Movie Downloading 101

It was right around the time Ben Stiller turned up at a Bat Mitzvah disguised as a mime that I started to yearn for the couch. But I had downloaded Starsky & Hutch to my home-office computer. And even though the picture looked great in full-screen mode on my 17in. monitor, with none of the jerkiness that sometimes plagues online video streams, I had my feet propped up on a printer, and my husband had to stand behind me to see Stiller strut his stuff. Not what I had in mind for movie night.

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