Here’s How To Download Movies Online – Am I a Bad Friend?
I recently received an email from a friend asking if she could borrow a DVD of “Godzilla”. I wrote back telling her to quit bugging me and just download it.
Well, I put it more tactfully than that; but I think I threw her off a little at first.
What I meant to tell him is that he didn’t have to go find a DVD; you can find any movie you want if you have an internet connection.
I’ve been getting an increasing number of questions about what the best way to download movies online is and whether there is anywhere on the web with a good selection of films.
First, let me assure you that, yes, there is an enormous selection of movies available online. Not only can my friend find Godzilla, but she can choose from all the latest releases as well as old favorites. In fact, you have more to choose from online than any video store can offer.
Ok, now that that’s out of the way, let’s cover the more important question – Where can I download movies online?
It’s important to say where you shouldn’t go to download movies. Avoid peer-to-peer networks like LimeWire and Kazaa. While these are OK for find music, they are a very poor choice for movies.
When you download movies from these networks, you have a good chance of catching a virus! These networks are unmonitored, so you have no idea what exactly you are downloading.
Two other problem with these types of sites – selection and download speeds.
A movie is a large file to download. When you’re using a shareware program it can easily take over a day or two to finish downloading as the speeds can be terribly slow at times. You also won’t find many of the movies you are looking for. The selection is limited compared to other options you have.
Your next option is to use some type of paid download service. There are different websites that let you download movies for a “per download” fee. You search for a movie, pay a fee for the download (about $10), and are able to have the movie over a secure network at a good download speed.
This isn’t a bad choice, but you can get movies much cheaper than this.
There are membership-based movie download websites which allow you to download unlimited movies for a onetime fee; usually about $30-$50. You can then download all the movies you want, whenever you want.
The nice thing about this service is that you have the ability to download any movie you want simply for paying the one-time membership fee. The selection is massive and the downloads are both fast and guaranteed to be virus-free.
The best of these membership sites will also give you software to burn these movies to DVD so that you aren’t limited to watching them on your computer.
Did my friend find Scarface?
He sure did. And I doubt he’ll ask me to borrow any more DVDs soon!
With an increasing number of people looking to the web for movie downloads, you’ll see the number of brick and mortar video stores declining. Downloading movies, after all, is easy ? you can find all your favorites without even leaving the house!
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