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Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (22nd August 08) (22. 8. 2008)

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.... read more

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (15th August 08) (15. 8. 2008)

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!... read more

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (8th August 08) (8. 8. 2008)

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?... read more

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (1st August 08) (1. 8. 2008)

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!... read more

Weekly UK DVD Rental News Roundup (25th July 08) (25. 7. 2008)

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.... read more

Weekly UK DVD Rental News Roundup (18th July 08) (18. 7. 2008)

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! ... read more

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (11th July 08) (11. 7. 2008)

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.... read more

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (4th Jul 08) (4. 7. 2008)

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.... read more

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (27th Jun 08) (27. 6. 2008)

A glance back at the week’s DVD rental news with Bruce Stevens. News of Choose DVD Rental’s appearance 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.... read more

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (20th June 08) (20. 6. 2008)

Anna König brings you another DVD rental news round up, featuring the 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!... read more

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (13th June 08) (13. 6. 2008)

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!... read more

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (6th June 08) (6. 6. 2008)

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!... read more

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (30th May 08) (30. 5. 2008)

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.... read more

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (23rd May 08) (23. 5. 2008)

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. ... read more

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (16th May 08) (16. 5. 2008)

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…... read more

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (9th May 08) (9. 5. 2008)

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. ... read more

Lovefilm pushes Pay As You Go with TV prize draw (8. 5. 2008)

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?... read more

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (2nd May 08) (2. 4. 2008)

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!... read more

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (25th April 08) (24. 4. 2008)

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! ... read more

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (18th April 08) (18. 4. 2008)

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… ... read more

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (11th April 08) (11. 4. 2008)

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!... read more

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…... read more

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (28th Mar 08) (28. 3. 2008)

It’s the DVD rental news round up you have been waiting for! Anna König brings you the latest happenings in the world of DVD rental. How you could win a holiday of a lifetime to Minneapolis; do Games Monster know what they are talking about; the best blood suckers since leaches; and which of our favourite Easter bunnies is number one?... read more

Weekly DVD Rental News Roundup (21 Mar 08) (21. 3. 2008)

Anna König’s weekly round up of what’s been going on on Planet DVD Rental. It’s Easter, so what better way to celebrate than an Easter Egg hunt, some good games, good films and fantastic prizes?... read more

DVD Rental News Roundup (14 March 2008) (14. 3. 2008)

Anna König's weekly DVD rental news. Top news includes the return of Games Monster, MyMovieStream's success, free preview tickets to Drillbit Taylor previews (exclusively for LoveFilm customers) and LoveFilm's chart toppers. If it's happening in DVD rental land, you’ll hear about it here!... read more

GamesMonster Games Rental Back on the Attack! (10. 3. 2008)

Online games rental company GamesMonster.co.uk have re-launched their new website which includes a ten day free trial, a new payment scheme and an updated play list system.... read more

DVD Rental News Roundup (7 March 2008) (7. 3. 2008)

Anna König rounds up this week’s Games and DVD rental news, with stories including GamezGecko Games Rental's upcoming FIFA 08 tournament, the films Lovefilm customers are dying to see, how Stelios is getting horrified over at easyCinema and why online downloads could be a big fat fly in Lovefilm’s ointment!... read more

DVD Rental News Roundup ( 29 February 2008) (29. 2. 2008)

Anna König looks back at the week’s DVD rental news. Stories include Blockbuster DVD Rental's 'Knocked Up' competition, DVD Choice branches out into disc cleaning, ideas of what to spend your free fiver on, the games rental site for all road hogs and guess who LoveFilm customers are getting into bed with most? ... read more

DVD Rental News Roundup ( 29 February 2008) (29. 2. 2008)

Anna König looks back at the week’s DVD rental news. Stories include Blockbuster DVD Rental's 'Knocked Up' competition, DVD Choice branches out into disc cleaning, ideas of what to spend your free fiver on, the games rental site for all road hogs and guess who LoveFilm customers are getting into bed with most? ... read more

DVD Rental News Roundup ( 22 February 2008) (22. 2. 2008)

Anna König rounds up this week's DVD rental news, including the Lovefilm's introduction of Nintendo DS games, CD Wow's free Bourne Ultimatum giveaway, horror flicks for DVDChoice customers and who is Lovefilm's latest heartthrob?... read more

DVD Rental News Roundup (15 February 2008) (15. 2. 2008)

Anna König rounds up the highs and lows of this week's DVD Rental news; including the demise of DVDToHome, LoveFilm's romantic gift vouchers, MyMovieStream extends its £100,000 giveaway and, introducing the BAFTA's answer to the Razzies: The ChooseDVDRental NAFF-TA's!... read more

