Can only Rent movies on Android Market? - General Questions and Answers

So I am a recent iPhone converter and I am used to being able to buy movies on iTunes. Can I only rent on the Android Market? I have searched and found no answers. I downloaded "Video" app but it tells me i am rooted and can't use it. I just want to buy a movie so I can watch it as much as I want.

For the moment it's rent only. I'm sure that will change soon.

You could always put films on your SD card and watch it on your device like that.

Yea, i really want to just purchase some since i travel so much. I guess i will just have to purchase some digital copies or something. That's so stupid though.
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I agree. They are losing money hoof and mouth, IMO.

There is about 10 movies I would buy right off of the bat if they had them available. Unfortunately some of the digital copies I have are that stupid ultraviolet crap were you have to stream it. Does me no good on an airplane.
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ducksauce88 said:
I downloaded "Video" app but it tells me i am rooted and can't use it.
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They're blocking rooted users. There are ways around it of course, but I'm not sure we're allowed to post here. Suffice it to say, google is your friend.

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360 live app gone!

So I paid for the app among how many thousands of other ppl and Microsoft decides it wont allow 3rd party apps to gain access to an account that we the gamer/consumer pay for and google does nothing but pull the app or apps from the market and issues no refunds what the heck is that about ...its not about the money its about the poor business practices and the lack of protection of the consumer
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They want you buy windows phone instead
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Yea well that's not gonna ever happen and im tellin ya what everytime they pull crap like this makes me wanna sell my 360 and get a ps3
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Yea well deal with it. I can't understand why you need access to your gamertag on your phone if you can't play games.
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I use an app called XBOX Live Statistics. It's nice because I can see if my friends are online or not, and I can send them XBL messages from my phone. It's a little slow, but worth the load time.
Its the fact all of us who paid for an app can now no longer use it and we got no refund from the dev or google but everyone will cry like babies about pirated software and protecting their work well im saying what's protecting our (the consumer) money.
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ii Candor ii said:
I use an app called XBOX Live Statistics. It's nice because I can see if my friends are online or not, and I can send them XBL messages from my phone. It's a little slow, but worth the load time.
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They pulled that from the market too I was using it 2 days ago now its gone
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I have paid for both apps and now I wont get updates to any of them... Nor will I get a refund for either of them. I dunno who I am displeased with more Microsoft, Google, or the app Devs
I also payed for this app... I got a bit pissed off when I noticed it wasn't available anymore
Yoshilover said:
I have paid for both apps and now I wont get updates to any of them... Nor will I get a refund for either of them. I dunno who I am displeased with more Microsoft, Google, or the app Devs
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Absolutely not the devs or Google. Microsoft is at fault here. They disabled access and there was nothing anyone could do about it. Google could have given you the money back but you shouldn't be mad at them.
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I didn't even know about this. I have xbox live statistics. Is the app no longer working? I haven't checked it in a day or so, but have a widget that treks me if I have any messages or how many of my friends are online. This is a real bummer and I hope the consumers show enough outrage that they allow access once again. This affecting other mobile platforms as well?
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ii Candor ii said:
I can see if my friends are online or not, and I can send them XBL messages from my phone.
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Yup that's exactly why these apps are useful. No need to keep booting up the Xbox or load the bloated website.
Removing access is not cool at all.
Buy a ps4 like iam going to I was a big xbox fan and I still like my 360 and xbox1 but after 4 POS 360s I will not buy the next xbox! And I did not buy win7 becuz M$ riped us 360 owners off with defetive ****y hardware! M$ really Sucks it all started after Bill gates left
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well if they keep screwing with the servers to make it an "even playing field" im done with them I mean its not my.problem if the next guy has a slow connection its not fair to those of us that pay top dollar for high speed internet just to be drug down to their level atleast playstation network is free
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They only pulled it because it cost money. Had it been free it would have stayed. That's their policy on the iPhone app store thus I assume the same thing here
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check out spark 360
spark 360 is awesome
All I can say is HaHa get applanet and you won't get beet! If you want to support the dev buy the app!
Yoshilover said:
I have paid for both apps and now I wont get updates to any of them... Nor will I get a refund for either of them. I dunno who I am displeased with more Microsoft, Google, or the app Devs
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XDA is no longer worth my time.
lorijuan1024 said:
spark 360 is awesome
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Just verified that Spark 360 still works, glad I found this a while back and not the ones discussed in this thread

