The place for movie lovers. (Tesco DVD Rentals)

Member Name: DixieChick101

Product:	Tesco DVD Rentals
Date:	19/01/08 (206 review reads)
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Advantages: easy to use, great selection of DVD's.

Disadvantages: can't always get teh DVD's you want.

I love tescodvdrental.com. It's an easy and cheap way to rent DVD's that you want to see. Of course like most internet sites it has its downsides which I'll get onto later on but first I'll explain more about tescodvdrental.com

What is tescodvdrental.com?
With over 56,000 titles to choose from tescodvdrental.com is the perfect site to get the DVD's/Games you want and ones you never even heard of before.

Depending on the package you have you can rent out 1,2 or even 3 DVD's/Games at a time... with no late fees at all.
Perfect!.


The Packages

Unlimited Packages
For unlimited packages there are 6 different ones you can have. All of them have 14 days free trial which means you can see if that package is for you. It's pre-paid 1st class postage for both way's as well. The packages are as follows:

DVD: 1 Disk at home each time - £8.97
DVD: 2 Disks at home each time - £11.97
DVD: 3 Disks at home each time - £14.97
DVD & Games- 1 disk at home each time- £9.97
DVD & Games- 2 disks at home each time- £13.97
DVD & Games- 3 disks at home each time- 17. 97

Tesco Value Packages
Think you'll only have the time to watch 2 DVDs a month, don't want to pay over the odds well here's the package for you.

DVD: 2 disks per month, but one disk at home a time - £4.47
DVD: 3 disks per month, but one disk at home a time - £5.97
DVD: 4 disks per month, but two disks at home a time - £7.47

Free Trials
If you are happy with the one you have after your free trail has ended all you have to do is carry on like normal and you will be billed for one months subscription and then on the same date each month you'll be billed again.


Cancellations

There are no cancellation fees at all. You can cancel anytime but until the DVD's have been returned you will still be billed.

Gift Subscriptions
You don't have to be a member to purchase a gift subscription for a family member or friend. There are 2 subcription lengths and three types of packages. They are the following:

6 months
2 DVDs per month - £25
(Unlimited DVD's) 1 DVD at a time - £49
(Unlimited DVD's & Games) 2 at a time - £80

12 months
2 DVDs per month - £48
(Unlimited DVD's) - £96
(Unlimited DVD's & Games) - £158


Existing Members

All you have to do is pick the subscription you want, and specify the date you want the voucher sent. Tescodvdrental.com will wait and then send the voucher on the correct day.
The item is delivered by email so make sure you've got the correct email address.


Non-existing members

You don't have to set up an account if you don't want to but they'll ask for some basic details to set up an inactive account. Like the existing members choose the package you want and let them know when to email the person the voucher.

Blu-ray & HD DVD disks
These are used to cram more data onto each disk, so you'll get more information on these than you would on normal DVD disks.

However you must have a special DVD player that plays back Blu-ray and HD DVD disks.
If you have a playstation 3 this is Blu-ray compatible so you are able to watch the blu-ray disks on the ps3, but with the HD DVD you must have a HD DVD player to be able to watch these. Most of the modern DVD's on tescodvdrental.com have a blu-ray/HD alternative.


Contacting tescodvdrental.com

We've only ever needed to contact them once and they were very quick at responding and helped us through the problem efficiently.
Here's the contact details.

Phone- 0844 482 0254
Email- Use the report a problem in the 'my selection' page which is probably the easiest way to get help quicker with problems.

Address- Tesco DVD Rental Customer Services
FREEPOST RRCA-EHAC-ZZKX
LOVEFiLM International
London
W3 6RU

Rental Queue
This is where you keep your selection of DVD's. It shows you all of the ones you have ready and waiting and the one that you have got at the moment.


DVD's you have at home

This bit tells you the title of the DVD you have at home, when it was sent out and gives you some links just in case there's a problem after the DVD has been dispatched at either end.

Rental Queue Key
This is just a small key. This tells you about the rental queue. If you want your item to be first priority, you change it to high. If you're not too bothered change it to low.

