OT - DVD rental recommendation?

Does anyone have a string recommendation
of a web/mail order DVD rental service?

I don't want $ky, but my local (and only)
physical shop (BlockBuster)
is now insane.

High Prices (£4.50 for 2 nights of the latest disc)
and tiny back catalogue.

BugBear

bugbear wrote:
Does anyone have a string recommendation
of a web/mail order DVD rental service?

I don't want $ky, but my local (and only)
physical shop (BlockBuster)
is now insane.

High Prices (£4.50 for 2 nights of the latest disc)
and tiny back catalogue.

BugBear

Have you tried your local library? Where I live they charge £1.60 for one
weeks hire.

"Adrian A" wrote in message
om...
bugbear wrote:
Does anyone have a string recommendation
of a web/mail order DVD rental service?

I don't want $ky, but my local (and only)
physical shop (BlockBuster)
is now insane.

High Prices (£4.50 for 2 nights of the latest disc)
and tiny back catalogue.

BugBear

Have you tried your local library? Where I live they charge £1.60 for one
weeks hire.


Does the library have current releases though?

"bugbear" wrote in message
...
Does anyone have a string recommendation
of a web/mail order DVD rental service?

I don't want $ky, but my local (and only)
physical shop (BlockBuster)
is now insane.

High Prices (£4.50 for 2 nights of the latest disc)
and tiny back catalogue.

BugBear

http://dvd.easycinema.com/welcome/home.html


Shadow

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:28:24 +0000, bugbear
wrote:

Does anyone have a string recommendation
of a web/mail order DVD rental service?

I don't want $ky, but my local (and only)
physical shop (BlockBuster)
is now insane.

High Prices (£4.50 for 2 nights of the latest disc)
and tiny back catalogue.

You might find that many of them charge prices like this for hire of a
specific disc at a specific time. The more usual arrangement seems to
be that you build up a "wishlist" on their website, then for a fixed
monthly subscription they send you discs chosen by them from your
list, depending on availability. There's no time limit for return of a
particular disc, but you can have a certain number in your possession
at any time (the number depending on the deal), and when you return
one they send you another.

Annoyingly, there isn't a different deal for boxed sets. Individual
discs are treated like any other, and although they're sent in episode
order, this is by the company's choice, not yours, so you may have to
watch a few feature films before getting to see the next episode of a
set. Personally I avoid renting boxed sets for this reason.

In the end you get what you pay for. I did a Google search for "DVD
rental", checked what the top few companies were offering, read a few
user reviews, and eventually chose Screenselect. Recently they've
changed their name to "Lovefilm" without any apparent change in the
level of service, which has been good. You can set three priority
levels in your wishlist, and there is an easy online procedure for
reporting problems like lost discs - luckily only one in about a year
so far, but they simply replaced it without question.

Rod.

Roderick Stewart wrote:


In the end you get what you pay for. I did a Google search for "DVD
rental", checked what the top few companies were offering, read a few
user reviews, and eventually chose Screenselect. Recently they've
changed their name to "Lovefilm" without any apparent change in the
level of service, which has been good. You can set three priority
levels in your wishlist, and there is an easy online procedure for
reporting problems like lost discs - luckily only one in about a year
so far, but they simply replaced it without question.


I'd recommend LoveFilm as well (I was on ScreenSelect). And at the
moment if you sign up for a trial they're doing a draw for an HDTV.

See here on HotUKDeals:
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deal/10247/lovefilm-1-week-1-hdtv-a-day-give-a

Stewart

diy-newby wrote:
"Adrian A" wrote in message
om...
bugbear wrote:
Does anyone have a string recommendation
of a web/mail order DVD rental service?

I don't want $ky, but my local (and only)
physical shop (BlockBuster)
is now insane.

High Prices (£4.50 for 2 nights of the latest disc)
and tiny back catalogue.

BugBear

Have you tried your local library? Where I live they charge £1.60
for one weeks hire.


Does the library have current releases though?

Yes

bugbear wrote:
Does anyone have a string recommendation
of a web/mail order DVD rental service?


Why bother?

Get a PVR, program it to record films only. With multichannel digital
TV, there are so many films broadcast 24hrs a day even from freeview
that renting or buying DVD's makes little sense...

Unless, you absolutely have to have watched the latest, then in that
case the only places worth doing that is either at the Cinema or in
front of very expensive home cinema kit, where costs of DVD's pale into
insignificance...

I don't want $ky

Freeview is sufficient. Trust me....

--
Adrian C

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:28:24 +0000, bugbear
wrote:

Does anyone have a string recommendation
of a web/mail order DVD rental service?

I don't want $ky, but my local (and only)
physical shop (BlockBuster)
is now insane.

High Prices (£4.50 for 2 nights of the latest disc)
and tiny back catalogue.

BugBear

I have found Amazon to be good. Most of there DVD's for sale are
available for rental. They pay the postage & no having to get the DVD
back quickly. All for a reasonable cost per month. You decide how
many you want.
David

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:26:35 +0000, Adrian C wrote:
bugbear wrote:
Does anyone have a string recommendation
of a web/mail order DVD rental service?


Why bother?

Get a PVR, program it to record films only. With multichannel digital
TV, there are so many films broadcast 24hrs a day even from freeview
that renting or buying DVD's makes little sense...

Unless, you absolutely have to have watched the latest, then in that
case the only places worth doing that is either at the Cinema or in
front of very expensive home cinema kit, where costs of DVD's pale into
insignificance...

....or your taste in films is less than mainstream.

I've signed up with Tesco (run by LoveFilm) and working my way through
their Far Eastern cinema selection. (The remake of The Ring wasn't a
patch on the original.) They also carry quite a lot of anime, and I can't
remember the last time I saw any anime (aside from Pokemon) on any
Freeview-carried channel (and even that was dubbed).

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Eridani Star System

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