When Cinematic Titanic came on the scene, I scoffed at the notion that the group and Rifftrax would be “competing”–after all, there are plenty of bad movies about there for everybody.

But in one sense there does seem to be competition: Both groups are busily at work trying to make these web delivery systems as easy to use as possible for non-techie people.

We want to make it clear: Rifftrax is MUCH easier to do than it is to describe and, as Disembaudio likes to say, it works flawlessly most of the time. But there are people for whom the technical aspects are just too much.

We await CT’s first product, and we will see at that point what the ease-of-use level is for EZTakes.

In the meantime, Rifftrax has allied itself with another big name in the video download biz, Divx. It has already taken several existing Legend titles and made them available for download. This weekend it issued a sort of proof-of-concept, shake-the-bugs-out, get-the-fans-registered trial run of what will apparently be more such downloads–a three-minute bit from “Signal 30,” an infamous driver ed short.

The moral of all this is a re-assuring (to me, at least) capitalist one: the hand of the market is out there forcing these guys to make their product more and more accessible and that’s good for everybody.