Are there sites to download movies for free? (DVD, CPU, computer)

[tripod]

I'm not very computer saavy and wondering if you can download older movies for free onto a dvd-r and watch them in a dvd player? If so how long does it generally take to D/L a 2 hr movies onto a disc?

[thecoalman]

Originally Posted by tripod

I'm not very computer saavy and wondering if you can download older movies for free onto a dvd-r and watch them in a dvd player?

There's a lot of public domain materiel available here: Download & Streaming : Moving Image Archive : Internet Archive

Anything else will most likely be illegal copies. Watching them from DVD will require they be converted to DVD compliant format -OR- a format your player may support burned as data disc. The second option depends on the player as there is no specs for this. Divx is one common format supported.

If so how long does it generally take to D/L a 2 hr movies onto a disc?

The download time will vary widely depending on the size of the file and your download speed. Getting it to disc can take a very short time if you can just burn it to disc or a very long time if you have to convert the video file to a different format this takes a long time. How long depends on your CPU speed and other factors.


For example the "Little miss Muffet" video here has a MPEG2 version of the video which is much larger than the others:

http://www.archive.org/details/mothe...le_miss_muffet

MEG2 is DVD compliant zand is why it's offered, no conversion required to author DVD.

[irman]

Somewhere, when the OP is NOT computer savvy,
I really do not get it why the OP wants to go this route.
Consider Netflix at $8.- a month (that is roughly 25 cents a day !!!!),
and many Hulu movies for free,
*ALL day long*,
why go through all the hassle to do this ???

You download, then you have to find another *freebee*,
(The OP is looking for downloading for free !!!)
to create the DVD, then sometimes it is not good quality,
then if it is good quality, you have to load it in your player,
and watch it on your TV ...

With the services I mentioned above, all you do is just find a movie you like
(out of a choice of literally hundreds and hundreds of movies),
and then if you are crazy enough, you can do this ALL day long,
then again I wonder *Why difficult when you can do easy* ???

25 cents a day ...
Each movie around 90 minutes ...
24 hours per day ...
So, 16 movies per day.
Geesj 16 movies for 25 cents ???
How free do you want to get ???

In the case for the OP, maybe it is
*why easy when you can go difficult* ???

[tripod]

The problem is I don't own a real computer, just webtv, so I was thinking about using a computer at the library to download to dvd-r.