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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Re:Young whippersnappers!!! by EssTiDee · 2007-01-03 03:02 · Score: -1, Offtopic

While it may get modded "off-topic" in your infinite elderly wisdom, what's your preference for an NNTP reader?
Re:Windows services by Anonymous Coward · 2007-01-03 03:52 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Please learn what quotation marks mean.
Re:USA + Windows only services? by Anonymous Coward · 2007-01-03 03:53 · Score: -1, Offtopic

That's great, I heard Al-Qaeda is looking for a few good men.