This past week I stumbed upon XL Movies [LINK] which is a virtual world movie rental store. It reminds me of Blockbuster and Netfix On Demand in one except with a few extra perks. XLMovies Kidd, Owner of XL Movies, says his company if fully legitimate in Second Life. He offers no bootleg movies like most of the other movie shops in-world. New releases are offered every Tuesday and there is always older movies added to the store.
The interesting way it works is you purchase a TV from them for about 500L and place it on your land. Then you are asked to pickup a free dvd player that actually holds all the information for your movies. You just place the dvd player next to the tv and click the dvd player. All the movies bought are stored within the dvd player but not actually in the prim. It is all on a server outside Second Life so if you ever loose that dvd player all you need to do is pickup another free player and your info automatically loads into it via your UUID.
Purchase prices for a dvd rental is 600L-800L but the neat thing is that you rent the movie for life! So that means you rent the movie and it is yours forever and you can watch it as much as you want unlimited views. So for about 3 USD you get to view your movies for as long as you want. Also another feature that is useful is that if you have 2 people watching a movie, you can each watch a movie of your choice on the same screen. So if your in the mood for action and she is in the mood for romance then you can do that. Another thing that sets XL Movies apart is if you crash, you don't have to watch the whole movie again to get to the part you were at. Just click on the time index button on the dvd player and choose the amount of minutes into the movie you were and it will start up.
The selection of movies is very well and you won't be disappointed. The quality is better than anything I have seen in Second Life but just under most online video streaming sites.
Rent 3 movies and you get the 4th one free on one visit. Visit XL Movies and rent your movie today. [LINK]
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