Thursday, August 19, 2010

Movie Downloads Are The Future For Movie Buying

By Joanna Ferrell

Standing around in long lines or getting caught in bad weather is now a thing of the past thanks to the internet. In the past, if you wanted to see a movie, you had to jump in the car and drive to the theater or movie rental store. Today, movie downloads makes it easy to purchase and watch the latest releases from the comfort of your home.

It might be hard to see the value in downloading movies from the internet especially if you have a DVD player or rent movies via pay per view. Here are a few ways renting movies online is a better use of your time and money than getting them from your cable provider or renting them from a video store.

Convenience: Being able to order movies in your home beats wasting gas driving across town to a rental store any day. You are able to order movies anytime you feel like watching one, even at 3 am, and many of the movie download companies online allow you to keep your rental for up to thirty days before your time expires. This means when it's time to return your movie, you won't need to make a mad dash to the rental store to avoid being charged for another day, your access to the downloaded movie will simply expire.

Variety: Cable companies and movie rental stores don't offer nearly the selection you have access to online. You have your choice of literally thousands of movies online, including DVD versions of your favorite television shows, versus the dozen offered by your cable service. Even rental stores are constantly turning over their inventory so you don't know what they have from one day to the next.

Pricing: Renting movies over the internet makes much more financial sense. Not only does it save you time, which we all know is the equivalent to saving money, you'll save gas as well as wear and tear on your vehicle. Additionally, the movies themselves are often cheaper to rent online than they are at a video store and you'll save late fees because, as mentioned earlier, when your time is up, access to the movie simply expires.

Portability: The internet offers one unique benefit that can't be had anywhere else. Movies downloaded from the internet can be put on portable video players giving you the ability to take the movie around town with you to watch whenever you feel like. Long distance travel, riding on the local bus and waiting in long lines are great times to indulge in a little movie watching.

It is important, however, that when downloading movies from an online provider that you choose a company with an impeccable reputation. It is an unfortunate fact that many websites sell bootleg versions of popular movies and you do not want to get in trouble for downloading an illegal copy of a movie.

While movie downloads probably can't be considered the best thing since pre-sliced bread, it is pretty close. You get all the same entertainment benefits of a regular movie in one convenient money saving package. What's not to love about that? - 40726

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