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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...

bobbacon985 12.02.2009 · Read review
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Victor Who?

Advantages: Still fun to watch
Disadvantages: A bit dated

...faces and made house hold name of some originally unknown actors. Chief cast; Martin Landau as Commander John Koenig, leader of Moon base Alpha. Barbara Bain as Doctor Helena Russell, head of Medical Section. Barry Morse as Professor Victor Bergman, chief science adviser Nick Tate as Alan Carter, third in command, chief pilot of the 'Eagles'. Catherine Schell as Maya, the new science officer. Series 2; = Episodes 1. The Metamorph 2. The Exiles 3. One Moment Of Humanity 4. All That Glisters 5. Journey To Where 6. The Taybor 7. The Rules Of Luton 8. The Mark Of Archanon 9. Brian The Brain 10. New Adam New Eve 11. Catacombs Of The Moon 12. The AB Chrysalis 13. Seed Of Destruction 14. The Beta Cloud 15. Space Warp 16. A Matter Of Balance 17. The Bringers Of Wonder part 1 18...

Maximus-Qualitus 01.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Space: 1999 - Series 2 Complete (Box Set) (DVD)

Notre Dame De Paris by Victor Hugo

Advantages: A beautifully real story that will rend the heart
Disadvantages: Some of the description can be a little long-winded

...Better known as The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Notre Dame de Paris was written by Victor Hugo as a tribute to the Parisian cathedral and the beauty of its lost Renaissance city. The main character is Quasimodo, the grotesque hunchback and cathedral bell ringer, adopted as a baby and brought up by the serious-minded, emotionless archdeacon Claude Frollo. Both Quasimodo and Frollo find themselves driven into a passionate obsession for a young and beautiful gypsy girl - Esmerelda. But Esmerelda - kind-hearted but a little shallow - only has eyes for the handsome, vainglorious Captain Phoebus. The complex, interweaving love story is bound to end in tragedy. The richness of Hugo's narrative left me spellbound. Each and every character - especially Pierre Gringoire - a flawed, poverty stricken writer also in love with Esmerelda and lost...

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Le Jazz Hot...

Advantages: Brilliant jazz soundtrack
Disadvantages: rubbish DVD extras!

...After a truly dreadful week at work I decided I needed some cheering up, so delved into my DVD collection for a suitably cheery title. Eventually I decided upon the 1982 Julie Andrews classic ?Victor Victoria.? Having bought this for £3.99 a few weeks ago on Amazon this seemed the perfect time to watch it. Any reader of my previous reviews will be aware that I am a Julie Andrews fan, but this film does not fit into the Andrews stereotype, rather breaking the mould. It does carry a 15 certificate, which does seem unusual for a musical comedy, but with issues spanning transvestism, homosexuality and sexual identity you can fully see why. I would recommend this film highly, and here is why. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ PLOT The film begins in a snowy 1930?s Parisian day, where Victoria Grant (Julie...

lizawithaz 01.09.2009 · Read review
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Everyone will know he's a phony...

Advantages: Great cast, great music, great story
Disadvantages: None

...Blake Edwards had a unique style of film; all the films seemed to have a certain atmosphere while each maintaining an individual character. Of course, Julie Andrews was a frequent actress in his films ? Edwards and Andrews are married, and have been since 1969, an astonishing longevity for Hollywood. In ?Victor/Victoria?, Edwards returns to a Parisian settings familiar to fans of his work in the Pink Panther series ? there is some minor elements of slapstick (the clutzy waiter, the bumbling detective, perhaps a nod in the direction of the Pink Panther films), but the real narrative plot is drawn along by the stylish comedy of Julie Andrews (Victoria Grant/Victor) and Robert Preston (Carroll Todd), in one of his last films. The film is actually based on a much older piece, from 1933, written by Reinhold Schünzel, a German actor...

frkurt 02.09.2004 (08.09.2004) · 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 Joys Of Watching Paint Dry

Advantages: It's a book
Disadvantages: Dull, uninteresting writing and characterisation

..."Babylon" is the fifth novel by up-and-coming Russian author Victor Pelevin. I must admit that I bought this under false pretences - I was looking for another Russian science-fiction author. Buying the wrong book does not normally however affect my enjoyment of the cuckoo in the nest, and certainly does not influence my view of the usurper. It can sometimes lead to discovering a new author. Tatarksy (first name Babylen but calls himself Vladimir) is an impoverished graduate in translation with unfulfilled poetic aspirations from Generation "P" (for Pepsi). The novel starts with the narrator telling us of a generation that chose to drink Pepsi then goes on to tell us it was actually selected by party officials. What choice? He ends up working for a pittance for shady Caucasian interests as a kiosk attendant. By pure coincidence...

JoePoirot 19.10.2006 · Read review
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Uncle Victor

Advantages: close and personal
Disadvantages: is a little nostalgic

...This poem is dedicated to all who know and love Victor Joseph especially those who know him forever and always him as: Uncle Victor My Uncle Victor not was, is a great man. In the short times we got to spend with him he left memories to last a lifetime. It is for these memories that I miss him sooo much. It is for these memories that I smile. To share these memories with all who knew him I present: I MISS YOU SO MUCH . . . That I smile Whenever I see the word picnic, I miss you sooo much . . . That I remember dropping off a blue duffle bag, when we lived at 4321 Kingston Rd. I remember how my Ummi Na?ema Muhammad or as you might know her Fredericka Joseph (that?s how my mom?s name is spelled on her birth certificate) filled that duffle back with volleyballs, a volleyball net, a croquet set, and all kinds of games...

MsMuminah 28.04.2003 · 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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