ALTADENA, CA, November 17, 2003/PRNewswire — In response to the increasing popularity of renting DVDs online, Best Video Buys™, (www.bestvideobuys.com) a leading online comparison shopping service for videos and DVDs and a service of Best Web Buys™, today announced a new feature that summarizes the different types of online DVD rental programs and their prices at (http://www.bestwebbuys.com/video/dvd-rentals).
“Many consumers are turning to renting their DVDs via the Internet as a natural extension of consumers’ growing confidence in shopping online across all categories,” said Steve Loyola, president of Best Web Buys™. “With just a few keystrokes consumers can quickly find the movies, sport programs or games they want without having to wait in line, face mounting late fees or lack of inventory for first run titles. Providing a comparison of rental programs is just another way to provide our customers with the information they want.”
Best Video Buys™ lists the top thirteen DVD rental merchants and summarizes the types of DVDs offered by each merchant by type and also details the choice of programs and corresponding monthly fees. The most popular type of DVD rental programs listed at Best Video Buys™ let customers rent an unlimited number of DVDs with the restriction that customers can only hold so many DVDs at a time. Best Video Buys™ also provides rental information for downloading movies directly from the Internet from Movielink.
The DVD rental merchants listed offer something for every conceivable taste. A sampling includes Netflix with over 15,000 titles in movies, TV, and sports; Gamefly specializing in renting DVD games; Clean Films that removes offensive content from movies; and Mentura that offers over 12,000 educational DVDs from studios like National Geographic, IMAX, Discovery Channel, and PBS.
Best Web Buys' five product specific sites -- Best Book Buys®, Best Music BuysTM, Best Video BuysTM, Best Bike BuysTM and Best Electronic BuysTM -- compare prices, shipping and availability of more than 2 million titles and items at dozens of online stores including Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN), Barnes and Noble (NASDAQ:BNBN), half.com, Powell's, and buy.com. Best Web Buys was founded in 1997 by Steve Loyola, a former Jet Propulsion Laboratory computer scientist. The company is located at 2400 Lincoln Avenue, Altadena, California, 91001 and can be reached at 626.296.6260.
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