[Q] Purchasing Videos\ Movies - Galaxy Tab 10.1 General

I am looking for a good website to legally purchase digital copies of movies and tv shows to put on my tab. I have had problems getting amazon unbox to work. Thank you in advance.

hrivner said:
I am looking for a good website to legally purchase digital copies of movies and tv shows to put on my tab. I have had problems getting amazon unbox to work. Thank you in advance.
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Apart from optical discs, I've not really heard of any DRM protected video content. No legal website would offer downloadable video without DRM so I think this pretty much rules out legally downloadable videos. Another online streaming service you could try is www.lovefilm.com. It's a UK based company but they may offer a streaming/online package only if you're outside of UK.

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Functionality outside U.S.

Does anyone here have any ideas how it will work for users outside U.S.?
I wonder if it will work at all or if they have a country check in it.
I live in Sweden and thinking of buying one via Borderlinx.com
Considering the Licensing issues I don't know how well it will work with a Swedish IP... you'll probably get that this cannot be viewed in your region on a lot of the movies... But once rooted and such all the other features like e-reading and music playing and browsing would work I assume.... Though since its not out I can only talk in hypotheticals

£120 worth of vouchers on Samsung hub (UK)

Hi there. Had a look at the Samsung hub and when it eventually loaded I clicked the Exclusives tab and discovered I could get voucher codes for 7 digital and Samsung Movies to the tune of £120. I'm in the UK so don't know if it'll work elsewhere.
Just thought I'd pad it on!
Is that through Samsung Apps?
I don't see exclusives anywhere, where do I find them?
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Mujja said:
Is that through Samsung Apps?
I don't see exclusives anywhere, where do I find them?
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http://www.samsung.com/uk/galaxynote/offers.html
Looks UK exclusive though however may be running promos elsewhere
ok i got the text with codes but where to i download the movies ??
DAMIEN123_666 said:
ok i got the text with codes but where to i download the movies ??
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From T&C
Once you have downloaded your voucher code you should then follow the steps below to redeem your voucher at Samsung Movies and 7digital:
a) MOVIE ENTITLEMENT:
Download the Samsung Movies application from Samsung Hub;
Register for Samsung Movies;
Choose rental movies up to the value of £65;
Input voucher code into the Samsung Movies application.
b) MUSIC ENTITLEMENT:
Go to the 7digital store link within Samsung Hub;
Register for 7digital music service;
Choose tracks up to the value of £50;
Enter voucher code to download.
To download the AVG pro security application you should access the Samsung Hub, click on 'Exclusives' and click on the AVG icon to download the application.
The link above doesn't bring up any offers for me. Just a page all about the Note!
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Samsung Hub...
The Samsung Hub is an app that comes with the phone, just like the Social Hub, Readers Hub, etc. Samsung Apps is different.
If you run the Samsung Hub its got cool recommendations for your Note - its how I found Zen Brush, for example.
You have to go to a specific 7Digital subsite (Samsung.7digital.com I think it was, but its in the Samsung Hub details.) For movies, just download Samsung Movies from the app store!
Prozac69 said:
The link above doesn't bring up any offers for me. Just a page all about the Note!
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Odd just clicked it and it shows the note and written on the screen of the note is the offer,obviously follow my other post if you have the phone and want the offers, that page is just an info page on the offer for uk and T&C
Would of been better if it was £120 gift card
thering1975 said:
From T&C
Once you have downloaded your voucher code you should then follow the steps below to redeem your voucher at Samsung Movies and 7digital:
