Jamie Grassby's Blog

This weekend as I was lost in the world of surfing YouTube, I stumbled across something that surprised and really interested me. I found that on YouTube, you are now able to purchase movies from the site. For example, one of my favourite movies, “Lock, stock and two smoking barrels” is available to be rented at $3.99. This was extremely shocking because it was something that I never heard of YouTube doing, I didn’t even think that you were able to make purchases over YouTube, but I was wrong. After the initial surprise of it all, movies on YouTube seems like a really smart idea. YouTube movies was initially created to compete with NetFlix. As online movie watching becomes increasingly popular, Youtube movies seems like a great alternative. As a former user of Netflix, I was thoroughly unimpressed as it had really poor selection and felt that most of the movies was really dated, for me it was not even worth the $8 monthly flat rate and decided to end the subscription. YouTube Movies are ideal for people like me who surf YouTube for hours or look for ways to watch movies online without having to pirate them. Although, I feel as if a more appropriate competitor comes in the form of iTunes. They sell and rent movies in the same price range. Both systems are very similar but with the emergence of Youtube Movies, we shall see who becomes more of a success.

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