Video Island, the UK’s largest independent online DVD rental company, today announced they have 3% of the entire UK market for DVD rental (note just online rentals). According to MRIB figures for 2004, Video Island, together with its consumer brand ScreenSelect and partners (Tesco, MSN, ITV) already account for a significant 3%(1) of the total DVD rental market in the UK. This is the one of the fastest growth rates of any e-commerce sector.
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I’m moving to Intelliflix for my online DVD and movie rentals. I like the fact that Intelliflix offers video games plus adult movies: Intelliflix is the one-stop rental service for everything. NetFlix only offers non-adult DVD movies (no games), and BlockBuster only offers game rentals in their stores (also no mature films).
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Last year I joined NetFlix and used it for a few months. I liked the selection and definitely the convenience of receiving DVD movies right to my mailbox, but after awhile I got busy and found it wasn’t worth paying $19.99 a month. But here’s what really pissed me off and has caused some unhappy customers to post rants such as “Why NetFlix Sucks!”. I was getting too many movies each month, so they stopped sending them as fast; instead of 2-day turnarounds, it was taking longer and longer to get the items in my queue. Excuse me, but that’s not mentioned in their d*#ned terms of service! For the first few months of my NetFlix subscription I was returning the DVDs the same day I received them (I just copied them to a hard drive for viewing later, then deleted them after I viewed them), and that meant I could get more rented then they wanted me to receive in a month. So good-bye NetFlix with your high prices and crummy business practices, and hellow BlockBuster Online!!