Online DVD rental

Lynxette

I have come to the solid conclusion that I am totally RUBBISH at choosing the best forum for a thread to go into - Move if needed. :-P

What is the best company for these online DVD rental malarky stuff? Flicking through, I caught the Wilko+ thread and thought that sounded like a good idea, but none of the DVD's appeal to me (I already own a few on the list and the rest I don't want!!) So, taking away that part of the deal, I had to question whether I was getting the best deal available.

Any advice?

[Deleted User]

LoveFilm sent me a free 3 month trial, worth about £45. So I am kind of a fan of theirs... untill the trial runs out!

cowbutt

I like easycinema.com, as I don't watch enough DVDs to make an 'all you can eat' monthly subscription service value for money. Easycinema's simple £1.99 per film charge works out best for me. I usually buy credits in blocks of 7, allowing me to keep two DVDs at any one time. If I remember correctly, the Easycinema service is back-ended by Lovefilm these days (it used to be VideoIsland, I think, but then Lovefilm bought them out).

geordie_joe

I have tried both Tesco's and LoveFilm. I found both were slow to send out the disks. When they sent the disks to me they would arrive the next day, but when I returned the disks it would take 3 days for them to be marked as recieved in my account. Of course this meant they didn't send out the next one for 3 days.

This limited the number of disks I got each month.

You also had to keep at least 10 films in your wanted list. This meant I reached the point where I had to add films I wasn't really bothered about watching, just to make the numbers up. When this happened it was always one of those which was sent and not one of the ones I really wanted to watch.

I originally joined Tescos because I wanted to watch an TV series again. It was on 6 DVDs and I put them in my list, in order. But Tesco kept sending them in the wrong order. When I sent them back and said I wanted them in the right order I got told to re-enter them into my list. But I couldn't do that as the system wouldn't let me order a DVD I had already had.

So I joined LoveFilm and just ordered the first DVD, then ordered the second one when the first one arrived.

That's when I discovered that the DVDs had been miss printed and I was never going to see the series in the correct order.

Can't remember the exact details but it was something like, Disk 1 contained episodes 7, 8 & 9, although it said 1, 2 7 3 on the label. Disk 2 contained episodes 4, 5 & 6 etc. etc.