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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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EVA CASSIDY - a tribute to her life.

Advantages: An angel that died.
Disadvantages: died too young.

...This is the month when we have been asked to write musical reviews. I wrote a review on Songbird, a record by Eva Cassidy, though feel it is not enough to write about her record. Her life mattered to a lot of us, and without her songs, my life would not be as it is today. This is my tribute to a short life that left its mark on me. Eva Cassidy was born on the 2nd February 1963 and died on the 2nd November 1996. She grew up just outside Washington, and came from a musical background, her father teaching children with learning disabilities and part time musician. She was a child that loved music from a very early age and formed a band with her father and brother, and went on to be a backing singer for more well known artists who recognised the quality of her voice. I cannot put into words the kind of music she sang. It was a cross...

thingywhatsit 23.09.2003 · 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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EVA 9150-great addition to my living room; not to my bank

Advantages: Massive file range, incredible wireless networking, quiet, looks good
Disadvantages: Simply too costly right now - extra features do not justify price

...This machine is fantastic - it has even converted the wife who is as Luddite as they come. Its connection speeds with my router are pheomenal, using the n-standard, and I've been able to stream HD video from my router upstairs to this downstairs effortlessly. Misses out Windows Media Centre altogether (good thing!) and simply indexes your shared folders on whatever is your server. For me, I have a 1TB MyBook attached to my router and this works perfectly. Range of files is unsurpassed - including ISO - so you can back up your DVDs and keep them scratch free somewhere safe. 500GB hard drive is useful for your favourite stuff - easily managed too. The outputs on the back are extensive - the picture quality through the HDMI even when upscaling is superb. Really can't fault this machine at all except for minor things like the UI is...

Cardinal-Red 21.10.2009 · Read review
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Slave by Mende Nazer & Damien Lewis

Advantages: Good, interesting read
Disadvantages: True story

...This book is the true story of Mende Nazer, of her lost childhood and her fight for survival. As a young Sudanese girl, she was kidnapped and sold into slavery and only managed to escape to freedom in September 2000. Mende Grew up in the remote Nuba mountains of Sudan. The Mujahindin raidered her village on horse back, hacking down terrified villagers, raping the women and abducting the children. Twelve year old Mende was one of them. Sold to an arab woman in Khartoum, Mende was stripped of her identity and freedom. As a domestic slave, her food was the scraps left over from the families plates, her bed was the floor of the garden shed which was locked each night. She endured this harsh and lonely existance without knowing whether her family was dead or alive for seven long years. In Spring 2000, Mende was passed on to her...

mlc3188 09.03.2007 · Read review
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John Frieda hair serum, as a temporay miracle mend

Advantages: Conditions, and shines hair, prevents frizz and makes hair feel like silk.
Disadvantages: Too much makes hair look greasy

...Frizz-Ease hair serum by John Frieda, is not miracle mend, but as far as I'm concerned it is a great temporary substitute (the serum was not listed, but I thought people should know about it!). The other week I ran out of my normal conditioner, so I used a 'Superdrug' hot oil treatment, as I am growing out old colour, and my hair is still dull and brittle. Anyway, I was rinsing out the hot oil treatment, and my hair was coming away in clumps(and I don't mean a few strands!), and it felt like knotted straw; I was getting rather worried. Thankfully, by the time I was out of the shower and drying, no more hair was coming away. But, I was still left with knotted, straw-like hair. I remembered I had two sachets of hair serum (£1.25), so decided to try it, in the hope that my hair would improve. I put half of one sachet on my wet hair...

tweety 05.09.2001 · Read review
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HAIL SATAN!

Advantages: Full of energy and character, hugely atmospheric, great riffs, vocals & song structures
Disadvantages: Rough production job and emphasis on sonic harshness may put some people off

...Building on the foundations of its predecessor 'Rape of the B*stard Nazarene', Akercocke's 2001 album 'The Goat Of Mendes' is an excercise in ominous and shape-shifting black metal with death metal elements, merging lethargic and majestic sounding guitar riffs, dramatic and lamenting clean singing and dissonant, gothic-sounding passages with chugging, groove-ridden death metal sections, dementedly fast and melodic solos and a mix of incredibly intense rasping screams and extremely low and guttural growls, accompanied here and there by poignant strains of cello, werewolf-like howls, evil and portentous sounding synths and passages of male and female moans of ecstasy. As with all of Akercocke's releases the album's theme is again one of Satanism, of the Crowleyan vain in particular. This is evident in the album artwork, which depicts...

Burning_Darkness 01.08.2009 · Read review
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  The Largest Airline You've Never Heard of...?

Advantages: Good value, affordable premium economy, attentive staff
Disadvantages: Seat a little uncomfortable for longhaul

...I was more than a little sceptical when my travel agent of choice, Trailfinders, found me seats on Eva Air, for my recent trip to Thailand. I did a little research, and in general, I couldn?t find any bad word against the airline. Even consumer reviews, limited as they were, all rated the airline as four stars out of five. I was attracted to flying with them as for approximately the same price as BA economy, I could fly Eva Air Premium Economy, and that extra pitch makes all the difference when flying long haul..so I took the plunge and figured I could cope with inferior service and inferior food as long as I had leg room?and if technically they were inferior and it crashed?well I wouldn?t be any the wiser. My sister was a source of further encouragement when she said, ?I have looked at them more than once, so you take the plunge...

helencbradshaw 14.12.2004 · Read review
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Not just for mending tents

Advantages: good for memding small holes and tears
Disadvantages: none

...Oh no I caught my Mac in a sac waterproof coat in the door of the car. I look at it; it has a small tear in it now. Bother, bother, bother. The tear is only small about a couple of cm /1 inch it is near the hem of the coat. Shall I throw the coat away? The rip will only get bigger. No I shall repair it and use this waterproof coat to Glastonbury festival; I would not want to take a new one there. I know that I can buy some patches for mending nylon fabrics that tents are made from .So I went into Blacks outdoor equipment shop and bought myself a Eurohike nylon repair kit. This kit cost me £2.99. The nylon repair kit is in a small clear plastic wallet with a card top which gives instructions for use on it . . I found this pack hanging up on a display rack a hole is punched out of the card top for easy display hanging. I...

mumsymary 05.09.2008 · Read review
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A Definite Songbird

Advantages: A great mix of tracks
Disadvantages: None

...Eva Cassidy is a woman who had an amazing voice but it would not be until after her sad death from cancer that she would become world known. She spent years singing in pubs and recording backing vocals for more established singers and finally one of the producers at a studio she had sang at recognised what an amazing voice she had and would record heart every available opportunity. Eva made her first album in 1996, title The Other Side' but it would not become known publicly and outside of her community until after her death. Due to the amount of song she had recorder in the studio further albums have been made using these recordings and this one I am reviewing is called Songbird. This album has been made up using song which have already been released on albums including, The Other Side, Live at the Blues Alley and Eva by Heart...

sewbizzie 10.10.2008 · Read review
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