Download Movies Legally
by David
While the focus of Watch Free Movies Online will continue to be watching movies free online, I would be remiss not to include some excellent, robust services which provide tons of quality movie downloads for a small monthly fee or very small per-use fee.
In this section I will review 9 different services. Some of them are strictly online video services while others require the purchase of some kind of set top box, not unlike the kind of set top box many use for digital cable services. All of them require an internet connection, and the higher the bandwidth, the better.
The first reviews are up. I’ve written very thorough and detailed reviews of Amazon Unbox and CinemaNow as well as Netflix. I hope they help you better understand your options. I will also have a review of Vongo up very soon, with the rest to follow in the coming week.
So you can see how the big guns compare to the little guys, I will review both major services such as Apple’s iTunes, Amazon Unbox and Microsoft’s Xbox Live Marketplace and I will review lesser known services such as Vongo and Vudu. I will even throw in a couple very small, independent services I’ve discovered, such as the ambitious but terribly disappointing Watch Direct.
I’m investing quite a bit of time and money in these internet movie download service reviews, so I can’t just make them instantly appear here. I want this to be substantial, useful information for as many people as possible.
In a separate section, I will discuss peer-to-peer networks (often referred to as p2p) and free methods to download movies legally. That will be a tricky discussion as those methods often expose you to copyrighted material, which often isn’t as clear & cut legal as we’d like to believe.
I hope you’ll bookmark my site and return soon as I roll out these reviews. I hope eventually I can help you download movies legally with confidence and satisfaction.
You might also consider services such as Hulu which through contracts with major publishers and networks are starting to provide full-length free television shows and movies without requiring any kind of subscription or payment.
It should be noted that when I began this site this page’s emphasis was to be downloading movies. However, more and more services are moving towards hosting these videos and movies on their servers and streaming them through website portals. For the end user, this isn’t all that different. Some argue that the compression required to stream high quality video over the internet results in poorer visual fidelity. However, the reduced costs of bandwidth for ISPs (internet service providers) and the evolution of streaming video and video compression has made the quality almost a non-issue for end users.