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Disney to Make Movies Available Online

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the pay-to-play dept.

musiholic writes "Disney has cut a deal with Movielink to make various Disney (and Disney subsidary) films available for 30-day paid downloads. Users can watch the film an unlimited amount of times before the movie expires. The movies requre Real Player or WMP."

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  1. a new hell by gokubi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ah, a new hell for us parents:

    "IS THE DOWNLOAD DONE YET?"

    "No, 63% to go."

    "IS THE DOWNLOAD DONE YET?"

    "No, 62% to go."

    "IS THE DOWNLOAD DONE YET?"

    "No, 61% to go."

    "IS THE DOWNLOAD DONE YET?"

    "sigh"

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    1. Re:a new hell by Tenebrious1 · · Score: 5, Funny

      {After waiting two hours for the movie to download}

      OK kids! {hits play}
      "Now available from Disney on DVD..."
      {FastForward}
      "Coming soon from Disney Home Theater..."
      {FastForward}
      "Now playing in theaters from the creators of..."
      {FastForward}
      "Walt Disney World presents..."
      "Coming..."{FastForward}"From..."{FastForward}"Now available..."{FastForward}"Kids..."{FastForward}"M aw..."{FastForward}"Angels..."{FastForward}"After. .."{FastForward}
      "Now the Feature Presentation... please wait while your movie downloads..."

      99.99% to go...

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  2. Re:Good by grennis · · Score: 4, Funny
    I don't seen anyone hating disney

    I guess you are new here?

  3. Re:Screen captures? by jared_hanson · · Score: 4, Funny

    I made a LEGO MindStorms robot that would hit "Print Screen" at exactly 29.97 frames per second to do just this. A small utility program I wrote then writes a bitmap of a screen out to a file on disc. A little splicing and encoding, and *ta-da*, a never expiring movie.

    I nearly shot myself when I found out I could pipe the screen to my VCR through S-Video.

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  4. and so on until.... by Hogwash+McFly · · Score: 5, Funny

    "IS THE DOWNLOAD DONE YET?"

    "No, 1% to go."

    "IS THE DOWNLOAD DONE YET?"

    "Yes! You can watch Monsters Inc 2 now!"

    "I DON'T WANT MONSTERS INC ANYMORE I WANNA PLAY PLAYSTATION"

    *twitches, vein in forehead pops*

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  5. Re:Screen captures? by Alton_Brown · · Score: 4, Funny

    Um, you're not a parent are you? ;) Not being able to watch the movie after 30 days is a GOOD thing! Trust me! Added bonus - kids won't be tying up the home theater either! I think *I* know all the lines to Monster's Inc. now :)

  6. This is nothing new... by EverDense · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is nothing new...

    How is this possibly news?

    Disney and ShareReactor have partnered up for quite a few years now.

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