Then there's two little barbecue like symbols. The orange one means that they'll be a short wait for the item to come out and the red one means that it's a very popular DVD and it might be a long wait for it to get to you.

The Rental Queue
This is probably the most important part of the rental queue page.

Title Platform/Media Certificate High Medium Low Remove
Those are the titles of the rental queue list. In the title section you will have the list of DVD's that you have got ready to rent out, next to that in the platform/media section it'll tell you if it's a DVD or game etc and then beside that you have the cert of the DVD.

The High, Medium, Low & remove bit is your slight way of controlling the rental queue. One of the problems with tescodvdrental.com is that you don't always get the DVD you want... even if the item is high priority you might not get this because it's so popular. It's annoying but there are ways around it which I'll explain later.
If you want the item to be first priority, click high and then underneath your list you will have an 'update selection' button. Click here and your DVD will now be on top and tescodvdrental.com will attempt to send that one out first.


Unavailable/Not Yet Released Disks

When a movie is released at the cinema tescodvdrental.com put it into their database with the release date. You are then able to put the DVD in reserve which means as soon as it's released it'll go into your rental queue.
Instead of the High, Medium & low selection you have the release date of the DVD. Some of the DVD's have no release date so it'll say not yet confirmed.

You can also see more up-coming DVD's by clicking on the link at the top of the unavailable/not yet released section. This will give you a list of the DVD's that have not yet to be released.

RENTED/QUEUED
At the top of the page it will give you two links. Queued or Rented. If you click on quued it'll give you the list above, if you click on rented it will give you another page. Here it shows you what you have out at the moment, and what DVD's you have rented before.

Tescodvdrental.com like you to give their DVD's a rate so other people can see if they're any good, so the ones you haven't rated will be on the page, but you can also see every other DVD you have rented before.
Like I said we've had this for three years around about and have rented 178 DVD's, and if my math's is correct that's about 5 disks per month or so.

It's nice to see what DVD's you've watched in the past. Our first ever DVD for my mum of course as I'm not allowed to watch it, was 'Kill Bill: Volume 1' and our latest one was 'The Simpson's Movie'.
===Browse Section===


Hotlists

These are the things that most people use. In the hotlists you can find all of the new DVD's out, DVD's in the cinema and ones that are about to come out soon.
The Hotlists are as follows:

Recommendations: This is a list of their recommendations. Of course. It's mainly just ones that don't go as well or classics. The top four on there at the moment are: Poseidon, Cold Mountain, Miami vice & Simply Irresistible. A good mix of DVD's there and I'm sure you'll find one in there that you'll like the look of.
New Releases: Pretty self explanatory if I say so myself. It's all the DVD's that have come out in the past month or two. The top four are: Death Sentence, Shoot 'Em Up, Sicko & Weeds Season 2. None there that I'd actually watch myself but there's a huge list on there of DVD's that have come out in December and January.

Coming Soon: Pretty self explanatory again, but this one's a bit weird in my opinion. One of the DVD's that is 'coming soon' was made in 2003. The top four are: Death Proof, Ghosts Of Cite Solei, In The Hands of the gods & Land of the blind. Three of them came out in 2007 and only the first one was made/released at the cinema last year.
In Cinema's Now: This is where I tend to fill up my Unavailable list. After watching films like P.S. I Love you and I Am Legend I have already put them in my unavailable list so the rest of my family can watch them. I think this is a good selection but sometimes some of them are not available... when we first watched Stardust it took until about November for tescodvdrental.com to have it in the 'in cinema's now' list.

Top Rated- When you rate a film after watching it, it does matter. The top rated films are all put into this list for other people to have easy access to.
Most Popular- These are the ones that have been rented the most. It doesn't matter if they are crap films, as long as they have been rented out a lot they are in this list.

All Time favorites: Self Explanatory again, here you find the classics. The top four in the list are: Hot Fuzz, Crash, Inside Man & Walk the Line. I wouldn't really call those 'classics' but they're still great films and favorites among tescodvdrental.com.
Divided Opinions: Not sure what this means but the top four on the list are: Saawariya, Best Of Youth, Lazytown, Paris Is Burning. I think these are ones that maybe only some people might enjoy as I've never heard of any of them.


