Lidl Movies

Looks pretty good actually. Think I'll wait to see how others get on before I think of switching from lovefilm. Good to see they do Bluray too.
 
I'll never join an online club, know why? because when I want a film I want it that minute. I don't want to have to wait 2 or 3 days to watch the film of my choice, because there's a good chance I'll want something else by then.

People don't seem to realise they are paying to wait!!! I want the pleasure of going to a shop and checking all the DVD covers to choose a film I'd like to see.

If we go the way of the US, then Blockbusters will disappear and there'll be a void until everyone realises that they actually liked shopping for films to watch that night, and then little film shops will open, until they are swallowed up by the next big chain.

Remember when all our cinemas disappeared?? I do :D Funnily enough, people remembered how they actually liked going to the cinema to watch a film, rather than waiting months for it to be out on vid so they could watch it at home.

So I would warn everyone that this is a bad idea and to remember the High Street, before you kill it off forever. :)
 
Thanks for warning us both what we want and what we will want in the future.

I think if people want to wait then they will and it's their own choice, seems very patronising to try to dictate how people should behave and where they should spend their money.

Perhaps people don't want to waste half an hour in a shop plus travelling time when it can take a couple of minutes to set up what films they want to see, and chances are if they do really want to see them when they order they will still want to see them when the film arrives.
 
I'm not trying to tell people what to do :) My point is, at the moment we have both and I'd like it to stay that way. I buy some things online myself, occasionally! But I would really hate to see the death of High Street shopping and to find that if I want to rent a film the only way to do it is online, which means waiting.
 
At my old workplace, we had a DVD rental vending machine as well.

Can I hell remember what the company was called though, but what I remember, no one seemed to use it.

This was about 2006.
 
Some are not bothered. I'm not anyway, I have so many films I want to see on my list that we get what we want to see anyway and always have something to watch.

I pay
 
Not all of us have that option, the nearest place we can rent from is about 20 miles away. There is obviously a need for such a service as plenty of people are using it. Fine if you don't wanna use it, no one's forcing you, but when we did have a local rental store, they had no interest in new formats (bluray),
 
We used to have a local video rental shop that used a vending machine. This was in the 1980s. You had a card to swipe to get into the shop and everything inside the shop was automated.
 
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