FREE DVDs

Advantages: Free trial, large choice, post included,new realeases
Disadvantages: see review

...I like movies and I like freebies, so when you get offered both in one swoop you?re bound to accept! I used my two week free trial with this company and remained with them for a couple of monthsbefore moving on to try many other companies free trials (and winning a new DVD player on Tesco DVD rental site on their free trial offer). I then had an email from DVDs 365 asking me to go back, and offering me a free DVD if I did so. I had just left Tesco (with my new DVD player) so I chose to go back with them. ∆◊◊ THE SERVICE THEY OFFER ∆◊◊ Basically it?s like going to a video shop and hiring films on DVD, except you don?t pay for each film you chose ? rather a monthly fee for which you can watch as many movies as you can fit in, for us this is usually around 8 a month (2 a week usually weekends...

dabmim 15.11.2004 · Read review
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Surprising Picture Quality - Panasonic DVD-S54

Advantages: Incredible picture quality when compared to my old non-upscaling player with a scart lead
Disadvantages: Sometimes disc drive can be really noisy when DVD's initially load.

...At first I wasn't convinced by up-scaling DVD player technology but was persuaded after reading an article in "What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision" magazine. Unable to afford a Blu-Ray player my sister and I bought the Panasonic DVD-S54 to match our parents brand new Panasonic TX-32LZD80 LCD television as their Christmas 2008 present. Admittedly it was a slightly selfish purchase as we both live at home and wanted to watch DVDs on the big new TV ourselves! We bought the player from the electrical retailer Comet for about £100 just before Christmas so there were no discounts applied. On Christmas day when opened we found a relatively small box tightly packed with the player in polystyrene packaging. All the components such as cables, remote and manuals were well presented in their own protective plastic bags, to keep them protected. The player...

bobbacon985 12.02.2009 · Read review
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Emmanuelle Gets Gutsy

Advantages: Twisted revenge tale
Disadvantages: Dull and at times tedious

...First up please ignore the image Ciao have selected to represent this movie, as you'll read that cover could not be further from the storyline I'll cover here. Since the early 1970's the name Emmanuelle has been a name used frequently to represent soft core pornography in Cinema over the last 30+ years 11 different actresses have played Emmanuelle in more than 30 different movies. The best known of those is Sylvia Krystel as the original Emmanuelle, and Laura Gemser who was the "Black Emmanuelle"; while the traditional Emmanuelle movie stayed traditional in that they were simply sex stories, Black Emmanuelle encountered cannibals, and the snuff move industry, in fact Black Emmanuelle movies were more horror related than anything else. In 1975 Joe D'Amato the creator of the original and most of the Emmanuelle movies needed to find...

sghawken 18.09.2007 · Read review
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Review of Blood Vengeance (DVD)

Indiana Jones Meets Emmanuelle

Advantages: Beautiful Cinematography
Disadvantages: Poor editing

...Gwendoline AKA The Perils Of Gwendoline In The Land Of The Yik Yak is the most unusually confusing movie I have seen of late. While the movie itself is not confusing as such the production values place you in a certain sort of turmoil you can't quite decide if what you have just seen is incredibly good or incredibly bad. In 1984 acclaimed French Director Just Jaeckin was approached by a film company to make the movie Gwendoline. The movie was destined to be a kind of Indiana Jones movie with a female lead. Jaeckin who declared himself retired 3 years prior was not the ideal choice for making this sort of movie; you see Jaeckin was a softcore porn director with a string of erotic classics like Emmanuelle and The Story Of O under his belt. After much deliberation Jaeckin was persuaded to make the movie on one condition, that condition...

sghawken 17.05.2007 (30.11.2007) · Read review
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Review of Gwendoline (DVD)

YAMAHA DVD-S 557 this is THE DVD player of all time.

