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Downloading Films I will list links here for any sites I find that offer film downloads, either paid for or free (as some archive titles appear to be). Please drop me a line if there is a site that I have not listed. This page is only for legitimate download sites, so no links to illegal bit torrent etc sites please. The good folks at LOVEFiLM have a growing library of downloadable titles either for a hire fee from £1.99 to £3.49 (can only be watched on computer screen for a limited time) or to buy from £5.99 to £9.99 which allows you to keep one copy on your PC and another copy which is comparable with Windows Play4Sure portable devices, most titles will also come with a free DVD which will be posted to you. Love Film have now introduced a third option: Download to Burn, which allows you to burn the film you have downloaded onto a DVD and watch it as many times as you like on any DVD player. This surely has to be the way the industry needs to develop if this is really going to take off, but with prices starting at £9.99, you may as well just buy the DVD unless you absolutely have to have it right now (well in 90 min's or so that it takes to download and burn it). As with the music industry, through they are making huge savings on retail, distribution, duplication and packaging costs, very little of this is being passed back to the consumer. They also have a multitude of shorts which are either free or can be downloaded for 80p. The BFI have a small number of archive features and shorts that can be downloaded from their site. Prices start at £8.50 for features and £1.95 for shorts. American site EZTakes offers features, including archive classics and cult favourites, to download from $1.99. However, many are not available in the UK. Goggle Video and Wikipedia have a number of features and shorts that you can watch online. And not forgetting the wonderful YouTube, which has a huge library of shorts, home made films, TV documentaries, clips from feature films, director & actor interviews and much much more. |