Even developing countries have highspeed internet access now. It allowed you to immerse yourself in film, while keeping it affordable. Alternative to lovefilm following the end of amazons dvd rentalbypost service, many film buffs have been scouring the internet far and wide in an attempt to find an alternative to lovefilm. Lovefilm was around a tenner a month, for unlimited films, two discs at a time. Sadly, for all the film aficionados out there lovefilm by post is closing on 31st october.
Lovefilm by post to close 311017 tv and film forum. Discs on your high priority list are less likely to be sent. Create a list from the online disc catalogue, rank by priority, and sit back and. Alternative to lovefilm following the end of amazons dvd rental bypost service, many film buffs have been scouring the internet far and wide in an attempt to find an alternative to lovefilm. Launched in 2002, it harks back to an era when the internet was still painfully slow and mark. Agreed, its, for example, almost impossible to actually find the by post service via. Lovefilm was a united kingdombased provider of dvdbymail and streaming video on demand in the united kingdom and germany acquired by in 2011, the service had reached 2 million subscribers.
In a statement, amazon said the rise of streaming services over renting dvd. Amazons postal dvd rental service will cease operating in the uk on october 31. Lovefilm was a united kingdombased provider of dvdbymail and streaming video on demand in the united kingdom. Both netflix and amazon instant video have only a fraction of the selection and my broadband is slow so streaming is pretty terrible and torrenting is slow. On one occasion i had a damaged disc filled in the form online and they sent out a replacement the same day, before id even posted back the original damaged one.
Im hoping its the christmas post but my turnaround times are abysmal. They were also less likely to receive replacement shipments on the same day a disc is received. Lovefilm instant merges with amazon prime page 5 avforums. Discs used to turnaround in 2 days, they now take 3 4 days. Ive been a member since the screenselect days, so a bit sad to see lovefilm bite the dust. Due to this, we will be closing the lovefilm by post service on 31st october 2017, the online retailer said in a statement. Lovefilm by post dvd rental service to close bbc news. First they separated off the streaming service from the disc by post service. Ive had scratched discs a few times, but thats the same as most rental services, and lovefilm were very quick at responding and sending out a replacement disc. Heck, id probably still be subscribed if i could afford to. Lovefilm pushed the envelope for movie buffs netflix and. Have been on cinema paradiso for a couple of weeks.
Amazon announced it would be terminating the lovefilm by post service on 31 october 2017. Lovefilm by post endeavour to dispatch rental discs to our customers on either the same day as a returned disc arrives or the next working day. Last year, over 15 thousand people signed the petition to ask lovefilm to make their services accessible to people with hearing loss. Lovefilm is still one of the best ways to rent dvds by post. We had to fill in a lost form for the royal mail and post it back, otherwise lovefilm threatened to charge us for the disc. The lovefilm name will be maintained for the dvd rental business, although this service has been embedded into amazon as well. Lovefilm competitor im surprised it lasted as long as it did, i scrapped it not long after amazon bought it, forcing users to use their horrible, bloated site for lovefilm killed it for me.
In response to the op, ive had two problems with lovefilm in the two years ive been with them, and both have been resolved without hassle and without cost. While its now moving more towards the streaming ondemand realm, dvds and blurays still. Amazons lovefilm by post dvd rental service increases. Amazon, which owns lovefilm, says it will cease offering dvds and bluray discs via post on 31 october. Im not saying the above wont apply to lovefilm, but i found bbs turnaround times to be like watching paint dry. It also claimed over 70,000 titles, and over 4 million dvd, bluray or game rentals per month in five countries. Amazons lovefilm by post dvd rental service will close at the end of october in the uk, the tech giant has said. I still want an ultra hd bluray player so happily cinema paradiso is the go to for discs at home rental. This affects all those with poor internet speeds and those who enjoy uncompressed quality only available via optical disc. Has anybody else noticed that since amazon has become involved in lovefilm the service has started to go downhill. Lovefilm was a good company, i have been a subscriber for many years. We started life as a purely dvd rentalbypost business and are emerging as what we call a hybrid or a fused business, a joint business of dvd rentalbypost and streaming by tv, internet tv or games consol or pc. Amazons dvd rental service is pushing its prices up by as much as five times, in a move that customers have described as horrifying.
Lovefilm by post will close in october and dvd fans are. Amazon is getting out of the dvd rental business with the closure of lovefilm, the socalled netflix of europe that amazon bought in 2011 for a. Amazon kills its european dvd rental biz, lovefilm. Customer service was good and they would always endeavour to send a replacement as quickly as possible, however my dh just got fed up with thinking he was. Through a series of acquisitions, lovefilm quickly. Through a series of acquisitions, lovefilm quickly became. Since then, they have rebranded to amazon prime video.
Amazon are closing the lovefilm dvdbluray rental service on 31 oct 2017, amazons suggested replacement for this service is their own amazon prime video, this is ok if you dont mind poor selection, poor picture quality, colour banding, lossy soundtracks and of course there are parts of the uk without the bandwidth to stream. The changes to the lovefilm by post service mean that from february 2016 customers will pay more. Cinema paradiso works in much the same way as lovefilm. Lovefilm has been operating since 2002 originally as a dvd mailout service similar to netflix. Amazons lovefilm by post will no stop allowing customers to rent dvds and blurays at the end of october, according to the tech giant. With lovefilm it used to be postnew film two days later 99% of the time. Agreed, its, for example, almost impossible to actually find the by post service via lovefilm. With the latest news that the lovefilm by post service is being shut down by amazon is there any alternative in the u.
As excellent as the amazon prime video service is, lovefilm by post offered a much larger selection of movies. Lovefilm was a united kingdombased provider of dvdbymail and streaming video on demand in the united kingdom, sweden, norway, denmark and germany acquired by in 2011, the service had reached 2 million subscribers. I n a statement, amazon said the rise of streaming services over renting dvd and. Lovefilm have over 80,000 dvds including bonus discs on their shelves, almost every single dvd currently available for rental in the uk. And yes, they did, and will do until october 31st when owners amazon are shutting it permanently. Its the end of an era for dvd and bluray fans in the u. I know amazon has had a finger in the lovefilm pie for a number of years, but since they brought the company in house on the amazon website, the service has become dreadful. The lovefilm by post service, which allows people to rent. Amazon kills off lovefilm dvd by post service as netflix. On 14 august 2017, amazon announced it would be terminating the lovefilm by post service on 31 october 2017. Lovefilm by post is closing because the majority of the planet is now highly connected. The horror stories about lovefilm are seemingly untrue, or at least very rare cases.
So, lovefilm is in the business of delivering films to people, films and tv series. Amazon claim that everyones switching to streaming, but the selection is shite by comparison very reminiscent of the days when the local video rental stores were being killed off by blockbuster, and suddenly you went from being able to choose from a massive library built. When we first joined we could reliably post a disk back to. The lovefilm warehouse does not process returns or dispatches on weekends or bank holidays.
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