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Are there places I can download HD content legally?

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Hey
I want to use my mac as an htpc and dont want to buy HD in hard form. Are there places I can legally purchase/download HD content?
I mean TV shows, movies etc.

Thanks
 
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I think the only place with downloadable regular HD content is currently the Xbox live marketplace.

But I'm sure apple will add hd tv shows and movies to the iTunes Store soon enough.
 

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Or get something like the Elgato EyeTV Hybrid and record your own HD content from your local over the air TV stations.
 
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This probably isn't precisely what you're looking for, but some of it can be fascinating.

It's the Internet Archive, home of the Wayback Machine. There are a zillion movies, a lot of them awful, free to download at different rates or for streaming.

They range from pre-1910s silents — the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake — and 1910s and '20s silent-movie features — the original 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea — to cartoons and old two-colour features and more modern Technicolor flicks.

And who could forget Ford's how-to-sell-cars movie, starring Beaver Cleaver's father?

The original DOA is there, and a bunch of other films that still show up on TV.

Entertainment Magazine has free movies, as well.
 

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