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Movies on Xoom

Already, I was able to use Double twist to get my music off of iTunes and into my Xoom, that was pretty simple, and all is well.
I am going on vacation next Sunday, and I am going to need some movies to watch. Typically on my iPad, I can rent or buy a movie on iTunes and simply watch it.
I need to know the following:
1. Is there anyway to get protected movies off of iTunes and into the Xoom? I would rather not spend 10 hours ripping and burning a few movies.
2. What are my choices for movie download locations? Reliable, and virus free?
3. My experience with the Xoom has been a very positive one to this point, I just need a reliable and hopefully not a time consuming method to buy/rent movies, and/or a method to get movies already purchased from iTunes into the Xoom.
Thank you!!!

I don't know if this is the advice you are lookng for but you can always "barrow" movies from the internet via a torrent or download site like filestube. Although I haven't explored it yet, I believe amazon.com has some kind of video on demand service which would be comparable to iTunes video service I suppose. But until the xoom has flash support even that isn't an option. As far as the "barrowing" method originally mentioned, I wouldn't worry about viruses. The virus would have to be written for the android operating system and I dont think you will encounter that at this stage. This of course only applies if you are going to be downloading directly through three xoom. If you plan to use your PC first then transfer to the xoom, then I guess a little concern might be warranted, as always.
But the android market does have torrent apps, so direct downloads to the xoom is a viable option. Also torrent sites like btjunkie will have reviews/comments to give you an idea whether the file does what it says it should.
Also filestube can be used directly from the xoom. As far as finding good files, generally you want to look for results that have the movie name (or sometimes its abbreviation), the year it was made, "xvid", and that it its already in a watchable format i.e avi,mp4,etc.
These tend to almost always be bonafide files. Hope this helps.
Google really needs to get media support for their devices otherwise they will always border on the line of niche geek devices.

Op, I have been trying to answer your #1 question for many months...please share if you find a way to remove drm from iTunes movies!
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I have used a torrent client on my Nook Color to download a ep of Fringe it played flawless. It was only TV HD on not 720p but looked excellent. I think it took 10 minutes for a 325 Mb file no computer needed at all. I used rock player to play it. I would expect the xoom to have no trouble doing this.

Not sure what format it uses, but the Amazon Video market has an option for downloading for use on portable devices. It does look like you would have to start the process on your computer and then transfer the files to the device, but it might be pretty easy.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/video/ontv/player/ref=atv_getstarted_player

JOHNGAETANO said:
1. Is there anyway to get protected movies off of iTunes and into the Xoom? I would rather not spend 10 hours ripping and burning a few movies.
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Stripping the DRM is something I haven't seen yet, however, on other Android forums, I've seen the program Tunebite mentioned a couple of times.
It basically records the file while it is being played on your computer (similar to what "other" drm removal tools do, but supposedly, it accesses the file differently, enabling it to run faster.
I have no experience with it myself though. I tend to stay away from those kinds of files myself.

It sure seems like there's a golden opportunity here for Amazon to be the Android equivalent of iTunes for purchases of movies, TV shows and music.

droidtacular said:
It sure seems like there's a golden opportunity here for Amazon to be the Android equivalent of iTunes for purchases of movies, TV shows and music.
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Amazon video on demand works right from the XOOM's browser. I haven't been able to copy anything to the actual device from the service, but you can at least stream all your Amazon videos.

Why do they make it soo hard to download movies and video legally? I've had such a hard time with DRM and such, that I've had to resort to other methods to get my media on my portables. I hate this soo much, I have no problem paying for my content, but if it is harder to pay them for it, than it is to "borrow" it, then why oh why would I pay for it? I would also like to see an answer to the OP. /end rant

dvdcatalyst said:
Stripping the DRM is something I haven't seen yet, however, on other Android forums, I've seen the program Tunebite mentioned a couple of times.
It basically records the file while it is being played on your computer (similar to what "other" drm removal tools do, but supposedly, it accesses the file differently, enabling it to run faster.
I have no experience with it myself though. I tend to stay away from those kinds of files myself.
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A tool called requiem will remove the DRM. You're on your own to find it though.

#2 I grab my movies from tehparadox.com I have never dl'ed any viruses from that site. Plus its an active site if theirs a problem with at post ppl will always let you know before you download
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www.imp4movies.com works for me.