a) MOVIE ENTITLEMENT:
Download the Samsung Movies application from Samsung Hub;
Register for Samsung Movies;
Choose rental movies up to the value of £65;
Input voucher code into the Samsung Movies application.
b) MUSIC ENTITLEMENT:
Go to the 7digital store link within Samsung Hub;
Register for 7digital music service;
Choose tracks up to the value of £50;
Enter voucher code to download.
To download the AVG pro security application you should access the Samsung Hub, click on 'Exclusives' and click on the AVG icon to download the application.
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thankyou mate. ps whats this avg pro addon u added to bottom of message is AV really needed for mobile androids?
DAMIEN123_666 said:
thankyou mate. ps whats this avg pro addon u added to bottom of message is AV really needed for mobile androids?
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No worries, thats included in the free offer apparently, personally never used av on any of my devices, its a personal choice though.
Great! but I only get a take that "special offer".
ajed said:
Great! but I only get a take that "special offer".
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Me too - aren't we lucky !
I got my Note via Amazon.DE - but if you flash it with a UK rom then will it give the £120 vouchers ?? (probably not now that they got my IMEI...
Paul
I might be being totally stupid, but I can't find any app called samsung hub on my phone, just the samsung appstre...
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I might be being totally stupid, but I can't find any app called samsung hub on my phone, just the samsung appstre...
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Get it here, if you can:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.candyspacemedia.samsung.suggests
- Frank
ChodTheWacko said:
Get it here, if you can:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.candyspacemedia.samsung.suggests
- Frank
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Thanks a lot, worked great!!!
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Got my note last night and loving it, now trying to get these vouchers. Have went into samsung hub and got the exclusive bit, asked for my imei number, selected get and then select but the only thing that comming up is some take that app, anyone any idea why not getting the voucher to come up? (am in the uk and gnote came from o2 uk as contract upgrade)
It's a personal choice I guess but this is interesting!
wwwDOTeurodroidDOTcom/2011/11/18/google-man-mobile-anti-virus-sellers-are-scammers/
Incidentally, bought my note on launch day and got £250 of vouchers (£100 Movies £75 Music and £75 Ebooks)...
7digital is a bit annoying as I can only download single tracks as opposed to full albums (means you 'pay' more for a full album).
Samsung movies doesn't have (for my taste) a very good range of films.
But Kobo is excellent and I now have enough books to last me a long time..
Dan
Has anyone had any luck with this. My Note came today, logged onto Samsung Hub, left IMEI and just have a Take That offer.
I seem to remember something similar happening with Samsung and the original Galaxy Tab. You had to register the device and wait 24 hrs.
Hoping this works for me but anyone actually got these without registering?
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Me too - aren't we lucky !
I got my Note via Amazon.DE - but if you flash it with a UK rom then will it give the £120 vouchers ?? (probably not now that they got my IMEI...
Paul
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same here
according to the terms & conditions though:
This promotion is only open to UK residents who are aged 18 or over who purchase a new Samsung Galaxy Note handset in-store at participating UK retailers only during the Promotion Period (a "Promotion Handset")
I ordered it by phone as it wasn't available in-store, bummer. Pity CPW didn't mention that, but they don't seem to have any at the stores right now, only seem to be able to order online or by phone. Or perhaps the offer is only open to SIM-free purchases, mine was an upgrade.
Dave

