Criterion launches Online Cinematheque for online movie rentals

Get down with your bad self, Criterion. First you make the totally necessary leap to Blu-ray, and now you've opened your mind to digital distribution. The recently launched Online Cinematheque gives viewers the ability to catch short clips of select films online for free, and if they're really intrigued, they can cough up $5 to watch the whole thing. Afterwards, if they've discovered one of their new favorite films, Criterion will put the $5 rental fee towards the purchase of the title on DVD / BD. Sorry for just providing you with a portal to kill hours upon hours of free time.

[Via Slashfilm]

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 1st 2008 2:40PM]

Freakin' rad!

$5 to rent and if you buy the DVD / BD, that $5 goes towards your purchase? Nice.

Anyhoo, I'm moving soon and have been planning out my media setup. Does anyone know of anyway I could get the Criterion streams from my comp to my TV?

Here's what my set up is likely to be:

Cable Internet (no TV)

Wireless router with two external hard drives plugged into it as SMB shares to share media across network

PS Triple plugged into Sony KDL-32XBR6 via HDMI

AppleTV with Boxee plugged into TV via component

As you may have guessed from the AppleTV, I am a Mac user.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 1st 2008 2:54PM]

Bravo Criterion! It looks like there will be a ONE WEEK (instead of 24 hour) rental window. Now the big question: What's the quality, and will it be stream-able to extenders?

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 1st 2008 4:31PM]

that pic makes me want to see the seventh seal again...

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 2nd 2008 11:51PM]

I was going to say the same thing.

"Who are you?"
"Death."

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 9th 2008 1:32AM]

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