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Didn't see this one coming. Go to amazon.com/cloudplayer
To summarize: Amazon did what Google's been planning to do for a while now.
Amazon uploads your music to the cloud and allows you to stream it to any device (logged in, of course) through their player. The first 5GB are free, 20GB is $20 a year, 100GB is $100 etc. From there, you can even choose to download the music to your SD.
Is anyone else as impressed as I am?
I'm also impressed. Never expected this from Amazon since I haven't read any rumors about it unlike with Google's and Apple's service.
The other feature that I believe is awesome is that any Amazon music purchase you make is automatically stored on your cloud account for free (doesn't use up your storage). So you don't really have to worry about backing up the music on multiple drives like you have to with iTunes purchases.
I already use Subsonic, but will probably be using this feature whenever I buy music from them.
Yah that back up is cool wish old purchases were backed up though.
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All that's left now is for Amazon to clean up the music player a bit more. You can tell they put some amount of thought into the design (and took a few cues from the iOS music player) but IMO it could use a little polish.
Still, great work by Amazon. They stepped their game up, again.
This is amazing but it's only usable within the us
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Its a fantastic service. I've filled up my 5gb quota already. If you buy a full album from amazon from now between December 31 you will get 20GB storage for free
You can buy this "album" (1 song for 69 CENTS) and get the 20gigs for a year. I did it.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004SKEEM8/ref=docs-os-doi_0
I have some kind of discount show up on my receipt, so I actually only paid 39 CENTS lol.
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You can buy this "album" (1 song for 69 CENTS) and get the 20gigs for a year. I did it.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004SKEEM8/ref=docs-os-doi_0
I have some kind of discount show up on my receipt, so I actually only paid 39 CENTS lol.
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Worth it. Just barely though, as the fact that it's glee raises the mental cost a little bit
Amazon is currently on a big time lawsuit against the big guys at Hollywood and DMA copywright people, it was all over the news yesterday
if they fall through, then this can backfire as a new weapon/ammo for the DMA people to crack down on MP3 music collections
so, IMO i'll wait until the dust settles before signing up for the account with Amazon
there are plenty of other good ones like mSpot and CX and much more for cloud music streaming
and there are even those you can host in your own home computer, as mentioned in the other topic
... you know... just us typical paranoids about the feds spying on us
Pretty freaking awesome especially if you already have an amazon account. Important to first enable it thru your account and then install or update the app on your phone
http://www.androidcentral.com/amazo...mpaign=Feed:+androidcentral+(Android+Central)
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Also if you purchase 1 mp3 album from them they will automatically upgrade your 5GB to 20GB for free for one year. And songs purchased from them don't count towards your data allotment. I bought an album that was 3.99 and got upgraded instantly.
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As usual Australia gets shafted
im all over this. thanks for the heads up
Yeah this could be pretty cool. I love Pandora, but there are plenty of times I want to control what I listen to. I can fit an "ok" amount of music in the 5GB. Pretty good idea to buy an album for the 20GB. Still will not come close to holding all of my music, but good enough for the road.
I think I'll stick with serving up my own collection with Audio Galaxy. Good find on the one year 20G deal, though.
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As usual Australia gets shafted
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Not Only Australia mate
Thanks for the heads up. 20gb, nice!
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so after I opened up amazon mp3 and looked at the top albums, I noticed there was a cheap one for some glee song, I figured I get it to see it if it would give me the 20gbs. so I picked one my wife would like, and for a $1.39 or whatever it cost for the 1 song album I got the 20gb drive.
yeah I bought the top selling .69 song and got the one year free trial too
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I think I'll stick with serving up my own collection with Audio Galaxy. Good find on the one year 20G deal, though.
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+1 for AudioGalaxy, my (relatively small) music collection is 12 GB, so it won't fit on Amazon's 5 GB free solution. But, there is no need for Amazon Cloud - with AG, I can stream my entire music collection from my computer to any other computer, my phone, my G-Tab, etc. Without having to upload it all to a server. For free! AG rules!
Got this couple of days ago and am loving it
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+1 for AudioGalaxy, my (relatively small) music collection is 12 GB, so it won't fit on Amazon's 5 GB free solution. But, there is no need for Amazon Cloud - with AG, I can stream my entire music collection from my computer to any other computer, my phone, my G-Tab, etc. Without having to upload it all to a server. For free! AG rules!
