The Washington Post did a review of the the new Movie Download service. How do you think it did? Just because you can do something on the Internet doesn’t mean you should. If, however, you are a consumer instead of a policy analyst, Movielink looks much less attractive. It offers a lousy selection, uncompetitive prices, unduly restrictive terms, poor quality and a slow delivery mechanism. It refuses entry to anybody not running Internet Explorer 5.0 or newer on Windows 98 or a later Microsoft operating system.
The 200 titles that Movielink’s five owners have decided to offer on the service appear to have been picked at random. You can rent “Conan the Destroyer,” but not “Conan the Barbarian”; “Caddyshack II,” but not the original. There are classics of all sorts (“Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” “Boyz N the Hood”), as well as the kind of dreck left at the video store at 11 p.m. on a Friday.
Over a 608-kbps digital-subscriber-line connection, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” (a 761MB download) took 3 hours 25 minutes to reel in.
Losts of other problems for this one of a kind pay sevice. Read about them here