[Q] Buying Kindle for out-of-state uses

I'll be moving back to an Asian country and I'm afraid I won't be able to carry load of heavy textbooks used for college.
Not all books I have are on Amazon.com, but most of them do and I think I can carry some of them anyway.
But I realize Kindle is only for U.S.
Would I be still able to access and buy contents outside of U.S.?
I plan to buy more books in the future during my stay at foreign country as I continue my study in masters and Ph.D.
And I guess Kindle Fire doesn't have 3G version.. but if 3G version comes out, the free 3G service only applies to U.S.. correct?
Lastly, for those of you that have moved on from hard cover textbook to eBooks.. how did it help you?
Are you able to focus and stay away from the temptations of going on the net, etc?
I've heard nothing of a 3G version. Would be surprised if there was one.
To answer your question: you can buy books, etc. Everything works except streaming movies, but you can bypass that as well.
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Travelling with Nexus 10, accessing US Play Store?

I can't seem to find an answer for this in Google. Was wondering if anyone could help me figure it out.
My mother wants to buy a Nexus 10. She lives in Luxembourg, but spends about 2 months every year visiting us in the US. (She is here now, preparing to buy tablet). She wants to access the US Play Store, both here and at home in Lux. Is this possible? What would we need to do it set it up that way? Is using a US credit card enough or are we going to need some kind of Market Enabler app? VPN/Proxy?
Thanks!
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I can't seem to find an answer for this in Google. Was wondering if anyone could help me figure it out.
My mother wants to buy a Nexus 10. She lives in Luxembourg, but spends about 2 months every year visiting us in the US. (She is here now, preparing to buy tablet). She wants to access the US Play Store, both here and at home in Lux. Is this possible? What would we need to do it set it up that way? Is using a US credit card enough or are we going to need some kind of Market Enabler app? VPN/Proxy?
Which makes me wonder, when I go to visit her in Lux, will I be able to use my Nexus 10 there and access the play store?
Thanks!
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You would be able to access the playstore from most countries. The country would remain the one to which your google account is linked and I guess so will the currency.
For example, google movies weren't available where I live around till a month ago. They wouldn't show up on my play store earlier. However, they would show up on my sister's playstore when she visited from London. In simple terms, she was accessing Playstore UK from New Delhi, India.
In answer to the question about the US playstore regarding your mum's tab, I guess you will have to buy a tablet preferably with a US credit card (though this might be overlooked) and definately register it to a US based gmail account. Be sure to register a credit card on the playstore and google account which works in the US.
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You would be able to access the playstore from most countries. The country would remain the one to which your google account is linked and I guess so will the currency.
For example, google movies weren't available where I live around till a month ago. They wouldn't show up on my play store earlier. However, they would show up on my sister's playstore when she visited from London. In simple terms, she was accessing Playstore UK from New Delhi, India.
In answer to the question about the US playstore regarding your mum's tab, I guess you will have to buy a tablet preferably with a US credit card (though this might be overlooked) and definately register it to a US based gmail account. Be sure to register a credit card on the playstore and google account which works in the US.
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Thank you
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I'm afraid the above answer may be wrong; it certainly is for Google Play Books. I live in the US, have an Android tablet (Asus TF101 running a Jellybean ROM, tested and working fine with Google Play and with numerous purchases in the US), and it was activated and regularly used for well over a year in the US. My Google account to which it is linked has been used regularly in the US for quite a few years. And to top it all off, the account is linked to a credit card issued in the US, by a US credit union.
Despite all of the above, when I went to purchase a book while travelling overseas on a two week vacation recently, the purchase was denied on the grounds that I was not in the US. It may work briefly, I don't know; I'd been overseas for maybe 9-10 days when I tried the purchase.
However, it was utter childs' play to circumvent this. All I had to do was buy VPN access (it so happens I already had it), go in through the VPN to get a US IP address, and hey presto... The Play store let me make the very same book purchase it had just refused me.
So yes, a VPN is the answer. I used WiTopia, which is US$50 annually or US$6 per month.
https://www.witopia.net/products/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1978281
This thread might make clearer which credit card to use. You can read the credit card related part.
As for the reply by the person above me, as he has tried purchasing from google playstore while travelling he might have a better idea about that, though I am sure US playstore, movies, music, books etc would be available to you abroad as UK playstore is for my sister. As per what he says, buying from them might be a problem.
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SacGuru said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1978281
This thread might make clearer which credit card to use. You can read the credit card related part.
As for the reply by the person above me, as he has tried purchasing from google playstore while travelling he might have a better idea about that, though I am sure US playstore, movies, music, books etc would be available to you abroad as UK playstore is for my sister. As per what he says, buying from them might be a problem.
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Oh, yes. They're available abroad, they just don't let you buy (at least some) products.
Thanks again
When I travel led to Canada it showed me the Canadian play store and I could not access the US play store.

