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July 19, 2006

About This Editor: I am a writer. Have been writing for other sites, but expect to do most of my future work HERE! My expertise extends from the esoteric such as burning hydrogen to the unpredictability of the stock market and my writing makes me a jack of all trades and exasperated master of none. I have had some influence over national wildfire and water policy and there are hints of a change in energy policy, BUT as Samuel Goldwyn once said, "A verbal promise is not worth the paper it is written on."

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An article in today’s (July 19, 2006) says that an internet movie company named CinemaNow is going to allow customers to burn DVDs of Hollywood movies starting at $8.99, along with extra features, labels and art work.

I have a two year old desktop Dell Dimension 2400 that I bought direct from the company, which also extended me a line of credit to pay for it. I cannot burn DVDs. The computer is sluggish at startup, giving me distorted colors on the toolbar at startup unless I boot it up once or twice and freezes when shutting down, forcing me to pull the plug, restart and then shut down. It also sometimes runs out of memory and gives me problems when I write documents more than twenty pages in WordPerfect. But other than those small things, it works fine.

I decided to check out the CinemaNow site. I found out that they have about 4,000 movies that I can watch on my DSL enabled computer. Not bad.

Movielink, a competitor, quotes lower prices around $1.99 for some movies, lists choices by company, but only allows purchases for storage on hard disk, but it does emphasize free samples.

A third company, Vongo, the smallest of the three, starts at $9.99 and makes special mention of pay-per-view.

While I am not willing right now to pay any of these video services since I am on a definite budget, I can say I have watched video on my computer and have enjoyed myself. As I previously mentioned, I already belong to both Netflix and Blockbusteronline, am happy with both of them as things stand so I am not using any of these new services as of yet. But I find it fascinating to think about how video on the internet is evolving.

I also want to note that both Netflix and Blockbuster offer both Blu-ray and HD DVD selections and CinemaNow offers high definition movie downloads and has an easy to understand list of system requirements.

Wow. Not only do movies and Garbo talk, but my computer can hum a very pretty picture.