It's not DivX because it's streaming, not download.
Getting the studios to agree to a download service is not going to happen any time soon. They're still trying to keep MovieLink afloat, despite the fact that no one uses it.
I don't want to pay for an individual rental, and I don't want to buy a low-res download from ITMS. Ideally, I'd like to be able to download a movie to my iPod, with some type of DRM, as part of a flat-monthly-fee program like Netflix (of course, I'd still want to watch most movies on DVD via mail). The DRM could keep me within the three-at-a-time restriction, and would make the studios happy. But DRM was meant to be cracked, so I don't think it will happen soon.
Starz Ticket is a service for downloading and watching a movie for a monthly service fee. You actually download the movie and then can burn it to a CD and watch on your TV. I was part of the beta on this and it worked great. I would queue up several movies to download when I was asleep. Each movie had an expiration date and would not be usable after that date unless you go back and re-download. Could be one day could be a couple of weeks but you can see when it will expire before you queue for download. The quality was the same as the DVD.
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It's not DivX because it's streaming, not download.
Getting the studios to agree to a download service is not going to happen any time soon. They're still trying to keep MovieLink afloat, despite the fact that no one uses it.
I don't want to pay for an individual rental, and I don't want to buy a low-res download from ITMS. Ideally, I'd like to be able to download a movie to my iPod, with some type of DRM, as part of a flat-monthly-fee program like Netflix (of course, I'd still want to watch most movies on DVD via mail). The DRM could keep me within the three-at-a-time restriction, and would make the studios happy. But DRM was meant to be cracked, so I don't think it will happen soon.
Starz Ticket is a service for downloading and watching a movie for a monthly service fee. You actually download the movie and then can burn it to a CD and watch on your TV. I was part of the beta on this and it worked great. I would queue up several movies to download when I was asleep. Each movie had an expiration date and would not be usable after that date unless you go back and re-download. Could be one day could be a couple of weeks but you can see when it will expire before you queue for download. The quality was the same as the DVD.