Movie Download Memberships: Are They Really Worth It?

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by Marc Sandford

Our choices over how we get our movies have increased tremendously with the expansion of services provided by the Internet. We can choose our favorite movie online and then have it delivered by mail. However, we can simply skip the mail delivery and watch the movie immediately online.

There are two basic approaches to doing this. We can get the movie without paying for it by whatever means or pay a fee and use a movie download site. This article will compare the online download memberships, offline video stores, and the ‘free’ online alternatives against each other.

The enormous selection in movies that are available is one clear benefit of a movie download site. From these extensive movie archives, you can download as often and as much as you please. Because of a limited amount of physical space, no offline video store will ever be able to match this.

This means that they are forced to cater to popular tastes. Online memberships can have an extremely varied and extensive movie selection because they aren’t limited by shelving space. If you have your own unique tastes but also enjoy the popular movies, you can get both online.

Finding the exact movie of your choice is a lot easier online than sifting though the shelved products in a video store. Your search for a movie online is made easy with a search box that will search by director, title, actor, or any keyword. In addition lists are provided that categorize movies into different genres.

These lists also group movies by the latest additions, critic picks, popularity, and alphabetically. For some memberships, you can even write your own review and rate a movie. When it comes to judging the pure entertainment value of a movie, nothing beats a user’s review.

Paid download memberships possess very large archives of downloadable movies. Any online movies that are free and legal are almost always in the public domain which means that they are no longer copyrighted. These are the old films of the early 20′th century.

The web sites of the major TV networks have free television shows that are recent and popular. However, only a select few of these series are available and only for a limited time.

Download membership sites offer safety from viruses, worms, spy ware and mal ware. However, you’re playing a game of Russian roulette when downloading movies from ‘free’ sites. You never know what sort of virus or spy ware might have been introduced into your file by someone else if you’re using a file sharing network for your downloads.

In summary, a list of some of the advantages that paid online movie sites enjoy over the ‘free’ online and offline alternatives were presented. The economy, speed, and convenience of getting entertainment directly off the Internet is nothing short of amazing. However, any of the inconveniences of the local video store are greatly overshadowed by the potential risks that ‘free’ downloads pose to your computer.

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