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UK Support?

By Nicholas Wright Posted Monday 26th February 2007 16:46 GMT

Martial Arts category - US Only

Sci-Fi & Fantasy category - US Only

Cult category - US Only

Children & Family category - US Only

WormsArmageddon - Free! YAY!

Action Category - US Only

Umm....

But will this be Rip Off Britain again...?

By Graham Marsden Posted Monday 26th February 2007 18:16 GMT

"BEN plans to offer films at around $3.99 each for new releases or $2.99 for older titles. TV shows would be sold for $1.99 per episode"

Who wants to take bets that these prices will be "translated" into £3.99, £2.99 and £1.99 when this gets to the UK and it will be impossible to download from the US site at virtually half the price?

Windows

By Hein Kruger Posted Monday 26th February 2007 18:22 GMT

I would love to be able to download and watch movies or tv-shows on my pc, but all these legal download services require the use of proprietary (usually micro$oft) operating systems, web browsers and media players.

There's simply no way I'm going to install windoze just so I can watch some horribly DRM encumbered movies.

Seems I'm going to have to continue doing it illegally...

Films can only be kept for a month

By Florence Posted Tuesday 27th February 2007 09:04 GMT

Yeah I thought they could be onto a winner with such prices (which would make sense, after all, they don't pay for the bandwidth), until I read that movies will be in a Windows DRM'd format and that you can only keep the files for 30 days.

It looks like files cannot be transferred to portable devices either ("at this point" they say in the T&Cs) - so it sounds as even TV episodes that will still play after 30 days will be riddled with DRM.

They still don't get it do they?!