Sprint to Offer Full-Length Movies
- September 6th, 2006
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Sprint is offering full-length movie downloads from a number of studios including Sony Pictures and Buena Vista VOD. Sprint already has mSpot, which is a TV and video download service which costs $6.95 a month. However, Sprint Movies will cost between $3.99 and $5.99 and will be available for a few days a time. “Extensions” on the films will cost 99 cents per 24-hour period.
They currently have 45 titles - click through to see them all - and more will be arriving in good time.
Buena Vista VOD
Annapolis
Eight Below
Glory Road
Herbie: Fully Loaded
National Treasure
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
The Village
Lionsgate
Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
First Knight
Hollywood Homicide
Little Black Book
Spider-Man 2
The Medallion
The Net
Ultraviolet
Universal Pictures
American Pie
American Pie 2
Apollo 13
Babe
Backdraft
Billy Madison
Bring it On
Dante’s Peak
End of Days
Erin Brokovich
Fast and Furious
Happy Gilmore
How High
Jaws
Kindergarten Cop
Meet the Parents
National Lampoon’s Animal House
Reality Bites
Scarface
Slapshot
The Bone Collector
The Breakfast Club
The Family Man
The Jerk
The Mummy
The Mummy Returns
The Nutty Professor 2
Tremors
Twins
U-571
webonics (Who am I?)
1 year ago
I can’t imagine watching a film on anything but a smartphone or laptop with the Sprint service.
One thing that bothers me is that you can now rent a film for $4/$6, but a ringtone costs $2.50-$4. And you can buy the whole song off of iTunes for $1. Sprint needs to review and/or renegotiate their pricing on some of their offerings.
Paul (Who am I?)
1 year ago
A phone’s screen is perfect for watching feature length films. This is ok from a technical point of view, but completely unrealistic from the consumers.
Message to Sprint: offer this as a free service to revive your dying brand.
Jake (Who am I?)
1 year ago
I just love how these services pick brilliantly bad movies, then wonder why the service doesn’t interest users. Look at the selection of UMD selections for PSP. They took a year before decent movies started to appear with regularity. I can’t imagine why no one wanted them (besides the insane pricing, of course).
It’s almost like the service providers are asking for failure to prove to the supporters it wouldn’t work after all!
Fortunately this selection is about half decent. Dante’s Peak and First Knight are balanced by Spiderman 2 and Animal House. But why have balance? Why not launch your first selection with a jaw droppingly interesting batch? Why crud it up?