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RE: Best Online Rental Shops (Please advise) - 25/1/2010 12:43:45 PM

Your Funny Uncle

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So Funny People and Gamer aren't available on Lovefilm.....Grr

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RE: Best Online Rental Shops (Please advise) - 17/10/2010 9:12:08 PM

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They also don't have Inglorious Basterds or Robin Hood

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RE: Best Online Rental Shops (Please advise) - 13/5/2011 11:29:42 AM

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Since introducing Top TIcket Blockbuster have really been taking the piss with logging in returns promptly - whereas they used to add a day over returns to another DVD rental (too regular to be just the post), it's now up to 5 days. I've twice had to push them with lost DVD notifications because their system just isn't updating.

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RE: Best Online Rental Shops (Please advise) - 27/5/2011 6:50:37 PM

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ORIGINAL: SilentBob

They also don't have Inglorious Basterds or Robin Hood

Lovefilm have an ongoing dispute with Universal Pictures which means that Universals more recent releases are not available. This goes back to November 2009 and so anything since then will only be available to buy. Nowhere on the site is this outlined or explained - emailing Lovefilm for a list of unavailable titles gets only a polite corporate response that doesnt address the issue directly. I don't think this is something they want to publicise.

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RE: Best Online Rental Shops (Please advise) - 30/5/2011 5:36:40 PM

MI Cruise

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I've noticed that Lovefilm are letting you have a 2 month free trial instead of the usual 14 day one, I was wondering whether this offer will last for a few months or whether its going to end after this month?

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RE: Best Online Rental Shops (Please advise) - 18/7/2011 6:37:07 PM

Chopper

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I've signed up to Natwest Siler Account, I get free lovefilm rentas (3 a month plus 2hr's online).

This'll be my 2nd time with LoveFilm, all looks the same, wish me luck! :D

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RE: Best Online Rental Shops (Please advise) - 25/4/2012 12:33:51 PM

The Hooded Man

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Lovefilm don't have boxsets like Lord of the Rings or Star Wars blu ray to rent either? Is it worth switching to Netflix?

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RE: Best Online Rental Shops (Please advise) - 25/4/2012 12:56:28 PM

elab49

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Netflix only do online streaming - they certainly don't have anything like LOTR or Star Wars in their library. Very few big name films.

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RE: Best Online Rental Shops (Please advise) - 18/11/2012 9:17:30 PM

Mister Coe

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As an internet newbie, I'm doing the free month Netflix thing right now, and I''m quite happy with it... I'm catching up with shows I've always wanted to see but haven't had access to like Dexter, Breaking Bad, the last couple of seasons of The Office (US), a couple of 80's classics that I haven't seen in a couple of decades ( Remo - Unarmed and Dangerous and Lifeforce) and, surprisingly, a few movies that I didn't think would be on free streaming right now. 21 Jump Street, anyone?

And I got to watch Dreams Of A Life, which I've been dying to watch since last Christmas but it didn't show up on DVD or Channel 4. Superb and moving.

Is Lovefilm any better? I might check out their free month as well...

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RE: Best Online Rental Shops (Please advise) - 26/12/2012 3:18:49 PM

elab49

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Dreams of a Life has been on TV now I think, but it was on Netflix for a while first.

I guess it depends if you're only using Lovefilm for streaming. I use it for home rental so it has any released film you could want, with possibly the best back catalogue available in the UK. Exceptions are a couple pf small imprints that don't allow their titles to be rented anywhere.

And the odd big name doesn't change the problem that, unless you're doing TV catch-up, films being added to Netflix flow like treacle. Films like Tucker & Dale and Dreams of a Life (and a good chunk of the rest in the NEW line) have been showing there for more than 6 months, some much more, with no movement. It's why it's worth getting a vpn and using your netflix sub to view the US site.

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