I recently saw an advertisement for a product that was supposed to revolutionize the way people watch movies. I saw this commercial a few times and I was highly interested due to my love of movies and its rather low price of about $10 a month.

I went to the website to find that it promised pretty much the same as the commercial, only in slightly more detail. Both platforms promised unlimited downloads of a large selection of movies for one monthly price.

So I downloaded Vongo and signed up for the service to give the 14 day free trial a shot to see if it was worth the download.

It was.

The selection of movies made me giggle like a mad person. Things like Pulp Fiction,Young Frankenstein, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Revenge of the Nerds, House of Flying Daggers, Hitch, Armageddon, Chronicles of Narnia, Flightplan, Sin City, Guess Who, and more. Of course, those are among the movies that caught my attention. There are plenty of others from many different genres, titles, eras, and studios.

The downloads are fast. It takes some time - around an hour and a half - to download an entire movie on my connection, though yours may vary depending on your connection speed.

No matter how fast your connection is, you're going to have to wait - probably at least an hour - for the movie to be fully downloaded. This isn't as bad as it sounds: you're able to start the movie when a certain portion has finished being downloaded - typically between 5 and 20 minutes - and the download continues as you watch the movie.

There's also a feature that I didn't know about until after I signed up for the service, and that's that you can watch the Starz! movie channel for free, in high quality streaming video, or you can download the movies that are on or coming soon.

There are a few negative points to Vongo, though:

1) All of the movies have a limited 'life'. Vongo acquires a temporary license to allow them to distribute the movies and once that expires you cannot watch that movie any longer. However, most of the movies I've downloaded had at least a few months left on them, though some can have as little as a few days or a few hours.
2) You can't burn the movie to any other media once it's been downloaded, so you have to let the rather large files stay on your drive until you delete them. Due to the high video quality, file size can be over a gigabyte per 90 minute movie.
3) When movies are very new (as in just out of the theaters and just released on DVD), they're almost always Pay-Per-View, which means you pay about $4 to download the movie, but again you can keep it until it expires. Some older movies are also Pay-Per-View, but their prices are almost always lower.