Read my post on what u need to know before u buy Xoom
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there's a great program called DVDCatalysts4 that encodes DVD's & Blue Ray's just great.

monkeefied said:
Why do they make it soo hard to download movies and video legally? I've had such a hard time with DRM and such, that I've had to resort to other methods to get my media on my portables. I hate this soo much, I have no problem paying for my content, but if it is harder to pay them for it, than it is to "borrow" it, then why oh why would I pay for it? I would also like to see an answer to the OP. /end rant
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I am not sure, but here in the Netherlands downloading movies is legal. Uploading is not. At this moment usenet is a excellent source especially with Spotnet. Works like a charm after the authorities closed down FTD (database of this program was in the Netherlands, but was no longer considered legal). Spotnet however is new designed and has a database on usenet itself which is impossible to shutdown.
All movies, music, series can be found there in topnotch quality and downloading goes with 12MB (that is MegaByte per second), depending on your internet account ofcourse. We in the Netherlands have a maximum of 120Mbit at this moment.
Not sure if it will also works overseas, but you could give it a try.

Samsung media hub sucks

I went on a trip recently to a location that had limited internet connectivity. I decided to download some movies from the Samsung media hub in advance. Well what do you know when I am finally out of wireless range andI want to watch my movies it won't let me because it wants to connect to the internet. Things like this are why Apple still dominates media heavy devices. If I have paid for a rental I should be able to watch it with or without wireless connectivity for the period that I rented it for.
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cbpagent72 said:
I went on a trip recently to a location that had limited internet connectivity. I decided to download some movies from the Samsung media hub in advance. Well what do you know when I am finally out of wireless range andI want to watch my movies it won't let me because it wants to connect to the internet. Things like this are why Apple still dominates media heavy devices. If I have paid for a rental I should be able to watch it with or without wireless connectivity for the period that I rented it for.
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Wow, how stupid. I just tried it with some TV shows I purchased outright and it needs a signal in order to launch. Once it's launched and you're signed in it allows you to watch what's on your Tab without being connected. But you have to keep it running in the background because if it's closed it'll need a signal again to log you back in. Not really well thought out at all.

You think that's bad......
Samsung Apps won't load without a SIM,
EVEN IF YOU'RE CONNECTED TO WiFi.
Doh!!!

Does Google movies have the same requirements?
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Weird...
I have downloaded (bought) movies and TV episodes.... from the Media hub.... several... and watched them on planes, I travel a lot for work and this kills time for me on the plane.
It as worked great, no issues.
I have not tried a rental though, I am going to tomorrow though, going to download / rent a movie from the hub and see if it will play on the plane ride home tomorrow.
Pj

PjD122170 said:
Weird...
I have downloaded (bought) movies and TV episodes.... from the Media hub.... several... and watched them on planes, I travel a lot for work and this kills time for me on the plane.
It as worked great, no issues.
I have not tried a rental though, I am going to tomorrow though, going to download / rent a movie from the hub and see if it will play on the plane ride home tomorrow.
Pj
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After flying home today I found that the rental will not play when their isn't a internet connection.
I am guessing it wants the internet connection so it can verify you have started watching the video? and lock it down after 24 hours?
Movies and TV episodes worked fine though.
This is on a VZW LTE version if it makes any difference.
Pj

do the google market rentals require an internet connection to start playing?
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cbpagent72 said:
I went on a trip recently to a location that had limited internet connectivity. I decided to download some movies from the Samsung media hub in advance. Well what do you know when I am finally out of wireless range andI want to watch my movies it won't let me because it wants to connect to the internet. Things like this are why Apple still dominates media heavy devices. If I have paid for a rental I should be able to watch it with or without wireless connectivity for the period that I rented it for.
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Ugh. This happened to me too! I stocked up on movies for a 12-hour Santiago, Chile to LAX flight only to find out I couldn't watch them without an internet connection. I love the Tab 10.1 over an iPad but you gotta be kidding me. Who thought of this crap?! I was furious. Apple has similar rules but once you start watching it, the device itself will disable it in 24 hours. WTF were they thinking?

Can I just throw out here that all this complaining (which really shouldn't be on XDA, a developer website) is directed towards the tablet, when in reality the problem is one single crappy software application. There's many, many ways to watch video on the tablet that don't require an internet connection. In fact, I'd venture a guess that there's more ways to watch than with the iPad (gasp!). But here you are complaining and comparing tablets, when in reality you should just spend a second figuring out how to watch your videos without the internet connection. I'm sure the time you spent complaining about it (on a developer website) could have been spent looking for a solution. BTW- if you read the not-so-small print on the media hub page you'd know that you needed an internet connection to watch.

General Rule-of-Thumb:
Any app with "Samsung" preceding it's name, you can assume it's ****!

