Apparently AOL Video is trying to promote their video download service by giving away 30+ videos on Saturday, December 2, 2006. Unfortunately I gave up after I failed 2 of their requirements. First it didn’t support Firefox, so I swapped over to IE and tried again. I thought they’re probably going to install some ActiveX control, but decided to give it a shot anyway. Then it blew up again and said it currently did not support IE7, and suggested I uninstall IE7 and return to IE6 for the time being. I found that hilarious and the fact that they even provided instructions on how to uninstall IE7 and revert back to IE6:
You can also restore the Hi-Q Video Delivery Manager by using the Add or Remove Programs to uninstall IE 7.0 and revert back to IE 6.0.
Simply navigate to Control Panel and select Add or Remove Programs
Select IE 7.0 and click uninstall
The uninstall process should remove IE 7.0 and restore IE 6.0
I guess this is really 1 requirement which is IE6 being the browser, but I’m not going to uninstall IE7 just to watch a few free movies. However, if you’re still interested in their service, go visit their promotion page. The promotion expires on Sunday, December 3, 2006 at 6am ET.
The list of movies include:
- Nacho Libre
- The Muppets Take Manhattan
- Mission Impossible III
- SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
- Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
- Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle
- My Dog Skip
- Failure To Launch
- Jack Frost
- Zoolander
- Patriot Games
- National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
- School of Rock
- Last Holiday
- The Perfect Storm
- Jackass: The Movie
- Adam Sandler’s: Eight Crazy Nights
- Rugrats Go Wild
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s
- Can’t Hardly Wait
- Maid in Manhattan
- Star Trek I: The Motion Picture
- Men in Black
- All I Want for Christmas
- The Prince and Me
- The Natural
- Analyze This
- D.E.B.S.
- Easy Rider
- Flatliners
- White Christmas
- The Golden Child
The Digg post mentioned Spider-Man 2 was also free, but I wasn’t able to find it.