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"Wild Things" Denise Richards and Neve Campbell $0.60

that site has to be the biggest joke.

4.99 for new releases and your ass has got to sit there to download the damn thing.
 
What is the quality like for these movies? Better/worse than DIVX?

Do they ever expire, or can they technically be watched over and over forever?

I don't know anyone that will download a 600 meg file and then remove it from the harddrive within 30 days (unless to put on CD or DVD)
 
Originally posted by: phillydog
What is the quality like for these movies? Better/worse than DIVX?

Do they ever expire, or can they technically be watched over and over forever?

I don't know anyone that will download a 600 meg file and then remove it from the harddrive within 30 days (unless to put on CD or DVD)
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Originally posted by: huesmann
Rez?
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RTFM

They have a free sample to check it out on their site. I checked it out several months ago. The quality is pretty good.
 
The movies do not stay. You have a few weeks once you download it to watch it, and once you start watching a movie, it is only playable for the next 24 hours, then it expires.

The quality is good. You wouldn't want to be hooking this up to a home theater system or anything, but for display on a computer (or even better for travelling with a laptop), it works quite well.

There are many coupons out there that reduce the price of any of their movies to 99 cents. Go explore and find them.
 
Originally posted by: hx009
Originally posted by: huesmann
Rez?
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RTFM

They have a free sample to check it out on their site. I checked it out several months ago. The quality is pretty good.
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How about you just say you don't know the answer, instead of pointing to a web page that also doesn't tell you the answer?
 
Originally posted by: hx009
Originally posted by: phillydog
What is the quality like for these movies? Better/worse than DIVX?

Do they ever expire, or can they technically be watched over and over forever?

I don't know anyone that will download a 600 meg file and then remove it from the harddrive within 30 days (unless to put on CD or DVD)
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Originally posted by: huesmann
Rez?
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RTFM
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RTFM

Read the Fine Mint?
 
Originally posted by: isekii
that site has to be the biggest joke.

4.99 for new releases and your ass has got to sit there to download the damn thing.
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Or 60c-99c for specials...

Seems good to me. If you have a decent connection it doesn't take very long to dl a full movie, assuming they can serve it up at full speed -- for me, it's definitely more worth it than running down to blockbuster and paying $5 for a DVD I have to remember to return in a few days.

Of course, I'm saying that without having tried this. But don't thread crap, this seems like a hot deal to me. I think I'm going to give it a go with a cheap movie as I can find one, and if it works, i'll be all over this.

edit: it appears they let you stream, as well, after a few minutes of buffering. how come i've never heard of this site before? this is hella better than your neighborhood rental, if it works. i'll post back with my results as they come in...
edit2: download averaged about 300k/sec. Not great, but enough. Not quite realtime though, it seems -- i'll experiment more with a bigger movie later. I don't know if postings here/elsewhere might have overloaded them.
final note: this is way cool. D/Ld Timeline for 99c in about 21 minutes (avg 400k/sec); quality is great.

hot deal
 
Originally posted by: ianbergman
Originally posted by: isekii
that site has to be the biggest joke.

4.99 for new releases and your ass has got to sit there to download the damn thing.
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Or 60c-99c for specials...

Seems good to me. If you have a decent connection it doesn't take very long to dl a full movie, assuming they can serve it up at full speed -- for me, it's definitely more worth it than running down to blockbuster and paying $5 for a DVD I have to remember to return in a few days.

Of course, I'm saying that without having tried this. But don't thread crap, this seems like a hot deal to me. I think I'm going to give it a go with a cheap movie as I can find one, and if it works, i'll be all over this.

edit: it appears they let you stream, as well, after a few minutes of buffering. how come i've never heard of this site before? this is hella better than your neighborhood rental, if it works. i'll post back with my results as they come in...
edit2: download averaged about 300k/sec. Not great, but enough. Not quite realtime though, it seems -- i'll experiment more with a bigger movie later. I don't know if postings here/elsewhere might have overloaded them.
final note: this is way cool. D/Ld Timeline for 99c in about 21 minutes (avg 400k/sec); quality is great.

hot deal
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thanks

i think it's a hot deal. i'd rather pay for stuff that i use than worry about all that BS about who i'm dl'ing from etc.

this is a hot deal. it's great, you can cache a couple of movies (only good for 30 days btw, until you start watching at which point you have 24 hrs to finish). but it is better to have these movies dl'd to laptop when going on the road than carry around dvd's. (especially for me as i have a tablet pc and the dvd-rom is a external piece) besides your battery last longer when you are playing off your HD vs off your DVD.

