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Edited September 14, 2021
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I waited several days for someone to post this, but no one did! I figured some folks out there would want to know, so here you go:
Google Play (and likely Amazon, iTunes, Microsoft, and Vudu--sorry, I didn't have time to check all titles) has select 4K Pixar films on sale for $10. This is a great way to spend your Google Rewards survey credits and all these titles are Movies Anywhere (MA) compatible. This sale will likely end on Tuesday night (9/14).
QA note: Deal is expired, all prices have increased, except Coco, which is still $9.99. Please see FP for additional purchase options.
Cars [google.com]
Cars 2 [google.com]
Cars 3 [google.com]
Coco [google.com]
Monsters, Inc. [google.com]
Monster University [google.com]
Ratatouille [google.com]
Soul [google.com]
Up [google.com]
Wall-E [google.com]
$11:
Luca [google.com]
Onward [google.com]
These are $1 more than at Amazon, iTunes, Microsoft Movies, and Vudu, but might be worth the extra if you have some Google survey credit you need to burn. Note: Google doesn't specify whether Onward is 4K but it should be.
Here's a bundle of Onward and Coco in 4K for $17:
Onward/Coco 4K bundle [google.com]
The Tron movies are also on sale for $5 (HD only). There are two other posts that included these titles, but neither mentioned that Google Play has them. Again these are MA and a good way to use survey credits:
Tron [google.com]
Tron: Legacy [google.com]
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I felt like Soul was written for the adults that grew up with Pixar. It has pretty colors for kids to stare at but otherwise it's tackling pretty deep themes that would go over their heads and the emotional beats would be lost on them. For me personally it's a 10/10 but for parents shopping for something for the whole family I'd say look elsewhere, or at least don't be upset if your youngins start poking at your iPad halfway through while you and your spouse are glued to the TV. This and Coco are among my favorite Pixars of all time so I'm not at all in the camp that thinks they peaked with their earlier work.
Keep all your physical receipts! I get asked to take a picture of a receipt at least every few days and you'll get about double the $ for that survey.
If you own and talk to nest devices you'll get constant surveys about, did you recently say this or that. They'll ask what you would say to trigger certain things. These seem to pay well and occur frequently.
Soul was solid, but unspectacular. Def worth a watch, bu didn't have the same emotional oomph that some of their other films do.
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This is me and my wife. So weird. Google hates men....
They really good at making physical things that resemble abstract ideas. Both movies are amazing
Nope, it's the only movie I watched once...it started out great, then got CRAZY...not my cup of tea
Audio Visual quality.
Of these, Cars2, Cars3, and Onward are meh. I have not seen Soul or Luca.
Coco was unexpected awesome.
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Audio Visual quality.
This thread at blu-ray.com has a good mix of subjective and objective (audio and video bitrates) analysis of the various streaming services: https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthr...p?t=3
Even with something as seemingly black-and-white as bitrate, you can't make assumptions about perceived quality. The compression algorithm and decoding hardware can play a huge role in the final outcome. That said, iTunes appears to be at the top of the heap, both in terms of bitrate and people's opinions.
Disney+ has been a mixed bag for me. There are times when the 1080p stream from our Xbox looks better than the 4K version from the Samsung TV app, and both have had audio/video sync issues. We tend to use Vudu because it houses the bulk of our digital library and generally looks and sounds great to my family, but there are a few titles where the quality is noticeably subpar.