At the right price, yes.

I wouldn't. I can't watch movies on my computer unless I am on a plane. I'd just go out and rent it somewhere else and watch it on a comfy couch and huge tv.

I never buy or rent movies, this is what friends are for, just borrow or watch @ friends house. If they were like $1.99 I might consider renting on youtube .

Finally! What took them so long for such a basic service? Let's just hope now that the price will be acceptable.

Here is the crazy idea: why don't Yo4u connect Your PC to TV.

there are TVs with built-in Youtube support as well as third-party video players such as Popcorn Hour...

i've tried to watch regular Youtube video on TV and it was worse than watching with rabbit ears...

i don't know what kind of bit rate the rental films will have...i hope it'll be good enough to at least get SD quality to TV....

How is the news? Netflix has been doing it for years...and they are doing it good!

too bad youtube's encoding sucks although they break the video less and less now.

You took the words out of my mouth. I have this setup in 3 locations at home here. You get the big screen advantages, without the need to transfer file to pendrive or DVD. A half-decent wireless mouse is pretty practical too of course.

3.99 is a bit expensive, considering all it takes to watch it. (good internet connection, a good PC connected to either a TV or a good monitor). Hell, I could even buy a DVD for that price.

I'd rather rent a physical DVD for the same price and just need a tv and a cheap dvd player.

However, like someone else said, if the price was down do 1.99, I'd seriously consider.

Maybe they could charge based on the quality of the movie, I think that a 2mb/s streaming video isnt worth as much as say a 8mb/s streaming video. It would also help get people with low bandwidth to rent them from youtube instead of going to the local rental place and pay a few dollars more. But its up to the movie studios and google/youtube on how much a lower quality video will be worth. Maybe the studios will think that content is more important than quality..

Agreed. That is a lot of a single viewing unless they were to provide HD quality... And that would require some serious bandwidth.

Rent don't you know every movie worth watching is already on youtube and you can watch it for FREE.

Walmart - $1 rental per day.
Netflix? unlimited per month at what, I forgot, but it's worth more than $3 per rental.

netflix 8.99 a month

3.99 is crazy for a one time rental. Now $0.99.... would probably watch....even twice if its good.

how will this relate to netflix's online streaming.. sign up for 2 dvd rentals.. and u get a huge library of streaming movies/tv shows..etc.. its about time we get another strong competitor for netflix.. but price will be the factor here since netflix already has the content.

download a movie for $4 or download a movie for free, hmmmm

Or get sued for a million.

This will be hacked in 3...2...1...

Minimum 480p at $0.50 per view using laptop HDMI port to connect to widescreen or use PS3 browser ... yeah, sure.

$4? Seriously?

I'll stick with REDBOX for $1. Besides, I love Walmart anyways.

Netflix has it right. Flat fee for unlimited viewing of their online library. Skip the DVR box from your provider and build your own. They will even give you a cable card to decrypt QAM.

Look beyond the technology. Can you say that most of the stuff coming from Hollywood is actually worth watching? I wouldn't pay to watch stuff on You Tube, it's not really what I use the site for.

If YouTube offered unlimited, commercial free movies for $3.99 a month, they'd make Billions. If they charge $3.99 per movie, they'd need to invest the same infrastructure, and only a fraction of customers would show up to that offering. If YouTube is serious about the paid content market, they'll offer an cheap, unlimited subscription, because that's what people want.

you can't be tracked or sued on private torrents, might be why i'll never rent again, just download than own it if i like it enough.

3.99 for a one-time viewing is outrageous: I rarely rent movies for the same reason. When I can buy DVDs at Target/Walmart/whatever for less than ten bucks and watch them as often as I want, four bucks for a one-time thing is silly.

Besides, how long do you think you'll need to buffer if you want full DVD quality, which streams 10 Mbs compressed? And if it's not even full DVD quality, why on earth would I pay four dollars?

And don't even get me started on blu-ray. The price of those movies as dropped dramatically, as I can get lots of movies for fifteen bucks if I can catch it on sale. Hmmm: if I want to watch a youtube movie four times EVER, I'll pay more than buying it on blu-ray. If I only want to watch it once, I can still get it from redbox for a dollar. And I'll likely still get home before youtube finishes buffering.

YouTube videos don't stream well enough for me to deal with the hassle of buffering, No thanks

Well, kinda expensive for my taste honestly, maybe if those were cheaper.. Especially since these days there are quite a lot of sources from where you could get movies legally.