Thanks to our friends over at /Film for putting us onto a great new site that helps users find movies they can watch online, LEGALLY, sometimes for free, other times via rental or a paid subscription like Netflix (which you might already subscribe to, if you’re streaming movies online to begin with).
The site is called Speed Cine; it works as a master database of films that are legally available for viewing online, where you can find them, and what is required to access them. If you’re one of those Web surfers that doesn’t give a crap whether the content you amass – music, TV shows or movies – is legal or not, you can hop off this post now and continue about your dirty business. For those of you who adhere to the ethic that illegal downloading IS stealing, keep on reading.
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The Speed Cine interface is pleasantly simple (see above), though the site is currently in its beta testing stage, so the format and look could change by the time it goes fully live. You’ll be greeted by an alphabetical list of movies, with options to search only the free movies available (sold!), all movies available, or sift through the films one alphabet letter (or number) at a time. No matter which categories (Free, Rental, Purchase or Subscription) your desired movie falls into, you’ll be forwarded to a second page for your specific movie choice, featuring links to all applicable sites it’s available on. So if you like 21 Hours at Munich as much as I do (just a random selection I made), you can first watch it for free over at Hulu, then head back to Speed Cine to find out if and/or where you can purchase it for digital download.
I’m digging this site and already have it bookmarked. It’s really a smart move – getting ahead of the game by creating a search engine for the still-evolving market of online cinema – and so far the makers of the site seem to have followed the proper guidelines of site building: simple, clean, no hidden strings or fees attached. It makes sense for studios to embrace a site like this, as it will undoubtedly help increase the exposure (and $$$) they reap from their online movie archives.
Head over to Speed Cine to check it out for yourself. Do you see any good movies on there (for free)? Or does the database need some bigger and better flicks to choose from? If you answer that last question in the affirmative, maybe this kind of site will motivate studios to put more of their major hits online?
It’s going to be interesting to see.
Source: Speed Cine via Slash Film
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11 Comments
Cool, too bad it’s blocked here at work, lol, oh well.
Cool indeed, thanks for the link. I’m one of those that just won’t download anything illegally so this works for me.
Ken
get back to work.
Nice site though, thx.
We need a sci-fi listing. I’m sure there are so many sci-fi movies that I haven’t seen but I can’t think of any. Is there a way to search for just sci-fi flicks on here?
didnt see a single movie on there worth watchin we need a redbox online so its still a dollar and find a way to stream the movies from your pc to your tv and 1080p out put then were talkin a sweet movie site i think i will try it.
@MCat
You are not the boss of me!! lol
I’m gonna have to check this out, I usually don’t download music legally, but movies are different for me. I guess it’s just because of my passion for film, but anyway… Legal movie watching online sounds cool to me!
Kantstandya
I wish we could get something like that. If I can access my xbox from my computer without wires then we should be able to stream it to the tv.
Great idea indeed, I never was much of a fan of those p2p websites and anyways the number of options for getting the movies I like, the legal way, seems to be growing.U can also find some ideas about this issue here:http://audials.com/en/blog/article/34/3-ways-to-legally-download-movies-and-videos-from-the-internet.html
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