Movielink enables DVD burning, so what?
This post was published 3 years 4 months 7 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.The first major hurdle of making the download of legal movies via the internet more desirable has been reached. Movielink, the online movie rental company, has enable DVD burning of most of their films that your purchase and download.
Although this announcement is huge, when Movielink will launch the service is not very clear and well as how much of their collection will be allowed to be transfered to DVD is yet to be seen.
Frankly The Pirate Bay and DVD Santa which converts DIVX moves to a standard DVD format and burns it seem easier and cheeper then the options Movielink is giving.
What do you use?
Rental from Hollywood Video + DVD Shrink or just my Philips 642. Why convert? There is also a freeware program called AVI2DVD that works well.
worst of all the Movielink website says: “Sorry, but in order to enjoy the Movielink service you must use Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher, which supports certain technologies we utilize for downloading movies. [...] We do not support Mozilla or Netscape. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.”
Um hello, isn’t legality something that we should be mindful of? AFAIK, The Pirate Bay isn’t legal.
All the DVD rental services here in the UK offer free trials, in fact if you join an affiliation service often they’ll pay you to rent movies for the first month. That’s better than waiting years to download an ‘illegal’ movie. It’s a shame that in order to use that movie on anything other than a DVD player you need to break the law. Just shows how useless the law is.
This is a bad idea.
First off, burned DVD’s last no where near as long as professionally pressed DVD’s. So picture in a few years having to rebuy and redownload a movie because you’re burned copy doesn’t play anymore.
Second, how long is it going to take (over today’s internet) to download an entire DVD? Days? What “average” consumer leaves their PC on that long?
Third, what do they do when the customer burns it to a DVD+R (because that’s all their burner supports) and then finds that it won’t play in their DVD player? Are they refunded the money? This doesn’t happen with a professionally pressed DVD.
Fourth, is this just the movie (like a VHS tape) or is it the full DVD with menus, submenus, extras, etc etc. And on that thought, how are they dealing with DVD-9 vs DVD-5 (dual layer vs, single layer). Dual layer discs are still horrifically expensive and it would be cheaper to just buy the full version.
I see this as a good idea, but too late and too many complications