So... Canadian video store..

What do my fellow Canadians think of it?

Honestly, I think it's a bit of a joke. First off, how do single episodes of a TV show come out 50 cents less than a full featured movie? I can see, maybe three episodes for $3.49. But get real.

Even with one season of South Park. $2 an episode.....when you can watch everything since the first season on The Comedy Network's website completely free (thus sitting through a ten second ad)

I don't know about any of you, but I'm not touching this. Especially with all this "DRM control". I'm better off with all my regular means of watching a movie. Long live disks I say...

2 bucks an epi, were u can watch itfor free on there website" you can watch everything and anything for free on the internets!.. anyways i like it, i rented and watched hot tub time machine, it was good, not awesome like i was told tho. i just hope they keep up with the new release that come out on tuesday.

2 bucks an epi, were u can watch itfor free on there website" you can watch everything and anything for free on the internets!..

iamshivy

Um, talking "illegal means" would get me canned and a locked thread:roll:

they offers highly compressed video at unreasonable price...

lol i would rather to rent BD movies from blockbuster or order movies from cable or satellite's movie on demand.

same price but much much better quality. Of course, it's good for ppl who use computer monitor as their "TV", then they probably cant tell difference.

Sonys movie policy is terrible. Overpriced, can only be downloaded once onto a ps3, cant be watched from a portable harddrive ect

It sucks

Still trying to figure out when people would want to stream video through their gaming consoles in the first place...

Are there people out there that actually don't own a PC?

Personally I like it. For the Canadian service, its a lot better than the one on iTune and Xbox live. And its the only rental service I know in Canada except Cable or Sattelite company that offers french versions of their rental movies.

Maybe for the TV shows its overpriced, but for the new movies rental it can be compared to rent the phisycal Copy. I like it and I rented 2 movies so far and I'm ok with it. But I dont think its a good place to buy movies because its always better to buy the real copy, but for rental I dont see the problem with it.

I think something messed up my ps3 last night when I rented hot tub time machine and it stopped downloading quarter way through. So I reset my ps3 and everything starting getting super slow and I couldn't shut down my ps3 the normal way, I had to flip the switch on the back. Now even worse it reformatted my hdd and nothing works. So in the end try not to use this service.

Sad thing is, this kind of crooked service wouldn't still be going if people weren't paying for it.hazelnutman

I don't really understand it either. But then again, would they really "stop" if people were smart enough not to buy into it? Or would they just think of ways to con people to keep it there?

On the issue of this vs piracy, I highly doubt it's about money at all. They're doing just fine with money. It's because they don't have control over it. It's just all "policy and regulation" to their shareholders. They have no issues with limiting the hell out of what you download. Something they obviously cannot do on a disk or any other means.

With all this BS over control and greed in this "corporation vs the end user", no wonder why so many people feel piracy is justified.