Netflix

Anyone know if there has been progress getting Netflix to work on TB?
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fbm111 said:
Anyone know if there has been progress getting Netflix to work on TB?
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man... i would love to get netflix working on my phone. it would probably make me go out and get a tablet too.
Netflix would be win.
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Technically, you can use the PlayOn work around. You have to intall an app on your PC and the client on your profile, get an account with PlayOn and it streams from Netflix to your PC to your Phone. At least, thats my understanding.
Bateluer said:
Technically, you can use the PlayOn work around. You have to intall an app on your PC and the client on your profile, get an account with PlayOn and it streams from Netflix to your PC to your Phone. At least, thats my understanding.
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yeah but the native application viewing will prob be more ideal and better quality...dunno havent tried the other method just yet
Still havnt heard anything, honestly getting a little worried that it will never happen. I hope thats not the case cuz it would be soo awesome to stream some netflix on the Tbolt!!
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yeah but the native application viewing will prob be more ideal and better quality...dunno havent tried the other method just yet
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i just find it a little silly that I have to pay one company money to stream movies and tv shows from another company, because they cannot do it themselves...
They have the ability but won't do streaming on Android because they're paranoid about protecting their content. Arrrr
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nosympathy said:
i just find it a little silly that I have to pay one company money to stream movies and tv shows from another company, because they cannot do it themselves...
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Yeah thats what Im saying, I dont mind paying for netflix, but if I have to pay playon as well, it just seems unnecessary and redundant!
They made an app for it, even demo'd it. However, it got leaked and people used it. You can use it to manage your queues though. Just can't seem to stream.

How to watch live tv HTC thunderbolt?

Anyone know how to watch cable tv on my tbolt ...I'm going out off town so I need to keep myself entertained .while I get there
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I use Slingplayer, but that costs a couple of bucks.
Slingbox...
Thanks.....
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Anyother one that are not so much... $$$
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Try a Justin.TV app. Or look at atdhenet.tv.
DROIDLIFELIFE said:
Anyone know how to watch cable tv on my tbolt ...I'm going out off town so I need to keep myself entertained .while I get there
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Invest in a slingbox and slingplayer mobile software.
+1 to the Slingbox idea.
i have a slingbox great picture with LTE!
Using a. TV tuner in your PC with orb is much cheaper, and does more than just stream TV. I use it, and it works. I have to say though that their development team and support suck.
Also, the myhava Vulkano is much better and cheaper than slingbox, and easier than orb.
http://myvulkano.com/products.html
slingbox
I have a slingbox and love it, the sling player works great over 4G too.
That is quite an investment however...
You could take a look at apps like Crakle, that have archived TV shows for viewing. For live TV, you're options become much more limited.
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Also, the myhava Vulkano is much better and cheaper than slingbox, and easier than orb.
http://myvulkano.com/products.html
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I have the vulkano platinum, and the hava titanium. I like their products, but they DON"T offer any support of their older products. I can't in good faith recommend them again until they start offering support for their legacy products. They purposely block the data stream to the legacy products using the vulkano app because it works fine over wifi, but it doesn't over 3/4g. Which is where their servers come into play.
kierandill said:
I use Slingplayer, but that costs a couple of bucks.
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a couple lol, I just looked it up thats more than a couple
It doesn't stream live tv by you can watch tv shows, the application is called tv shows stream.
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play store

I see posts where nexus 7,phones covers and such in play store but can't find any kind of products in my play store just apps books an games ,am I missing something?On verizon
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davefromohio said:
I see posts where nexus 7,phones covers and such in play store but can't find any kind of products in my play store just apps books an games ,am I missing something?On verizon
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You must be mistaken, they probably posted those in the marketplace, and as much as I want to yell at you, cause seriously the play store is only for apps music movies and books. If you want covers and all that crap, go on eBay. Like seriously, is this your first android? Everyone else be free to poke him, but give him slack if its his first phone which is on android.
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When on your phone it seems you can't shop devices, but there is indeed a "devices" section on the play store if you go on through your PC. And the nexus 7 is available
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I tried to find it on the market app but I couldn't get to it. I searched Galaxy Nexus and Devices and nothing turned up.
Now on your PC, on the top left there is a drop-down that you can hit and it will show devices there. That is where you can purchase the GNex and N7 and probably link you to the accessories. I am at work, so I can't give you precise directions (because my work server blocks the market but not XDA/vBulletin) but I've been watching the GNex price fall for awhile on my PC in the market from that drop-down.