Advantages: Brilliant DVD player, perfect quality
Disadvantages: cant think of any

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plainpaul 22.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of Yamaha DVD-S 557

FREE DVDS

Advantages: up to date dvds, four weeks free hire with 3 dvds at a time,
Disadvantages: see review

...My recent quest for FREE DVD hire I visited and many DVD web sites that offered a free trial. Now call me tight (no that wasn?t an invite), but I like bargains and freebies and am not ashamed to say so. My quest took me to enough sites to hire DVDs for about four months so far (with plenty to come too). My latest free DVD site also happens to be the best I have tried for several reasons (see rest of op); the site in question is Blockbuster.co.uk. Other sites that I have had free rentals from and then cancelled have all been similar, two weeks free trial with two DVD?s per time ? which in effect gives you about four free DVD?s. With Blockbuster?s things are different slightly ? which add a great deal of benefit to us the customer. Firstly, you get FOUR whole weeks free rental, which equates to at double the length of time most...

dabmim 18.06.2004 · Read review
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Review of blockbuster.co.uk

DVDs, DIVX, and looks fantastic.

Advantages: DVDs, DIVX, and looks fantastic.
Disadvantages: none

...Before I bought this DVD player Id never really owned a DVD player before. I had however had and still do have a ps2 on which I used to play my DVDs. I never really went and still don’t go on this so much so I was going to sell it and buy a DVD player. In the end I decided to just keep the ps2 and to get a cheaper DVD player than I was looking for in the first place. The main reason why I wanted a new DVD instead of the one in the ps2 was so I could play divx format DVDs on it. The DVD player in a ps2 doesn’t recognise this format and scene as I have several divx movies already on disk and on my laptop to put onto disk then I wanted a DVD player that would recognise and play this format. Another plus to this format is that it saves space on disks as it compresses movies into smaller file sizes without compromising...

techno_man_37 09.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of Bush DVD 2054

Cheapest for CDS and DVDS

Advantages: Cheap prices and easy to use
Disadvantages: Can't think of any!!

...DVDS for those of us who have region free players. So go on check it out, you know it makes sense!!...

greenyamo 21.10.2008 · Read review
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Review of Play.com

DVDs for a fixed monthly fee...

Advantages: Simple, easy to use, quick delivery, good customer service
Disadvantages: May not have all the titles you are after

...I was using one of those sites that offer you points or a few cents for trying out free offers (don't recall which one exactly, may have been 'IPoints'...) and it had Lovefilm's FREE two week trial. I signed up free for the minimal membership which allows you to keep one DVD at a time for as long as you want (with no late fees!) and although I had to give my credit card information, the agreement states that you will not be charged anything if you cancel within the two week period.. The membership ranges from £9 to £15 per month now; I do not recall how much it cost mid last year to be honest.. The other memberships get you 2 and 3 DVDs at a go. I added the films I was interested in to some sort of 'wishlist'. The idea is that they send you one DVD, you keep it for as long as you want, then they send you the next one on your list...

marina321 06.01.2009 · Read review
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Review of Lovefilm.com(film)

Predictable Supernatural (review of show & DVDs)

Advantages: Passes the time, some interesting storylines,
Disadvantages: Predictable, no bonus features included,

...was younger... I suppose there is an element of well what did I expect? but I still feel like they could have maybe made it a bit more unpredictable... Back to the DVD side of things and one real downside in my opinion, is the lack of bonus/special features. Basically in the boxset you get all 22 episodes that made up the first series/season and subtitles in English and Dutch but thats about all. There are no commentaries, deleted scenes or featurettes, none of that. I've heard you get alot more bonus features on the region 1, American version, so for some reason they've omitted that material from this version, which is a shame. The DVDs are seperated into two different sets, Volume 1 (containing 3 boxes with obviously 3 DVDs, equating to the first 11 episodes) and Volume 2 (again containing 3 boxes, equating to the last 11 episodes...

IzzyS 25.07.2007 · Read review
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Review of Supernatural - Series 1 - Vol.1 (Box Set) (DVD)