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Downloadable movies – Where To Buy or Rent Online?
If you wish to buy downloadable movies on the internet, it is fast and very convenient way to watch the movies as well as own them. There are few ways in which you can buy downloadable movies online:
1) Purchase from websites:
Few websites sell legal copies of movies. Direct2drive is just one example. Full movie download is provided which may cost between $9.95 to $19.Pay no more than 10.00 for your movies. The files of the downloadable movies are in windows media format. Everything that you download can be displayed from your PC and or home entertainment theater. but not in a DVD player.
2) Download from P2P networks:
File sharing P2P networks are designed as Peer-Peer to be a sharing facility between users. Edonkey and Limewire are some good examples. Check the movie files you download for spyware, viruses and malacious content. Most small companies distribute their movies through P2P networks but the possibility of finding a movie currently shown in theatres is rare.
3) Become a member in paid download movie sites:
When you purchase a membership to a paid movie download website, you will be charged just a one time membership fee for the access. You are then allowed to download as many movies as you will. These sites are legal for paid movie downloads. Compared to P2P, these downloaded files are of a much better quality. Movie files are normally cleaned of viruses and spyware.
Your downloaded movies can be viewed on the hardware already mentioned. No matter which method you chose, it is advisable to have a high speed internet connection (cable or DSL) since the file sizes are larger. If you try to download through dial-up, it may take a very long time.
Most of these downloadable movies can be played on the computer or windows media format or Divx format. But if you intend to play them on a DVD player, third party software is required. Due to high technology today, buying and downloading movies have become fast, easy and affords the enjoyment of these inexpensive movies in your comfortable home on your schedule.
New additional services in the movie download business are added regularly. For Mac users, only iTunes will work on Mac platform. For PC users, there are many services including CinemaNow, Guba, Movielink, Amazon Unbox, iTunes etc.
A required pre-requisite for for downloading movies is Internet Explorer Browser, the exception is iTunes and the Amazon Unbox. Read the agreements on each site before downloading movies, be sure that you can burn to DVD or add to more than one computer.
As mentioned earlier, for Mac users, the only choice is iTunes. For Windows users, Guba has the best pricing, CinemaNow offers lower priced burn-to-DVD product and Movielink has a huge collection of movies.
You will have to rent these movies per agreement from 1- 30 days, the exception is iTunes. To rent you would simply press the play button. It is advisable to buy a larger hard disk like a portable hard drive to store many downloadable movies.