I realized that I missed out on a lot of movies during the past and I want to watch a few television series again or for the first time. Most importantly I wanted to see them in English. I had the English vs. German argument a while back but concerning movies I think the argument is quite clear because most german synchronizations are really bad. The voices don’t fit the characters and most of the times you can see the synchronization. This is especially true for television series that do not have a large budget for synchronization. The only way to watch TV series in English is often to watch them on DVD and because I don’t want to buy everything I’m now testing online renting.
The site offering the most TV series (in Germany) seems to be lovefilm. I went for a two week trial of the one DVD flatrate and so far it’s extremely comforable. However there is a little downside. The round trip time for DVDs seems to be at least 4 days because the shipping center is somewhere in the far north of Germany. This is a little more than I expected especially given that they don’t ship on weekends which more or less makes it one DVD per week. This is actually fine for feature movies but too slow if it comes to TV series and definitely not what I had in mind when I read “flatrate”.
To be fair the German post service issued a press release stating that letters might take a little longer durring summer holidays, but given the location of the shipping center I don’t think it’s going to get much faster, so I’ll just have to see. Maybe taking the 2 DVDs flatrate option is a viable way to go because then I can at least have one here at all times.
Round trip time aside this is a great service and I will definitely keep using it.
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