movies.monstersandcritics.com— CinemaNow, Inc., an Internet provider of premium on demand videos, launched July 19tth, a beta service that offers DVD content for secure download and burn through its Web site.
Jul 20, 2006View in Crawl 4
"You must use Internet Explorer Version 6 or higher on a PC running Windows 2000 or later in order to use the CinemaNow service. "Over-priced AND MS-Only? Where's the fscking feedback link? I'll wait to see how ITMS handles video DL's. I can tell you though, _this place_ isn't getting a dime from me!
It downloaded ~1.9 GB. This was converted to a 'data.cache' file, 2.96 GB in size. I thought that would be the MPEG-2 version, but when I started the 2nd burn attempt, the application still started "Converting", so I don't know the format of data.cache.
First of all, who goes to the Wal-Mart or any store just to buy a video. Nobody. If you do you need help. With the exception of an Emergency (like a birthday party or Christmas gift you forgot), most people wait til they have other things they have to do or get before buying their movies so the gas isn't an issue. By the way, you still have to buy the blank DVDs too. I personally won't use any download movie service that Charges me more than $10 since I'm doing most of the distribution work and that $10 better be a newly release title. Personally, If I can buy the movie for $5 to $7 dollars at the store it better cost me $3 to $5 dollars with a download service respectively. Yea, Yea I know it cost money to maintain the servers but its still a heck of a lot cheaper than making all them DVDs, Cover Art, DVD cases and then paying someone to store it and ship it.I don't know who companies hire to do their PR and marketing but they must think consumers are stupid. They in for a rude awakening.
Rent a movie on here and you only get it for 24 hours from the moment you watch it? And for that the price is $2.99. Why can't they compete with the rental chains by offering to rent the movie to you for the same period as the rental chains offer? At least make it 2 days. Oh I see that Blockbuster is on their list of investors, so of course they won't do that. No way. Otherwise they'd be competing against Blockbuster. And Blockbuster as an investor won't allow that.And what's with only being able to rent some movies and only being able to buy some movies? Shouldn't that be an option for both? Plus only SOME movies on there if you buy them you can burn them to a DVD. So beware of that.
shortiesJul 20, 2006
I think that is because CinemaNow is owned by Microsoft, but I am not completely sure.
angelpJul 20, 2006
Give them a chance to get clearance for better content. It just debuted this week.
ntropJul 20, 2006
"You must use Internet Explorer Version 6 or higher on a PC running Windows 2000 or later in order to use the CinemaNow service. "Over-priced AND MS-Only? Where's the fscking feedback link? I'll wait to see how ITMS handles video DL's. I can tell you though, _this place_ isn't getting a dime from me!
n808Jul 20, 2006
It downloaded ~1.9 GB. This was converted to a 'data.cache' file, 2.96 GB in size. I thought that would be the MPEG-2 version, but when I started the 2nd burn attempt, the application still started "Converting", so I don't know the format of data.cache.
surfingJul 21, 2006
This doesn't work on my toaster!
dragonopolisJul 21, 2006
First of all, who goes to the Wal-Mart or any store just to buy a video. Nobody. If you do you need help. With the exception of an Emergency (like a birthday party or Christmas gift you forgot), most people wait til they have other things they have to do or get before buying their movies so the gas isn't an issue. By the way, you still have to buy the blank DVDs too. I personally won't use any download movie service that Charges me more than $10 since I'm doing most of the distribution work and that $10 better be a newly release title. Personally, If I can buy the movie for $5 to $7 dollars at the store it better cost me $3 to $5 dollars with a download service respectively. Yea, Yea I know it cost money to maintain the servers but its still a heck of a lot cheaper than making all them DVDs, Cover Art, DVD cases and then paying someone to store it and ship it.I don't know who companies hire to do their PR and marketing but they must think consumers are stupid. They in for a rude awakening.
zonk3rJul 21, 2006
just think of the size of tubes these guys must have to deliver all this commercial content!remember kids, it's not a truck.
Closed AccountJul 21, 2006
Rent a movie on here and you only get it for 24 hours from the moment you watch it? And for that the price is $2.99. Why can't they compete with the rental chains by offering to rent the movie to you for the same period as the rental chains offer? At least make it 2 days. Oh I see that Blockbuster is on their list of investors, so of course they won't do that. No way. Otherwise they'd be competing against Blockbuster. And Blockbuster as an investor won't allow that.And what's with only being able to rent some movies and only being able to buy some movies? Shouldn't that be an option for both? Plus only SOME movies on there if you buy them you can burn them to a DVD. So beware of that.
hallandnashNov 30, 2006
personally I like the hard dvd product, so i'll stick to <a class="user" href="http://www.hidefdvd.com">http://www.hidefdvd.com</a> at this point