Downloading and Burning Movies on Your PC
September 4th, 2010Being able to download first-run movies from the internet has been around for almost five years now. What makes the current environment much more attractive than those of past years is the ability to select from a number of specific movie files based on format, age, etc. That is the subject of this article.
While there are a number of movie sites out there most of them that sell a subscription service are not very good alternatives - especially if you want both a mixed bag of movies, music and pay-per-view specials. You will typically get access to only their owned library of several hundred obscure and non-rated movies and music from unknown artists. These are typically subscriptions sites that sell access to the site’s library for a defined time-period usually a year. Most have a monthly subscription fee that is pretty high - for not much.
Nonetheless, there are a couple winners in this category of online movie sites. We believe the hands-down winner is a service called VUZE (vuze.com). We make this recommendation as a current user as well as because of how it stacks up against the competition. First of all, Vuze is a co-op network, wherein you will be downloading - via your high-speed Internet connection - production-quality movie files numbering in the thousands - from a selection of several to several dozen format and size options. Secondly, there is a onetime fee of $40. which allows you to download unlimited movies for a year.
You burn the downloaded movies to DVD so you can play them on your TV or anywhere you have a DVD Player. If you do not have such a drive it is easy - and relatively inexpensive - to add an external drive to your PC. A good external drive with movie-supporting density and clarity will run you about $65 at Best Buy. Once you have downloaded the file - this can take several hours - you will be using the onboard Vuze functions to convert and burn the movies to DVD. The burn time is typically less than 30 minutes. You can then play them anywhere you can connect a DVD Player. You will lose slow-motion and subtitles but it is worth it. We believe that these compromises are more than compensated for by the ability to download - almost free - an unlimited number of top movies - literally thousands!
You should delete downloaded movies after the burn because they are huge. The source of the problem is that they must be downloaded as uncondensed files - unzipped. It does not take long - especially when you are downloading several movies a day - to fill up even the largest hard drive.
Make sure after deleting video or movie files that you run your windows registry software. You can purchase and download a top registry software package that also performs any other registry fix functions needed to complete the Registry Repair.