First of all ? the homepage. You?ll see if you visit often that Vizumi tend to move the homepage titles around ? so that they are regularly refreshed. While this works in the sense that they get to push titles that you might not otherwise hear about (eg. Fools Gold), it also means that you might not necessarily pick up at first glance the quantity of big films available to download here.
Let?s say for example you want to have a look for a Batman movie download.You have two options
- Type in movie actor, film into the search box,and you?ll get a list of the relevant films.
- Category Search - But let?s say, like me, you prefer to browse by category until something catches your eye then the route to finding Batman is slightly less straightforward
Step One - Select your Category
I pick action, because I reckon that?s the right area. I then get the head of a list of nearly four hundred action movies available for download. This is both great and awkward. Great in the sense that you get to browse through other movies on your way to Batman which you might not otherwise have considered. Awkward in the sense that the list is not alphabetisable by letter category ? meaning you can?t pick all movies beginning with ?B?. Instead you have to trawl through the pages until you get to your film.
I found Batman on page 3 ? not too bad ? but if I?d been after Jarhead I would have had to navigate to page 13, and if I?d been really pedantic and wanted the Bourne film download I would have had to work my way through to page 25 (of a total of 37 at the time of writing). This is why we use the search facility. But Vizumi Movie Downloads is set-up is quite clever too in that it forces you to check out the prices and availability of other films if you decide to browse by category.
Step Two - The categories
This is where Vizumi really come into their own. Top of the column is a category called Screen Gems ? full of things you thought you?d forgotten about ? Diff?rent Strokes, Bewitched, Starsky and Hutch ? admittedly mostly American shows, but classics nonetheless and if you?re a diehard fan, here?s the place to pick up your back catalogue.
Beyond this area, you have TV classics (not much in here unless you like Birds of a Feather or can be bothered to go back to Baywatch), then perhaps the next best area is Collections. In here a further subdivision takes you to various fun areas, like Haunting Horrors, where you?ll find all kinds of frightening nights? entertainment, At the Oscars, where you?ll rediscover some films that won gongs where plenty better failed, and Hot and Steamy, with a bizarre inclusion of Gaspar Noe?s conceptual masterpiece Irreversible, which should not be regarded as erotic, but which might escape notice in a more relevant category like Cult Favourites.
Final Step
Finally, below the films by genre, which should be obvious and easy to follow according to taste, is one of Vizumi?s best attributes, which I commented on in the previous article. This is the part where you get to download films cheaply (for as little as 99p!). I
In here ? well franklyt as you might expect for such a cheap price tag ? is a fair amount of stuff you?ve never even heard of. But one that sticks out for me is the much overlooked Comedy duo ? Priorite a gauche. Fun pretend-French satire. Tommy Cooper. And lots of kids? stuff ? good material to download and take on holiday for rainy days when you can?t let them run around outside.
This wraps up my review for this week. Next week, we move on to comparing the other main players in the UK film download market. Until then, turn on, tune in, press download?.and good night!
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