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But does that mean you have to leave your computer on all the time to use AudioGalaxy?
I'm mainly thinking when I'm traveling this would be good. But then again, why wouldn't I just have an mp3 player with me? I'm mainly thinking of using this as storage ala drop box. Just one more place to store stuff. And maybe my "emergency" playlist.
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But does that mean you have to leave your computer on all the time to use AudioGalaxy?
I'm mainly thinking when I'm traveling this would be good. But then again, why wouldn't I just have an mp3 player with me? I'm mainly thinking of using this as storage ala drop box. Just one more place to store stuff. And maybe my "emergency" playlist.
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Yeah the computer has to be on, that's true, but I leave it on all the time anyway.
Be very careful WHICH mp3 files you upload to this service.
By using it, you have agreed to allow Amazon to inspect, analyze and report to the authorities what music you have.
In other words, unless you bought the music from Amazon, be prepared to prove you own it. In court possibly. That would be federal court, btw.
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Be very careful WHICH mp3 files you upload to this service.
By using it, you have agreed to allow Amazon to inspect, analyze and report to the authorities what music you have.
In other words, unless you bought the music from Amazon, be prepared to prove you own it. In court possibly. That would be federal court, btw.
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Are you just speculating or have you actually heard of someone getting tagged?
yeah they need to inspect it to be able to add the tags and cd cover for the player.
I got Two Nexus 7, then I fly to South America and give one to ma nephew, Ohh Surprise, NO GOOGLE PLAY Outside US.
Neither the Videos and eBooks I Purchased I can Open Outiside the USA.
More, some Apps Just "dissapear" from Launcher.
As soon I connected to a VPN with exit node AT USA, everithing comes back.
I Experienced similar Issues when removing the Simcard at my Previus Galaxy Nexus, but only for new content, no appg got hidden.
THIS IS A SHAME. WE MUST JOINT TO START A CLASS ACTION AGAINST GOOGLE ON THIS, NO MATTER IF WE LOST, AT LEAST EVERY BODY WILL KNOW THAT DISCRIMINATORY POLICY.
I Believe the restriction on certain media outside the US is more having to do with united states copyright laws in other countries or some such. I don't think its a -google- discrimination.
Anyway I am sure its frustrating and I would be a little disappointed as well.
Yeah...good luck with that.
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I think you will find it's a movie company restriction, nothing really to do with Google....
Ask a grown up if you don't understand the difference.
Old news
Sorry to say but the world is bigger then the states. Almost every country has different laws/restrictions ect. Not half of all the options you'll have in the states work in Europe due to above. I'm waiting for the Nexus 7 to be released (in my country) to buy one but I know we will miss a lot of content. Be patient google is working to fix this (I hope).
Even Barnes & Noble require you to have a credit card with a US address before you can buy any books on your Nook.
Sideload EVERYTHING
There is always a workaround.
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Even Barnes & Noble require you to have a credit card with a US address before you can buy any books on your Nook.
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And have fun trying to buy things while you're out of the country. It (the Nook) doesn't even have the decency to tell you that it's not available until after you order and it just doesn't work. Eventually, you see an email pop up on your phone telling you that your money doesn't spend since you aren't in the US.
At least they let you keep (and download) everything you already purchased.
Google is trying to expand, the problem is that everything requires a contract signed with the media rights holders. And those holders are different in every freaking country.
Google isn't restricting your access, they just don't have the legal ability to give you that stuff until all the contracts get signed. Cut them some slack.
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I got Two Nexus 7, then I fly to South America and give one to ma nephew, Ohh Surprise, NO GOOGLE PLAY Outside US.
Neither the Videos and eBooks I Purchased I can Open Outiside the USA.
More, some Apps Just "dissapear" from Launcher.
As soon I connected to a VPN with exit node AT USA, everithing comes back.
I Experienced similar Issues when removing the Simcard at my Previus Galaxy Nexus, but only for new content, no appg got hidden.
THIS IS A SHAME. WE MUST JOINT TO START A CLASS ACTION AGAINST GOOGLE ON THIS, NO MATTER IF WE LOST, AT LEAST EVERY BODY WILL KNOW THAT DISCRIMINATORY POLICY.
