Criterion launches Online Cinematheque for online movie rentals

by Darren Murph posted Dec 1st 2008 at 12:30PM

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]

Filed under: Industry, Internet

Tags: Cinematheque, Criterion, digital distribution, digital downloads, DigitalDistribution, DigitalDownloads, films, hd rentals, HdRentals, movies, online Cinematheque, OnlineCinematheque, rent, rentals, renting

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Greg @ 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.

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