Offline viewing solution for samsung media hub
cbpagent72 said:
I went on a trip recently to a location that had limited internet connectivity. I decided to download some movies from the Samsung media hub in advance. Well what do you know when I am finally out of wireless range andI want to watch my movies it won't let me because it wants to connect to the internet. Things like this are why Apple still dominates media heavy devices. If I have paid for a rental I should be able to watch it with or without wireless connectivity for the period that I rented it for.
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Hello everyone,
Don't be upset...you can play these movies offline...what you have to do is whenever you download or rent a movie you have to play the movie for at least 1 minute while logged in...This is the time that media hub tranfers the license to play the movie offline to your device. I had this same issue as well..but I read the samsung media hub pdf and those were the instructions to play it offline...I know...ITS BASS Ackwards for media hub to deploy it this way...but that is the way it works for....it works well for me and I now have no issues with rentals or purchases. For your guys convenience I"ve attached the pdf from samsung media hub...hope this helps and happy offline movie watching
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BarryH_GEG said:
Wow, how stupid. I just tried it with some TV shows I purchased outright and it needs a signal in order to launch. Once it's launched and you're signed in it allows you to watch what's on your Tab without being connected. But you have to keep it running in the background because if it's closed it'll need a signal again to log you back in. Not really well thought out at all.
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Hello everyone,
Don't be upset...you can play these movies offline...what you have to do is whenever you download or rent a movie you have to play the movie for at least 1 minute while logged in...This is the time that media hub tranfers the license to play the movie offline to your device. I had this same issue as well..but I read the samsung media hub pdf and those were the instructions to play it offline...I know...ITS BASS Ackwards for media hub to deploy it this way...but that is the way it works for....it works well for me and I now have no issues with rentals or purchases. For your guys convenience I"ve attached the pdf from samsung media hub...hope this helps and happy offline movie watching..file is too large so here is the pdf link(replace the word dot with a period...I'm a new user and xda wouldn't allow me to post a link yet...haven't reached my 10 post:
(wwwdotcspiredotcom/DiscoverCenter/phones-apps/updates/galaxys_media_hub.pdf

[Q] Is it worth to buy Nexus 7 without access to Google's service?

Nexus 7 is just been released in Singapore, and I'm wondering whether it is worth to buy it without access to Google Play Music, Play Movies and Play Books.

Yes... U can still use vpn to make believe ur n7 is in usa or else.... Like this u can download what u want....

w1n4rt0 said:
Nexus 7 is just been released in Singapore, and I'm wondering whether it is worth to buy it without access to Google Play Music, Play Movies and Play Books.
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Yes, the Play Store's apps make it amazing by itself.
Let alone the ability to side-load things anyway, so this doesn't effect you.
Also like the above poster, there are VPN tunnels etc so you can make it think your US.

I've tried VPN in my SGS3,but not sure if they're safe. What vpn do you guys use?
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[Q]Is the Nexus & worth it for me

Is the nexus 7 still worth it for me if i do not subscribe to stream movies, buy books and magazines, purchase songs. I do have my own collections of movies, books, songs on my pc.

I don't buy books or movies or magazines either, yet there hasn't been a day that I haven't used my N7 since the day I got it. It's wonderful.

I don't really watch movies on it but I do read books quite a bit however the thing I do most it browsing the web. I pretty much gave up using my laptop after getting my tablets.

Visa Declined said:
I don't buy books or movies or magazines either, yet there hasn't been a day that I haven't used my N7 since the day I got it. It's wonderful.
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This.
I tried to read a few magazines on mine but they take up a lot of space and its a little annoying to have to zoom into articles all the time. Watching streaming movies on the Nexus is great, constantly having them on there at your disposal is a completely different story. Same thing with music. If you want to do all that, I'd say wait for the 32 GB. The 8 GB is a joke if you want to do all that, I can't attest to the 16 GB.

I'm exactly like you but since I got this, I would say its worth every penny.

I use it primarily as a RSS reader, email reader, and to surf the web. I would say it is worth every penny.

I guess it will depend on what you want or need it for.
I use mine for everything.I have a 16gig and it is loaded with everything I use and it still has over 10gigs free space.I have lots of pictures stored on the device and quite a few songs in a playlist as well.I have lots of tv shows and movies loaded on my computer and it does not take long to stick something on the nexus if I want them on the device.I watch it and then get rid of it.No use carrying it on the device when I have already watched it.I have it all loaded on a stick drive that is always with me so storage is no biggy at all any more.
I use mine for checking email, streaming music to my truck stereo and having maps and gps during the day.When at home I surf the web and watch hbo and other streaming sites with it.I use BS player and can stream all the video stored on my computer as well.I also use it for reading my kindle books with the Amazon app.
I KNOW I get my moneys worth out of my n7 and am just scratching the surface on things I can do with it since it is my first Android device.:laugh:.