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Really? You have no understanding about content licencing do you? Ask iPhone 4 owners how Siri works for them outside the US. Oh right it doesn't for the same reasons.
Mods please lock this thread to stop the idiocracy.
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You either knew of these policies before hand or you didn't do your research before buying. In my opinion ignorance of policy is not at all a valid argument against a content provider. Google didn't force you to buy the product and they didn't force you to keep the product.
It's kind of like me buying peanut butter to use as an adhesive, then building an entire house using peanut butter instead of nails and glue for all material connections. Except the peanut butter would need to have "Not to be used for adhesive properties or as a construction material." But decide to use it anyway and then when my house starts falling apart I go on a derogatory defamation campaign and try to file a lawsuit demanding an injunction which would require Jif Peanut Butter Inc to start using epoxy resin in their peanut butter.
I understand you being frustrated but it's not googles fault and they didn't declare that the product would work in every place on Earth, they made it clear from the start that wasn't the case.
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The problem is that Google disables your content if you go outside the us. Can be really annoying if you purchase and download a lot of content to bring with you when traveling. This is not the case with amazon kindle or iTunes... You have to be pretty stupid to buy content in the play store IMHO, except apps of course.
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The problem is that Google disables your content if you go outside the us. Can be really annoying if you purchase and download a lot of content to bring with you when traveling. This is not the case with amazon kindle or iTunes... You have to be pretty stupid to buy content in the play store IMHO, except apps of course.
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i agree. iOS allows you to at least bring content out of the US. hell... they now have a movie and tv store where i am (manila). amazon kindle books are the same way. we could buy books from abroad and read them anywhere.
did you download the transformers movie offline and it still disappeared when you didnt have a US ip address? still looking for a non root non vpn offline solution for my nexus 7. even just for movies for the meantime as i can still use zinio for my magazines and kindle for my books.
THe world does not revolve around the U.S either. I live in Canada, I'm pretty sure I can confirm my Nexus 7 has full play capabilities.
Sigh. You guys heard of proxy? Try proxydroid. Problem done. Used my GT 10.1 in Brazil without any problems.
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Sigh. You guys heard of proxy? Try proxydroid. Problem done. Used my GT 10.1 in Brazil without any problems.
Sent from my amazing Nexus 7.
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still looking for a non root solution.
i can get google music though. since i was in the US when it started and i was able to register there. i can still access it even when i am not in the US. i can also do vpn on my macbook to buy music. just hoping some similar solution can be had for books magazines and movies.
I'm curious. For example, you 'own' the Transformer movie.
If the entire movie is downloaded to your device (or a book for that matter), vs. streaming, and you enter into a country where there are licensing restrictions on the movie, would it still show as being available or would it disappear?
Has anyone run into this scenario yet? My assumption from the OP's post signified that the content was being streamed and not already downloaded onto the device.
That would be akin to you buying a bunch of movies, TV shows, songs onto your iPhone/iPod, and as you travel around the world and you can only listen to them in 'certain countries'.
Cheers,
Kermee
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I'm curious. For example, you 'own' the Transformer movie.
If the entire movie is downloaded to your device (or a book for that matter), vs. streaming, and you enter into a country where there are licensing restrictions on the movie, would it still show as being available or would it disappear?
Has anyone run into this scenario yet? My assumption from the OP's post signified that the content was being streamed and not already downloaded onto the device.
That would be akin to you buying a bunch of movies, TV shows, songs onto your iPhone/iPod, and as you travel around the world and you can only listen to them in 'certain countries'.
Cheers,
Kermee
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Booted my Nexus 7 via VPN so I can get the credit on signing in. Downloaded the books offline. After I switched VPN off play books and magazines disappeared so I would say yes on those.
Didn't bother trying with the Transformers movie since download was slow and I wanted to play with my toy already.
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I can understand google preventing users from buying content when outside the covered areas but to prevent users from using the content they have purchased just because you connected to a wifi network outside the us is stupid. This makes a Nexus 7 a no no device for travelers. I love my Nexus 7 but not even Apple does this if you travel with your iPad and have books and magazines on your device you can enjoy them anywhere, after all you paid for the content. Google needs to fix this for travelers.
