Movies & TV

The Movies & TV app lets you play the rented or purchased movies and TV shows you've acquired from the Microsoft Store. It's also compatible with a service called Movies Anywhere that allows you to access some of the content that you've purchased from competing video services, including those from Amazon, Apple, Google, and others.
In some English-speaking markets, Movies & Video is called Film & TV.
Movies & TV dates back to Windows 10 and it has not yet been updated to the new Windows 11 look and feel. But it is a simple app and is readily understood. It provides the following major views.

Explore. This view showcases new movies and TV shows, plus movie trailers. That said, you will need to launch the Microsoft Store app if you wish to purchase any content from Microsoft.

Purchased. Here, you will find the movies and TV shows you have purchased (or rented) from Microsoft. This content is tied to your Microsoft account, so you will need to sign in to that account to access your purchases.

If you connect your Microsoft account to the Movies Anywhere service, you will also see movies you've purchased from Amazon Prime Video, Apple iTunes, Google TV, and other compatible services here. This is described later in the chapter.
Personal. This view displays any videos you have on your PC, its removable storage, or the network-attached media servers in your home. These are non-protected videos that you did not acquire from the Microsoft Store.

The Personal view is now deprecated in favor of the new Media Player app, which provides a more sophisticated experience for playing local, non-protected videos. As such, we do not cover the local video functionality in Movies & TV in this book.
Configure Movies & TV
Before getting started with Movies & TV, you should consider configuring a few options. Much of this configuration occurs in the app's settings interface, which is accessible via More options ("...") > Settings.

Some settings worth considering here include:

Download quality. Movies & TV lets you purchase or rent content from the Microsoft Store in SD (standard definition), HD, or UHD (4K) formats. Here, you can choose to pick the download format at purchase time (the default) or select from the available format choices.

Download location. By default, purchased content is downloaded to your Videos folder. You can't choose a different folder, per se, but you can choose to download purchased content to a different drive, if one is available. This configuration occurs in the Settings app, not Movies & TV. Click "Modify your storage settings" to choose a new drive.

Playback. By default, Movies & TV will play videos in a normal app window, and you can switch to a full-screen display manually. But if you would prefer for this full-screen display to be automatic, you can change this option to On.

Account. You can access your Microsoft account, payment options, and order ...