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Little Laura
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 Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 4:01 am Post subject: pay for movies one time online? (pay per view) |
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| Does anyone know of a place where I can do this? For years I have been wishing for such a service that would work here. I don't watch movies enough to warrant buying a subscription to a monthly service, if there is one that would be downloadable (graboid?). I'd be willing to pay $5 for a movie I want to watch right now!!! I tried downloading it at PirateBay but after 20 hours of downloading, I finally have it...and there's no sound. Needless to say, I am frustrated. |
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chungbukdo
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| Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 4:42 am Post subject: |
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Netflix is pretty cheap. A single month is about the cost for a couple to go to the theatre together.
You can download a lot of stuff on iTunes. You can use it forever though.
I wouldn't resort to stealing something by pirating just because I couldn't find the ideal product I demanded companies give to me. |
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cadurling
Joined: 16 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 4:52 am Post subject: |
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| Netflix + vpn = More $ than what you are saying. Anyways torrents are great just look for private trackers. Google "private torrent trackers" if you can't find a good one from there then get netflix + a vpn. Also use utorrent as your client. |
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chungbukdo
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| Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 4:58 am Post subject: |
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Yeah theft is always cheaper than paying someone for providing the service they worked to create for you.
Netflix is $7.99 (cost of one movie ticket). There are good VPN's for slightly less than that same price. Therefore you can get Netflix and VPN for about the same cost as going to the movie for two, not including snacks and parking. |
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Little Laura
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| Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 5:27 am Post subject: |
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I just called Netflix, and the nice lady told me this service isn't available internationally (obviously, not the mailing of the dvd's, but what I was asking about is the downloading of movies.)
She also suggested looking into itunes, but when I tried, all I could find was music.
Oh...ok, I see...I didn't know what a vpn is, just looked it up. Sigh. Why can't this be easy. I would pay for easy. |
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sadguy
Joined: 13 Feb 2011
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| Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 5:51 am Post subject: |
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| itunes has movies. click on the movies link. you can even rent movies for cheaper on itunes. |
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ZeroCool
Joined: 13 Jul 2010
Location: Seoul, Gang Nam, Sinsa Dong
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| Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 8:17 am Post subject: |
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www.torrentz.eu
make sure you choose the torrent with lots of seeders! After u search on pirate bay make sure to hit the SE so the most amount of seeders are on top
Goo luck! |
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crossmr
Joined: 22 Nov 2008
Location: Hwayangdong, Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 3:07 pm Post subject: |
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| I can't say as that I've ever had much trouble with The Pirate bay. If you have no sound, it's likely a codec problem and you should head over to http://www.free-codecs.com/ and install the xp codec pack or k-lite codec pack on the left. |
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Little Laura
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| Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you to all. Very helpful. Crossmr, Would you know if the XPCodec pack will work on Vista?
Sadguy, there is no movie link visible when I go to itunes. I read everything on the homepage there, even the finest little grey print. Are you located in the States? I'm wondering if it's blocked out for folks overseas.
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crossmr
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| Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Thank you to all. Very helpful. Crossmr, Would you know if the XPCodec pack will work on Vista? |
Yeah, it's just called the XP codec pack. |
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Little Laura
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| Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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Each of you rock. Follow-up:
Following Crossmr's lead, I looked into a codec-pack at the site he kindly gave the link to, read some reviews, found someone's old comment somewhere that all you need is DivX, xvid (no idea what that is) and AC3. Simple strikes a chord with me as I am loathe to slow my machine down with anything extra I don't need. I downloaded the AC3 audio decoder from the free-codecs.com site, easy, and voila, my downloaded movie IS NOW PLAYING (with audio)!!! WHOOO HEEE.
And I learned about searching for highest seeding from Zero cool.
Really, really, thank you. |
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Little Laura
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| Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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P.S. To Chungbukdo and anyone else interested in the bigger points here:
I actually would prefer not to steal and respect the right of those who put work into these movies to be compensated. In my thinking, I am a victim of the system. If the movie industry and the international community would get their acts together and work something out so the movies would be available at a fee, I would pay it. My local video/dvd store has very limited titles, so at this point, pirate bay is my only option. I hope they are working on this!
This is not meant at all as a condemnation against those who pirate with free consciences. It is simply offered as a discussion point. |
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sadguy
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| Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Little Laura wrote: |
Thank you to all. Very helpful. Crossmr, Would you know if the XPCodec pack will work on Vista?
Sadguy, there is no movie link visible when I go to itunes. I read everything on the homepage there, even the finest little grey print. Are you located in the States? I'm wondering if it's blocked out for folks overseas. |
ah yes. if your itunes account is connected with your korean bank card then you can't access movies. (i'm assuming you're american) if you use your american bank card it will allow you to access the american itunes store which has loads of movies to buy and rent. |
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crossmr
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| Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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Each of you rock. Follow-up:
Following Crossmr's lead, I looked into a codec-pack at the site he kindly gave the link to, read some reviews, found someone's old comment somewhere that all you need is DivX, xvid (no idea what that is) and AC3. Simple strikes a chord with me as I am loathe to slow my machine down with anything extra I don't need. I downloaded the AC3 audio decoder from the free-codecs.com site, easy, and voila, my downloaded movie IS NOW PLAYING (with audio)!!! WHOOO HEEE.
And I learned about searching for highest seeding from Zero cool.
Really, really, thank you. |
I've never found these codec packs to ever slow down my machine. I wouldn't really worry about that at all. |
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Little Laura
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| Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Ok, good to know. I may need it yet if I run into more trouble. |
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