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" The same revolution in digital compression and bandwidth expansion that made it possible to buy and download music over the Internet is slowly but steadily changing the way we get movies into our homes. Online movie stores such as CinemaNow, Movielink, Apple iTunes and Amazon Unbox now offer videos for purchase and rental at costs that rival those of DVDs (see &amp;quot;Movie Download Site Comparison&amp;quot;). Most of us, however, don&amp;#039;t want to view movies on our 17-in. computer monitors; we want to watch them on our 37-in. televisions. Getting video from PC to TV isn&amp;#039;t as easy as it should be, but it can be done. Here&amp;#039;s how. Method 1: Burn It Since all the major music download services allow you to burn CDs, you might expect that all movie download services would let you burn DVDs. You would be wrong. Nearly every service encodes its downloadable video files with some form of digital rights management (DRM) that restricts the number of copies a customer can make, and usually blocks you from burning a copy onto a DVD. However, Cinema-Now does let customers burn a few select movies to disc. (Movielink and iTunes let you back up files to DVDs, which can&amp;#039;t be played in standard DVD players.) Method 2: Plug It In Surprisingly, the easiest way to get your movies onto your TV may be to directly plug your computer into your set. Many computers come with video boards that output via S-Video, DVI (digital video interface) or even HDMI (high-definition multimedia interface). If your television has an input that matches your computer&amp;#039;s video output, then you can simply plug one into the other and enable your television as a second display through Windows Control Panel or, on a Mac, System Preferences. Moving your PC within cable&amp;#039;s length of your television isn&amp;#039;t always convenient, however. Method 3: Stream It A variety of options exist for moving video across a home network. Several digital media receivers (DMRs), including the Netgear Digi\u00ADtal Entertainer ($270) and D-Link MediaLounge players ($200 to $240), work with the Windows Media Connect file-sharing protocol. The software, which is inte-grated into the free Windows Media Player 11, streams DRM movies without violating the licenses. Come March, Apple enthusiasts will have an Apple TV device, which will work with iTunes movies. These systems work best over an Ethernet connection or a Wireless G or N connection of at least 54 megabits per second. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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