Just hit the UK and Europe and it's pretty awesome, it has a lot of offer and since I usually illegally download my music, I no longer have to (I refuse to use iTunes, I know there are alternatives). This is great news and its about time too. What do my fellow Europeans think? Pricing is also more competitive than I imagined. Good job Google :good:
Note you can't buy anything yet but you can browse and see the pricing.
One other awesome thing to know, the Music Manager is now available on Linux!
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ive had google music for a while now and like the fact i can leave all my music in the cloud and not clog up my n7:good:
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ive had google music for a while now and like the fact i can leave all my music in the cloud and not clog up my n7:good:
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I've been using it for a while, just hadn't had the ability to browse the store and buy stuff.
Single tracks look a bit expensive compared to the cost of the full album but I like the look of the album prices.
Similar artists had some weird suggestions, I eventually had it giving g Mark Owen>Debbie Harry>Victoria Beckham. Still a nice feature even if it did recommend Victoria Beckham.
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Single tracks look a bit expensive compared to the cost of the full album but I like the look of the album prices.
Similar artists had some weird suggestions, I eventually had it giving g Mark Owen>Debbie Harry>Victoria Beckham. Still a nice feature even if it did recommend Victoria Beckham.
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I've been comparing Play Music to iTunes and Googles offering is much cheaper.
Single tracks on both iTunes and Play Music average at about £0.79 to £0.99 with the occasional iTunes song dipping to to £0.59 and peaking at £1.89. This is from what I've seen so far. Play Music is a lot more consistent.
Albums seem to be cheaper on Google Play, most of the albums I have checked seem to be about £1 to £2 cheaper. That's a huge saving if you by a lot of music. I anticipate to spend at least a hundred quid over the next week, buying all the music I pirated.
Wasn't play music supposed to release in Canada as well as Europe?
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Google said Canada and Australia are coming later this year or early 2013.
I like it. Prices are ok, and encourage album sales, and play store is nice to browse.
Was expecting it it be 'meh'. May have to get Floyd dsom first as is just rude to buy anything else before it.
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Have you compared to Amazon MP3? For the sort of music I buy amazon is consistently cheaper and offers the same cloud playback functionality and tune matching (although you have to pay £20 a year for a lot of tune matching).
Another potential benefit of buying from Amazon is you can download the tracks, then upload them to Google Music and enjoy the (more reliable) cloud streaming
Yay finally they release it to the UK.
With regards to your Amazon questions, Amazon sells tracks cheaper however buying the whole album is usually about £0.50 - £1.00 cheaper from Play Music.
I think it does depend on the sort of thing you buy, every album I looked at was cheaper on amazon also but I guess we might have different tastes!
Worth shopping around either way, they both support matching music so can just upload to your cloud streamer of choice.
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I think it does depend on the sort of thing you buy, every album I looked at was cheaper on amazon also but I guess we might have different tastes!
Worth shopping around either way, they both support matching music so can just upload to your cloud streamer of choice.
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Yes and I think a price matching script would be in order from someone.
I have a problem with the new UK service, suspect its down to my account being previously activating via proxy to allow me to access my music account and upload music for streaming some months before the service went live here in the UK. I cannot now purchase anything from the site, it takes me from the UK site in £GBP to the US site to complete the transaction in US$ and then won't accept my UK credit card or UK activated Google Wallet balance.
I've contacted Google support and their answer today is that "I must be a US customer to buy music..." clearly the support agent doesn't know his arse from his elbow
Anyone else got this issue and worked out how to solve it? I've got over 5000 tracks uploaded and so would not want to lose them if I had to create a new account.
Would also add... I'm not getting the 'music match' service... music is still being uploaded track by track (music manager version 1.0.51.1573)... only 17k tracks to go to my limit!!
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Google Music Explorer is simply amazing, and a game changer. Apple fanboys look on in disappointment when I showed them it at work...
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I cannot now purchase anything from the site, it takes me from the UK site in £GBP to the US site to complete the transaction in US$ and then won't accept my UK credit card or UK activated Google Wallet balance.
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OK so I fixed this - turns out my US credit card had been changed to default somehow?
Still not seeing the 'Music Match' service - has anyone got this working?
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Been looking for that.. a lot of the mp3s I have are a bit ropey and music match is ideal for sprucing them up. I can only find the standard upload service.
