 |  | By Bruce Stevens Staff Writer Friday, 11 January 2008 |
Our weekly news round up of what’s going on in the heady world of DVD rental and games rental.
LoveFilm wants you to share the love
AS if TV adverts, bus shelter displays and nationwide door-drops weren’t enough to make Lovefilm the steaming juggernaut of the DVD rental market, they’re now offering some tasty gadgets and gifts as reward for getting your friends to sign up to their service.
Lovefilm DVD rental subscribers can bag themselves an iPod shuffle, a digital photo frame, a TomTom satnav or some Lovefilm credit by getting a friend to sign up and stay a member for at least three full billing months.
The Lovefilm ‘Share the Love’ scheme has even given its users a list of inspirational ways they can get their friends to sign up. Whether it will work or not, Lovefilm suggests that you tell your friends they can rent a range of top titles (Shrek III, Spiderman 3, Die Hard 4.0, Ocean’s 13) from Lovefilm over the next few months, and provides a link to a digital brochure of the forthcoming DVDs.
There is no limit to the number of rewards you receive, so long as you keep sending your friends along.
The big question though is whether there is still a single person left in the UK who hasn’t taken up a Lovefilm free trial yet?
New family-friendly DVD rental service is not $%&*
IF you’re a follower of Psalm 101:3 which declares “I will refuse to look at anything vile or vulgar”, or perhaps you don’t fancy your kids picking up creative new variations of the F word, then a new faith-based, ‘family-friendly’ DVD rental service called Visioneers DVD Club may interest you.
Visoneers DVD Club is a new concept in the UK, but has already proved very popular in the USA, where conservative Christian values are so prevalent as to be mainstream. Whether there is enough of a demand in the secular and more liberal UK for swear-word free films is something the Visoneers DVD Club team will no doubt reveal in time.
Our reviews team will shortly be anonymously testing Visoneers DVD Club. I suspect we won’t be renting The Big Lebowski though!
GamezGecko gets streamlined with new design
LONG a bugbear for our reviewers, the excellent games rental service GamezGecko has finally sorted out the design of its online game rental site.
The new site is slick and fast loading and while still largely similar to the old design, there is now no need to scroll horizontally to see the whole page.
Browsing the games categories for what to rent is now so much easier and we’re impressed with the speed at which the catalogue pages load.
GamezGecko offers a games rental 14 day free trial.
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