Just found out about www.zip.ca
This is a online based mail-order DVD rental kinda thing. Anyone use it?

Basiclly it appears that you pay $24.95/month, unlimited rentals per month - but you can only have 4 movies at a time. Say you choose 12 movies that you want to rent, the first 4 show up and then when you return 1 (or 4) the send you a new one (or 4)./ No contract and you can cancel ant any time....

Sounds pretty good...anyone use it?

I've done the math, and I have rented 180 movies in the last 26 months - that is on average just under 7 movies a month. At a cost of $5.25 per movie...$36.75 per month.

( I have no cable and a side job that involes watching movies... [img]smile.gif[/img] )

 

Yeah but no late charges!

I have kids and my late charges add up big time.

I've probably put out 300$ in lates in the last year.

I think I'm going to give it a try.

craig

 

Sounds like a good deal... much like netflix, but for Canadians. The big thing would be selection and availability.

I prefer to buy my DVD's haven't rented one in a long time. I've bought over 200 in the last 2 years and don't want to do the math [img]graemlins/cry.gif[/img]

 

I've been using zip.ca for about 3 months now. I absolutely love it. However, I'll be honest with you guys. All I do after receiving movies is rip them to my hard drive (440GB of space helps). Then I send the movies back the next morning. This allows me to go through about 16 movies a month. So for $24.95, 16 movies to have forever is an amazing deal.

I HIGHLY recommend this to anyone with a DVD burner, and the time to copy/encode lots of movies.

If you plan to just watch and return, it's probably not AS great, but still pretty good.

One thing to remember is that they ship and receive from Ottawa. So for me in Toronto, it takes about 2-3 days for shipping.

[ August 20, 2004, 01:58 PM: Message edited by: koncise ]

 

They do claim to have 'every' dvd made. over 18,000.

 

And that would be illegal [img]tongue.gif[/img] lol

 

a mere technicallity [img]smile.gif[/img]

It's a victimless crime

 

still is lol [img]tongue.gif[/img] Not sayin dont do it but sure as hell aren't supposed to publicly encourage it [img]tongue.gif[/img] j/k

 

I tried the zip.ca website. The interface sucks bigtime....I spent a lot of time waiting....and waiting...

vhqonline.com has a much better interface same deal

 

^ maybe there's just a bad connection between your ISP and their servers or something... the website is always speedy for me.

i know this will seem biased since it on zip.ca's website, but its from the national post, so take from it what u will:

http://www.zip.ca/news/news_290504.aspx

[ August 21, 2004, 07:17 PM: Message edited by: koncise ]