Is anyone else having issues launching the Music Manager app on OSX? It doesn't do anything...
South America??
Is there any way to properly cast Hulu without a Hulu Plus account?
I'm rather unexperienced when it comes to both Hulu and the Chromecast. I have a free Hulu account without Hulu Plus.
On the Play Store, I could only find a HuluPlus app and a japanese Hulu app, so I'm assuming there is no regular American Hulu app for the free content.
The Hulu Plus app wouldn't let me log in with my free account, so casting from my phone or tablet seems to be a no-go.
Casting from Chrome on PC is a pain, as you can't use your PC while casting in full screen, or it will revert to a regular window again.
Using a trick from Lifehacker to use the Pop out player to cast full screen isn't satisfactory, as it comes with black bars on all four sides of the screen and is terribly slow.
Is there no way to cast regular Hulu to the Chromecast? Another Hulu app I am unaware of or maybe a third party app?
Nope no way to do it without a Hulu Plus account from a phone or tablet.
I personally find Hulu Plus worth it.. Yes you still get ads but they are greatly diminished and the amount of content it opens up is a good value for what I'm interested in.
On the pc, can't you alt+tab out of the stream? It works with other players
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I do regular Hulu through PlayOn and Avia to CC. Looks pretty good and supports subtitles.
So you use Playon as a DLNA server playing Hulu, and then Avia to cast the DLNA stream to the Chromecast?
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So you use Playon as a DLNA server playing Hulu, and then Avia to cast the DLNA stream to the Chromecast?
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Yes, works pretty well except for the common problem with PlayOn that you can't easily forward/reverse video. Pause works fine though. Another advantage of PlayOn is that it uses VLC player so can play basically any local video format.
All the PlayOn channels give CC the closest thing to a Roku experience to this point.
So if I understand correctly, you can watch all kinds of things through playon, but playon requires a paid subscription, right?
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Yes.. I want you to be very very aware of PlayOn.. They are a incredibly corrupt company.
Absolutely DO NOT PURCHASE the lifetime subscription. You'll never find a EULA or ToS agreement on PlayOn's site. They have changed the lifetime plan more than twice and left users in the dust. I'm one of them.
I paid for a lifetime subscription to Hulu and whatever was in PlayOn at the time and none of that is included any longer.
If you must deal with this company, the yearly sub is the best run for the money. I have a counter-press release ready when this company releases their ChromeCast plugin to warn people of this, but I figure that of you are interested in this option, you should know about this corruption.
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Yes.. I want you to be very very aware of PlayOn.. They are a incredibly corrupt company.
Absolutely DO NOT PURCHASE the lifetime subscription. You'll never find a EULA or ToS agreement on PlayOn's site. They have changed the lifetime plan more than twice and left users in the dust. I'm one of them.
I paid for a lifetime subscription to Hulu and whatever was in PlayOn at the time and none of that is included any longer.
If you must deal with this company, the yearly sub is the best run for the money. I have a counter-press release ready when this company releases their ChromeCast plugin to warn people of this, but I figure that of you are interested in this option, you should know about this corruption.
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I won't even purchase a yearly account if that is the way they do business....not worth it to me
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Yes.. I want you to be very very aware of PlayOn.. They are a incredibly corrupt company.
Absolutely DO NOT PURCHASE the lifetime subscription. You'll never find a EULA or ToS agreement on PlayOn's site. They have changed the lifetime plan more than twice and left users in the dust. I'm one of them.
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I've only tested PlayOn briefly a few years ago, and it didn't work with my Samsung Blu-Ray player at the time, so I didn't pay for it. But I've since mentioned it to a few other people who use it now, and I've never heard about this.
So tell us more. What exactly is the problem with their lifetime subscription? What are the two times they left users behind? Are you referring to when they switched from a one-time purchase to a subscription model in 2010? And when they added the PlayLater PVR feature that wasn't included in the basic subscription?
The lifetime subs were changed when PlayOn went to HD and when they went to the subscription model.
The way they rolled it out to users is by a lifetime sub and you'll be fine, one month later they left all in the dust. I'm not even sure what PlayOn basic does, but it sure doesn't do hulu.
When they left the users behind for HD, I can imagine it went the same way.
Very very corrupt company when you bait and switch your customers in a regular basis
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