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earonesty
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Movielink works perfectly fine for rentals
I've been a happy movielink user for years. I'd never buy anything. But if you're on the road, and you want to rent a movie without have to pick it up or return it - it works great.
The idea of downloading to buy seems rediculous, since professional DVD imaging is always going to be better than some weird digital-rights-managed hack. If you're buying, just buy the real thing. | |
aloysius99
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| reply to amungus
Movielink is a Hoax
I've been registered on Movielink for years now, and every indication I can see is that it is explicitly designed to fail. Either because the movie people fear it and don't want it to work, or possibly so they can use it as an excuse to whine that 'legal downloads' dont work due to piracy. Its so obvious that with a few tweaks it could be useful, but as of now it is so crippled it's just a sham. | |
Jason Levine
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| reply to amungus
Re: silly
Not only a DVD that won't work in a DVD player, but one that takes almost 5 hours to download (versus a 20 minute trip to Best Buy or another local store) and is as expensive (if not more so) than a normal DVD. Out of sheer curiosity, I priced the Brokeback Mountain DVD on Amazon and Best Buy. Amazon had it for under $17. Best Buy for $20. The article stated that MovieLink had it on sale for $20, down from $30!
In addition, the article doesn't state whether any extras came with the movie. I'm guessing not since MovieLink's site doesn't seem to mention extras at all.
A quick look at their website also reveals that some movies are limited to use on one PC. So I guess you're out of luck if your PC bombs out.
So basically they want you to pay more for something that takes 5 hours to get, doesn't play in your standard DVD player, and doesn't include the extras that a normal DVD would. Sorry, but that's just not too tempting to me.
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amungus
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| what's the point in the dvd that won't work in a player?
I have vongo, and they did a survey where they asked if you'd be willing to buy a downloadable dvd, for I think it was $16 or so... I said no thanks. the rest of the service is ok, it works as advertised. Quality issues aside, it's easy enough to use and all.
Agreed that until the services can do what itunes did for music, that the movie services need lots of work. I prefer the subscription model where you can just pick what you want and not have to worry about wasting tons of money each month on films that might not even be that good. They need to improve the quality to match what the divx people have already been doing for years, ie, good resolution, smooth framerate (I consider this very important) and decent audio to go with it.
DRM is a whole 'nuther thing too, I don't mind what Vongo does, but it'd be much nicer to just watch the darn thing in media player/whatever else becaust their player needs work. mouse doesn't disappear, no playlist, no options for brightness/contrast etc, and yet it's based off of media player???
If they sold downloadable, and burnable, dvd iso's (with some form of easy burn process for people who don't know what to do with an iso...) for $5-8 people would eat it up. Maybe limit number of copies/times you can burn it, but leave the choice up to the buyer, go ahead and put on the (mostly useless and annoying) macrovision, go ahead and limit number of pc's etc, but make it easy and convenient.
Why haven't any of these services grasped what the music industry seems to have at least sort of got right? | |
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