Film and Flowers Vouchers for Lovefilm Lovers (11. 2. 2008)

DVD rental giant Lovefilm is offering a unique film and flowers combination Valentines gift package this year, and promises to give 50% to charity.... read more

DVD Rental News Roundup (8 February 2008) (8. 2. 2008)

Anna König takes a peek at this week’s news from the world of DVD rental; including Amazon’s recent marriage to LoveFilm, the latest news on this month’s Oscar’s ceremony, the rising price of a cinema ticket, and how to buy cheap games through games rental sites.... read more

Amazon DVD Rental gets into bed with Lovefilm (6. 2. 2008)

E-commerce giant Amazon and DVD rental juggernaut Lovefilm have reached an agreement that will see 300,000 Amazon DVD rental subscribers move onto the books of Lovefilm, increasing their total number of customers to almost a million.... read more

DVD Rental News Roundup (1 February 2008) (1. 2. 2008)

Anna König’s weekly DVD rental news round up (and not forgetting games rental news). Includes: Lovefilm's surprising top 50 movie list, Blockbuster DVD rental’s popular rental titles, GamezGecko’s FIFA 2008 tournament and some film news from Hollywood.... read more

DVD Rental News Roundup (25 Jan 08) (25. 1. 2008)

Bruce Stevens’ weekly DVD rental news (and games rental news) roundup looks at how some DVD rental sites are highlighting Heath Ledger’s short career, and PostaDVD gets a facelift.... read more

DVD Rental Weekly News Roundup (18 Jan 2008) (18. 1. 2008)

Bruce Stevens' weekly news round up from the world of UK DVD rental (and games rental). Includes: Lovefilm's staff video reviews, ChooseDVDRental best for free trials says Web User magazine, Amazon's poor customer service causes concern.... read more

DVD Rental News Roundup (11 Jan 2008) (11. 1. 2008)

Bruce Stevens' weekly news round up from the world of UK DVD rental (and games rental). Includes: Lovefilm's incentive rewards, VisoneersDVDClub fills family-friendly niche, GamezGecko new design.... read more

DVD Rental News Roundup (21/12/07) (21. 12. 2007)

In our weekly roundup of DVD rental news, we look at: MyMovieStream's £100K prize draw giveaway; how Lovefilm is saving Christmas with its last minute gift vouchers; the Oscar-winning actor blogging for Blockbuster and Boomerang Games Rental's bumper 2007.... read more

Lovefilm Pun-fest Competition for Christmas (3. 12. 2007)

DVD rental giant Lovefilm.com is putting the holly into Hollywood this Christmas by giving away three months of DVD rental for the best Christmas-related movie puns.read more

Free chart CD's for CD WOW free trialers (25. 10. 2007)

Music, DVD and Game online retail giant CD WOW! is giving away a free Top 75 chart CD to all customers who sign up for their 30-day DVD Rental free trial.... read more

Do You Have Enough Friends For CinemaParadiso’s Films? (17. 10. 2007)

Leading DVD rental service CinemaParadiso has launched a new loyalty scheme, offering a free DVD rental package for customers who persuade six friends to subscribe to the service. ... read more

Lovefilm lure back ex-customers with new PAYG service (17. 10. 2007)

DVD Rental giant Lovefilm is luring back ex-customers with a pay-per-rental system that allows customers to rent films as and when they feel like it.... read more

UK Games Rental Sites Brush Off Halo 3 Hysteria (28. 9. 2007)

While high-street games retailers saw queues outside their doors and online etailers reporting a massive surge in orders for the game, how have the games rental companies been hit by the Halo 3 frenzy?... read more

New Zealand Company Solves DVD Rental Queue Lottery (24. 9. 2007)

A New Zealand-based DVD rental company has solved the biggest bug-bear of online DVD rental: not knowing which of your selected choices is going to be dispatched next. ... read more

ChooseDVDRental excellent says Web User magazine (18. 9. 2007)

THE UK’s best selling internet magazine has given a glowing review of DVD rental comparison site ChooseDVDRental.co.uk, describing the site as “excellent”.read more

Lovefilm offers two more free titles for download (3. 9. 2007)

With two new titles recently added to their ever expanding list of free downloads, it would appear that LoveFilm.com love you just as much as they love their movies! ... read more

Bill Nighy Reveals Favourite Films to Lovefilm.com (3. 9. 2007)

Bill Nighy, the British comedy genius, recently found time between shooting his new film - a Word War II thriller called ‘Valkyrie’ - to compile a list of his top 10 films of all-time for top DVD rental provider LoveFilm.com. ... read more

