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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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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...

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Martha Leave Frank, Daniel and Laurence

Advantages: some funny scenes and a great Ray Winstone cameo
Disadvantages: the central characters are far too shallow

...in the UK, this may have something to do with the fact that he reserves her a room at a top hotel. Martha, having met Daniel, goes onto meet Laurence (Joseph Fiennes) at the airport, they hit it off also (funny that, isn't it?) and he ends up giving her a lift back to the swanky hotel Daniel has reserved. One thing leads to another and they end up really liking eachother and planning another meeting. Then Martha meets Frank (Rufus Sewel) who is another annoying stereotype of an out of work actor. Frank and Martha do not share the flirting that Martha and Daniel did, nor the sweetness that Martha and Laurence did, but for some bizarre reason she likes him too. So they all like Martha and she likes them. Martha finds out that she has played them off against oneanother, and is disgusted with the way they all fight for her like a toy...

r-rackham 13.06.2001 · Read review
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A Chequered Career

Advantages: Experienced, McLaren experience as test driver. Fast
Disadvantages: Loads of bad luck

...The French driver,Olivier Panis, now a 34 year old, has had a rather chequered career in Formula I racing. Some pundits would say he has more than his share of bad luck what with injuries and driving for teams that were not really very competitive. Others suggest he is a dangerous,talented but somewhat unpredictable driver. Olivier has accumulated considerable experience in Formula I. From the 1994 season the Frenchman from Lyon drove for the French Ligier team for three years. They would not be regarded as the most competitive team on the FI circuit-these were the days of Williams and Benetton's supremacy with Ferrari and Mclaren in the wings.Despite this Olivier had some good races with Ligier and scored a number of useful championship points. The Frenchman continued with Prost when the legndary Alain Prost took over Ligier...

ashford 26.03.2001 · Read review
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Dispelling the myths of the Da Vinci Code

Advantages: a factual analysis of theDa Vinci codes "secrets"
Disadvantages: will open up many more questions

...It may seem as if a book such as the Magdalene Legacy is just an attempt to jump on the bandwagon of the success of Dan Browns work and the Da Vinci Code in particular. To a lesser degree and in terms of timing that may be true, but its author, Laurence Gardner, has been publishing books around such subjects for years. Its very probable that Brown is a fan of his work as he is an obvious source of information, along side the much more controversial and widely reported "Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" by Michael Baigent and co. So whilst the timing of the books release may seem to be a corporate strategy, it only seems that way because this book is the natural response to the hype of Browns work. Before the Da Vinci Code there was less of a need to set the record straight in the sensitive yet less than popular subject matter that is...

steerpyke 26.12.2005 · Read review
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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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The return of the Frenchman.

Advantages: Great driver
Disadvantages: poor results and cars

...I feel Olivier Panis is one of the mst underrated drivers currently in Formula 1. If you look at his career, it always seems to take a nosedive as he becomes good or somthing looks like it might star to improve. I cast your mind back 7 years to 1994... Ligier (as they then were) were in the twilight of their Formula 1 days. The Blue cars from France could no longer boast the diving talents of Didier Pironi or Jacques Lafitte that had brought them success in the 70's and 80's. They were running 2 relative rookies in their cars, Eric Bernard and Olivier Panis. Whereas Bernard was soon moved on, Panis stayed and developed into the team's lead driver. In 1996, he scored his only GP win to date at Monaco in a race only 3 cars finished. This is still an accomplishment due to racing in uncompetitive machinery. By 1998 the car had...

andycharger 29.03.2001 · Read review
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Back in Action

Advantages: Strong driver
Disadvantages: Was written off for a while there

...Frenchman, Olivier Panis has now been given the chance to prove his worth in Formula One. After 3 years with Ligier brought him into F1, he scored a fair amount of points and came in 8th place at best. After a move to Prost in 1997 things only got worse after a huge accident broke both his legs and from then on only 2 points have been scored. At the end of 1999, Panis took a risk and left the downward spiraling Prost team and joined McLaren becoming their test and reserve driver for a year. Although this move didn’t translate into a race drive it did bring his career into focus again. After regularly pushing the McLaren into great testing lap times he got nothing but praise from McLaren boss Ron Dennis and drivers Mika and David. Craig Pollock, boss at British American Racing saw the opportunity to snap up Panis as his 2...

hakkved 14.03.2001 · Read review
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Monkeying Around

Advantages: Funny story that kids seem to really enjoy
Disadvantages: None

...***Background*** Laurence Anholt has been writing books for many years now and it's his wife Catherine who supplies the delightful pictures to go with the fantastic stories and wonderful rhymes. There are quite a number of books in this series about the cheeky chimps and this one won a gold award in the Smarties Book Awards in 2001. ***The Story*** The story starts with a hungry mother. "Mumkey is hungry, but there are no bananas in the basket. 'Which little monkeys have eaten all the bananas?' she says. Up jumps Chimp. Up jumps Zee. 'Ha, ha, ha!' 'Hee, hee, hee!'" Mumkey takes the two naughty monkeys into Jungletown to buy some more bananas and tells them to stay close and to behave themselves. They decide to start playing hide and seek though and choose some big grey stones to hide behind. They then decide to...

belfin 10.04.2008 · Read review
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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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