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By Helen Storey
Staff Writer
Monday, 8 March 2010
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Best DVD Rental Gift Subscription
 LoveFilm DVD Rental Gift Subscriptions
Flick Ideas for DVD Rental
The perfect gift-related movies to stick in your rental queue:
- City Slickers - The tale of a birthday trip to New Mexico
- Gremlins - After giving the gift of a cute, fluffy Mogwai, what could possibly go wrong? Oh yes, the whole not feeding after midnight thing.
- Liar Liar - The Jim Carrey classic. A boy makes a wish on his birthday that his dad can't lie.
- The Gift - OK, so we cheated a bit on this one, but it's still worth a watch!
DVD Rental Gift Subscriptions
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TRYING to choose a gift for the person who has everything is always a frustrating task.
With a DVD rental gift subscription, though, they can choose it themselves.
So that's hours of cinematic pleasure for them and zero hours of indecision for you.
This guide that will tell you all you need to know about DVD gift subscriptions for online DVD rental.
LoveFilm
Kicking off the DVD gift subscriptions is LoveFilm. They have a number of packages for you to choose from and prices start from the modest sum of £16.
You can send your lucky recipient a choice of e-card, featuring such Hollywood hotties as Johnny Depp, Angelina or, er, Helen Mirren. Your gift will be sent by e-mail, and you can specify a particular date for it to be received.
If you fancy a bit more of the personal touch, you can print off a personalised gift card with details of the subscription to pop inside a card.
Our favourite gift option, however, is LoveFilm's giftbox. If you spend £34 or more on a DVD gift subscription with LoveFilm, you get your order sent out to you (or the lucky recipient) in a snazzy box, and they'll even chuck in a free DVD or movie book for you.
Lovefilm are currently offering Mother's Day themed DVDs when you sign up including Julie and Julia, Breakfast at Tiffany's and the book 1000 Films to Change Your Life.
With 16 different DVD gift subscription options, your lucky recipient will be sure to find exactly what they want. Ranging from a capped two-per-month for four months at £16, up to an unlimited subscription for a year at £128, and even including a games option, LoveFilm are a definite frontrunner in the DVD rental gift subscription battle.
Find more information and buy a Lovefilm gift here.
Blockbuster
Blockbuster's take on the DVD gift subscription is to keep it simple. Starting from £25 for their one-DVD-at-a-time package for 3 months, Blockbuster will deliver your gift in a movie-themed card to the door of your recipient.
It has six easy gift subscription options, and all are unlimited (though are subject to either one or three DVDs at any one time), so the birthday boy or girl can rent movies as fast as they can watch them. Options come in 3, 6 or 12 months, and now include store rental too.
Blockbuster DVD rental gift subscriptions can be a little hard to find: click the 'buy online' tab and scroll down to the bottom of the page.
More information about Blockbuster DVD Rental.
WHSmith
When you're not buying magazines and pads of A4, you can also get a subscription for online DVD rental from WHSmith too.
There are two DVD gift subscription offers that you can go for, both of which come in a handy giftbox for you to wrap up.
You can pick the 8 DVD option for £14.99, or the 8 DVD and 2 Odeon cinema ticket package for £24.99.
You can either order them online, or pick them up in a WH Smith store, and all the receiver will have to do is to fill in a simple form inside the box and they can start renting movies.
The Film Direct service from WH Smith is powered by LoveFilm so you can be sure that they'll have all the films that anyone could ever want.
Cinema Paradiso
Cinema Paradiso's DVD gift subscription comes in at the cheapest possible option, with offers starting from just £5.99, which is great if you're strapped for cash and need to get something for that person who has everything.
You can either get it sent to your own address so you can give it in a card, or you can have it e-mailed straight to the person for that last-minute gift.
Their subscription options are plentiful (a whopping 36 different packages), and frankly, a little bit confusing, but once you've worked out how to navigate the menus and tick-boxes, you can choose from capped or unlimited options from anywhere between 1 and 12 months.
Anything else to know?
For all of these gift subscriptions, the recipient will need to be over 18, and have a registered credit or debit card, which they will need to give the details of when redeeming their gift subscription.
They all come with a small warning too. Once the allotted subscription time is up, they will convert the recipient to a normal monthly subscription using the card details they entered on redemption, unless it is cancelled and all discs returned before it begins.
Since the recipient will find this out when they redeem their voucher, there's no need to put a dampener on your gift by writing it in their card!
Ditch the chocolates this year and go for a DVD rental gift subscription instead. Our recommend choice: buy a Lovefilm gift here.
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