Lovefilm now UK's cheapest dvd rental provider (24. 8. 2007)

Already the largest and most popular DVD rental service in the UK, DVD rental giant Lovefilm.com has today officially become the cheapest too.... read more

MyMovieStream extends DVD giveaway offer (23. 8. 2007)

Top DVD Rental service MyMovieStream has extended its generous 2 week free trial plus a free DVD offer, and has also increased the number of free DVD titles available.... read more

Blockbuster DVD rental brimming with competitions (21. 8. 2007)

DVD rental giant Blockbuster is this week brimming with competitions for its subscribers, including the chance to win a Blu-Ray entertainment system.... read more

Exclusive: Lovefilm love to game (9. 8. 2007)

They've been accused of muscling many small DVD rental services out of business, but now rental giant Lovefilm could be about to do the same for the games rental market with a concerted drive to push the gaming end of their product.... read more

EasyCinema.com seeks 'worst movie of the year' (6. 8. 2007)

In an effort to steal the thunder from the infamous Razzies awards, EasyCinema DVD Rental has launched the ‘Worst Movie of the Year Award’ to discover what Brits believe to be the worst film of the last 12 months.... read more

MoviePigeon goes home to roost (2. 8. 2007)

MoviePigeon - one of the original DVD rental companies - appears to have disappeared off the radar and all indications are that it has gone bust.... read more

Rainy summer + 21 day trial = More signups for Boomerang (27. 7. 2007)

A combination of the rainy summer and Boomerang Game Rental's lengthy free trial has seen a flurry of new users signing up for the service.... read more

Swapgame gives away a game a day (27. 7. 2007)

Our leading games rental provider Swapgame is giving away a game a day in their summer promotion 'Win a Game a Day'. ... read more

Lousy summer fuels DVD rental surge (27. 7. 2007)

The appalling summer weather - now historically the worst in 300 years - has driven an increase in DVD rentals by 4.7%, according to the British Video Association.... read more

Lovefilm offers free movie download (7. 7. 2011)

DVD Rental giants Lovefilm.com are offering a free download of 2003 indie flick The Cooler - and you don't even need to be a subscriber to their service to bag it.... read more

SwapGame subscribers to earn iPoints (6. 7. 2007)

Leading game rental service, SwapGame, is now rewarding subscribers with credits towards one of the UK's leading online loyalty point programmes, iPoints. ... read more

Tesco offers DVD Rental gift subscriptions (6. 7. 2007)

Tesco DVD Rental - a 'powered by LoveFilm' service - is now offering gift subscriptions to any of their DVD Rental packages. ... read more

Blockbuster giving away signed movie poster (6. 7. 2007)

In its usual prize draw frenzy, Blockbuster is this month giving subscribers the chance to win a signed poster of the film everyone is talking about: A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints. There are also 10 DVDs of the film up for grabs. ... read more

LoveFilm ups free trial to 21 days (5. 7. 2007)

DVD rental giants Lovefilm.com have increased their free trial period to 21 days for the duration of July. ... read more

Will Movie Downloads on Demand Kill Online DVD Rental? (3. 7. 2007)

With the iPod being blamed for killing the high-street music store, could Apple be ready to sink both high street and online DVD rental services?... read more

Snail mail is over, with movie downloads from LoveFilm (16. 1. 2006)

Waiting for the postman to deliver for your next film is over, with the new movie download service from LoveFilm, or so it would seem... read more

Xbox 360 Countdown has Begun! (6. 10. 2005)

Microsoft's much-awaited new gaming console - the Xbox 360 - will be available in the shops from 2 December 2005... read more

Love Games? LoveFilm offers Game Rental (13. 9. 2005)

Game lovers can now rent unlimited games as well as DVDs with Love Film's expansion into the games rental market... read more

Video Island Swallows Swedish Rivals (10. 9. 2005)

Online DVD Rental giant Video Island have snapped up Sweden's number one rental firm Brafilm in its first overseas aquisition... read more

LoveFilm joins forces with Webflix (7. 9. 2005)

DVD Rental giant LoveFilm.com is punching back at heavyweight rivals ScreenSelect by merging with the smaller, but respected, Webflix... read more

Amazon Launch New Budget DVD Rental Package (6. 9. 2005)

DVD Rental newcomer Amazon.co.uk have just announced the launch of a new low-cost DVD rental package that is ideal for light or budget movie lovers... read more

Screen Select merges with DVDs365 (14. 8. 2005)

Screen Select adds a few more notches to their ever growing belt, with the recent merger of DVDs365... read more


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