A List Of The Best Movie Download Services We Have Found
Written by Neil Whitney on April 1st, 2010
We’re a wired culture with the ability to satisfy and curiosity, question, or whim at a moment’s notice. Many times multitasking has the inclusion of background music, taking time to social network, or watching your favorite movie while you work. You don’t have to go to the video store anymore to get what you want and even the expense of pay per view is a thing of the past. The internet has democratized what we can do with entertainment and the prices are lower than ever.
The largest and most popular movie service is NetFlix which allows customers to subscribe, for little money, to a service that will deliver movies either to your door or through your computer. It is the quintessential model for on demand service. As more and more families have transformed their living rooms into entertainment oasis’, the internet has come up and met the demand to stay home and have your fun on your own terms.
The technology of video on demand (VOD) can stream in real time through a specific box connected to your television, a digital video recorder (DVR) or your computer. Streaming videos gives the same variability as if you were watching a DVD – you can still fast forward, pause, rewind, jump chapters and frame, etc.
However, as with music file sharing, there are peer to peer network systems that can send large movie files through a bit torrent, basically offering any movie ever made for free. The dangers of this illegal file sharing is the risk of having adware or spyware downloading into your computer, putting your personal information at risk and slowing down the performance of your computer. Finding a legitimate movie downloads site is not difficult and should be used instead of the free sites because of the protection that they offer from viruses.
Apple’s iTunes, Starz’s Vongo, Amazon’s Unbox, CinemaNow and MovieLink are five movie downloading sites that offer an alternative to the behemoth that is NetFlix. If you’re going to watch movies on your video iPod, there is only one choice and that is going through iTunes. The price per download is one of the more expensive services at 12.99 for the first week, 14.99 for new releases, and 9.99 for older titles.
Another downside to iTunes is that there are no free movie selections.
Vongo’s movies are from the Starz library and as such, current blockbusters are not available, but for 9.95 a month there are a large number of rent-only movies available.
Amazon, which has burst forward to corner the downloadable book market with the Kindle device, has made a leap into the movie download business with fair results. The movies you download can work across multiple platforms and devices, unlike the iTunes downloads and the image quality is one of the sharpest available. Rental prices include TV and movies ranging from 1.99 to 3.99 a download.
CinemaNow is one of the best, if not the best, downloading service on the web for the ability to get over 4,000 movies in five different ways including: renting, buying, a subscription service, free, and most impressively the ability to burn the movies you watch onto a DVD. The ability to burn movies makes CinemaNow a cut about the rest.
MovieFlix is one of the cheapest in terms of subscribing at 7.95 a month. The image quality is not the best, and they don’t have the newest movies in stock, but there’s a decent collection of free movies. Whatever your needs and platforms, finding the right movie downloading site is an easy proposition.
Online there is access to a lot of good prices for different rentals and movie downloads. Recent Movie Rental You’ll enjoy the greatest new flicks in addition to the movies your kids know and love. Usually accessing movies online, allows you a better price than if you are to go to the store.
This entry was posted on Thursday, April 1st, 2010 at 7:34 am and is filed under Recreation. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Tags: arts, downloads, entertainment, games, movies, music, Recreation, recreation and sports
O comments at "A List Of The Best Movie Download Services We Have Found"
Comment Now!