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Movie Downloads Online - What is the best way?

Today, more and more people understand that having a subscription at a video store is simply does not meet their needs. Instead, they turn to online movie downloads to provide them with films they wish to watch.

This happens for several reasons, where the top reasons are dramatically reduced costs, larger title selection and time saving.

Now, there are basically two online downloading models for movies:

One website supplies content to members. Typically, these websites charge a per-movie fee of several dollars (2$--4$ usually). However, some also charge a monthly fee of about 10$.

A website provides membership to a network of users, where each member has several movies on his or hers computer. You can download movies from every person on the network. These sites typically charge a one-time fee of about 35-50$ for registration, and you are never billed again.

The model that gives the best value to the end-user is irrevocably the member-network model. I will therefore elaborate on this model:

After registering, the website provides you with a software to access the network.

The network consists of millions of users just like yourself. Each member of the network has at least several movie files on his computer. Every member can download movies from any other member. This way you have up to millions of users sharing their movies with you. Because of the vast number of members in a network, the quantity of movies can be in the range of dozens of millions.

A good website will provide you with manuals on software installation and operation, as well as high-availability technical support (some sites provide a 24/7 support system).

Most of the movie networks are more than just movie networks - they contain files of virtually any type - music, software, etc. Some sites will charge you extra for access to music directories.

How long does it take to download an entire film?

Most of the time, download will be completed in a matter of hours. The time may vary, as it depends on two factors:

Your download speed. If you have a broadband connection, you'll be able to download much faster than a member with a dial-up modem.

The number of users that have the movie you're downloading, and their upload speed.

In order to bring the download time to a minimum, files are usually split into several relatively small parts, and you can download each part from a different member, so you are far less limited by a specific member's upload speed. Each network has its own algorithms for managing this split-into-files, so the time of download might still be considerably different between every two networks.

So how do you choose the download network that's right for you?

You need to compare:

The cost of the program. make sure that the prices you compare are for the same time period! Often a website would offer a one-year membership as well as a lifetime membership.

The number of users and movies on the network.

Additional features supplied - music, software downloads, games, etc. Music playing software, movie playing software and CD & DVD burning software are also common features.

And finally, one note on cautious shopping: Too many times, innocent customers fall into the clutches of scams to steal credit card numbers and other personal information. For a short review that will help you avoid the most common mistakes (and learn a little about movie download sites in particular), you are welcome to visit this site.

Jonathan Teabing
06 Jan 2007

Jonathan Teabing is a writer for http://ComparingWebsites.com, a website dedicated to researching products & informing the pubilc about alternatives.

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How 3D works In Movies?

Since the 1950s, 3D movies have been brought together by two film projectors that projected images for the left and right eye.

In industry parlance, this is a stereo-scopic image. Think of it as the visual equivalent of stereo sound, with a left and right channel. Audiences had to wear glasses with blue and red lenses that composite the on-screen visuals into a 3D moving image.

Without glasses, everything on-screen would make you feel as if you had severe double vision.

The iWerks Theatre used to operate this way for its 3D screenings in previous years. These days, the 3D movies are likely to be stored on a hard drive, not reels of films. The movies are specially processed, MPEG-encoded digital files that can go up to 1TB (or roughly 1,000GB) in size. Visuals will stay pristine and sharp, no matter how many times the movie has been screened.

GV is using an integrated system that comprises Kodak's JMN3000 Cineserver hardware and software package, Barco's DP1000 digital projector, and Real D Cinema's technology to generate the 3D visuals that audiences can see.

The Kodak system comes with 12TB of networked storage, and can easily hold 12 to 15 digital movies.

The SDC's iWerks Theatre uses a digital cinema server from GDC Technology and a CP3000 projector from Christie, costing $260,000. Each digital projector contains a polarising glass that projects two seperate layers of moving visuals at the same time on the big screen.

Movies are downloaded from sepcially encrypted hard drives supplied by the movie distributors. Both systems operate similarly, using a tuchscreen interface, and offer projection quality in the industry-standard 2K resolution (2,048 by 1,080 pixels), although the movie files may be at a slightly lower resolution of 1,920 by 1,080 pixels per frame.

According to Kodak, 3D digital projection systems today cost just $50,000 more than the typical digital cinema projection systems already in place in some Cathay, Shaw and Eng Wah cinemas.

But the upside is that they do double duty by projecting any digital content - from normal digitised movies to DVDs to high-definition television content.

Billy Teo
Free-lance writer
Singapore
26 Feb 2007

This article is an abstract from Digital Life, The Straits Times, January 9, 2007