Online Movies Info

Buying movies on the internet cannot be considered as an entirely new concept. Websites have been offering consumers the choice of either downloading or buying movies online for quite some time now. However, in recent months the pace of acceptance from consumers has picked up quite a bit.

Recent Growth:

The reason for this can be attributed to the fact that e-commerce sophistication and technology has stabilized in the last few years. This has made most consumers less resistant to adopting the new concept and the technology of instantly downloading their movies over the internet.

High speed broadband internet connections have enabled the average person to download music videos, tv shows, movies, and more which are of DVD quality.

As a consequence of this numerous websites have started to sprout up all over the internet with the business model of allowing the buying, selling, and trading of videos and movies online. Consumers have the option of either streaming, downloading, or getting DVDs via mail order.

What are the Leading Businesses?

Some of the leading websites in this business that are providing a platform for buying movies online are:

• iTunes Store

iTunes is unique such that it is an application that users download and install on their computers. It is a portal that allows users to organize their digital media, listen to music, and watch videos. It also allows them to browse Apple’s enormous catalog of more than 5 million songs, and several thousand DVD quality movies, and more than 400 Hi-Def movies. Users can buy songs and videos and rent movies as well.

Movies range from $7.99 - $14.99 to buy and anywhere from $.99 for the weekly special to $3.99 for a DVD quality rental to $4.99 for a Hi-Def quality rental. The rental period is 24 hours for the U.S. and 48 hours for some European markets.

iTunes is the most popular music and movie service in the world. Apple was able to gain the support, to the surprise of many, of all the major movie studios, and some significant independent studios for the launch of it’s online movie service. It’s catalog of movies is expected to continue to grow at a rapid pace.

In February of 2008 iTunes became the number one retailer of music both online and brick and mortar surpassing Wal-mart and Amazon.com. Stiff competition from Netflix, Blockbuster, and others (including the major movie studios) may make it difficult for them to achieve the same position in movie distribution. However with the market dominance of the iPod and iPhone their chances of success are very good.

• Netflix

Netflix is known as the mail order King of DVD rental. Realizing that movie downloads over the internet pose a threat to mail order rental Netflix has begun to alter their business model to accommodate the change happening in the market place.

Netflix now offers more than 10,000 movies that can be streamed directly to your PC for viewing. This service is free for Netflix subscribers.

Netflix is also in the process of creating a set top box for movie distribution that is similar in some ways to Apple’s AppleTV.

• Cinema Now

It’s a website which allows consumers to download movies online. It has an extensive collection of movies which can be either rented or downloaded. Recent Hollywood movies can also be easily found for the purpose of buying through this website’s digital library.

The rental period extends only 24 hours whereas movies which have been opted for buying can be downloaded and watched anytime.

For people who are avid movie buffs, they can opt for the highly economical subscription plans costing $29.95 monthly.

• Movielink

This venture is jointly supported by most of the major movie distributors like Sony Pictures, Paramount Pictures and Universal Studios for the purpose of downloading or renting movies. A download costs just 5 bucks.

A huge selection of recent Hollywood movies is available for either renting or downloading making this website a highly popular place amongst ardent movie buffs.

Older movies are even less expensive. They can be bought or rented for as low as 1 dollar.

• Vongo

This website has been recently launched and it works on the basis of subscription plans which cost $9.99 on a monthly basis. This allows you unlimited download of movies online through this website.

Separate charges are associated with TV shows and premium movies but still they can be considered relatively cheap.

Hence, for all the movie buffs out there with a desire of buying movies online, numerous websites are now available for this purpose. These sites offer a variety of options for acquiring movies and extremely reasonable prices.