New Movie Download Pay Service

SailorBob writes " After nearly two years in production, Hollywood-backed Movielink is giving the green light to its online movie rental service. The Web site, a joint project of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal and Warner Bros., will debut Monday with a limited selection of first-run and classic films from the five major motion pictures studios, in a test of the technology to select U.S. residents. Though the film studios have licensed content to other video-on-demand sites, it is the first time they've introduced a service of their own. Of course, just like the new music services, this is also only available to US residents. "

Comments

Don't forget..

[Anonymous Coward]

Be kind - Rewind!

Re:EVERYBODY!!!

[dupper]

Shit, I forgot. I live in Canada.

Horay!!!

[browman]

It's true then, I'm not American... .. that makes me happy

USA only

[selderrr]

Thank you for your interest in Movielink. We want you to take part in the powerful Internet movie rental experience that Movielink delivers, but it is presently unavailable to users outside of the United States.

Europeans not allowed, and it is not slashdotted. This proves that we, europeans, are the major factor in the slashdot effect

Q.E.D.

Re:USA only

[Anonymous Coward]

Nah, it's just that they have all this bandwidth to spare since no-one is shelling out that kind of $$ just to dl a movie that they could have quicker and cheaper at the video rental store. Finally the solution to the /. effect.

1) Build a business model that requires a lot of bandwidth.

2) Charge a larger ammount of $$ for a service that is available offline cheaper.

3) Get site listed on /.

4) Sit back and laugh when the geeks cant bring your website down.

5) cry when you realize that the geeks were the only ones hitting your website anyway.

Re:24 hours to watch it all once downloaded

[blazerw11]

Actually, according to the Wall Street Journal, you have 30 days after downloading the movie to activitate it. Once activitated, you have 24 hours to watch it.

I THOUGHT I lived in the US

[Hero Zzyzzx]

I tried going to Movielink to check it out. Apparently, Massachusetts (or maybe just my hometown of Lynn) has seceded from the union, because it's telling me I don't live in the US.

I've GOT to start paying attention to the Globe!

Re:Whats wrong with my money? -nothing

[TomHoward]

Hey, I don't know what everyone is complaining about.
They have made this service available to every one withing the four corners of the world...
...of couse since they are from the US, four corners of the world means Florida, Maine, Washington and California.

Just tried with NT / IE6

[r_barchetta]

at work and it complained about NT but not IE6.

Someone has probably beaten me to it, but here goes:

1) Start new online movie distribution system
2) Make system difficult, cumbersome and a pain to use
3) ??
4. Profit!

-r

Re:"The Day The Skies Went Black"

[Gruneun]

Of course, this didn't stop the real dyed-in-the-wool, off-shore-operating, parrot-on-the-shoulder, chip-modding, math-prodigy, Trans-Am-On-The-Cinder-Blocks, Complete-and-Total-Social-Outcast Pirates

While it's true I have a parrot, I wouldn't be caught dead in a Trans Am.