Protecting Your Collection
In this time of cyber crime, you want to protect your investment of digital movies. I will be focusing this page on the primary retailers that connect with Movies Anywhere. At the time of this post, I am only aware of Google and iTunes are the only two retailers that offer secondary authentication. Technically, Amazon offers a secondary authentication with the use of a pin for digital purchases. I highly recommend you use these security feature provided by Amazon, Google, and iTunes. This provides great protection for your collection and any saved credit card information that you have with the retailer.
I would not advise keeping your credit card information with a online retailer but I understand it's convenience. With that said, I will point out that users have the ability to removed their credit card information from Amazon, FandangoNow, Google, iTunes (provided you are not using Family Sharing), and Microsoft. This is convenient when one of the retailers has a sale and you want to make a quick purchase. You can remove your credit card information from Vudu but this currently requires you to contact their support to have the card removed. This is an annoying process and time consuming.
Just recently, Vudu has brought back gift cards. Under Walmart, you were able to purchase Walmart gift cards and used them in Vudu. Now under Fandango, you are now able to purchase FandangoNow gift cards. This excluded the Fandango gift cards that are for movie theaters. I will be looking into this option as Sam's Club offers FandangoNow digital gift cards at a discount and will allow me to remove my credit card information from Vudu again.
Verify Your Devices
One of the simple ways to verify no one has gotten your login information to your accounts is to verify your devices. There could be old devices that were not properly signed out before getting rid of or could be someone accessing your account that you are not aware of. At the time of this writing, Movies Anywhere has apps to watch your collection but no way to track what devices are connected. Fortunately, Movies Anywhere does not have a way to purchase movies therefore does not have any place to enter and save credit card information.
Amazon is probably one of the most popular retailers. Not only can you save a default credit card but multiple credit cards and shipping addresses. They have a variety of services that you can verify what devices are connect to them. You have to ability to remove any device you don't recognize from any service Amazon offers. They also allow you to name these devices for each service which is helpful when you are keeping track of which devices are using which service. The only issue is that the device names must be unique. As an example, you can call one device for Kindle "My Phone" but you cannot use "My Phone" as a device for Music even if it is the same device. You need to be creative like calling Kindle "My Phone Reading" and Music "My Phone MP3". This will keep the description you need for the device while making it different and more descriptive for the service it is using. You can find your Amazon devices on their website below.
https://www.amazon.com/hz/mycd/digital-console/alldevices
FandangoNow shows you what devices are connected to your account. Unfortunately, their descriptions cannot be edited and are very basic. You do have the ability to remove devices. My example below shows both an iPhone and iPad. FandangoNow lists both at only IOS devices. You can see your FandangoNow devices using the link below.
https://www.fandangonow.com/my-devices
Google does a little better job with their device names getting the information from most devices. You still do not have the ability to rename the devices to something more specific. You can remove devices you don't recognize or no longer use. The site for verifying your Google devices is below.
https://myaccount.google.com/device-activity
iTunes does not offer a website to access your devices. They do include the device list under your Settings - General - Apple ID on your iOS devices as shown below. If you click on the individual device in question, you can remove it from accessing your account.
Microsoft does provide a list of devices that access your account. The devices are descriptive and have additional details when you click on them. You can remove them if they are not recognized or devices you have gotten rid of over the years. You cannot rename them. With Microsoft, there is a very limited types of devices that will be able to access your account.
https://account.microsoft.com/devices/
Vudu is last on my list. Yes, I am OCD and did the list alphabetically. Vudu allows you to rename the devices using your account. By default, it will simply give a description of the device and start appending numbers after it they are similar like Samsung TV and Samsung TV 2. I find it beneficial to label these as they help determine what devices may be old or new.
https://www.vudu.com/content/account/mydevices
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