YouTube launches full-length movie rentals

[steve2470]

http://www.macworld.com/article/159774/2011/05/youtube_rentals.html

YouTube, which became the world’s most popular video website by providing an outlet for amateur user-generated clips, is now officially expanding into streaming full-length movies online for rent.

Although the Google video upload and sharing site had experimented with long-form video in the past, it formally entered the online movie rental market on Monday.

Over the coming weeks, YouTube will offer users in the U.S. only thousands of major Hollywood productions, letting people watch movies on its site and competing with Netflix, Amazon and Apple, which all focus on renting long-form movies and TV shows.

Titles available on YouTube include Caddyshack, Goodfellas, Scarface, Taxi Driver, Inception, The King’s Speech, Little Fockers, The Green Hornet, and Despicable Me, all at what Google describes as “industry standard pricing.”

[msongs]

1. pay for movies that show in a little 2x3 inch box? ok nt

[joshcryer]

2. 720p YouTube is surprisingly good.

The download size for such videos is about half what Netflix offers, so you can probably up the bandwidth by a third and have better quality than Netflix.

[Confusious]

3. Yeay! stop. go. stop.go stop.go.stop.go

Just how I've always wanted to see my movies!