subject: Dvd Rental On The Cheap [print this page] On the cheapOn the cheap. The phrase comes with the connotations of taking a chance, risking it - a sudden decision to buy something you know is dodgy or save money by taking an inferior knock-off over a more expensive branded product.
It's certainly a phrase that seemed to hang around the online DVD rental world in its early years - and still does to some extent. Renting DVDs by post was regarded as phony somehow, a risky alternative to the local video or DVD shop and its sugary enticements.
A few years on, however, and the tables seem to have definitively turned. Online dvd rental is now the grown-up, glossy cousin to the humble rental shop front which, by comparison, seems
Rambling aside, though, it is still possible to do DVD rental on the cheap, as it were, through online stores.
Online rental remains far cheaper than in stores. Once the high-street DVD shops have factored in rent and staffing they'll often have to charge the same amount for one disc as an online company will for a whole month of films.
Part of the reason for this is the online rental sites' ability to stock a number of blu ray rental titles.
Blu ray is far more expensive than DVD because of the extra costs involved in formatting discs in higher quality and simply because, since blu ray players are still far from the norm, the market for them is still far smaller than that from DVD.
However, when you do rent a disc from a by-post service it'll cost the same whether the disc is a DVD or blu ray so it represents quite a large discount.
Another way in which online represents films on the cheap are DVD rental free trials.
These free trials can range in length from two weeks to a month and have long been used by the freebie savvy to get something for nothing.
If this is the way that you want to get DVD rental on the cheap - or, in this case, as cheap as it gets, free - then there are a couple of things you should watch out for.
The first is to make sure that you make full use of the service during the free period, online DVD rental doesn't have any late fees but for the free period you should act as if it does in the interest of getting your moneys worth.
The second is cancelling - you'll often need to cancel in good time to avoid being charged at all. However, if it's the case that you truly want to get online dvd rental on the cheap then you shouldn't cancel at all.