ITunes to android

I've been doing some searching and haven't really found a good app and I'm trying to see if anyone has any advice. I have a decent amount of music in iTunes that i want to transfer to android so I dont lose it or have it just sit there. You guys know of any good programs for that, that aren't going to lose any of the bit rates between the transfer or won't give me many problems during the transfer?
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You can't just export your songs from itunes? Oh my, it must be some crazy totalitarian facist regime running the fruit phones. Try this:
First you will have to burn your music to cd as drm-free files then rip them off of the cds but change i tunes ripping settings (edit> preferences> advanced tab> importing tab> import using: mp3 encoder.
This is the only way I know of. I even read around and this was all I could find. You might be best to only copy your hard to find stuff then download the rest through torrents.
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Do you own an ipod? If so, put the music on there, then open up explorer and browse to the ipod, the music is in folders there, though the ID3 tags and filenames are a mess. (random letters and numbers). There are also prpgrams to get the music off an ipod with the correct names, you'll have to google those as I can't remember the names.
Bigbabyjesus said:
You might be best to only copy your hard to find stuff then download the rest through torrents.
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Mentioning torrents will only get you banned...
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Did you try Double Twist?
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I've had success in the past burning my music to cds and then using windows media player to rip it back to my computer.
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Just export the music and download it one android:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
Songbird on pc's is an itunes compatible program, look into it, I haven't fooled around with the android program version as of yet. Its in the play store
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Hmmm, i just come from an iphone 4 to a galaxy note 2 and all i did was highlight all the songs in my itunes library and press copy then i added a folder on my desktop and pasted it into the folder. That goes for any music videos i brought from itunes as well.then all u do is put the folder on ur desktop onto ur sd card then put in ur android phone.
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All you do is go to your playlist press control a copy in a folder and transfer the folder to the music part of your phone it worked great for me. All these other answers are complicated haha
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Sorry for the late response, been way too busy the past couple of days. Thanks for all the input ive looked into all of those programs but not once did i think to just copy everything in my iTunes folder to my phone SD card. The only problem is that my library consists of about 60GB so i think i might trim it down while i transfer as well! Thanks for the help.....
ShadowLea said:
Mentioning torrents will only get you banned...
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Sorry, not trying to advocate piracy, I was unaware of the rule. Did you know that by copying your music from itunes to another device you are pirating that music even though you have paid for it. Doesn't seem to make much sense to me, but Apple's gots to have control I guess.
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ShadowLea said:
Do you own an ipod? If so, put the music on there, then open up explorer and browse to the ipod, the music is in folders there, though the ID3 tags and filenames are a mess. (random letters and numbers). There are also prpgrams to get the music off an ipod with the correct names, you'll have to google those as I can't remember the names.
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[/rant] Leaving posts with absolutely no content nor solutions is worse than one that helps. Please only post focused replies. [/endrant]
mcampbel123 said:
[/rant] Leaving posts with absolutely no content nor solutions is worse than one that helps. Please only post focused replies. [/endrant]
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There was nothing wrong with the reply you quoted at all.
On the other hand, sticking a post like yours to resurrect a thread that died five months ago is totally pointless :banghead:
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Did you just quote the wrong post, or was that last bottle of beer one too many?
I use app called isyncr you put it on your phone and sends an email link to ur pc open it and install and iTunes on your phone its in play store
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THANK YOU!
banjomike said:
I use app called isyncr you put it on your phone and sends an email link to ur pc open it and install and iTunes on your phone its in play store
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Thank you! Now there is an efficient post: a direct reference that will save time (and helps me a lot). Too many posts without references lead to unnecessarily long threads that take far more time to parse for a solution than they should!
I'm not resurrecting a post, because I am looking at this problem now.
My friends, posting should be like publishing research: elegant, efficient, and fully referenced!
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