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Collection is weak right now.. but $2???? Damn that's impressive.
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Collection is weak right now.. but $2???? Damn that's impressive.
Oh man it's brilliant. You click on a movie and it automatically just plays the trailer before you pay.
So I can watch 20 movies a month for only $40 and the collection is weak???? SCORE!!
It's a dollar cheaper than Amazon's service (which also shows the trailer), but for now that has a better selection and has gift cards, as does iTunes. I assume Google will begin issuing gift cards as well, however.
About half the movies I looked at were more than $2. They were $2.99-$3.99.
It's okay, guys. Two links down are better movies for free:
http://www.youtube.com/movies
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Most of these are on Netflix anyways.
It's good for people who don't watch a regular basis and would like to pay by the movie.
Me for example, during this semester I have zero time to watch netflix. So instead of paying $15 a month (or whatever I'm paying) I can buy two or three $2 movies. So yeh, this isn't for everyone.
Or pay the instant watch fee only and do it for $8/month.
I heard Rawhead Rex is one of the movies available on YouTube.
Yeah, I don't recommend spending any money on that pile.
Unless The Dogfather is the only kind of movies you want to watch, the movies you'll be renting from YouTube will not always be $2.
It's just another alternative. I use Amazon On Demand a lot. I find their prices very reasonable. I understand that Netflix has a huge collection but youtube in the future might have movies that netflix doesn't offer on Instant Watch. $2 is easy to swallow.
Hell, Ghostbusters is free. To Kill A Mockingbird is free. Dr. Strangelove is free... Hard to complain about that, except what to watch after those two.
Will YouTube stream through devices like PS3s and Blu-ray players to your TV? I'm imagining it does. I'm just curious if YouTube would give the same experience on my Big Screen TV that Netflix does -- which is pretty glorious.
It is looking like 3 or less movies a month = go with YouTube. 4 or more = go with Netflix.
I haven't paid much attention to Hulu yet either. But it's been much discussed on the Criterion Facebook wall because Criterion is apparently moving all their streaming to Hulu. Some kind of falling out with Netflix or something.