The design is clean and easy to use. Here is what the website design looks like:
Users have 2 weeks to watch the downloaded movie but only 24 hours to finish watching the movie once you start watching.
Users of the service will require downloading the MovieLink Player in order to download and watch the movies: YOU NEED THE BLOCKBUSTER MOVIELINK PLAYER The BLOCKBUSTER Movielink player is a free program that allows you to download and watch movies. (you can install it from the Blockbuster site)
The MovieLink player looks to be using Microsoft WMV DRM and it requires the massively bloated .NET Framework 3.0 to be installed as well which is not a good start.
The service is DRM-laden, non-portable (unless you have a laptop), time limited, it doesn't work with Firefox and can only be played on Windows PCs. This is all very odd as I do not see any benefit for users using this service over renting DVDs via mail which Blockbuster does well along with LoveFilm.
Here is what the Blockbuster Movielink application looks like:
On a positive note, the movie download speed I found to be impressive averaging 2100 kbps on this trial download. As for the movie download quality, I found this to be on par with DVD quality but some way off High Definition. The movie download size is 1,243 MB for a 115 minute movie. Here is the player in action:
I then tried copying the download file (a protected WMV file as expected) to another Windows machine on our network and, upon attempting to play in Windows Media Player, got this error:
So to conclude with this Blockbuster movie download service review, here is what I found:- Watch movies only on one PC
- Always finish them within 24 hours
- If you have no desire to share or keep a movie download for future watching, Blockbuster's new movie download service may be just what you've been looking for.
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