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movies anywhere is available to download on your favorite Android iOS Amazon fire device it's everywhere and the app is designed to bring together all of your purchase movies into one place but we have some questions so to answer those questions we have the general manager of movies anywhere Caron Guildford thank you so much for joining us thank you um thank you to our studio audience for being here today as well you guys are fantastic ok so we wanted to ask questions that we felt like everybody has about this new service because as with all new services we want to know everything about it so how in the world we have Sony Pictures Entertainment Walt Disney Studios 20th Century Fox Universal Pictures and a Warner Brothers entertainment all came together to allow their movies to be viewed on movies anywhere how did you get them to agree to this it's unprecedented for sure so movies anywhere does represent a huge investment in innovation by those five Hollywood studios but I have to tell you it wasn't as hard as it sounds they were ready for this opportunity the time is right and they've been in lockstep with us the whole time we've been developing this service that's amazing we so rarely see so much collaboration in in the industry in the sense of Studios collaborating with each other on that note though there are a few studios missing and I'm wondering if there are plans for adding additional studios as you go so we hope the app will continue to evolve and grow we want to add more content more retailers launch on more platforms and we're in talks with all of the studios we know consumers would love to have more content in movies anywhere from other studios and we hope that they'll join us and in addition to Studios I'm wondering if there will also be plans to add services like Xbox and Playstation stores absolutely so we are going to continue to evolve movies anywhere to meet consumer demand and we hope to be everywhere that consumers are purchasing movies one of the things that really struck us right away was that there wasn't support for 4k and HDR and with that being a huge part of how we view our movies today what are the plans or general roadmap for adding that to the service sure so movies anywhere currently supports HD and SD but if you bought a 4k movie on one of our participating retail partners which are Amazon video Google Play iTunes and Vudu we will honor that and we will send it across as you sync your accounts so if you bought a 4k movie on Vudu it'll go across to Google Play in 4k so while we don't playback in 4k right now we will have it soon it will still transfer your 4k entitlements across retailers if they also support 4k so if I bought Wonder Woman in HD yes and then Apple gave me my free UHD upgrade yes at some point I'll be able to watch that in UHD on movies anywhere yes you will also go you're also able to buy movies on movies anywhere and I'm really curious how you decide or how the app decides what service you purchase those movies from so different platforms have different purchasing capabilities so for instance on Android we offer the ability to purchase on google play amazon video and Vudu and it's really cool because consumers are presented with a choice and then they can app set one as a default and then you're sort of on the fast track to checking out and getting your movie purchase on iOS we send you right to iTunes you're also able to download movies offline for viewings so when you do that is there a specific resolution that is required by certain services so let's say if you buy a movie through Vudu it only lets you download an SD or do you have HD capability across the app there's HD capability so we default to sd to just respect the the storage on a consumers device but you can choose really easily rightly interface to download to HD if you prefer that perfect um and I think a really big question for me is it's the golden age of television so Karen when will we see TV anywhere well movies anywhere currently supports feature films but we will continue to build the product and add more content to meet consumer demand excellence I needs my Breaking Bad yeah I just have it with me everywhere I go and my last question is where do you see movies anywhere in a year or in five years you know we're really excited about the possibilities for movies anywhere we sort of see it you know growing into a movie companion I mean right now we're giving consumers the ability to have their favorite movies with them at all times wherever they go and we are looking forward to building more features that meet the needs of future film fans so I just had a thought here yeah features for film fans I really love sites like IMDB and I really love things like Amazon's x-ray are there any maybe plans in the future to sort of integrate those types of things into movies anywhere well we are backed by the studio's so we have access to great content and we want to keep building out features that put the control in consumers hands to make that decision on what to watch it at home on Friday night or any movie night and last question are there any plans for exclusives for movie movies anywhere we the product is set up for exclusives we're not launching with any but we hope to have some in the future so keep checking back excellent well thank you so much thank you joining us we really appreciate it you can check out more information on movies anywhere on Sina com we will keep you posted on all of the you