Video Business Reviews CinemaNow's Burn to DVD Service

Video Business Online takes a look at CinemaNow's Burn to DVD (beta). Samantha Clark reports that it took 5.5 hours to download and burn Resident Evil: Apocalypse.

Once the download and burn was complete, however, we were pleasantly surprised to see the disc worked beautifully in our set-top player. Previews (of course), interactive menu, movie in widescreen and fullscreen, three commentary tracks—it didn’t hiccup once.

Comments

[ihatemovies]

Good god. This person spent 5.5 hours and $10 for a inferior DVD copy of a horrible movie and was actually happy about it? Keep drinking that Kool Aid, honey...

[WeaselBuddha]

Five and half hours was the download time, and she, the reviewer, doesn't state how big a pipe she has, or what else the machine was doing.

The download included both the widescreen and full screen version of the movie also.

[NetflixShill]

5.5 hours is faster than you can get it from Netflix, so don't feel suerior just yet. The studios are wasting the potential of HD-DVD, BluRay, and normal DVD. What difference does extra resolution make, when you don't have a tack-sharp image? What good does extra sound quality make when the studios squander it by mediocre mixing and speakers can't reproduce its dynamic range?

These download services need is "every movie ever made, in every language..." Start with the unreleased and out-of-print titles. They are a joke, because they focus on these new release movies at all. For every new release they should have 10 or more out-of-print or unreleased titles. Otherwise, they are going to lose. Selection counts more than quality.

[WeaselBuddha]

What these download services need is to make money. A PT Barnum moment, giving the audience what they want.

Given the impossibility of "Every movie ever made" ( can't be done in any medium, lots of films are just plain lost ), and the investment needed just to get a popular library, lets see them get to that point first.

Then start bitching about all the rest.

[merso]

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