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Submit Response is a weblog by Jack Mottram, a journalist who lives in Glasgow, Scotland. There are 1308 posts in the archives. You can subscribe to a feed. This post was made on January 17, 2004 and belongs in the misc. category. The previous post was Flourish, and the next post is Birkenhead Park.

Lazy Rental

Does anyone have any expe­ri­ence with Guardian Unlim­ited DVD rentals, aka Movi­eTrak?

One of my half-​formed New Year’s res­o­lu­tions was to watch more films. I’m always in the cinema, but hardly ever rent DVDs, because I’m lazy and always end up being stung by fees for return­ing the discs late.

With Movi­eTrak, you can rent a film con­ven­tion­ally, at £3.75 a pop, or sub­scribe to the ser­vice for £13.95 a month. This gets you unlim­ited rentals and - better yet - no due dates or late fees: you keep the films as long as you like, but no new films will be sent out until the last batch have been returned.

Sounds good doesn’t it? Unless anyone has any horror sto­ries, I think I’ll sign up.

Posted at 12pm on 17/01/04 by Jack Mottram to the misc. category.
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  1. I’ve used their sub­scrip­tion ser­vice for a couple of months now, and it’s gen­er­ally quite good. The turn around time, from when they receive your returned DVD to when they send out the next one, seems to be a couple of days - a little dis­s­a­point­ing - I would have pre­ferred same-​day. And the web site can be quite dif­fi­cult to browse, unless you have a fair idea what you’re after. But apart from that, it’s a very good service.

    Posted by Richard at 5pm on 17.01.04

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