Twentieth Century Fox Blu-Ray movie buyers will be able to download an Android compatible digital copy from the website from October, it has been announced.

The download can then be ‘side loaded’ on to the Android phone, in the service which Fox describes as the ‘first of its kind’ in the Financial Times.  Before this, Windows and Apple were the only platforms for legal movie downloads, although Netflix launched an app for some Android phones in May.

The service will be available in the UK, USA, France and Germany.

Vincent Marcais, senior vice-president for marketing at Twentieth Century Fox International Home Entertainment, said to FT: “One thing we didn’t anticipate was that people would be walking around with something called a tablet.

 “But with the connectivity and interactivity [in Blu-ray] we can now use the tablet as a second screen device to complement what is happening as you watch the big screen.”