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    LoveFilm online

    Signed up for the free trial mainly based on the new PS3 and online options. Only to discover you have to pay extra (like £3.50) to watch the new releases this way. I can rent films on PS3 directly through the PS3 store without having to pay £10/month for a LoveFilm subscription, seems a bit crummy to me.

    Anyone else used the online part much and come to any conclusions? The regular post-you-the-DVDs part is all well and good but I'm not really interested in it, I'd hoped it was a proper online service to watch what you wanted.
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    #2
    I've tried the online viewing and drawn the same conclusion as yourself.

    I just rent bluRays and add them to my collection but am finding my rental list has diminished significantly. Have been with them for a few years. No problems apart from that, reasonably good service. They don't seem to be very good in cleaning the detritus off the DVDs though.
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      #3
      Originally posted by d000hg View Post
      Signed up for the free trial mainly based on the new PS3 and online options. Only to discover you have to pay extra (like £3.50) to watch the new releases this way. I can rent films on PS3 directly through the PS3 store without having to pay £10/month for a LoveFilm subscription, seems a bit crummy to me.

      Anyone else used the online part much and come to any conclusions? The regular post-you-the-DVDs part is all well and good but I'm not really interested in it, I'd hoped it was a proper online service to watch what you wanted.
      I believe their business model relies heavily on duping the gullible. That is where YOU come in d000hg.

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        #4
        Yeah, the online bit is misleading….

        My package allows unlimited online streaming for free…..but this does not cover new releases. The latest movies available for free are at least 18 months old…

        But I’m happy with the postal service, and since the online bit is free, I cant complain….

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          #5
          Recently binned my membership with them as I was running out of options to rent.

          Add to the fact they have an ongoing dispute with universal which lessens the amount of titles they have available.
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            #6
            I mainly use them to try out new TV shows by renting the first disc of the first season, or to watch some of the old classics that aren't on TV that often.

            Tried the online streaming but I don't think the resolution is good enough for watching on a big plasma, it's VCD quality at best, so defeats the point unless you are used to viewing movies on much smaller screens.

            As for the discs turning up a bit mucky with fingerprints, they once sent me an anti-static cloth brandishing the phrase "Don't watch dirty movies".
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              #7
              Originally posted by PAH View Post
              As for the discs turning up a bit mucky with fingerprints, they once sent me an anti-static cloth brandishing the phrase "Don't watch dirty movies".
              Got one of those too and didn't realise it was for cleaning the DVD's

              I thought they had seen my rental list and were just being helpful AND ironic
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                #8
                I find the pirates bay to be a good source of new releases

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                  #9
                  I thought most peeps still have montly bandwidth limits, so it sounds of limited usefullness even without the gripe of not having recent releases
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                    #10
                    Originally posted by amcdonald View Post
                    I thought most peeps still have montly bandwidth limits, so it sounds of limited usefullness even without the gripe of not having recent releases
                    I signed up to NTL now virgin back in 2000 and have never had a download limit, they may throttle it for excessive users but i have never been advised of any kind of limit and i am running 2 playstations 2 Xbox, 3 PCs, 2 ipods almost 24/7

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