Legit Film downloads

Sash · 2 Jun 2009 at 07:54

Anyone know any sites like NetFlix that allow you to buy films and download them?

jr1104 · 2 Jun 2009 at 10:16

Itunes?

Jamesdavid3 · 2 Jun 2009 at 11:06

haha who would ever want to spend money buying then downloading movies..seriously..

stoofa · 2 Jun 2009 at 11:09

Jamesdavid3 said:
haha who would ever want to spend money buying then downloading movies..seriously..

I'm sorry - what are you saying?
I think a large majority of people would like the opportunity to pay say around £4 - £5 for a movie and then be able to download it.
They can burn their own DVD from the download.
So they lose the "pretty packaging" - but they gain the convenience of being able to buy a movie whenever you like.

Of course if you are finding the concept of "buying movies" difficult to understand, maybe you should move along.

EvilOne · 2 Jun 2009 at 11:37

Jamesdavid3 said:
haha who would ever want to spend money buying then downloading movies..seriously..

i would

OnTopic
Dont know any sites that do this, but intrested to know aswell.

Dark_Angel · 2 Jun 2009 at 11:40

stoofa said:
I'm sorry - what are you saying?
I think a large majority of people would like the opportunity to pay say around £4 - £5 for a movie and then be able to download it.
They can burn their own DVD from the download.
So they lose the "pretty packaging" - but they gain the convenience of being able to buy a movie whenever you like.

Of course if you are finding the concept of "buying movies" difficult to understand, maybe you should move along.

Thing is though a lot of movies now are like 3 pounds new (even stuff like the new batman is like 4 pounds down HMV at the moment).

I think I am allowed to mention them?

Shamikebab · 2 Jun 2009 at 12:10

No you aren't

Chronictank · 2 Jun 2009 at 12:11

I would love to know aswell if someone finds a descent site thats competative

Sash · 2 Jun 2009 at 12:18

Jamesdavid3 said:
haha who would ever want to spend money buying then downloading movies..seriously..

Because if the suits come to inspect my computer I can prove I bought them so I dont get slapped with an unlimited fine.

Plus the ones you pay for will be of a decent quality.

Marky · 2 Jun 2009 at 12:41

iTunes is the only one I can think of

Sash · 2 Jun 2009 at 20:28

Ew Apple.

Begbie · 2 Jun 2009 at 22:38

LoveFilm.

Barks · 3 Jun 2009 at 01:30

We desperately need a service where you pay for access to films. Whereby you pay £5 for a film and get unlimited lifetime access/download to it. So at the moment you could download a 720p version of it, but in 10 years time you, for no extra cost, could revisit it and download a 10,720p version of it.

Wossi · 3 Jun 2009 at 09:16

Sash said:
Because if the suits come to inspect my computer I can prove I bought them so I dont get slapped with an unlimited fine.

Plus the ones you pay for will be of a decent quality.

You can't make sweeping generalisations like that. I could download a film illegally that looked better than the DVD version I could buy legally in the shops.

BeeP · 3 Jun 2009 at 10:05

Tried Love film but they have closed the download part just now

Mind you knowing how I read web pages I probably missed a HUGE link saying "DOWNLOAD LEGAL MOVIES HERE"

DampCat · 3 Jun 2009 at 10:14

Wossi said:
You can't make sweeping generalisations like that. I could download a film illegally that looked better than the DVD version I could buy legally in the shops.

Wait, you could download a rip of a DVD that's better quality than it's source? What an interesting concept. What's the science behind this impossibility?

Wossi · 3 Jun 2009 at 11:45

DampCat said:
Wait, you could download a rip of a DVD that's better quality than it's source? What an interesting concept. What's the science behind this impossibility?

Perhaps should have explained myself better. What I meant to say was, I could go out and buy a DVD of (for arguments sake) the 1950's version of The Day The Earth Stood Still or I could download a "blu-ray" rip of it. Since I don't have a blu-ray player buying the actual blu-ray version doesn't come into it.

Plus, you can get dvd rips that are no different quality wise from the actual dvd. It's only the heavily compressed avi versions that are worse quality wise.

DampCat · 3 Jun 2009 at 12:41

Right. I jumped to conlclusions.

Whatever you do, dont download the 2008 The Day The Earth Stood Still and hope for a better quality. Of anything.

Sash · 3 Jun 2009 at 12:53

Wossi said:
You can't make sweeping generalisations like that. I could download a film illegally that looked better than the DVD version I could buy legally in the shops.

People make sweeping generalisations every day.

9 times out of 10 an actual legit copy will be better than a rip.*

*Another sweeping generalisation.

Deep · 3 Jun 2009 at 14:18

DampCat said:
Right. I jumped to conlclusions.

Whatever you do, dont download the 2008 The Day The Earth Stood Still and hope for a better quality. Of anything.

While it was a poo film, the effects were quite good from what i remember!