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

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oh and our local dvd shopclosed a little while ago and have been replaced by vending machine.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