movie downloading

bobkat · Veteran Member

movie downloading

jebs · Veteran Member

Why not get satellite TV

dieseltojo · Senior Member

Nothing is impossible as My son does it. I haven't got a clue how he does it, you have to be a bit tech savvy.....which I reckon you are not.... smile Also I have been given movies on mem sticks and they will not play on my TV. It is a codec that my TV doesn't like.

If you play your mem card on a computer that's a go, but then you have usually poor sound, but better than nothing. so just watch it on a computer.

I have 500 movies from my son on a two terabyte hard drive. I plug it into my stand alone dvd player which is connected to my 24inch kogan tv by a HDMI cable. It plays through the HDMI channel of the tv and is excellent.

There might be forums around that will show the ropes on internet copying.

Any way it might be in the too hard basket or it may help..... smile

toglhot · Senior Member

There are dozens and dozens of sites to download movies from, some free, some paid. Unfortunately, not all will be in a format your TV will accept; simple, download one of the free format converters and convert any of the movies you have to a format your TV accepts. Easy as!

I have about five 128GB memory sticks full with movies we use when camping. I did use a portable HD but changed to USBs as they are a lot smaller and don't require cables. If you do use USBs, just make sure you leave a few GBs free, sometimes chock a block USBs won't work.

-- Edited by toglhot on Sunday 15th of October 2017 06:09:08 PM

Desert Dweller · Guru

Embrace & enjoy those locations with no TV reception. Your communicative skills with each other will improve enormously as well as your brain cell loss slowing down.

There aren't too many movies worth watching these days either.

Cruising Cruze · Guru

Hi Bob

Any movie you want you can find here

http://www.magnetdl.com/

you need also uTorrent to down load them

Cheers John

RustyD · Guru

I have a WD media player hooked to my TV that I can plug a USB stick into to play anything I download as my TV is pretty fussy about what it will play directly. However, we both tend to play board games, then play the odd game or three of solitaire on our iPads when no TV reception. I make the Minister for War put on headphones when she does watch TV as I never want to watch or listen to anything she watches. Then I play my computer games or read on-line magazines in peace.

macka17 · Guru

Movies USED to be fairly easy. (Pirating)
Just recently the Gov't... Have really tightened up. Hence the "streaming".

There are some places you can pay membership and d load. but they mostly Older movies.

Streaming nowadays is about the best of. Just need link to net.or through phone.

Here's a couple. Load onto whatever carries your movies.
then where it says "Play with" on startup.

Pick one. then another. Till one plays.
VLC Player and GOMPLAYER (Thai based) Play 95% of movies.
X-Vid are good but bloody expensive to activate.

VLC PLAYER. POTPLAYER. U TORRENT. KML PLAYER. GOMPLAYER.

Couple to start with ok. First and last the pick of these.
.
Plus Win Movie player.
They just releasing a coupla SF movies in NOV, Yesterday.
I got over a month ago. Just as they closing us down. phew.
Have fun hey.
There are forums on this. You'll learn a lot if you can decipher the language.

toglhot · Senior Member

I like the way some people tell you how to live your life. Interesting concept!

Wheels · Veteran Member

Try op shops for unwanted DVD's if you have a DVD player or as mentioned earlier get satellite TV

sandman55 · Guru

If you go to your local library you can borrow movie DVD's to watch at home but you want to take them with you and your time will expire so go to this forum https://club.myce.com/ and you can get advice on movie copying software in fact if you scroll down the page you will see a section on it. Copy the movie to your computer with the software (some is free and some you buy) and then copy it to your USB stick for viewing away from home.

Some might say it is pirating but you are legally borrowing them to view and your USB stick is the medium you use to view them and as long as you delete them when your finished and not sharing or stockpiling them then it is debatable that your pirating them. We do the same with Audio books on disc we put a story on our iPod and listen to it on a long road trip (many new cars these days don't have a CD player) and when we get home we wipe what we haven't listened to so that we have room for our next trip.

madaboutled · Guru

"Ashampoo Burning Studio" works with CD's, DVD's Music, Movies or whatever, so easy to use. Had it on my old laptop which just died, so will be getting and new version for win10 soon.