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this whole £13.99 deal is pretty amazing. you make a list of all the films you want to see. 3 get sent out to you and you keep them as long as you like when you've watched one, use the stamped addressed envelope to send it back the next dvd on your list gets sent the next day you watch as many movies as you can for £13.99 per month one gets sent, you watch it, send it back, new one comes off your list nicely done kenneth ps i am in no way am affiliated with blockbuster.co.uk pps analord rules???? |
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do you guys have netflix in the uk? |
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i've never heard of it.... do explain |
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Basically, netflix had the idea -- they've been doing this service in the states for a few years now. I think blockbuster's subscription thing is much more recent. They're a little more expensive than blockbuster, but I tried both and found netflix's shipping is a lot faster. |
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really... i guess we don't have it, certainly not on the high street. but i sent mine back and had a new one through the door 2 days later, not bad i reckon. |
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That makes sense; in the US, netflix has a lot more shipping centers than blockbuster, but since your country is so much more compact, shipping times would be faster. |
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yeah right, my dvds are only going to milton keynes which is about 100 miles |
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there is a netflix shipping center right in my city, so unless i order some obscure thing that they only have in their california center across the country, i get my new dvds about 2 days after i put the old ones in my mail box. |
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damn you live quite near me. |
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on a world scale - probably |
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these services help put local video rentals out of business. that's a problem because corporations like blockbuster censor and edit their movies and don't stock their inventory based on quality but by what will be the most popular (leaving out a lot of important films). |
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The tighter they squeeze their grip the more independent video distributors will slip through their fingers. |
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i hope it turns out that you're right... but what i've seen is that in many areas, the only video stores that are surviving are the large chains. |
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it's been like that for years now, or no? I remember getting all sorts of vids 10 odd years ago for rental, now they only stock 1,000,000,000 copies of the latest shit-fest. |
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damn straight. why aren't film makers setting up sites with downloads? |
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death to the village. period. |
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how would their films getting pirated faster help cover the huge debt they've accrued while trying to produce their art? |
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Movies aren't art.... I'm glad the independants are getting run out of town. I want one corporation for everything... |
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hahaha... that quote is perfect with the donnie darko avatar. |
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DVDs need to be cheaper, that's the end of it. So do CDs. Cut back on the lavish marketing, the launches, the lunches, make the product affordable, and stop fucking being dicks. |
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DVDs are cheap. I remember when a new movie on VHS cost 80 pounds sterling... |
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yes, dvd's have always been relatively inexpensive. that's why they have caught on. |
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And VHS never gained any popularity |
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no, that's not what i meant... i meant that they could have gone the way of laserdiscs, but one thing that helped them get popular quickly and stay that way was that they were just affordable enough to buy your old movies over again. i wasn't making a comparison - i thought that's just the way it happened. is that incorrect? |
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DVDs haven't always been inexpensive here in the UK. Even now we're still paying £15/$28 for a new release like The Bourne Supremacy. What is growing rapidly though is the amount of DVDs you can get for under £6/$11. Unless you're really despearte to buy something as a new release it pays to wait until it's reduced. |
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who wants to wacth a movie more than once? maybe like two years later but is it worth buying 100 dvds where you know the end of all of them? |
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that does seem more expensive... as far as i know, the average dvd here goes for $20... that's how much i'd expect to pay for a normal movie on dvd... and that price has been about the same for years. |
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download them all. that'll teach 'em. don't know what it teaches them, but it will. |
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who wants to listen to an album more than once? maybe like two years later but is it worth buying 100 albums where you know the end of all of them? who wants to read a book more than once? maybe like two years later but is it worth buying 100 books where you know the end of all of them? who wants to more than once maybe like two later but worth buying 100 book where you end them book 100 who? |
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well I have over 200 dvd's by now and I don't regret buying any of them. some I watch a lot, some I've only watched once. but maybe I will watch them again, we'll see. to me it's almost like a library to reference, if you will. I also lend out quite a lot to friends. :) |
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i have bought a lot of dvds, but i like to see the movie first incase it sucks |
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I would copy that post and change 200 to 120. |
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