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While many of the films screened at the Brattle are also available on video and DVD, the editor-in-chief of The Cinematic, Sara M. Watson ’07, said the theater is an important site for film-lovers precisley because it is so different from watching a movie at home...
...theater is a “chance for us all to have access to a wide range of interesting movies that aren’t just blockbuster-type films,” she said. “Instead of watching it on DVD you can watch in the theater, which is a totally different experience...
...film takes a particularly nice turn at about the halfway mark when, having gone through nine of Prairie Wind's 10 songs in the order in which they appear on the album (He Was the King is saved for the inevitable DVD), Young strikes up a string of older classics, starting with 1968's I Am a Child. When Young & Co. later groove into Comes a Time with eight guitars in a line pumping like a row of pistons, Young fanatics and other assorted baby boomers might well descend into tearful raptures. Every viewer, though, will be impressed...
...this long for anyone to offer it. You pay $10 per month, and can download as many movies as you want. Each feature-length film takes 20 minutes to a half hour to download via a typical cable-modem connection. Surprisingly, the video quality is as good as a DVD, crisp enough even when stretched across the full 15-in. screen of a laptop...
...digital rights is also the age of digital-rights management, or DRM. As you can imagine, movie studios won't let you burn these files to DVD, or e-mail them to your friends. Vongo has a way to transfer the movies to a portable device, but the devices - Generation 2 of Microsoft's Portable Media Center platform - is only just hitting the market and, to be blunt, aren't exactly iPods. Sadly, Vongo movies are not compatible with older Portable Media Centers, including those from Creative and Samsung. The folks at Starz assure me that they are working...