Of course it does. With the apps available out there, I'm sure you will find something that can help you with whatever you want to do.
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Visa Declined said:
I don't buy books or movies or magazines either, yet there hasn't been a day that I haven't used my N7 since the day I got it. It's wonderful.
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^^This right here. Same for me. I love this thing. I really had no need for it. I bought it with every intention of returning it. I have 10" tab...have a gs3...have no need for this tab at all...however I love this thing. It is damn near perfect. It was worth every penny. Most places have a return policy, if you are unhappy return it. I couldn't.
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from gs2-to iph5-to iph6-to gs7e

Dear all!
Good evening (at least on my time zone lol )
As title suggests ever since like 2011 i have gone from galaxy s 2 to iphone 5 then iphone 6 and right now on an amazing white s7 edge that has just swept my heart !!
What i need you help is with is re-adapting to the eco-system..
As u can see i was long adapted to apple's ecosystem for buying mostly music..now i transfered via otg from iph6 to my gs7e all the music but my question is..how do i buy stuff now??
i do know that i can buy everything off google's store but that will just leave me with a horrible half assed library on 1 apple account and another half assed library barely started at a google account..
I also know i can just buy subscription and steam like anything for free, but my country charges almost 150euros/month for 2 GB of data pla..and thats a direct rape right there..thats why i buy music from the stores..please help me find a solution..
acceptable solution would even be to buy music off itunes on my desktop pc and somehow just transfer the songs not already on my s7e..
Please for your input! Thank you for welcoming me back to the community and sorry for the wall of text <3

chris2busy said:
Dear all!
Good evening (at least on my time zone lol )
As title suggests ever since like 2011 i have gone from galaxy s 2 to iphone 5 then iphone 6 and right now on an amazing white s7 edge that has just swept my heart !!
What i need you help is with is re-adapting to the eco-system..
As u can see i was long adapted to apple's ecosystem for buying mostly music..now i transfered via otg from iph6 to my gs7e all the music but my question is..how do i buy stuff now??
i do know that i can buy everything off google's store but that will just leave me with a horrible half assed library on 1 apple account and another half assed library barely started at a google account..
I also know i can just buy subscription and steam like anything for free, but my country charges almost 150euros/month for 2 GB of data pla..and thats a direct rape right there..thats why i buy music from the stores..please help me find a solution..
acceptable solution would even be to buy music off itunes on my desktop pc and somehow just transfer the songs not already on my s7e..
Please for your input! Thank you for welcoming me back to the community and sorry for the wall of text <3
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Shhhhhh, tell no one !
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.android.music

lolrenx said:
Shhhhhh, tell no one !
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.android.music
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haha..yea i actually tried that one..but i cannot seem to somehow buy new stuff off it..and also, i cant seem to download and keep the music i already own offline..if i need to use 1GB of monthly data just to hear music while i jog, on my phone for music that i have already bought...yeah, pretty moronic, expensive and battery-health inflicting.

chris2busy said:
haha..yea i actually tried that one..but i cannot seem to somehow buy new stuff off it..and also, i cant seem to download and keep the music i already own offline..if i need to use 1GB of monthly data just to hear music while i jog, on my phone for music that i have already bought...yeah, pretty moronic, expensive and battery-health inflicting.
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You could try transferring your music to Amazon music if you are prime. Or if I remember right google play music can do the same(not sure if you need an abo). And than download the music for offline use.

Google play music allows you to install something on your Mac which allows you to then upload your entire iTunes library into the cloud. From there you can then stream your Google music on Google play music on your Android device. Or you can choose to download that same music onto your phone from the cloud.
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Canadoc said:
Google play music allows you to install something on your Mac which allows you to then upload your entire iTunes library into the cloud. From there you can then stream your Google music on Google play music on your Android device. Or you can choose to download that same music onto your phone from the cloud.
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does this require a paid subscription for google music to be paid and on at all times?

chris2busy said:
does this require a paid subscription for google music to be paid and on at all times?
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Not for music you already own. If you upload your own library you can stream and sync it for free. Paid subscription is for radio streaming and music you don't already own

lolrenx said:
Not for music you already own. If you upload your own library you can stream and sync it for free. Paid subscription is for radio streaming and music you don't already own
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Thanks a million!
This worked marvelously! You are a life saver mate! Thank you!

chris2busy said:
Thanks a million!
This worked marvelously! You are a life saver mate! Thank you!
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No worries buddy! welcome to team s7 edge!