Aug
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DVDs
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I’ve been rather a fan of films and, more particularly, the cinema for longer than I can really remember. When I bought my OnDigital box (back in the days when the things cost something like £250!) the clincher was FilmFour, a channel which promised a wide variety of English-language and foreign-language films.
Sadly, we never really watched as many of the films as we wanted since too many of the films began just as we were going to bed. There are only so many times that a person can watch The Quick and the Dead before beginning to question whether they are reaping the full benefit of their subscription.
Since the beginning of this year, we have been members of the LoveFilm online DVD rental service. We find this vastly better than both FilmFour, since we can watch a DVD pretty much whenever we want and don’t face the irritation of finding, as is typical with a certain national chain of video shops, that the film we want is not available, but we could rent as many as fifty copies of There’s Something About Mary.
LoveFilm’s range is truly immense— I’ve yet to find a DVD that has been released and is not in their range. I actually suspect that, were I to try to rent such a thing, they would send someone down to the shops to buy it for me. On average, the DVD arrives within two working days of us posting the previous disc. We have watched more good films this year than in our previous six as FilmFour subscribers (ten as members of Blockbuster). We are more willing to take a risk with a film this way: for instance, we recently watched the first part of Heimat: a tremendous German-language programme that we would never have been able to rent locally and wouldn’t consider buying just on the off-chance that all the reviews were right. Tonight, we shall be mostly watching the final episodes of Krzystof Kieslowski’s Dekalog.
