Get with it, hippie! The days of owning things are over. Clearly, you've not embraced the future... digital downloads, which provide even more choice and quality than their counterpart, analog downloads.

Old-timers watch films by placing a plastic discus inside an archaic contraption which spins the disc at high speed. Many users have been injured when these discs fly out of the machine, impaling family members and even pets. Worse still, movie lovers are actually required to TAKE CARE of the discs, or they will not play correctly. In fact, in MovieWeb tests*1, optical video discs had a failure rate of over 92%!

With MovieWeb, movie lovers are freed from this burdening responsibility, because there is simply nothing left to take care of! Now that's progress.

The huge success of iTunes, which let users download single tracks within their bandwidth limitations, for a cheap price so they could avoid buying an entire album full of others that they didn't want, is a suitably identical analogy to that of movie downloads. A service offering 3-minute Stereo audio tracks is completely comparable to one which offers 2-hour movies with surround sound*2! Movies don't belong on optical disc, they belong in the internet pipes!

Also, with MovieWeb, film acifionados can cut out the filler and download only the scenes they want.

HDTV is a fad! The excessively filtered standard definition video which consumers are used to is more than good enough even for the largest screens. MovieWeb uses a high resolution of 640x360 - plenty to fill even cinema screens without visible blurring.

Anal-retentive customers, don't fret: we offer a High Definition 540p option*3 on selected movies.

We all knew a nerdy friend with a stamp collection when we were growing up. Some people engage in this socially unacceptable practice with films - amassing huge libraries of physical objects! Embrace the future, poindexter - MovieWeb makes it easy.

Imagine the annoyance factor of physical media: not only do you have to get up from your chair to use the toilet AND fetch food, but you have to walk around your room to locate discs, open the disc drawer, place the disc in exactly the right spot, AND then sit down again.

Because MovieWeb is made available on the World Wide Web, it only works properly in selected countries. It features proprietary Geographical Lockout technology, making sure there's absolutely no way of watching any content not permitted by your government, or at the same time as your friends living abroad. Yay!! Give up the foreign muck and watch only films that have been pre-vetted for viewing in your zone.

In the bad old days, once a film was released into brick-and-mortar or online stores, it would stay available until stock was depleted. Because MovieWeb works by selling you a pretend object, underperforming titles can be deleted entirely, freeing up our server space and bandwidth for new, financially lucrative ones. Out with the old, in with the new!

Light up their faces on Christmas morning as they unwrap a styrofoam-filled package, containing a receipt with a serial number generated especially just for them - granting them access to download the perfect film!

By the next morning, the film will have downloaded*4 and will be charming your family and friends.

Do you enjoy retailers competing with each other to bring you the best deals, or cutting prices on older releases? What about grabbing a great deal on second-hand discs?

You don't really like that. In fact, we know it makes you feel cheap. So, you'll be glad to know that on MovieWeb, we control the pricing of your virtual film! No more stressing out in the store over what you can afford and what you can't.