Which Movie Download Site Is Best?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday January 3, 2007 @02:35AM from the still-costs-to-much dept.

mikemuch writes "ExtremeTech has reviews today of five internet movie download and rental services. The services/sites — CinemaNow, MovieFlix, Movielink, Amazon's Unbox, and Starz's Vongo — have various takes on how online feature-length films should be made available over the internet. CinemaNow has the most alternatives: Free, Subscription, Rent, Buy, and Burn to DVD, while the others offer some subset of these choices. Amazon Unbox has the best video quality, using a 2.5Mb/sec bitrate and VC1 encoding, while CinemaNow is the only one that lets you burn DVDs. There are still disadvantages to getting movies this way, but VOD is making headway, as these services show."

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the best movie download site by b4stard · 2007-01-03 02:40 · Score: 5, Funny

Short answer: TPB
Long answer: The Pirate Bay
Re:BT by WhyDoYouWantToKnow · 2007-01-03 04:10 · Score: 2, Funny

Yeah, but getting your movies buy snail mail is so last century. Now days, if you don't get your movies delivered along the interweb's tubes you're just not cool.

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