Vudu delivers more HD content than any other service, but achieving that image quality requires you to purchase a $300 box that can’t be truly integrated into the rest of your home network (meaning you can’t stream the content downloaded to it from one room to another). And the company currently has HD licensing deals with only Lionsgate, Paramount, and Universal; the rest of its offerings are limited to standard definition.

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Movie-rental outfit Blockbuster Entertainment acquired movie-download service Movielink in August 2007, but the company seems to have lost interest in its latest asset. When we contacted Blockbuster’s corporate communications department in preparation for this story, they couldn’t be bothered to provide us with Movielink’s phone number (which wasn’t listed on either company’s website). It’s easy to see why.

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CinemaNow offers newly released movies on the same pay-per-view model that most of the other services here (with the exception of Vongo) use, but the service also sells a limited collection of movies that can be downloaded and burned to a DVD that can be played anywhere. CinemaNow’s optional subscription service allows unlimited downloads, but these titles cannot be burned.

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If you’re like us, you’ve bought a lot of traditional media, be it
DVDs, CDs, or—gasp!—books, from Amazon.com over the years yet have
downloaded little or no content from its digital stores. After spending
some time with Unbox—Amazon’s relatively new movie and TV download
service—we’re about ready to start using it regularly. With a broad
selection of inexpensive content and an easy and cheap way to get Unbox
content to your living room, we initially thought this would be the
service to beat—despite a complete lack of HD content.

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