🙂
 
I didn't like this section of their Terms of Service page...

6. UPGRADES.

a. Downloads. You acknowledge that Movielink and/or its authorized third party providers and affiliates may issue upgraded versions of the Services and Movielink Manager Software required to be downloaded by you from time to time, and may automatically electronically upgrade the version of the Movielink Manager Software that you are using on your computer. You consent to such automatic upgrading, and agree that these Terms of Use (as amended from time to time) along with the Software License Agreement and any amendments thereto will govern all such upgraded versions.
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"Upgraded versions" from authorized third-party providers and affiliates required with automatic upgrading? No thanks. :thumbsdown::frown:
 
If you could keep the movies around this wouldn't be so bad, at .60-.99 it isn't that bad either, but for $4.99 and you only keep it 30 days? blah don't like that price much.
 
Well I paid and downloaded Open Range from them before (there's a coupon to make any movie 99 cents if it's your first purchase), mostly out of curiosity as to whether or not this is actually good in terms of quality...

And to be honest it stinks =(

The quality of the WMV file would be best approximated by the original divx 3.11 encoding movies to be 450MB at 640x480...yeah that's probably a good estimate of the quality. Then you make it really blurry to deblock and voila, Movielink quality.

At any rate they have quite a ways to go if they want impressive quality.

If you're expecting Xvid 1400MB/movie level quality you're nuts, and if you're expecting Xvid 700MB/movie level quality you'll be really really disappointed. Since I haven't really seen anything encoded recently with Xvid that looked quite as crappy as the movielink movie I can't really estimate what MB/movie it'd be but I'm sure it'd be lousy.

WMV is capable of some pretty impressive stuff but it requires absurd levels of bandwidth to do it (the HDTV resolution demos out there are very impressive), and movielink just doesn't give it nearly enough bandwidth to look good.
 
If the question wasn't answered then here it is. They use digital rights management to check the computer id the movie is trying to be played on. If it isn't the one that downloaded it, it won't play. They also use the DRM to check the date (via internet), and if its not in the right time it won't play. This means the pc trying to play it has to be on the internet and if its not (you guessed it) it won't play.

I had a ball with them a couple years ago. They had a free trial where you could watch as many of their non-new releases as you want within a few days.
 
So then, how do you rerip it to divx or mpg etc? Don't think I even care about movies on my PC. I just like to know that it can be done.
Damon
 
Terms of Use

6. UPGRADES.

a. Downloads. You acknowledge that Movielink and/or its authorized third party providers and affiliates may issue upgraded versions of the Services and Movielink Manager Software required to be downloaded by you from time to time, and may automatically electronically upgrade the version of the Movielink Manager Software that you are using on your computer. You consent to such automatic upgrading, and agree that these Terms of Use (as amended from time to time) along with the Software License Agreement and any amendments thereto will govern all such upgraded versions.
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(emphasis added)

I hate when they (e.g. Microsoft & others) do that. :| Otherwise, it sounds like a cool idea, and I may try it anyway.
 
you would have to use some software to record what goes on the screen, then crop the image out of that, then encode that in divx.

not worth the effort.
 
Originally posted by: tk149
Terms of Use

6. UPGRADES.

a. Downloads. You acknowledge that Movielink and/or its authorized third party providers and affiliates may issue upgraded versions of the Services and Movielink Manager Software required to be downloaded by you from time to time, and may automatically electronically upgrade the version of the Movielink Manager Software that you are using on your computer. You consent to such automatic upgrading, and agree that these Terms of Use (as amended from time to time) along with the Software License Agreement and any amendments thereto will govern all such upgraded versions.
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(emphasis added)

I hate when they (e.g. Microsoft & others) do that. :| Otherwise, it sounds like a cool idea, and I may try it anyway.
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I realize I didn't add the emphasis, but... didn't I just point that out? 😕
 
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