• Ultraviolet Movie Library
• Ultraviolet Digital Movies

Again, you can view this media anytime through the Vudu app or in some cases other platforms that support Movies Anywhere or UltraViolet. As with movies, the cost may depend on image quality. Once upon a time, Ultraviolet, a cloud-based storage and digital rights system for movies, looked like the future.With wide support from most of the major studios, it grew from its launch in 2011. Digital movie locker service Ultraviolet has warned it will be shutting down on July 31, with the rise of the competing Movies Anywhere and other movie storage options thought to have prompted the. To download your UltraViolet movies to your iPad, make sure you are using Flixster app version 5.0 or above. Sign into the Flixster or Facebook account linked to UltraViolet, then go to the My Movies tab. Tap on the movie you want to download, then on the purple Download button on the next page.

If you’ve been buying Blu-ray discs over much of the past decade, you’ve likely amassed numerous slips of paper detailing how to grab your UltraViolet digital copy for viewing on your computer or mobile devices. And if you’ve actually created an UltraViolet account and redeemed those codes, you also know that the service will be shutting down on July 31, 2019.

That doesn’t, however, mean you’ll no longer have access to the digital versions of these movies and TV shows. Rather, you just need to create an account to view them through a connected retailer, and there a couple of ways to do that on Apple TV.

The easiest method (and part one to our second method, coming soon) is to connect your UltraViolet account to WalMart’s Vudu service. If you don’t already have a Vudu account, you can set this up at www.vudu.com. Although you can buy and rent content through Vudu, it’s not required, and you don’t need to provide a credit card number when creating your account.

To connect your UltraViolet account and make that content available through Vudu:

1. Click on your account name at the upper right of the Vudu.com website and select “Account Settings.”
2. You’ll see “UltraViolet Library” listed as an option, and should click on the setup button to the right of that.
3. Buried on the next window is an “Already Have UltraViolet?” link. Click that and enter your UltraViolet account information. If you’re like me you’ll first have to recover your password, which you can do directly from the vudu.com site.

And that’s it. You can now download the free Vudu Apple TV app, enter your account information, and access your entire UltraViolet video library right on your Apple TV.

Next, we’ll take a look at how to connect your Vudu and UltraViolet accounts to the Movies Anywhere app, which is also handy for viewing content purchased or rented through additional services such as iTunes and Amazon Prime Video.

Ultraviolet Movie Library

Ultraviolet Digital Movies

Rent a movie on iTunes on your iPad, good luck watching it anywhere else (Apple won’t let you transfer rentals made on an iOS device). Buy a Blu-ray combo pack with a digital copy? You get one digital copy that has an expiration date and is non-transferable. Buy Green Lantern on Amazon’s Video on Demand? You’re very limited on the iPad you can watch it on. But now studios (at least some of them) are going to the cloud in an effort to to make it easier (and more compelling) to buy and rent movie digitally with a new service called Ultraviolet.

About UltraViolet

UltraViolet can store all the movies you’ve bought in the cloud like Apple’s iCloud. After you purchase your first movie, a code will be included. You can enter the UltraViolet site with the code to download your purchased movies to any UltraViolet-supported device, including mobile phones (Android and iOS) and laptops. Now it is backed by big movie studios like Warner Bros., Sony, Fox, Lionsgate, Universal, etc. It seems the movie studios intend to use UltraViolet to switch to purchasing movies instead of renting movies.

How to download UltraViolet movies to iPad

Flixster has recently released an update to its Movies app for iPad and other iOS devices adding support for downloading UltraViolet movies for offline watching. Flixster users can add UltraViolet Digital Copies to their collections using redemption codes included in Blu-Ray or DVDs that they have purchased and will then be able to stream or download those movies to their iPad, iPhone or iPod touch via the new Flixster app.

To download your UltraViolet movies to your iPad, make sure you are using Flixster app version 5.0 or above. Sign into the Flixster or Facebook account linked to UltraViolet, then go to the My Movies tab. Tap on the movie you want to download, then on the purple Download button on the next page. Once the download is complete, you’ll watch it from the Flixster app. Tap on Watch Now, and the app will default to offline viewing.

Please note the following:

1. Movies take up a lot of room on your device, probably a minimum of 500MB. Keep this in mind before downloading.
2. It will take awhile to download the entire movie (an average of 30 minutes to one hour), especially if you are using 3G or a weak wifi connection. Plan accordingly!
3. If you close the app for more than ten minutes, the download will pause.