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LOVEFiLM to Take Over Amazon DVD Business

Online retailer Amazon.com Inc. and DVD rental subscription company LOVEFiLM International said Monday that LOVEFiLM will acquire Amazon Europe’s DVD rental business in the U.K. and Germany.

As part of the transaction, Amazon Europe will also make a cash investment and become the largest shareholder in LOVEFiLM International Ltd. Amazon Europe will also promote LOVEFiLM on its sites for British and German customers.

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we have seen, Netflix and NBC have a very solid working relationship, offering exclusive web content for the site in the past. Today, Netflix announced that it will offer episodes of hit NBC shows, such as Heroes, The Office, 30 Rock, and Friday Night Lights to its subscribers for instant viewing online.

Just to clarify, Netflix has offered instant viewing of various DVDs, including Heroes Season 1, prior to today, but now it will be making episodes that are currently unavailable on DVD available for viewing. This also marks the fourth way that you can see NBC shows online. NBC currently offers its shows on Hulu, NBC.com, NBC Direct, and now Netflix. It’s nice to see that NBC is really forward thinking about Web distribution, now hopefully the Writer’s Guild can get the strike settled so that they will be compensated for this content.

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Netflix’s return DVD mailers are apparently costing the U.S. Postal Service $21 million in annual labor costs. And the Postal Service wants some of its money back.

Simply put, Netflix’s return DVDs clog the postal machinery and require manual sorting. When Netflix subscribers open their mailers the leading edge of the package is removed. On return, the same package comes back without the hard edge and plastic instead and jams the sorters.

According to Citi analysts Tony Wible and Mark Mahaney a potential 17 cent surcharge to Netflix’s DVD return packages would crush the company’s operating income per subscriber

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Reed Hastings, CEO of online DVD renter Netflix, has acknowledged that it is only a matter of time before people stop renting DVDs. “Renting DVDs through the mail in 25 years? For sure, that’s not going to exist,” Hastings remarked in an interview with today’s (Tuesday) Wall Street Journal. Hastings acknowledged that the end could come far sooner than 25 years. However, he added, “If one thinks of Netflix as a DVD rental business, one is right to be scared. If one thinks of Netflix as an online movie service with multiple different delivery models, then one’s a lot less scared.” Hastings said that Netflix is “aggressively” investing in its Internet delivery system, putting $40 million into it this year. “We’ll be up to 5,000 films by the end of the year,” he said.

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The phone number for Netflix customer service (which is still not on their site) is 1-888-NETFLIX (638-3549). Press 0 for a human operator.

Another phone number is on the How It Works page, but you can’t access it while logged in. That number is 1-800-585-8131.
Customer service is available between the hours of 7:00 AM and 12:00 AM (midnight), Eastern time.

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The company has come in from criticism from users over its claim to offer ‘unlimited’ DVD rentals in its unlimted adverts.

It was revealed that they practice “throttling”. This is where high-volume users may experience a greater likelihood of slower delivery from alternate warehouses, and selections from lower in their rental queue. They are also less likely to receive replacement shipments on the same day a disc is received

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DVD rental company Lovefilm has been rapped by the Advertising Standards Authority over claims it offered an ‘unlimited’ subscription package.

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lovefilm downloading service is following the youtube craze with 100’s of short funny videos & mini movies to watch for free.

my personal favorite is ‘Bush at his Best’ lol

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Notice from sainsbury dvd rental website:

From the 6th September 2006 Sainsbury’s will no longer be offering a DVD rental service.

All Sainsbury’s DVD rental customers are being transferred to LOVEFiLM.com and Sainsbury’s DVD Rental are not accepting any new signups.

LOVEFiLM have run the Sainsbury’s DVD Rental service since its launch in 2004 and offer the same service and Terms & Conditions - please see below on how to start a free trial with LOVEFiLM.

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Boxchoice, DVD Options, Global e-Rental, DVDs4US, DVDtoMe, and Another DVD have recently closed down. The smaller dvd rental companies are falling away with the big players controlling the market.

We will removing their reviews from our uk dvd rental review at uk dvd rental reviews

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Article from Digital Media Europe

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