DVD Rental News Archive: 2008

Online DVD Rental News Roundup (19th December 08)

Anna König brings you the last round up before Christmas! LoveFilm has unveiled plans for its new online strategy, which involves using LoveFilm DVDs to fight against the baddies! Intrigued?!

Online DVD Rental News Roundup (12th December 08)

Blockbuster and LoveFilm are kindly passing on the VAT savings to their customers, and WhyBuyGames has teamed up with GameSwap to create a thousands strong gaming network!

Online DVD Rental News Roundup (28th November 08)

Anna König brings you the fourth round up before Christmas! Blockbuster launch a fab new competition no Disney Princess should miss, and GamesMonster claws itself back into the rental game!

Online DVD Rental News Roundup (21st November 08)

A glance back at the week’s online DVD rental and online games rental news, including why HD-DVD may soon be extinct and a great online DVD rental Christmas gift from Lovefilm.

Online DVD Rental News Roundup (14th November 08)

Blockbuster reports its ever rising Blu Ray count has now hit 837 titles, and find out how you could win tickets to an exclusive preview screening of Changeling.

Online DVD Rental News Roundup (7th November 08)

Seventh online DVD rental round up before Christmas! Blockbuster crowns Josiah Bartlet movie President of all time, and LoveFilm reports how Russell Brand is benefiting from the recent scandal!

Online DVD Rental News Roundup (31st October 08)

Far Cry 2 is topping the PS3 charts at SwapGame, and LoveFilm is reporting massive profits, thanks to the credit crunch!

Online DVD Rental News Roundup (24th Oct 08)

Blockbuster gets spooky as Halloween approaches, and Boomerang gets excited over the impending release of Gears of War 2.

Weekly Online DVD Rental News Roundup (17th October 08)

Exclusive comments from Blockbuster’s Mal Simons. LoveFilm is hitting all the right notes this week with 3 for 2 sales and free rental credits!

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (10th October 08)

Blockbuster managed to bag itself an exclusive interview with Casper Van Dien this week, to discuss the making of his most recent flick Starship Troopers 3: Marauder.

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (3rd October 08)

Blockbuster has launched a student discount package, which can see students save 20% and get their hands on a 4 week free trial!

Weekly UK DVD Rental News Roundup (26th September 08)

Anna König rounds up the week’s UK DVD Rental news including why Blu Ray rental is the future and how Blockbuster DVD Rental has bagged even more exclusives.

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (19th September 08)

A jam packed round up this week, full of news of BT Vision taking on LoveFilm in the High Definition market. In other news Tesco is offering subscribers a free Blu-Ray disc, Blockbuster has launched a ‘force-full’ competition, and LoveFilm customers are loving 21!

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (12th September 08)

Bruce Stevens examines the week’s DVD rental news, including why Blockbuster may offer the best UK DVD rental service for serious film lovers and what we can learn from the New Zealand DVD rental industry.

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (5th September 08)

Anna König brings you the sad news of the demise Postbox Games and Rent Games Online. Meanwhile Blockbuster experiments with the layout of its features, and LoveFilm launches a competition; exciting news for all Tom Cruise fans!

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (29th August 08)

Anna König is back from the grime and slime of Reading Festival, with news of a new EasyCinema service, Love Films’ inside information on keeping the kids entertained, and Why Buy Games’ list of most wanted games!

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (22nd August 08)

UK DVD rental news roundup from Bruce Stevens, including how Blu Ray rental is turning into a battle, Lovefilm is sponsoring the new season of Heroes and Blockbuster adds two more exclusive rental titles to its already long list.

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (15th August 08)

Anna König brings you news of the demise of UK DVD rental site MovieConnect and possibly Games Monster games rental too. It seems like the little players are struggling to hold their ground against the LoveFilm monopoly!

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (8th August 08)

Anna König brings you news of the latest LoveFilm team ups (this time with the Independent and Polydor Records), Blockbuster’s additions to its Blu-Ray collection, and is time up for Games Monster’s Facebook application?

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (1st August 08)

Anna König rounds up this week’s UK DVD rental news. Word on the street is that LoveFilm has launched a customer edit-able biography page. Boomerang games rental is raving about the latest game in the Battlefield series, and Blockbuster has nabbed some exclusives!

