paulr

Are there any good ones. Basically for watching films on my laptop. I'm fed up messing around with poor copies/ downloads all for the sake of a few quid.

stevebt

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If you pay £10 a month you can get them all from lovefilms, they even have the viewer on the ps3.

paulr

Is it a time limited rental?

subaruturbo_18

Not if you pay enough you can watch all you want. To be honest the films on there aren't great unless you pay a further £3-4 per film to get decent ones. Otherwise you're just picking films you haven't really heard of. They do a free 14 day trial though, i'm on one now.

Sky also have films online, and so do Film4

acstua

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newsgroups arent so much a secret anymore

lovefilm was pretty good when i tried it, also got cash back from quidco for the free trial (25quid)

GlesgaKiss

I need to get up to date with what you can do online! Just looked on there and you get unlimited streaming of tv series and films, as you say, for £10 a month. Can even stream it to PS3.

pigSTi

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We tried the Lovefilm and found that on our 46" set the picture quality was rather dismal - lots of artifacts, blocking and pixelation. Also the sound is poor quality too - no better than that of VHS.

We tried a number of films including Blu Ray which were even worse for the reason that they were supposed to be better. I want ot watch my Blu Ray in 1080p/24 not 720p that looks like ****e.

I guess the service would be ok for a tiny set or for those who do not want as much from their movie experience.

bigsinky

get a 100Mbit connection then. do you realise how much bandwidth is needed for 1080p?

pigSTi

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They do not - or did not - stream in 1080p. Yes I do have an idea of how much bandwidth it would take.... I had 20Mb Virgin at the time and it should have been able to handle that **** poor excuse of 720p.

bigsinky

a virgin 20Mbit line is not even going to look at a good quality 720p stream. just do the maths.

30 bits per pixel (10 each for each element) times
1280 * 720 pixels per frame times
30 frames per second
equals
650Mbit/second for "raw" 720p

good quality "compressed" 720p is going to be between 30 - 40 Mbit

that stuff netflix and love film say is 720p is nothing near anyway good quality.

1080p bandwidth
720pHD

pigSTi

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Whats the point in any of that though when the source is such low quality - they compress the **** out of it. That was my point. I can watch 720p footage elsewhere on the net that actually looks reasonable.

At the end of the day though, we checked out lovefilm as a mere curiosity. At least for the mean time, hardware is the only viable media for us. Anything else is a compromise either on picture, sound or both.

bigsinky

yes but the reasonable footage will be for a much smaller resolutions. you get cracking HD stuff on youtube and other streaming sites. i reckon it will be a long time before anyone starts streaming 720p or 1080p in decent quality without paying an arm and a leg for it. I pay Sky £83 a month for the privilege ffs

your only other alternative is to download overnight and watch your content streamed over your network. takes the spontoneity out of it suppose.

stuart69

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All this tickle tackle isnt getting the ape film on my laptop

ALi-B

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Guys keep it legal, as per the OP's thread title.

Ta.

stevebt

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Been deleted. You need more than just credit to get it

bigsinky

wrists slapped