Cinema Paradiso DVD Rental Review

Review of Cinema Paradiso DVD Rental

WE certainly didn't see this coming! CinemaParadiso used to be a wilting flower offering a small range of mostly world-cinema titles.

Lower prices and better customer service

Now, armed with a swanky new design - and incorporating the catalogue of the now defunct Zoovies DVD Rental to take their tally of films to rent up to around 50,000 - CinemaParadiso DVD rental is creeping up on the DVD rental juggernauts like Lovefilm and Blockbuster, but with lower prices and arguably better customer service.

You'll still find all the great world cinema titles that CinemaParadiso DVD rental was famous for, but in addition you now have a huge choice of popular titles too.

In fact, in the coming months Cinema Paradiso DVD rental expect to have every DVD released in the UK.

They perhaps haven't yet quite caught up with Lovefilm on that front, but they come close.

Pocket friendly DVD rental prices

CinemaParadiso DVD Rental's pocket friendly prices (they market themselves as the "UK's cheapest online rental specialist") make them one of the best-value DVD rental services, especially when you consider the broad array of both limited and unlimited DVD rental packages.

There are a massive 6 different DVD rental packages available: 3 unlimited, and 3 limited.

We are increasingly becoming fans of the limited package model (where you pay less per month, but can only watch a certain number of films) as it becomes obvious that unlimited rentals are - in our busy lives - quite difficult to make the most of. CinemaParadiso's unique selling point here (which is better than the limited package offers from some other online DVD rental services) is that if you don't watch your allowed quota each month, the remainder are carried over to the next month.

This is fantastic if you are having a busy month or are away on holiday.

Earn free membership for life

CinemaParadiso DVD rental has just launched a fantastic loyalty scheme too where, if you recommend the service to 6 of your friends and they all go on to sign up, you will get free membership for as long as 6 of your friends remain CinemaParadiso DVD rental customers.

If you can't persuade six friends - or if you dont have six friends period! - you'll still receive a 1/6th discount for each friend you do manage to sign up. Read more about Cinema Paradiso's 'Friends for Films' scheme.

Another new addition to the CinemaParadiso DVD rental site is their 'shop' section where you can buy ex-rental DVD's for a fraction of the RRP price. All the DVD's for sale are 100% guaranteed quality, include DVD artwork and DVD case as well as free first class delivery from CinemaParadiso DVD rental to you. What's more, most of the titles were selling for under £3!

Excellent customer service

Being a smaller company, CinemaParadiso DVD rental has built up a small army of fans who are hooked on the DVD rental company's excellent customer service.

Title turnaround is fast - and in many cases faster than its rivals. Long may it continue!

CinemaParadiso gets two-thumbs up for:
Allowing you to carry unused rentals over from month to month if you do not use up your monthly DVD rental allowance from one of CinemaParadiso's limited monthly rental packages.

Free trial details

	Cinema Paradiso offer a free trial of 4 discs. The free trial is available on any package (however the number of discs varies). It's free, so...

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At a Glance

Our Rating
No. of Titles	50,000 +
Free Trial	4 discs
DVDs at once Max / month £4.89 £5.99 £7.99 Unlimited £9.49 Unlimited £12.49 Unlimited £14.99

	DVD Types Available:
	Recent Releases		Bollywood
	Popular Choices		TV Series
	Children's & Family		Sports
	World Cinema		Adult Themed
	Game Types Available:
	Cinema Paradiso does not offer game rentals

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Remember, the customer reviews below are subjective (and are not the opinions of ChooseDVDRental.co.uk).

cooldudedave from manchester writes... 2/25/2008

"My girlfriend bought a birthday subscription or something for her colleague once. She liked it so much that she bragged on about it for so long that we decided to get the same. It’s been over a year now and we are still happy with them. We both have our own lists of preferred titles and receive one title from each list. Makes life easier and helps avoid arguments."

sandy from Leamington writes... 2/25/2008

"This March marks 3 years since I first signed up for online DVD rentals with Cinemaparadiso. I am telling you, it's the only monthly direct debit I dont regret paying. Once I watched 30 films in one month for the cost of £14.99. You do the math. Its £ 0.49p per per rental. Not to mention that there are no late fees either with these guys. You can keep a DVD for as long as you like but it’s better not to keep them too long. Get them watched and sent back, the more you watch the more you save. "

Julie from Sheffield writes... 2/17/2008

"As a would be refugee from Amazon (still waiting for LoveFilm aka ScreenSelect to refund the incorrectly deducted payment after I cancelled) I've found CinemaParadiso's 4 disc free trial had a prompt turnaround and the quality of the discs was excellent on quite old releases. I'm waiting to see how easy it is to get new reaeases when I swap to a paid subscription this week. I picked CinemaParadiso from a chance recommendation off a message board."