Weekly UK DVD Rental News Roundup (25th July 08)

Anna König kick starts the school summer holidays with news of a Blockbuster UK DVD rental exclusive, Pixar’s latest creation, and a very special tomb raider’s return. Find out how LoveFilm rated Wall-E, and the place to go for all your gaming gossip.

Weekly UK DVD Rental News Roundup (18th July 08)

With the impending release of the latest Batman flick, Anna König brings you news of Blockbuster’s Batman tribute, and WhyBuyGame’s fantastic selection of BluRay Batman films. Plus more UK DVD rental news!

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (11th July 08)

When you compare UK DVD rental, keep in mind the weekly news from DVD rental sites like Outnow.co.uk, The Sun Movie Club and Blockbuster, writes Bruce Stevens.

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (4th Jul 08)

Bruce Stevens’ DVD rental and games rental news roundup, featuring news about Lovefilm’s new customers, MyMovieStream’s 30 day free DVD rental trial and some interesting comparisons between Lovefilm and Blockbuster.

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (27th Jun 08)

Choose DVD Rental’s appears in Web User magazine, Lovefilms new rental packages and the reason Blockbuster DVD rental is so good at supplying films from the top of your queue.

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (20th June 08)

Latest news from Blockbuster, LoveFilm and GamezGekko. One has re-launched, one has gone for good, and one is in talks with Universal Island Records!

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (13th June 08)

This week’s DVD rental news round up. Find out all about the Coen brother’s filmography from Blockbuster rental; test your Indiana Jones knowledge at EasyCinema, and win a Nintendo Wii at LoveFilm!

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (6th June 08)

Free pizza? Tickets to the latest movie premiers? You'd be forgiven for thinking Christmas has come 6 months early! Anna König's hot DVD Rental news round up tells you how to get your hands on the goods!

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (30th May 08)

Anna Köig's last UK DVD news round up of May brings you news of a new Blockbuster competition, a pizza style DVD rental company, the site that is finally acknowledging GTA 4 for what it’s worth, as well as the LoveFilm top rentals chart.

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (23rd May 08)

Anna König rounds up this week’s DVD rental and games rental news. Games Monster has a solution to the problem of buying games as presents, GTA 4 is lagging behind in the rental charts and Love Film pays tribute to the king of the screen, Frank Sinatra.

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (16th May 08)

Anna König’s sunny DVD rental round up. The latest gossip from the Cannes Film Festival. Who is back with a fantastic new website? The unusual source of cinema knowledge, reviews and times. And the films you need to rent for the ultimate in girly nights in.

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (9th May 08)

Anna König’s sizzling summer roundup. The hot weather heralds the summer films, reviewed in LoveFilm’s summer preview. Gamez Gekko have opted for an unusual choice for game of the week.

Lovefilm pushes Pay As You Go with TV prize draw

Anna König investigates how you could win a limited edition Toshiba TV simply by signing up to LoveFilm’s Pay As You Go DVD rental package. What is it and who is it best suited to?

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (2nd May 08)

Anna König’s first roundup of May brings you news of DVD to Home’s miraculous resurrection; Love Film’s top TV shows (available to rent on their website); and the fantastic goodies from Blockbuster you could’ve missed out on!

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (25th April 08)

Anna König's DVD rental and games rental news brings you news of the fastest trivia quiz in the world, the latest GTA game, how you could win yourself tickets to the Iron Man preview, and Easy Cinema’s interesting take on 100 movies you must see!

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (18th April 08)

Anna König brings you news of a Facebook feud, the remakes that are just waiting to be remade, and the film that’s topped LoveFilm charts for a second week in a row! Find out whether Games Monster’s Facebook has proved a hit with the kids, or become a social outcast.

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (11th April 08)

A games-centric roundup this week, with the latest news from Games Monster, Why Buy Games, Games Frenzy, and of course Love Film. Top news this week is the launch of the highly anticipated Games Monster Facebook application!

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (4th April 08)

Anna König's weekly DVD rental news round up. Fancy some alternatives to COD4 in your games rental queue? How about the chance to win a 32” HD TV from Lovefilm? Or maybe a free chart CD with a DVD rental free trial will brighten up your day? If so, then read on.