Without having to leave my house
By blog on Nov. 23, 2009.
Whilst I was down with H1N1, I was getting pretty bored, but what can you do when you are that sick, really. Well I started buying movies and TV series online so I could just download them to my PC and thus be entertained without having to leave my home!
So, during my illness I found myself watching three different TV series that I had downloaded from iTunes, and bought a couple of movies whilst I was at it too. iTunes actually allows you to rent films for a cheaper fee and you’ve got 30 days to watch it, though once you’ve started watching it, it will delete itself 48hours. In a fit of wanting to watch something ‘old school’ and fun, I hired Die Hard. The only downside to all of this is managed-bloody-downloads, which meant that that film took five hours to download.
Ridiculous! Anyway, I found another site that allows you to buy films and has a broader range than iTunes, so I bought Up and Moon from there. Both very good, very different, films. The female bird named Kevin in Up was quite amusing, and Dug the dog was just awesome! I’m a bit of a softie for dogs, they are just such great companion animals.
Back to iTunes, I also bought the first two seasons of Little Britain and a season of Family Guy, and for something completely different, the first and second seasons of Mad Men. I’m pretty happy with the iTunes TV downloads, as they are much, much faster, however, they don’t have subtitles, which is annoying, and the sound quality on three or four of the Mad Men was rather poor. A very tinny, high-treble sound that occurred whenever certain ‘clicky’ types of sounds were in the show, so doors closing, footsteps, and anything like that. It was rather distracting and rather annoying, but at the time the convenience was worth it!
Category: life