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MovieFlix Showcases Halloween Horror Film Fest - Business Of Cinema

Broadband movie provider on the internet, MovieFlix.com has come up with a Halloween Horror Film Festival beginning 19 October.

Each day of this 13-day festival will feature an exclusive online screening of a classic horror film.

Movies to be featured include The Terror with Boris Karloff, Little Shop of Horrors with Jack Nicholson, Apeman with Bela Lugosi and rare finds as Face of the Screaming Werewolf and The Crawling Eye.

These features and more will be accompanied by Halloween horror movie trivia, fun film facts, games and member giveaways. Also on offer are 4,000-plus- movies from MovieFlix's library for the viewers.

MovieFlix.com CEO and co-founder Opher Mizrahi said, "Horror fans are among the most loyal movie fans. We're excited to offer them 13 truly frightful movies."

October 11, 2007 - Business Of Cinema

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Broadband Cinema - PC Magazine

By: Michael Muchmore

Chances are that you've watched those amusing three-minute viral videos on YouTube and other sites. Cute. But what if you're in the mood for some longer-format entertainment at a higher image quality, maybe even featuring professional talent? The Internet can help there too. I spent an exhausting week watching movies from five on-demand and download services: Amazon Unbox, CinemaNow, MovieFlix, Movielink, and Vongo. Each has a somewhat different take on what your online movie experience should be. They vary significantly in what they offer, how you should pay, and whether you subscribe to a film library, rent, or purchase the content. Read on to see which service works best.

MovieFlix offers a large collection of free and subscription movies, but no current blockbusters. Most of its films are faded around the edges, but for the cheapest monthly fee of any service I used, it can still deliver some entertainment.

MovieFlix has no software to download: It relies on its Web site and RealPlayer to deliver movies. (And this reviewer ain't a big fan of Real's pop-ups, messages, calls home, and other baggage.) If you pay the $7.95 monthly membership fee, you can use Windows Media Player instead, though WMP couldn't find the MovieFlix server, even after I granted access through my firewall.

The interface is unsophisticated—primarily a large list of genres. Clicking one yields an alphabetical text-and-link list, without thumbnails. And when I say the films aren't major movies, I mean it. Titles such as the animated Aquarium of the Aliens and Nightmare Castle leapt out, as well as lots of other stuff you haven't heard of from the 1930s to the 1960s. Even member favorites had titles like Son of the Sheik and Zoltan, Hound of Dracula.

Unlike the other sites here, there are no downloadable rentals: MovieFlix is purely a streaming service. But you can fast-forward and use the progress indicator right away, without waiting for the entire movie to download. I watched streams at 200 Kbps and 225 Kbps, which is lower than any other service, but that's the price of instant gratification; most services make you wait while the beginning of a film downloads. That bit rate doesn't lend itself to full-screen viewing on a 19-inch display, let alone on a large TV.

As you might expect for such a bare-bones service, there's no support for portable devices, or even for offline viewing. Parental controls seem limited to a "Family Filter," which you turn on and off—but how can you prevent a child from turning it off after you turn it on? MovieFlix doesn't offer in-demand recent hits or the ability to download films, but for a quick entertainment fix, you can't beat the price.

March 14, 2007 - PC Magazine

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Online movie download market: iTunes - 67%, MovieFlix - 19%, CinemaNow - 9% - ZDNet

Downloading TV programs from the Web is becoming more popular with consumers. There was a 39% increase in subscription rentals of TV content and a 255% increase in TV-title digital video downloads between August 2005 and August 2006. NPD also reports that people who purchased TV titles on DVD were twice as likely as the average consumer to also download digital video content. In fact, 92% of consumers who downloaded a video 2005, expected to download the same amount or even more 2006. For the year to date ending in August 2006, iTunes was the most popular paid video download site with 67% of video downloads. MovieFlix followed with 19% and CinemaNow was third with 9%, NPD Group reported.

November 2, 2006 - ZDNet

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MovieFlix Branches Out - Video Business

Launches new site with streams of indie movies, TV shows

By: Jennifer Netherby

Internet movie service MovieFlix.com has launched a new site featuring streams of independent movies, TV shows, how-to videos and other content to expand its Web presence.

The new MovieWay.com features similar content offered by MovieFlix, which the company said recently surpassed 2 million members. Both offer adult streams in addition to 3,500 other titles. MovieWay also includes exclusive movie screenings and personalized recommendations.