well i think that this is a cool idea, i support online video rentals. i like this idea, although i am a bit wonderous of the price, and what would happen if a person was to burn this video to a cd, would they be able to play it withought any kind of problems.

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Videos are protected by DRM system, i.e. they wont play from anywhere else other than from the HDD they were originally downloaded to, that's what I've understood. And they "expire" after 24hrs and even that the files are still there, they can't be watched.

Something like Movielink with bit more flexibility (I _do_ want to watch the movies without PC being involved in the process at all) and clearly lower fee than Blockbuster has -- maybe $0.99 per 24hr watching period / $4.99 to "purchase" the digital version of movie for life -- and they might have a very, very good concept in their hands.

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In addition to what dRD pointed out, I´m also a bit worried about transfer speeds when downloading the movie.

Picture this: You have everything planned out for a nice film-evening. Some drinks, chips and stuff like that. You have rented the video via Movielink - but wait! The transfer speed is so low that the movie won´t be ready until the next day.
That could be a problem.

$1.99 to watch
$7.99 to buy

Can these files be opened by TMPGenc or other encoder?

telemike: Nope.

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