August 08: Major update across the site with reviews of prices, addition of Blu-Ray title numbers, and tweaking the actual review text. We also accumulated so many customer comments of the top three companies since starting this site in 2005, that we decided to split the older ones off onto their own page; the company review pages were just too long otherwise. Oh yes, and V2 Direct is back up, so they stay on the tables. We did, however, confirm that DVD Jam has gone out of business, bringing the total Australian DVD rental sites down to 6. We also completed the Games Rental Guide portion of the site, even listing how many titles companies stock for each console.

June 08: We were informed the V2 Direct site is down--we'll give it until next month to see if it comes back up, or we'll mark it out of business and remove it from the rankings.

April 08: Nothing new to report on the Australian DVD rental scene as yet.

January 08: Quickflix on 22 December began a special offer, 30 day free trial. This is the best deal from Australia's top-rated DVD rental site, so we'd give it a whirl it if you're not already a subscriber.

November 07: Did a major site check, updated prices, new screenshots, etc. Detailed some new features like the excellent blog at Quickflix, the PopLists at BigPond, etc.

August 07: Updated some site details, Quickflix dropping their two discs unlimited tariff, etc.

January 07: The Australian DVD rental scene has been pretty quiet, but we have found a new company in the rental industry, Movieguys, which has a slick-looking site and also does game rental. Also, our bottom-ranked Post-It DVD Rental went under. In the next few weeks we hope to add new pages here on game rental reviews, New Zealand DVD and game rental reviews, as well as legal Video on Demand reviews. So stay tuned...

March 06: Quickflix and Homescreen merge under the Quickflix name, and continue to be our top choice for DVD rental

February 06: We're making the first ranking changes in the site history, due largely to customer comments, more to follow..

January 06: No rating changes for this month either, as the rental scene looks pretty static.

December 05: No rating changes for this month either, but we've continued to make refinements to the reviews and the industry commentary; thanks for the email comments; we'll use these to help keep the site up to date.

November 05: No rating changes for this first month, but thanks for the reviews that have come in so far; we'll take them into account for the future monthly DVD site reassessments.

17 October 05: Site launch of Australia-DVD-Rental-Guide.com; after weeks of meticulous research, we're ready to go public. We hope this service will be of use as the DVD rental-by-post industry continues to expand. We'll keep visitors informed of additions to the site, ranking changes, and others things of note here in the coming months, and hope to update the site and incorporate any changes by the current seven main providers on a monthly basis.

Happy renting!