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The drive to the local video rental store to get our movies is truly unnecessary thanks to the advance of technology and the growth of the Internet. We can have our favorite movie delivered by mail after making the selection online. However, selecting and watching the movie online is an even better option.

There are two basic approaches to doing this. We can get the movie without paying for it by whatever means or pay a fee and use a movie download site. This article will compare the online download memberships, offline video stores, and the ‘free’ online alternatives against each other.

The sheer size of movie title selection that you have access to is one of the best advantages of joining a movie download. It is strictly up to you how much or how often you download movies from these large archives. Because of a limited amount shelf space, the local video store cannot match this type of selection.

Due to this limitation, they can only provide what is currently mainstream or popular. Online memberships don’t have shelving space problems and therefore can have an extremely varied and extensive movie selection. If your tastes go beyond what is deemed popular by everyone else, then you will get more satisfaction by going online.

Finding the exact movie of your choice is a lot easier online than sifting though the shelved products in a video store. Your search for a movie online is made easy with a search box that will search by director, title, actor, or any keyword. In addition lists are provided that categorize movies into different genres.

In addition to movie genre, their lists often group movies by critic picks, latest additions, popularity, and alphabetically. You can even write your own review and rate a movie with some memberships. Consumer reviews can be more trustworthy than those of a professional critic.

Paid download memberships possess very large archives of downloadable movies. Any online movies that are free and legal are almost always in the public domain which means that they are no longer copyrighted. These are the old films of the early 20′th century.

The web sites of the major TV networks have free television shows that are recent and popular. However, only a select few of these series are available and only for a limited time.

Movie membership sites offer you security from computer viruses, spy ware and mal ware. By contrast, getting free movies from questionable sources is a true risk to the health of your PC. If you’re using a file sharing network for your downloads, you never know what sort of virus or spy ware might have been introduced into your file by someone else on the network.

In short, these are a few of the reasons why paid movie memberships are the best choice for getting your movie entertainment. The benefits of speed, economy, and convenience that the Internet provides over video rental stores are obvious. However, the potential risks that ‘free’ downloads pose to your computer greatly overshadow any of the inconveniences of the local video store.