Thursday, December 09, 2004

Amazon UK rents DVD's

Amazon is the latest entry in to the crowded UK online DVD rental market.

Since leaving San Francisco for London we've been testing a couple of the DVD services. So far none has impressed us. The two we won't be using in the future are...

ScreenSelect - The site looks like Netflix and almost works like it too. Good account management options, large movie selection but a very confusing system for choosing when your DVD's get dispatched. Also slow turnaround.
Rating: 3,5/5

Blockbuster - You'd think Blockbuster would understand how people rent movies. They don't. Poor site design, it's hard to find even new movies, there's no proper search functionality and the multiple "my list" options don't help. On the plus side is quick turnaround.
Rating: 1/5

Unfortunately our US favorite Netflix has postponed its UK launch in prep for Amazon's US DVD rental launch. Can we still sign up, please? (To Netflix - let the ex-subscriber offers transfer between the US and UK ;) )