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Archive for February 2009
They haven't had one of these in nearly a year, so if you're just jumping into DVD rental, it's a great place to start.
However, the big news is Quickflix introduced a limited time special offer of a 30 day free trial (up to 7 discs). They haven't had one of these in nearly a year, so if you're just jumping into DVD rental, we suggest it's a good place to start.
This month we've also introduced a blog, to closely track developments in the Australian DVD rental industry. We've also populated the blog with our site updates here going back to 2005, so it will serve as an archive of changes to the industry as well. We hope visitors find it useful,
Expanding its hours by 20% would presumably raise shipping costs, but Netflix is flush with profits, and the move would win kudos from customers, improving already strong brand loyalty.
Unfortunately, there is no Australian DVD rental service we're aware of which ships DVDs out on Saturdays.
Such unlimited plans were the mainstay of the DVD rental by post in the early days of the industry (and could be tremendous value for high-volume renters, and cause tremendous postage bills for the companies). We've seen this pullback to more capped plans across several other Western markets, as apparently a small percentage of people regularly got “heavy” DVD mailings, so the caps were set high enough so as not to affect the average viewer. Market leader Bigpond previously removed its unlimited options in April 2008, and we wouldn't be surprised to see the other, smaller companies follow suit.
Quickflix now has four tariffs: the budget options of 1 DVD out at-a-time (to a maximum of 2 DVDs per month) and 2 DVDs out at-a-time (to a maximum of 4 discs per month) cost just $9.95 and $14.95 respectively. They also have a 2-out, 8 disc plan per month at $19.95, and a 3 out 10 per month plan at $24.95, both effectively $2.49 per disc which is quite competitive. We also hear that some previous, higher volume renters were offered higher, fixed disc-per-month tariffs than those advertised on the website.
Quickflix Introduces 30-Day Free Trial
Quickflix has introduced a limited time special offer of a 30 day free trial (up to 7 discs in the month), which is just shy of a 20 dollar value.They haven't had one of these in nearly a year, so if you're just jumping into DVD rental, it's a great place to start.
17 Feb, 2009 | Category: Special Offers |
February 2009 Australia DVD Rental Guide Update
Quickflix has joined BigPond and removed its unlimited DVDs per monthly tariffs, moving to all capped disc per month plans. Also, market leader BigPond has edged slightly above Quickflix in total number of unique titles in their inventory, 36,000 compared to Quickflix's 35,000.However, the big news is Quickflix introduced a limited time special offer of a 30 day free trial (up to 7 discs). They haven't had one of these in nearly a year, so if you're just jumping into DVD rental, we suggest it's a good place to start.
This month we've also introduced a blog, to closely track developments in the Australian DVD rental industry. We've also populated the blog with our site updates here going back to 2005, so it will serve as an archive of changes to the industry as well. We hope visitors find it useful,
12 Feb, 2009 | Category: Site Announcements |
US's Netflix Mulls Deliveries on Saturdays
US DVD rental giant Netflix is considering shipping out DVDs six days a week instead of the normal five.Expanding its hours by 20% would presumably raise shipping costs, but Netflix is flush with profits, and the move would win kudos from customers, improving already strong brand loyalty.
Unfortunately, there is no Australian DVD rental service we're aware of which ships DVDs out on Saturdays.
07 Feb, 2009 | Category: DVD Rental News |
Quickflix Ends Unlimited Plans
On February 3, Quickflix ended its remaining unlimited DVD rental tariffs, noting this was being done to increase service to members across all its remaining, capped plans.Such unlimited plans were the mainstay of the DVD rental by post in the early days of the industry (and could be tremendous value for high-volume renters, and cause tremendous postage bills for the companies). We've seen this pullback to more capped plans across several other Western markets, as apparently a small percentage of people regularly got “heavy” DVD mailings, so the caps were set high enough so as not to affect the average viewer. Market leader Bigpond previously removed its unlimited options in April 2008, and we wouldn't be surprised to see the other, smaller companies follow suit.
Quickflix now has four tariffs: the budget options of 1 DVD out at-a-time (to a maximum of 2 DVDs per month) and 2 DVDs out at-a-time (to a maximum of 4 discs per month) cost just $9.95 and $14.95 respectively. They also have a 2-out, 8 disc plan per month at $19.95, and a 3 out 10 per month plan at $24.95, both effectively $2.49 per disc which is quite competitive. We also hear that some previous, higher volume renters were offered higher, fixed disc-per-month tariffs than those advertised on the website.
04 Feb, 2009 | Category: DVD Rental News |
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