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Google Play is stripped of movie and TV evidence sales

The Play Store used to sell tons of content, but at present it offers just apps and books.

Google Play is stripped of movie and TV show sales

Google Play Movies & TV—and the Google Play brand in general—seems doomed. Google already pulled the Play Movies & Tv set app from Rokus and other smart TV platforms last year, and it will now remove the Movies & TV section from the Play Store. The Play Store, which used to offer a big drove of content, at present but sells apps and books.

Google posted a message to the Google Play Assistance customs maxim that the Movies & Boob tube Play Store section will shut down in May 2022 and that the Google TV app will exist the new dwelling for buying picture and Tv content from Google on phones and tablets. The visitor also sells video content through YouTube, and when it close down the Google Play Movies & Tv app on smart TVs, Google pitched the YouTube app as its replacement for purchased content.

So when yous buy video content from Google, y'all apply the Google Idiot box or Google Play Movies & Television set app to play content on Android, the Google Play Movies & TV app on iOS, and the YouTube app on tertiary-party smart TVs similar Roku. "Google Tv" isn't just the name of the telephone app and video content store; it's also the new name of Android Tv OS, which you lot can become on the new Chromecast (it'southward also integrated into some Sony and TCL television sets). On those devices, your purchases are built into the operating system. Google Play Movies & Television volition be completely dead if Google chooses to shut down the telephone apps, and that seems inevitable at this bespeak.

The motility is the latest step in Google'south sunsetting of Google Play. The visitor hasn't officially announced that information technology wants to kill the make withal, merely a suspicious amount of Google Play services are being turned off. Google Play launched in 2022 every bit a home for all of Google's content. Android apps and games, music, books, movies, TV shows, and magazines could all be bought in a unified Play Store interface, and a collection of content playback apps allowed users to access each library type. It seems that Google gave up on this idea at some betoken. Google Play Newsstand was shut downwards and merged into Google News in 2022, and Play Music was shut down in 2022 in favor of YouTube Music. Google Play Movies & Tv seems next on the list. With the removal of purchases from the Play Shop and the app from smart TVs, but the phone app is left.

On the Play Store, that leaves apps, games, and books. Google Play Books does not have an culling dwelling nonetheless, but don't be surprised to hear about i presently.

Ron Amadeo Ron is the Reviews Editor at Ars Technica, where he specializes in Android Os and Google products. He is always on the chase for a new gadget and loves to rip things apart to see how they piece of work.