Which Movie Download Site Is Best?

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."

Comments

Not yet good enough for me.

[PrinceAshitaka]

I think this technology is still cannot compete with having the actuall DVD sent to you. I usually on't mind waiting one day.

I use dvdone.com.

I get the DVD the next day before noon if I order by 5pm. (and the movie is not rented out)

I can pay online with wa wire transfer

I pay less than 2 dollars for shipping up to 4 DVDs round trip

I can rent as many DVDs as I want, renting many DVDs does not affect when they ship the DVDs I want. (ahem netflix)

Sorry if this sounds like a plug but it is not, I just want to tell other people what is possible so other companies improve thier services (ahem netflix).

Amazon Unbox

[Danathar]

They Rated Amazon Unbox as high, but OBVIOUSLY they had not tried to uninstall the software. As they would of found out, Amazon's idea of "uninstall" is different from what most people think as they leave services installed and RUNNING on your system.