You can now download movies including classic movies from eztakes.com! But the greatest thing about this one is that you download the movie on to your computer, burn it on a CD, and watch it on your T.V., anywhere! The prices for classics are just 1.99! Eztakes.com offers all kinds of movies, new, old, all genres, T.V. shows, and they even have exercise video.
A lot of the classics they offer are what you might consider “unknown;” titles such as “The Mind Reader,” a 1934 film starring Claude Rains as a phony mind reader; Farewell To Arms (1932) with Gary Cooper, and Helen Hayes as the doomed couple that fall in love during WW I; The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) with Leslie Howard, as the savior of noblemen during the Reign of Terror. But their list is growing. I think this is going to fly!
Click here to read the Cnet News article on EZTakes or just visit eztakes.com for more info.
5 Responses to “Download Classic Movies and Watch Them Anywhere!”
The three movies you name are wonderful. Have you actually tried doing this? Downloading, burning to DVD and playing it on a TV?
My concern would be that these are most likely all public domain movies (the reason they are so inexpensive) and the quality of the print is possibly terrible and unwatchable.
You can find this sort of stuff at http://www.oldies.com at $5 a DVD. I’ve ordered many movies from them (mostly serials) and often I can’t get through them because the audio and video quality are so bad.
The three movies you name are wonderful. Have you actually tried doing this? Downloading, burning to DVD and playing it on a TV?
My concern would be that these are most likely all public domain movies (the reason they are so inexpensive) and the quality of the print is possibly terrible and unwatchable.
You can find this sort of stuff at http://www.oldies.com at $5 a DVD. I’ve ordered many movies from them (mostly serials) and often I can’t get through them because the audio and video quality are so bad.
Hi Dan, no I’ve not tried this yet, but I will. I believe you can try it for free when you first register. What “free” means I am not clear on yet, but I think they may allow you a free movie download.
As far as the quality of the movies, in the Cnet news article it states that EZtakes has 20,000 registered users, and 80% of people that bought 1 movie come back as repeat customers. That tells me the quality is good. I’ll have to see for myself–when I use the service, I will let you know how it goes.
I’ve heard of oldies.com and yes, the quality is pretty bad. I bought a couple of dvd’s at a Target here in my town that came from oldies.com. This was a one time thing at Target. They don’t normally sell these.
I will keep you posted.
Thanks!
Madeline
Hi Dan, no I’ve not tried this yet, but I will. I believe you can try it for free when you first register. What “free” means I am not clear on yet, but I think they may allow you a free movie download.
As far as the quality of the movies, in the Cnet news article it states that EZtakes has 20,000 registered users, and 80% of people that bought 1 movie come back as repeat customers. That tells me the quality is good. I’ll have to see for myself–when I use the service, I will let you know how it goes.
I’ve heard of oldies.com and yes, the quality is pretty bad. I bought a couple of dvd’s at a Target here in my town that came from oldies.com. This was a one time thing at Target. They don’t normally sell these.
I will keep you posted.
Thanks!
Madeline
Hi Madeline, I poked around the site quite a bit last night and I noticed movies that were over $12.98 per download. For those movies, I’m sure the quality is quite good, because those are non-public domain movies, so they’re licensed from studios.
It was the public domain ones that I’m always wary of. When a movie falls into the public domain it means that anyone can buy a lousy print of it and make copies and sell it — and most likely the $1.98 titles are public domain. And those are the ones I’d be most interested in! (And I would bet that the return customers mentioned in the article didn’t buy those old films.)
Still, the clip they have of “A Farewell to Arms” is pretty good from what I saw. I guess it’s hit or miss. Can’t really go wrong for $1.98!