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By Helen Storey Staff Writer
Friday, 20 February 2009
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Cost of games stopping you buying a Wii? Look to LoveFilm...
Anyone who's ever owned a console has felt the pain of shelling out a small fortune for a new game, playing frantically for 5 hours straight, then putting it back on the shelf, never to see the light of day again.
Although the Wii is an arguably revolutionary console, there's only so much dancing about in your living room with a remote you can do before you start to get a bit bored.
LoveFilm DVD rental is the latest rental company to provide Wii games as part of its postal subscription service.
Starting from just £9.78 a month, you can get the latest Nintendo offerings sent to your door. As always, LoveFilm DVD rental charge no late fees, so you can keep the game for as long as you like, before sending it back and getting something different.
The set-up makes it ideal if you're planning a party - you can bag one of the latest multi-player games, which is where the Wii comes into its element, and not get depressed at the £40 price tag the next day when you're a billy-no-mates again.
One of the best things about this deal is that the rental price also includes access to LoveFilm's library of over 65,000 DVDs.
And of course, if you're living in a multi-console household, you can also get game rental for the Sony PS3, PS2 and PSP, Xbox 360 and Xbox, Nintendo Gamecube, DS as well as the funky Wii.
Why staying in is the new going out
Unless you've been living with your head under a massive rock for the last year, it can't have escaped your notice that the economy is not at its best at the moment.
To combat the fact that we're all skint, staying in is slowly being deemed as the new credit-crunch-busting way to entertain ourselves.
And what better way to enjoy all those nights in than with a DVD? Think about it. You can sprawl yourself over your sofa, instead of slowly slumping down a lumpy velveteen chair in a poky cinema with shoddy air conditioning.
You don't have to put up with incessant popcorn rustlers, and best of all you can get an unlimited DVD rental service for the same price that you'd pay for a couple of cinema tickets.
You can even watch those dodgy rom-coms, safe in the knowledge that none of your mates will spot you unexpectedly.
Both Blockbuster DVD rental and LoveFilm DVD rental offer unlimited packages (though you can only have 1 DVD at a time), which start from £9.78 per month, with Cinema Paradiso coming in at a recession-bashing £9.49 per month.
And, if you need to tighten your belt even further, you could always opt for an 'occasional viewing' package, which get as cheap as just £3.91 per month - for that you'd get 2 films a month, or you can go a little higher to £5.87 per month and get 3 films a month.
Could aXXo be an end to DVD Rental?
If you haven't heard of aXXo, chances are you'll have stumbled across some of their work at some point. aXXo is the world's most prolific provider of pirated films, with over a third of all movies on BitTorrent uploaded by the anonymous anarchist.
Pirated films have hit the news this week with aXXo hitting his/her landmark 1000th uploaded film, and the court case over Swedish torrent site, The Pirate Bay.
Is this signaling an end to DVD rental? Unlikely.
When you rent your DVDs you get perfect quality picture that looks flawless on your HD telly. Most downloads are rubbish quality. Not much fun when you're trying to watch the latest Angelina Jolie flick and it seems like it's perpetually snowing.
Even the better quality ones often have timers and continual "Owned by xyz film company" messages, not to mentioned the mis-aligned and crackly soundtracks, or the people bobbing up and down in front of the camcorder at the cinema.
With DVD rental there are no annoying download times, and you don't have to worry about viruses. Simply let your resident postie do all the hard work for you.
Finally, when you get a DVD, you also get to take advantage of all the juicy extras, which pirated copies pretty much never have.
While aXXo remains at large, DVD rental remains larger. Check out all the DVD rental free trials here - and give your eyes a rest from poor quality downloads!
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