Watching Movies on Your Computer

There are two basic ways to watch movies on your computer. You can download the movie or you can insert a dvd. There are good reasons to use either option.

Download

Inexpensive

It is much more inexpensive to download a movie. This can be done for a few dollars if you do it by the movie or may come free with certain movie rental subscriptions.

Easy

You don’t have to leave your house to get the movie you want to see.

Quick

You don’t have to wait for a movie to be available at your local store or for it to arrive by mail.

DVD

Permanence

Buying a dvd is a good idea if you know, or are fairly sure, you are going to want to see the movie repeatedly. When my husband and I really like a movie we always end up buying it.

Memory

When you use a dvd the memory in your computer isn’t affected.

Bonus Features

Sometimes a downloaded movie will have bonus features, but not always. If these are important to you, you should probably get the dvd.

Personally, I’m a big fan of downloading movies. I have a movie subscription that makes it really cheap to try out new movies. I don’t like having to leave my house in the middle of the night when I’m awake for no good reason and wanting to watch something new. I also am more likely to try a movie if I see it while I’m surfing for something to download than if I have to remember to buy or rent it later. Additionally, there are tons more movies available for download than I could buy locally. Variety rocks!

The downside, however, is that all of  the downloading does affect the computer’s memory. It causes it to become fragmented. This is an easily solved problem, fortunately. All I do is defrag my computer regularly to make sure I don’t have any problems watching or downloading future movies.

Photo Credit: Daryl Mitchell

May 29th, 2009 by birdievogel | Posted in Download Movies | (0)