of a shift. However, this change and Google\u2019s decision to shut down Google Play Music <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/8\/4\/21354136\/google-play-music-shut-down-end-service-youtube-music-date\">in favor of YouTube Music<\/a> could both indicate that Google is lessening its reliance on the Play brand as its storefront for digital goods. Google Play will still be your destination if you want to buy apps, games, and books \u2014 at least for now.<\/p>\n<p id=\"QelA8u\">Apple also fractures sales of its content across different apps. Apps are in the App Store, music is in iTunes, movies and TV shows are in the Apple TV app, and books are in Apple Books.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><code><br \/><\/br><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/3\/23\/22993235\/google-play-tv-app-movies-play-store\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/3\/23\/22993235\/google-play-tv-app-movies-play-store<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Google will no longer sell movies and TV shows from the Google Play app starting in May, the company announced (via Ars Technica). Instead, you\u2019ll be able to get movies and shows from the Google TV app. \u201cOn Google TV, you will find the same experience you are used to on Google Play Movies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,8],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-2223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-google","category-technology","tag-google"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Google won\u2019t let you buy movies and TV shows from the Play app starting in May - Science and Nerds<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/03\/24\/google-wont-let-you-buy-movies-and-tv-shows-from-the-play-app-starting-in-may\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Google won\u2019t let you buy movies and TV shows from the Play app starting in May - Science and Nerds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Source: Google will no longer sell movies and TV shows from the Google Play app starting in May, the company announced (via Ars Technica). 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