In February 2018, the Flixster website was no longer functioning and directed users to. They were also directed to continue watching videos and redeeming digital codes via Vudu. Starting in late January 2018, visitors to were encouraged to download the Flixster app or were redirected to. On December 22, 2017, the company sent an email to customers saying that it would cease all operations in the U.S. On August 28, 2017, Flixster shut down its digital redemption and streaming video service and directed customers to use Vudu. In February 2016, Fandango acquired Flixster and began migrating Flixster Video users to its competing service called FandangoNow, closing the Flixster Video service. On February 17, 2016, Flixster, including Rotten Tomatoes, was acquired by Fandango. It was also the former parent company of Rotten Tomatoes from January 2010 to February 17, 2016. It was originally based in San Francisco, California and was founded by Joe Greenstein and Saran Chari on January 20, 2006. The formerly independent site, allows users to view movie trailers as well as learn about new and upcoming movies at the box office. And all I’m offered is a link to customer services, where the onus is on me to follow this up, else come December, that would have been that.Flixster is an American social-networking movie website for discovering new movies, learning about movies, and meeting others with similar tastes in movies, currently owned by parent company Fandango. Rather, they’ve worked hard, but a dozen films that I’ve legally bought aren’t mine to watch anymore. No ‘you’ve lost access to this film, can we offer you another instead’. We have worked hard to ensure that as many Flixster Video titles as possible are available for migration, but unfortunately a relatively small number of titles will not be available. “ There are several possible reasons for this, including licensing issues with the applicable content provider, the expiration of certain content rights, and that Google Play does not support television content in certain countries. “There may be instances where a video in your Flixster Video collection is listed as unavailable for migration to Google Play. Rather, I’m directed to a help page that reads: No individual explanation is offered as to why they won’t transfer. UPDATE: Here’s every legally bought title we know of so far that Flixster UK users are about to lose. These include Rebel Without A Cause, the first three Mad Max films, Hidden Figures and the recent A Star Is Born. On my list of 148 films, there are 12 listed that aren’t supported, which hardly feels like ‘the vast majority’ transferring to me. If you look next to your list of films, you get an indicator as to whether a film will transfer to Google or not. If you have 200 films to transfer, you’re going to activate them on Google Play individually and in turn.Īnd beware: there’s a sting and a half in the tail. It’s only a couple of button presses per movie, but the onus is very much on you to do this. The vast majority of titles will migrate to Google Play, but you have to transfer them one by one yourself. What’s more, you can start transferring movies now. ![]() At said site, that you can read here, it’s confirmed that the service will shut down on December 18 th 2019. It’s uploaded a website that details just how to go about it. ![]() Our full feature on all of this can be found here.įlixster had announced that users’ collections would migrate to Google Play, and we’ve finally got some proper progress there. Would they still be able to access their movie libraries? Which left users of the service in limbo. Then came the news that Flixster UK was shutting up shop too. The only service that was left supporting UltraViolet in the UK was Flixster Video, and as such, that’s been the only place people could view their films. Earlier this year, the announcement was made that the UltraViolet digital movies locker service was ceasing operation.
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