[OFFICIAL] Fire TV *UK Thread*

Got a prime membership trial so decided to take up Amazon's offer for the Fire TV @ £49.00 so now just need to wait for it to arrive which is a while to go.
Has anyone else pulled the trigger and brought one of these from the UK store yet?
At £49 it was rude not to Can't wait to get it plumbed in, currently using a WDTV or PS3 for my netflixing and Amazon prime.
Hopefully it will work with usa content with unotelly and or a usa Amazon account will be a bit disappointed if it's uk content or nothing
Ordered -D,
Will try Root, and then either unotelly/VPN to usa to get us content (private owned vpn FAST )
There's some talk of a new currently unrootable firmware version 51.1.2.0
I wonder if the UK ones have this version already installed....
I will post this in here as-well
I decided to send them an email regarding the "region change" of the existing USA Fire TV's,
I asked for my message to be forwarded onto the relevant team involved with the Fire TV for a more appropriate response,
Take of this what you will but they have told me that it will be possible, First you will need to migrate your account, Any purchases made will also transfer, Then once the device has launched in your country, in this case the UK you then need to look out for a firmware update.
They say they will put it up on their help pages.
So that's good news, Sad that it will be a firmware update but not unexpected, Guess I will wait till the time comes and consider my options. At this stage I could not give up my root
Craig
So it looks like then if we have a USA or UK amazon account then it will follow that which is cool as I have 2 accounts on amazon for each country in question.
Saw spotify on the UK amazon page but not on the USA one though??
I have bought one and i have one from US and i am using unblock us snd i have netflix.hulu.nbc sports extra.fox soccer.bein sports. Premier league pass and xbmc all working perfectly. The only reason you would change to UK one is to chsnge the time settings .
alba1978 said:
I have bought one and i have one from US and i am using unblock us snd i have netflix.hulu.nbc sports extra.fox soccer.bein sports. Premier league pass and xbmc all working perfectly. The only reason you would change to UK one is to chsnge the time settings .
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Thats good to know so hopefully it will be the same for the UK variant.
49 pound is a great price, I've got a u.s box sitting here not played with it yet, as I will await UK firmware
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So if u havea us fire tv and live in the UK. How do you get plex on it?
I wonder because i ordered an us version and only want to use plex for the moment.
Can someone enlighten me how i can do that? Need to purchase it (dont know if i can do that with regionlock) ?
Orallready shipped with amazon fire tv?
Thanks in advance for enlightening me
suussi said:
So if u havea us fire tv and live in the UK. How do you get plex on it?
I wonder because i ordered an us version and only want to use plex for the moment.
Can someone enlighten me how i can do that? Need to purchase it (dont know if i can do that with regionlock) ?
Orallready shipped with amazon fire tv?
Thanks in advance for enlightening me
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You have 2 options, you can purchase Plex with your UK Amazon account (I used the voice search to find it) or if you want the latest version of Plex you can download it and side load it onto the Fire TV. The benefit of purchasing the app through Amazon is that you can then access Plex from the top Amazon menu's - if it is side loaded you have go delving into a few sub menus to get to it.
I first side loaded the app, but have since purchased the app.
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You have 2 options, you can purchase Plex with your UK Amazon account (I used the voice search to find it) or if you want the latest version of Plex you can download it and side load it onto the Fire TV. The benefit of purchasing the app through Amazon is that you can then access Plex from the top Amazon menu's - if it is side loaded you have go delving into a few sub menus to get to it.
I first side loaded the app, but have since purchased the app.
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So eventho i have an us firetv i can still login with a foreign amazon account and buy apps? I tought this wouldnt be possible because of regionblock? Thanks for the info appreciate it
alba1978 said:
I have bought one and i have one from US and i am using unblock us snd i have netflix.hulu.nbc sports extra.fox soccer.bein sports. Premier league pass and xbmc all working perfectly. The only reason you would change to UK one is to chsnge the time settings .
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Well, that and to get Amazon Prime (UK) working ....
boxst said:
Well, that and to get Amazon Prime (UK) working ....
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Ok thank you
Is the £49 offer still around? I couldnt find any information on it.
Looking to pick one up to replace the Xbox XBMC box for my Dad. If I ca get it for 49 Ill treat myself to one as well!
Dude360 said:
Is the £49 offer still around? I couldnt find any information on it.
Looking to pick one up to replace the Xbox XBMC box for my Dad. If I ca get it for 49 Ill treat myself to one as well!
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No the offer was only open for a short time and is now closed.I ordered one first day of the offer at £49 it was a stal so much better than my roku 3.
stewiebee said:
No the offer was only open for a short time and is now closed.I ordered one first day of the offer at £49 it was a stal so much better than my roku 3.
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Thats a shame. Oh well.
Im definitely looking at one for me old man though, just for XBMC.
Hoping they get iPlayer integrated for it by release, and of course a rootable FW then Ill jump aboard as well. Cracking piece of kit the more I look at it.
I bought one of these to use xbmc on but now that i see spmc is on the amazon app store i will try that first.From what i've read it is an xbmc fork so addons will work and it can be updated through the amazon store.

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