Online DVD Rental - Big Business
By Jay Moncliff
Looking for a way to avoid the crowd at your
local video rental store? Tired of the one
movie you want to see being rented out? You
may want to consider one of the new DVD rental
services available today.
Online DVD rental has become a big business
in the past few years. DVD’s are more reliable,
and much less expensive to produce and mail
than VCR tapes. More and more consumers are
skipping the theaters and waiting for the
film they want to see to come out on DVD,
so the rental business is booming. However,
with today’s even more busy families, time
for browsing the video store is at a premium.
The new online DVD rental services
are the answer to long lines, out of stock
films and late fees. There are many services,
each offering great selections of movies.
The rental service works like this: You
sign up for a membership and pay a monthly
fee. This fee entitles you to receive
one to eight movies per month (depending
on the plan you choose). Typically, monthly
fee for two and three movies is incrementally
higher than the fee for one movie, but
you choose the plan that you think you
will use.
After signing up, you create a list of
movies that you’d like to see. Most of
the services have extensive lists and
numerous copies, so you aren’t likely
to miss out on a movie due to unavailability.
This is called your movie list or queue,
and you can change it at any time.
The first movie(s) on your list are sent
to you via the postal service, complete
with postage paid return envelopes. You
only pay for the membership fee, you don’t
have to worry about postage. The movies
arrive in your mailbox. No more frustrating
trips to the video store.
Once you’ve viewed the movies as many
times as you wish, you simply put the
movie in the return envelope and drop
it into a mailbox. Upon receipt, the online
DVD rental service will process the next
movie on your list and get it in the mail
to you right away.
You can keep movies for as long as you
want, since the next one will only be
sent when one is returned. If you choose
a movie you simply can’t part with, you
can go to the service’s website and purchase
the movie at a pre-viewed price (typically).
If you’re a serious movie buff, this
plan could be quite cost effective. For
the monthly membership fee of $39.95 (for
example) you could receive eight movies
to view. If the video plan takes about
a week to turn your order around you could
turn this stock over at least three or
four times before the month is up. That’s
about 30 movies that you could view for
$39.95. At $5 each for rental, that a
savings of about $110. Of course, you’d
have to keep churning those movies out,
and your social life might suffer, but
you’d certainly catch up on all of the
movies you’d been meaning to see.
As with anything, read the fine print.
Try to avoid plans that charge late fees
(yes, they’re out there), and select a
plan with a mailing center in your area
of the country for quicker turnaround.
Renting movies with an online DVD rental
company can be fun, entertaining and cost-effective,
not to mention convenient. If you enjoy
using your DVD player, consider joining
one of these services and catching up
on your movie nights.
Jay Moncliff is the founder of http://www.go-dvd.info
a website specialized on Dvd, resources
and articles. This site provides updated
information on Dvd. For more info visit
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