My DVD store has closed...what to do?

[WhiteD3]

Sign of the time I suppose...our local DVD store is no more.

If you are using downloadable movies....who, what, where from, how much?

More importantly, we have a home theatre set up and if we were to download it would have to have the sound format DTS, Dolby HD, etc.

This means (I assume) that I have to download it to a HDD or networked PC and then stream it to the stereo and TV?

I would be grateful for some guidance as I'm feeling too lazy to research all this and would like the avoid the inevitable stress and frustration I usually encounter in sorting this sort of thing out :D

Thanks in advance.

[d@rk51d3]

I use the PS3 on the rare occasion I watch a movie. Movies can be hired or purchased and downloaded (via the PS Store application on the device) to the inbuilt HDD to be played at your leisure. From memory, movie hires can be stored for a week or two, but will self terminate within 48 hours of starting play.

If you have the movies already, they can also be copied to the internal HDD, played from a flashdrive, external HDD or PC. If there are file compatibility issues, you can run through a media sever on the PC, which will convert the movie as it streams to the PS3. Can be done wirelessly, or via LAN cable.

Costs for rentals range from cheap, to standard ($6.00 ish), and will also odten depend on whether you want HD or SD, with SD being a bit cheaper ususally.

[Reads90]

Get an Apple TV and you can rent films off there. It is a little box that sits under your tv

Unit cost about $100. And then set up an iTunes account.
Does lots of other stuff but that depends if you have any other apple stuff.

Ali

[Eevo]

argh me harties.
piratebay has all your needs

[sheerluck]

Or you can join one of the DVD rental by post companies, like Quickflix.

[weeds]

i use apple TV via iTunes, nice and easy for me........we only watch maybe one movie a week so it suit use + i'm a computer numpty so downloading illegally is too much mucking around

[weeds]

oh and our local dvd shopclosed a little while ago and have been replaced by vending machine. we grabbed two for the kids friday night as i didn't have the cable to connect my apple tv to the projector

[Roverlord off road spares]

argh me harties.
piratebay has all your needs
Ah that ship they can never sink. A lot of it is cams from cinema.

[loanrangie]

DVD store ?, drag yourself into the 21st century.

[101RRS]

A vending machine has been set up in my shopping centre - about 1 1/2 times the size of a coke machine - dishes the DVDs out $3.50 a night. You need a credit card to swipe though.

Garry

[WhiteD3]

DVD store ?, drag yourself into the 21st century.

What? You want me to change? :o

[TerryO]

If you have ADSL then you can rent movies through Bigpond. They offer movies in low res or HD for those with differing download speeds.

Cost on average $6 each and they have a wide and varied selection of movies, usually they have on offer about 5 or 6 new movies each week and they have a library of many hundred with old ones dropping off as new ones come on.

[Eevo]

Ah that ship they can never sink. A lot of it is cams from cinema.

It's easy to work out what's a cam and what's a DVD/blurry rip.

[WhiteD3]

Thanks guys but it sounds to me like these online options (other than torrents) are streaming, not download.

Stupid question, but does streaming come with a DTS or HD sound track?

[Roverlord off road spares]

It's easy to work out what's a cam and what's a DVD/blurry rip.
If its a new release then it's usually a TS Cam, , another way you can tell is when the fat lady stands up and her silhouette walks across the bottom of the screen.:o The movie is is dark or you hear some one coughing or sneezing.
We DVDs come out, yes there are some DVDs, that are ripped and converted to other formats.

[Roverlord off road spares]

Thanks guys but it sounds to me like these online options (other than torrents) are streaming, not download.

Stupid question, but does streaming come with a DTS or HD sound track?
Streaming, my son wanted to see a Westcoast match, it wasn't televised, so he found a TV station in the UK that was showing it live, so he streamed it from the UK site, a second or 2 delay and the pic was 8/10

[JamesB71]

I use a mix of apple TV, quickflix (both online streaming and DVD by post), youtube and ABS Iview.

Happy to advise on setting up any of the above. A smart TV and a home wifi network is necessary though..

[rb30gtr]

I run an i7 laptop HP Pavillion with a Radeon graphics card, think it is a HD 7700 or higher.
Run the HDMI straight into the TV.
For audio the TV will have an HDMI out into whatever system you are running.

Download the bluetooth remote for my smart phone on both phone and laptop to operate the media player of choice via the phone on the laptop, I always prefer VLC media player, with codecs.
*Laptop also comes with a small remote, but not enough functions and only works with windows media player.

And I head straight to isouhunt.com (http://www.isouhunt.com) for all my torrent needs, sorry other posters but it really tops piratebay in my opinion.

I have 2 terabytes of movies, and get most of them in high resolution, some not so good, but when your download averages over 80mbps I can select a movie of choice (I always choose DVD rips as a minimum) they take 10-15 minutes and then I can watch it.

I also have a terabyte of TV series, watching Shameless at the moment US version, it is bloody brilliant.

With this setup I get 1080p movies, with HD sound.

*All free. Yes free.