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Sofa Cinema

Sofa Cinema DVD Rental

Prices, packages, free trial details and an independent review of Sofa Cinema dvd rental.
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  • 30 day free trial.
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Includes virtually every DVD in the UK
Full of interesting articles and reviews
Ability to rent games as well
Runs on the back of reliable Lovefilm DVD rental service
Great for Guardian readers

Review of Sofa Cinema

Independent review by the Choose team.

SofaCinema recently underwent a site redesign.

Now, not only is the service run by Lovefilm their site's look is almost exactly the same - except that Sofacinema has a link to The Guardian at the top of the page and no movie content from either Lovefilm or the newspaper.

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Guardian Angel

The SofaCinema brand is owned by the culture-conscious Guardian Media Group.

That used to mean that DVD rental customers benefited from The Guardian's high-brow influence on its extra content and film reviews but that influence has recently departed.

Frankly, we're struggling to think of a reason you'd choose SofaCinema over its parent (supporting print media?!).

Lovefilm's influence is a bit more influential.

It can be felt in the SofaCinema DVD Rental site - borrowed from the user-tested-to-death Lovefilm structure - and in the deal prices, which are the same either way.

Lovefilm also bring game rental deals to SofaCinema, although there's little games content on the site and no games-only deals so it's not a service for serious button-bashers such as Swapgame game rental is.

And note that SofaCinema users aren't spared Lovefilm's problems either.

A argument between Lovefilm and Universal means that renters can't get popular titles such as Public Enemies, Bruno and Kick Ass.

So why get SofaCinema instead of Lovefilm?

We don't know. The Guardian has a superb film section but it's not here and Lovefilm's own site heaves with film features and interviews too.

Just as Lovefilm users do, SofaCinema subscribers also get access to online streaming services for free with deals over £5.99 a month.

All in all, we're finding it pretty tricky to think of many reasons to choose this one over its parent company...


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Packages, prices and catalog details

Detail Additional
Titles 65,000 + -
Free Trial 30 days The free trial is available on any package.
Film only plans
DVDs per time Rents per month Price
1. disc Up to
2 /mth
£4.99
2. disc Up to
3 /mth
£5.99
3. discdisc Up to
4 /mth
£8.16
4. discdisc Unlimited £9.99
5. discdiscdisc Unlimited £13.27
Film & game plans
DVDs per time Rents per month Price
1. disc Up to
2 /mth
£5.99
2. discdisc Unlimited £14.99
3. discdiscdisc Unlimited £19.39
Movies Includes movies - Recent releases
- Popular choices
- Children's & family
- World cinema
- Bollywood
- TV series
- Sports
Blu-ray Includes blu ray -
Games Includes games - XBox 360
- Nintendo Wii
- Sony PSP
- Nintendo DS

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