Best place to buy movies on-line?

[Eddie Dane]

OK, now that I've reformed and I'm no longer illegally downloading films, I looking for a good legal way to do it.

I like to keep the movies on a hard disk so I can take them on holiday.
I'm also thinking about buying a an Ipod Touch as it seems a nice device for film watching on the go.

So the downloads should be usable in the ways mentioned above.

Any tips?

[elgarak]

OK, now that I've reformed and I'm no longer illegally downloading films, I looking for a good legal way to do it.

I like to keep the movies on a hard disk so I can take them on holiday.
I'm also thinking about buying a an Ipod Touch as it seems a nice device for film watching on the go.

So the downloads should be usable in the ways mentioned above.

Any tips?

I buy a lot of stuff from iTunes lately.

Of course, it's DRMed, but I don't think you can get around that if you want to stay legal. They allow to play the video on up to five computers at a time (you can disallow computers) -- you have to submit your iTunes store account password with iTunes on a computer to allow it. The movies can be played on any number of video iPods. Otherwise, to play on an allowed computer, you need iTunes/Quicktime. The video files can be copied and moved from disk to disk like any other file; you don't need to keep them in a iTunes library (you just have to sign up iTunes with your account to allow that computer). VLC on Windows also seems to be able to access the DRM credentials (and it appears that you can then copy those credentials over to another machine without iTunes, in particular also Linux machines, to play the video with VLC without having to authorize this other machine, but don't take my word for it, I never tried it).

The files are about 1 GB/hr. Twice that for HD (720p) content (some movies, not many. Lots of recent TV shows). Pretty nice quality.

[thaiboxerken]

Why not Netflix? You can rent dvd's then buy them if you like them. Also, they have a growing number of movies you can stream to your PC, Tivo and/or Xbox 360.