Speaker 1: More digital movies in more places. I'm Rich Demiro. This
Speaker 1: is Rich on Tech Daily. Fandango Now is joining Movies
Speaker 1: Anywhere Now. If you're not familiar with Movies Anywhere, this
Speaker 1: is a really cool app that basically syncs up your
Speaker 1: movie collection. It makes all the movies that you buy,
Speaker 1: or I should say most of the movies that you
Speaker 1: buy from iTunes, Amazon, Voodoo, Google, and now Fandango now
Speaker 1: available in each other's library. So what does that mean. Well,
Speaker 1: you can buy a movie on Amazon and watch it
Speaker 1: on your iPad through basically Apple's TV app, which is
Speaker 1: really nice. They have most of the major studios on board,
Speaker 1: including Sony, Disney, Fox, Universal, Warner Brothers, so it works
Speaker 1: with almost every movie you buy. Paramount is not part
Speaker 1: of the team just yet, but I have a feeling
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to join because this thing is really powerful.
Speaker 1: Fandango Now launched in twenty sixteen. It's probably one of
Speaker 1: the lesser used movie collection libraries, i'd say, but they
Speaker 1: do have a large collection of ultra HD movies. I
Speaker 1: have been loving Movies Anywhere since it launched because it's
Speaker 1: given me more confidence to buy digital copies of movies.
Speaker 1: Because now I know that if I buy a movie
Speaker 1: on iTunes, I can still watch it on fireTV, my
Speaker 1: Android phone or basically wherever you can get the Movies
Speaker 1: Anywhere app or the native app, because that's the thing.
Speaker 1: It doesn't just put the movie in the Movies Anywhere app,
Speaker 1: but actually puts it in the native app. So if
Speaker 1: you buy the movie through Amazon, you'll see it in
Speaker 1: your Google Play account and vice versa. This is really
Speaker 1: cool and I love to see that they continue to expand.
Speaker 1: So check it out Movies Anywhere, all right. Next up
Speaker 1: Apple buying the magazine app Texture. This is sort of
Speaker 1: like Netflix but for magazines. So for ten dollars a month,
Speaker 1: you get two hundred more than two hundred digital magazines,
Speaker 1: and they've got all the big titles represented like People, Esquire, Time,
Speaker 1: Entertainment Weekly, Real, simple Readers, Digest. But keep in mind,
Speaker 1: for that ten dollars a month, you don't get a
Speaker 1: lot of those weekly magazines like People and Time. Those
Speaker 1: require a premium account, which is about fifteen dollars a month.
Speaker 1: And really, what Apple's doing here is they are making
Speaker 1: a bold move kind of an affront to the whole
Speaker 1: fake news thing. Here's the quote from eddieq, Apple Senior
Speaker 1: vice president of Internet Software and Services. In a statement
Speaker 1: to tech Crunch, he said, we're excited Texture is going
Speaker 1: to join Apple, along with an impressive catalog of magazines
Speaker 1: for many of the world's leading publishers. We are committed
Speaker 1: to quality journalism from trusted sources and allowing magazines to
Speaker 1: keep producing beautifully designed and engaging stories for users. I
Speaker 1: was a subscriber for many years of Texture. My favorite
Speaker 1: feature was really their search engine. So let me tell
Speaker 1: you how that works. Let's say you're traveling to a place.
Speaker 1: You can see all the articles written about that place.
Speaker 1: So if it's like, you know, Hawaii and you're going
Speaker 1: to a certain islands, you can read about all the
Speaker 1: cool places that these magazines have written about. Or maybe
Speaker 1: you like a particular celebrity, you can search for that
Speaker 1: celebrities name and see a wide variety of articles written
Speaker 1: about them, things they like, whatever. Right now, Apple saying
Speaker 1: it's not going to change much about Texture right now,
Speaker 1: but I can see a lot more people subscribing because
Speaker 1: think about all the new marketing that Texture is going
Speaker 1: to get in the app Store, and of course the
Speaker 1: ease of subscription with Apple Pay and iTunes, so I
Speaker 1: think that's a good thing, and there's some great magazines
Speaker 1: on there. Personally, I could not keep up my subscription
Speaker 1: because I just found that there was so much stuff
Speaker 1: to read on texture that I would literally do nothing
Speaker 1: else on my iPad. I would literally every free moment
Speaker 1: I had just look at these magazines because there are
Speaker 1: so many of them, and it kept me from doing
Speaker 1: other stuff. But otherwise really really cool offering. All right. Finally, today,
Speaker 1: Phillips Hugh coming out with new outdoor versions of its
Speaker 1: smart light bulbs. So three different types of lights, wall
Speaker 1: mounted luminaires, a new unique spotlight which is called the
Speaker 1: Lily and this can be used as like, you know,
Speaker 1: to highlight things in your garden like flowerbeds, and that's
Speaker 1: going to be a light that changes to sixteen million
Speaker 1: different colors. And then there's the Phillips Hugh Kella, which
Speaker 1: is sort of a path light, and you can also
Speaker 1: use it to sort of just enhance your outdoor space,
Speaker 1: and that also just colors as well. Phillip's Hue lights
Speaker 1: are really cool. They sort of created this entire genre
Speaker 1: of smart color changing light bulbs. You can control them
Speaker 1: with your voice. You can control them on a schedule,
Speaker 1: or you can make routines like I have. Some of
Speaker 1: my lights in my dining room come on and off
Speaker 1: with the sunrise and sunset. So the pricing starts at
Speaker 1: thirty dollars a bulb. But these things can get expensive.
Speaker 1: The pathlights can run one hundred and thirty dollars. Doesn't
Speaker 1: say how many you get for that. It might be
Speaker 1: just one. The spotlights, it's two hundred and eighty dollars
Speaker 1: for a three pack. They will launch in the US
Speaker 1: in July. All right. If you want more information, you
Speaker 1: can go to my website. Rich on tech dot tv.
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