Genres

If you are a horror buff this is an easy way to browse through your favorite horror films, same if you enjoy thrillers or Indian cinema. It's simple and easy. Here's the list.
Browse All- You can loose through the whole genre list, it's a more complex description of the main page and gives you more insight into the different categories.
Action/Adventure- DVD's like Spiderman, Jarhead and Miami Vice can be found in this section.
Animated- DVD's like Shrek and The Simpson's can be found in this section.
Children- Princess Diaries and Doctor Doolittle can be found here.
Comedy- Nacho Libre & the Stepford Wives can be found in this selection.
Documentary- The Holocaust DVD can be found here.
Drama- Match Point & Edward Scissorhands can be found here.
Family- It Takes Two & Cheaper By The Dozen can be found in this selection.
General Interest- How to drive off road can be found here.
Horror- Underworld & Ghost ship can be found here.
Indian Cinema- Shaarabi can be found here.
Music/Musical- Phantom Of The Opera & Moulin Rouge can be found here.
Romance- Simply Irresistible & The Wedding planner can be found here.
Sci-Fi Fantasy- X-Men & Roswell can be found here.
Sport- FA cup finale can be found here.
Television- Alias & Lost can be found here.
Thriller- Secret Window & Inside man can be found here.
World Cinema- Turtles can fly can be found here.
Audio Description- Zoom & Young Adam can be found here.

Each different category gives you even more sub-categories. If you want to search through them easily choose Browse All but if you like Romantic Comedies, click on Romance and it'll give you another sub-heading where you can choose Comedy.

Games
There's a great list of games now on tescodvdrental.com. They have most games from consoles such as game cube to Nintendo Wii.

Game Cube
PS2
PS3
PSP
Wii
Xbox
Xbox 360
Like the genre of DVD's each of the games has a sub category which makes it much easier for you to search for your favorite game.


Hi-Def

Here's your list of HD DVD's and Blu-Ray DVD's. All of them are listed in this selection.

Help Section
Like I said before, tescodvdrental.com is great for helping with problems. They've got a great FAQ section which tells you most of the problems and how to resolve them but if not they have ways for you to get in contact with them as shown earlier.

In the Help Section you have many things links for them to help you including:
Help- Here's your FAQ questions. They answer most of the problems including billing and lost DVD's etc.

Contact Us- If the FAQ fails, you can contact tescodvdrental.com by using this link.
Learn More- This pretty much tells you everything about tescodvdrental.com including the packages and information about it.

Delivery Information- This tells you questions like 'if you have to sign for the disks' and 'is it sent first class' etc.
Privacy & Security Information- The privacy policy is great... by the looks of things no one's information could ever get out. Unless they do what the government did, twits.


My Account

Here they tell you everything about your account, from your personal details to your subscription details. If you need to know anything it's in your account section.

Advantages of using tescodvdrental.com
- Cheap DVD's to rent with NO late fees.
- Biggest selections of DVD's/Games known to man.
- Easy to register.
- Tells you everything about the DVD's.
- Gives you reviews on DVD's.


Disadvantages of using tescodvdrental.com.

- Even if you put a DVD on high priority you probably won't get it.
- The DVD's don't come with any information.
- The price has gone up.

Anything Else
I think tescodvdrental.com is fantastic, and we will definitely be with it for a few more years. Until I move out at least.

I would recommend it to anyone.
Oh and for some help, if you want a SPECIFIC DVD, once you have sent off your last DVD, remove the DVD you want from your selection. Go searching for the DVD again and rent it... 8 times out of 10 it works. Might just be me, my magic touch. We wanted The Simpson's for Christmas for my sister and as a mate of ours had told us it was crap, we decided to rent it instead. I used my magic and it came on the Saturday.

Hope you now go and register... it's well worth it. The links below.
http://www.tescodvdrental.com/visitor/home.html

Hope you enjoyed the review... it took me a LONG time to write.

Thanx for reading.
Kirsty.

Copyright
14th January 2008

Summary: Gr8 thing and worth the money.