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LOVEFiLM will acquire Amazon Europe’s DVD rental business in the U.K.
As part of the transaction, Amazon Europe will also make a cash investment and become the largest shareholder in LOVEFiLM Ltd. Amazon Europe will also promote LOVEFiLM on its sites for British and German customers.
Following completion of the deal, the new Lovefilm subscriber base will come to more than 1M customers predominantly in Britain and Germany.
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.
Netflix 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.
Lovefilm has come in from criticism from users over its claim to offer ‘unlimited’ DVD rentals in its unlimited 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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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.
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BBC: “The Online DVD Rental War”
See BBC News Online’s The Online DVD Rental War piece from 22 March for an interesting perspective on the industry:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4804624.stm
Huge Selection of DVD Movies
With DVD collections consisting of over 70,000+ to choose from, this should cover virtually every DVD that is available on the UK market. You can explore anything from Blockbuster/classic TV series and special interest titles alongside all the hot new releases and the all-time greats. [Read more →]
Great value for money
Package range from £7.99 to £14.99 for unlimited game rental per month and £5.99 – £9.99 for prepaid package you are getting great value for money compared paying £3.00 per game rental at your local video shop or pay per view channels.
You can keep the games as long as you like and unlike a normal game rental shop, you’ll never be charged for overdue games. [Read more →]
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